Last week was a bit of a no-show in terms of drawing… I was camping at a crazy festival for half of the week and the one time I felt awake enough to draw, the heavens opened (rain, not angels) and put a stop to my sketchbook-in-a-field plans. Perhaps I need to work on my [...]
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30 Days of Drawing #13: Eva Hesse: Drawing as Primary Medium
For your drawing inspiration today, this is an hour long lecture by feminist and psychoanalytic scholar of art history Catherine de Zegher on Eva Hesse’s relationship to drawing, and on contemporary art’s expansion of drawing, from the Walker Art Center’s 2009 exhibition of Hesse’s drawings…
Introduction from the Walker Art Center’s site:
The exhibition Eva Hesse Drawing [...]
30 Days of Drawing #10: Saturday Sketchbook
I don’t feel terribly happy with the drawings in this week’s sketchbook. Driving (well, if I’m honest, being chauffeured by my amazing boyfriend in a cool white truck – how American road-trip did I feel?!) between the archives on Agnes Martin at Harvard, Boston and UPenn, Philadelphia (6-7 hours each way) this week sucked up [...]
Art History Notes: Briony Fer ‘Studioworks’ Lecture Critique
Lecture critique: Briony Fer, Studiowork, 22 October 2009 at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Briony Fer’s lecture takes place in the Fruitmarket Gallery’s upstairs space, in which several of Eva Hesse’s never-before-exhibited (nor intended by the artist to be exhibited) paper, wire and rubber test-pieces are on display without the protective cases or rope barriers normally associated [...]
Art History Notes: Art-historical Evidence
Elsner writes that ‘the desire to attain’ the ‘fundamental grounds of meaning in art’ is crucial for art history, even if this goal is unreachable. This focus on desire might be the most accurate answer to Peters Corbett’s question, asking why canonical art requires specialised attention, though Elsner does not probe this desire’s origins. [...]
