Originally written for an exhibition Jean-Luc Nancy curated at the
Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon in 2007, this book addresses the medium
of drawing in light of the question of form--of form in its
formation, as a formative force, as a birth to form. In this sense,
drawing opens less toward its achievement, intention, and
accomplishment than toward a finality without end and the infinite
renewal of ends, toward lines of sense marked by tracings,
suspensions, and permanent interruptions. Recalling that drawing
and design were once used interchangeably, Nancy notes that drawing
designates a design that remains without project, plan, or
intention. His argument offers a way of rethinking a number of
historical terms (sketch, draft, outline, plan, mark, notation),
which includes rethinking drawing in its graphic, filmic,
choreographic, poetic, melodic, and rhythmic sense. If drawing is
not reducible to any form of closure, it never resolves a tension
specific to drawing but allows the pleasure of drawing to come into
appearance, which is also the pleasure in drawing, the gesture of a
desire that remains in excess of all knowledge. Situating drawing
in these terms, Nancy engages a number of texts in which Freud
addresses the force of desire in the rapport between aesthetic and
sexual pleasure, texts that also turn around the same questions
concerning form in its formation, form as a formative force.
Between the sections of the text, Nancy has placed a series of
sketchbooks on drawing, composed of a broad range of quotations on
art from different writers, artists, or philosophers.
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