Cover art for The Story of Drawing
Published
Yale University Press, September 2024
ISBN
9780300260472
Format
Hardcover, 256 pages
Dimensions
23.5cm × 15.2cm

The Story of Drawing An Alternative History of Art

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Winner of the Apollo Book of the Year Award 2024

Drawing is at the heart of human creativity. The most democratic form of art-making, it requires nothing more than a plain surface and a stub of pencil, a piece of chalk or an inky brush. Our prehistoric ancestors drew with natural pigments on the walls of caves, and every subsequent culture has practised drawing-whether on papyrus, parchment, or paper. Artists throughout history have used drawing as part of the creative process.

While painting and sculpture have been shaped heavily by money and influence, drawing has always offered extraordinary creative latitude. Here we see the artist at his or her most unguarded. Susan Owens offers a glimpse over artists' shoulders-from Michelangelo, Rembrandt, and Hokusai to Van Gogh, Kathe Kollwitz, and Yayoi Kusama-as they work, think, and innovate, as they scrutinise the world around them or escape into imagination.

The Story of Drawing loops around the established history of art, sometimes staying close, at other times diving into exhilarating and altogether less familiar territory.

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