The Art of Drawing is the first book in sixty years to cover the
wider history of drawing in Britain exploring the crucial role
drawing has played in British art. Featuring works by foremost
British artists from the early seventeenth century right up to the
present day, this book offers fresh insights into the wide range of
ways in which these artists have used drawing to think on paper,
build up ideas and make finished exhibition pieces. Taking examples
from the greatest masters, including Isaac Oliver, Peter Lely,
WIlliam Blake, Thomas Rowlandson, John Constable, Edwin Landseer,
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, Wyndham Lewis, Paul
Nash, Lucian Freud, David Hockney, John Piper, Sian Bowen and
Grayson Perry, Susan Owens discusses the art and craft of drawing,
materials and techniques and why artists chose them.ory of drawing
in Britain exploring the crucial role drawing has played in British
art. Featuring works by foremost British artists from the early
seventeenth century right up to the present day, this book offers
fresh insights into the wide range of ways in which these artists
have used drawing to think on paper, build up ideas and make
finished exhibition pieces. Taking examples from the greatest
masters, including Isaac Oliver, Peter Lely, WIlliam Blake, Thomas
Rowlandson, John Constable, Edwin Landseer, Dante Gabriel Rossetti,
Edward Burne-Jones, Wyndham Lewis, Paul Nash, Lucian Freud, David
Hockney, John Piper, Sian Bowen and Grayson Perry, Susan Owens
discusses the art and craft of drawing, materials and techniques
and why artists chose them.
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