The Undressed Art
Subtitle: Why We Draw
Publisher: Knopf
Published: June 15, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781400041848
Subjects: Drawing; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Criticism; Techniques - Drawing; Art / Drawing; General
Description: "We all draw as children: we scrawl a sun-beamed circle for a face and dots for eyes, and then we move on to portraits of Mom with an upside-down U for hair and Dad with trousers up to his armpits. But sooner or later, almost everyone stops. In this book, Peter Steinhart explores why some of us keep on drawing - and what happens when we do." "Combining the scientific, the historical, the anecdotal and the personal, Steinhart asks some questions: Why do drawings often speak to us more eloquently than paintings? What is the mind doing when we draw? Why is so much drawing of the face and of the nude figure? What is the dynamic between a clothed artist and a naked model?"--BOOK JACKET.