At the moment, and I mean for over a year now, I have been reading a book edited by Ruth Polzer-Montada,”Perspectives on Contemporary Printmaking”. Critical writing since 1986. I will be using a lot of the ideas on this book and discuss them with you.
https://www.pressingmattersmag.com
‘Printed Conversations and Collaborative Undertakings’, Paul Laidler.pdf
Hi all. This is my personal most amazing comprehensive ‘desert Island book’ on Drawing ever. The Primacy of Drawing by Deanna Petherbridge. Yale press 2010. Petherbridge is an artist so every illustration and image is pin sharp and BEAUTIFUL. The essays are critical, engaged and focused.
Other contemporary Drawing reference books ;
Vitamin D Phaidon. 2005 and Vitamin D2…well click look for yourself – https://uk.phaidon.com/store/art/vitamin-d2-9780714876443/#tab-1
Kaupelis, Robert. Experimental Drawing. Watson-Guptill.1992. Which will tell you to stop reading about drawing and draw, draw draw…;)
Writing on Drawing. Essays on Drawing Practice and Research. Intellect Books. 2008. Has an essay on NU artist and Professor of Drawing Richard Talbot’s practice.
Drawing. A Contemporary Approach. Teel Sale & Claudia Betti. Thomson/ Wadsworth.2004.
The Natural Way to Draw. Kimon Nicholaides. Andre Deutsh. 1972 (written in 1941) Nicholaides writes in the introduction; ‘The job of the teacher, as I see it, is to teach students, not how to draw, but how to learn how to draw. They must acquire some real method of finding out for themselves lest they be limited for the rest of their lives to facts the instructor relates.’ He quotes Leonardo da Vinci; ‘The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance.’