Drawing Now: Eight Propositions

Kai Althoff/ Laura Hoptman/ Chris Ofili/ Franz Ackerman/ Russell Crotty/ Toba Khedoori/ Graham Little/ Los Carpinteros/ Jockum Nordstrum/ Jennifer Pastor/ David Thorpe/ Richard Wright/ John Currin/ Mark Manders/ Barry McGee/ Julie Mehretu/ Yoshitomo Nara

ISBN 10: 0870703625 / ISBN 13: 9780870703621

Published by Museum of Modern Art, 2002

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192 pages. 12.25x10.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Drawing Now: Eight Propositions
• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870703625
• ISBN 13: 9780870703621
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis

From John Currin's old-master-style Playboy bunnies to Elizabeth Peyton's fin-de-siecle portraits; from Julie Mehretu's dizzying, multilayered architectural landscapes to Shahzia Sikander's multipatterned miniature ones; from Yoshitomo Nara's angry and enigmatic little girls to Kara Walker's stereotypical negresses; and from Barry McGee's caricatures of urban graffiti to Matthew Ritchie's cosmological diagrams--drawing is back, if it ever went away. In contrast to the digitized, multimedia direction that much of contemporary art has taken in the past decade, drawing has become the major mode of expression for many of today's most important young artists. Drawing Now, published to accompany the first major survey of contemporary drawings at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 15 years, contains more than 100 color reproductions of work by 26 international artists, both well-known and emerging, that demonstrate the fascinating variety of methods and approaches, mediums and scales, apparent in this old-again, new-again art. Accompanying essays by the exhibition's curator, Laura Hoptman, explore eight themes that she perceives in the field--Drafting & Architecture, Mental Maps & Metaphysics, Popular Culture & National Culture, Fashion, Likeness & Allegory, Envisioning a City, Science & Art, Comics & Other Subcultures, Ornament & Crime--and provide key impulses behind drawing's recent resurgence.

About the Author

Laura Hoptman is Curator of Contemporary Art at the Carnegie Museum of Art, a post that includes the organization of the 2004 Carnegie International. She previously served as Assistant Curator in the Department of Drawings at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.