The Secret Theory of Drawing (Drawing Room, London 5 October - 19 November 2008)

LEITH, Caoimhín Mac Giolla et al (texts) David Austen, Trisha Donnelly, Olafur Eliasson et al (artists shown)

ISBN 10: 0954266889 / ISBN 13: 9780954266882

Published by Drawing Room, London, 2008

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4to in stiff card covers, unpaginated, approx. 52pp on stiff art paper, colour plates, etc . [CONDITION: A well preserved FINE very clean and tight unmarked copy ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Secret Theory of Drawing (Drawing Room, London 5 October - 19 November 2008)
• Publisher: Drawing Room, London
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0954266889
• ISBN 13: 9780954266882
• Binding: SOFTCOVER
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

This book features the artists: David Austen, Trisha Donnelly, Olafur Eliasson, Ceal Floyer, Ellen Gallagher, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Patrick Ireland, Alan Johnston, John Latham, Mark Manders, Matt Mullican, Anri Sala, Bojan eareeviae, Joelle Tuerlinckx, Cathy Wilkes. It contains an essay by Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith. It is edited by Kate Macfarlane. This catalogue accompanies an exhibition curated by Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith that explores the possibilities of drawing using non-traditional or indirect means, whilst addressing such traditional art-historical subjects as portraiture, narrative, figuration, the seascape, the still life and the decorative frieze. The specific notion of drawing that the exhibition is designed to evoke is one of displacement, deferral or obliquity, as opposed to the more currently popular conception of drawing as gestural, expressive, more or less instantly communicative, and complete in and of itself. While there is relatively little drawing per se in the exhibition, the various works included conspire to emphasise the status of line, graph, and pulse.