Drawing now : eight propositions : essay / by Laura Hoptman.

By:

Hoptman, Laura J, 1962-

Contributor(s):

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Museum of Modern Art ; London : Thames & Hudson [distributor], 2002.Description: 192 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cmISBN:

9780870703621 (pbk.) :
0870703625 :

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

741.9 HOP

LOC classification:

NC25

Contents:

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: drawing is a noun -- Science and art, nature and artifice -- ornament and crime: towards decoration -- drafting an architecture -- drawing happiness -- mental maps and metaphysics -- popular culture and national culture -- comics and other subcultures - fashion, likness, and allegory.

Summary: Published to accompany the first major survey of contemporary drawings at MoMA, New York, in 15 years, this book contains over 100 reproductions of work by 26 international artists that show the variety of methods and approaches, mediums and scales, apparent in this old-again, new-again art.

Holdings ( 2 )
Title notes ( 4 )

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Long Loan	TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending	741.9 HOP (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		218814
Long Loan	TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending	741.9 HOP (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		204023

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Drawing now: eight propositions, at MOMA QNS, New York from October 17, 2002 to January 6, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published to accompany the first major survey of contemporary drawings at MoMA, New York, in 15 years, this book contains over 100 reproductions of work by 26 international artists that show the variety of methods and approaches, mediums and scales, apparent in this old-again, new-again art.