Drawing water
Subtitle: drawing as a mechanism for exploration
By: a book by Tania Kovats ; [edited by Fiona Bradley]
Contributors: Bradley, Fiona; Fruit Market Gallery
Publisher: Fruitmarket Gallery
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781908612267
Subjects: Exhibitions; Ocean; In art; Sea in art
Description: "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 drawn at sea to guide a sailor from one safe harbour to the next.'"--Publisher's statement.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition Tania Kovats: oceans held at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Mar. 15-May 25, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-185).