You'll Never Know - Drawing and Random Interference - Softcover

Krokatsis, Henry; Walwin, Jeni; Flint, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853322547 ISBN 13: 9781853322549

Publisher: Hayward Gallery Touring, 2005

Synopsis

"You'll Never Know" explores the different ways in which artists working today have deliberately introduced an element of unpredictability and random interference into their creative process. Many of the works reproduced in this book involve a form of indirect mark-making, whereby the artist relinquishes control of the composition, leaving chance to play a crucial part in creating the final image. "You'll Never Know" considers the use of chance and unorthodox materials in a historical and modern framework with reference to Rorschach prints, Buddhist Flung Ink paintings and the work of Yves Klein, Ed Ruscha and Andy Warhol.

About this title

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Chance and 'random interference' are essential elements of the creative process for many artists. In life, as in art, causal connections are often beyond conscious control: we are acted upon as much as we act.
Like gamblers, the artists in You'll Never Know positively welcome, rather than resist, the unpredictable - whether deploying ingenious drawing machines or primitive mark-making incorporating the accidental drips and splashes of ink, paint or mud. In the accompanying essays, a novelist, a scientist and an art historian explore the implications of chance as a factor in gambling, quantum physics and art.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hayward Gallery Touring
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853322547
• ISBN 13: 9781853322549
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72