Description
Book SynopsisHow does drawing shape the truth and our understanding of the visual world? Why has the act of reportage drawing persisted and thrived in our ever-changing media landscape?
This book offers a deep dive into the world of reportage drawing, a world which is provocative, mixed media, transdisciplinary and immersed in the idiosyncratic vision of the artist. Where the traditional orientation of reportage was on the communicative function of the image as a record of an event, contemporary practitioners, largely detached from commissioning structures of the 19th and 20th centuries, now seek to capture more experiential qualities of place and choose locations which have highly personal and political significance. Liberated from old conceptions of reportage drawing as objective and true, artists today embrace subjectivity and are seeking a rich dialogue with their subjects, using drawing to tell important stories about protest, human migration, war, corporate capitalism and homelessn
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. The News Image 2. Claims to Representation 3. The Aesthetic of the Sketch 4. Tenor and Topic 5. The Reductive Line: Caricature and Comment 6. Experience and Reportage Drawing 7. The Graphic Construct 8. Jill Gibbon: Secret Sketches from the Dark Corners of Corporate Capitalism 9. Gary Embury: The Perceptual Trace 10. My Journey through Drawing 11. Contemporary Reportage Drawing
