Drawing ideas society.

Douglas, Anne Elizabeth

Abstract

This article explores the possible relationship between drawing and contemporary art practice in the shift of art into public life. In this shift artists have invented ways of working that situate their work socially, economically and aesthetically in new configurations. How might we rethink drawing as opening up to society? What might drawing reveal about ideas in society? What might drawing become? The article focuses on a drawing research experiments (2017) as part of an accumulation of experimentation that seeks to rethink drawing as an activity that can be shared by more than one person within different experiences of community. Jean Luc Nancy’s 2013 text The Pleasure of Drawing opens up insights into what drawing means as a practice within social experience and what drawing in turn reveals about what we imagine society to be.

Citation

DOUGLAS, A.E. 2019. Drawing ideas society. TRACEY: drawing and visualisation research [online], 14(1): drawing/phenomenology: tracing lived experience through drawing, article 385. Available from: https://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/index.php/TRACEY/article/view/385/361

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 29, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Oct 29, 2019
• Publication Date: Dec 13, 2019
• Deposit Date: Nov 14, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 14, 2023
• Journal: TRACEY: drawing and visualisation research
• Print ISSN: 1742-3570
• Publisher: Loughborough University
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 1
• Article Number: 385
• Keywords: Drawing practices; Contemporary art practices; Society; Social experiences
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/2023616
• Publisher URL: https://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/index.php/TRACEY/article/view/385/361
• Additional Information: The issue of this journal, 14(1), contains peer-reviewed papers presented at the 2017 Drawing/Phenomenology: tracing lived experience through drawing conference, 19-20 September 2017, Loughborough, UK, alongside additional papers by invited authors interested in the theme.