Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Staying in Touch / Crisis Aesthetics / Drawing as Self-Preservation
2. The Cut
3. Abstraction into Figuration / Figuration into Abstraction
4. Repetition and Rehearsal
5. Self and other
6. Fictions and Allegories
7. Places and Displacement
8. Socio-political

Promotional Information

A richly illustrated, up-to-the-minute overview of new approaches in drawing, set in the context of recent developments of other forms of contemporary art

About the Author

Claire Gilman is Chief Curator of The Drawing Center, New York. She has written articles for Art Journal, CAA Reviews, Documents, Frieze and October, as well as authored numerous essays for art books and museum exhibitions. Roger Malbert is a curator and writer, formerly Head of Hayward Touring at the Southbank Centre, London 2000-2018. He has been a judge for the Jerwood Drawing Prize, and his writings have appeared in the Art Newspaper, Times Literary Supplement and Modern Painters. His book Drawing People: The Human Figure in Contemporary Art was published by Thames & Hudson in 2015.

Reviews

'It is when artists think aloud with line - when they draw, in other words - that their imaginations seem most nearly stripped naked. Here is a mass skinny dip of powerful minds from across the globe. Malbert and Gilman’s urgent selection demonstrates why in the 2020s the bare mark is becoming a crunch point for the whole visual art field' - Julian Bell

'[Describes] the mesmerising variety of drawing practices undertaken by ingenious contemporary artists as they engage directly with the difficult realities of our present age' - The Art Newspaper