Vitamin D documents the resurgence of drawing as a primary medium in contemporary art during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Emma Dexter organizes the volume as a global survey of 109 artists, presenting the medium not as a preliminary sketch for painting or sculpture, but as a finished, independent practice. The selected works illustrate how traditional graphite, charcoal, and ink are applied to diverse surfaces to address architectural space, political narrative, and digital aesthetics. Individual entries detail how contemporary practitioners utilize line work to investigate figurative representation and abstract patterns.
Artists, curators, and students use this book as a visual archive of technical approaches to paper and pencil. Readers gain a framework for understanding how drawing functions outside of classical academic traditions by examining specific methods of mark-making and composition. The text provides a reference for those seeking to identify the major practitioners who defined the medium's role in the international gallery circuit at the start of the millennium. By the end, the reader possesses a comprehensive index of modern graphic techniques and conceptual strategies.
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
