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Patrick Maynard surveys the rich and varied practices of drawing, from the earliest markings on cave walls to the complex technical schematics that make the modern world possible, from cartoons and the first efforts of preschoolers to the works of skilled draftspeople and the greatest artists, East and West. Despite, or perhaps because of, its ubiquity, drawing as such has provoked remarkably little philosophical reflection. Nonphilosophical writing on the topic tends to be divided between specialties such as art history and mechanics. In this engagingly written and well-illustrated book, Maynard reveals the interconnections and developments that unite this fundamental, autonomous, human activity in all its diversity. Informed by close discussion of work in art history, art criticism, cognitive and developmental psychology, and aesthetics, Drawing Distinctions presents a theoretically sophisticated yet approachable argument that will improve comprehension and appreciation of drawing in its many forms, uses, and meanings.

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Book category Books in English The arts Art forms Drawing & drawings

• Full title: Drawing Distinctions
• Subtitle: The Varieties of Graphic Expression
• Author: Patrick Maynard
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296
• EAN: 9780801472800
• ISBN: 0801472806
• ID: 04707023
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Weight: 640 g
• Dimensions: 253 × 179 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. October 2005

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