Drawing water drawing as a mechanism for exploration ; [on the occasion of the exhibition 'Tania Kovats: oceans' held at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Mar. 15 - May 25, 2014
"Believing that drawing is a mechanism for exploration as much as a tool for representation, Kovats brings together in the book drawings by map-makers, writers, shipbuilders, whalers, soldiers, sailors, artists, archaeologists, cartographers, scientists, uranographers, engineers and dreamers -...
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Fruitmarket Gallery
2014
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Zusammenfassung: | "Believing that drawing is a mechanism for exploration as much as a tool for representation, Kovats brings together in the book drawings by map-makers, writers, shipbuilders, whalers, soldiers, sailors, artists, archaeologists, cartographers, scientists, uranographers, engineers and dreamers - a diverse selection united by the sense that in making the drawing they were looking for something. A selection of Kovats' own drawing and writing anchors the book which attempts to construct, in the artist's words, 'a portolan, a chart |
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-185) |
Beschreibung: | 192 S. überw. Ill., Kt. 26 cm |
ISBN: | 9781908612267 978-1-908612-26-7 |