Drawing Dimensions

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ISBN: 9780132201537

ISBN-10: 0132201534

ISBN-13: 9780132201537

Edition: 1st 1999

Authors: Cynthia Maris Dantzic

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Suitable for Introductory Drawing I and II, Basic Drawing, Foundation Drawing, and Introductory Figure Drawing courses for undergraduate art majors as well as for general core students. Breathing freshness and vitality into the study of drawing, this unique, modularly formatted text offers a practical, comprehensive, and historically and visually inclusive introduction to the subject. Building skills with many inventive exercises, it is a rich resource that speaks directly to students in a clear and encouraging manner, presenting a global selection of varied conceptual and perceptional works in many materials and styles - from familiar masterworks to current exemplars, and from student…

Book details

List price: $69.33
Edition: 1st
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 10/27/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 8.25" wide x 10.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English

Cynthia Maris Dantzic, Senior Professor of Visual Arts at Long Island University (LIU), Brooklyn, NY, for many years, frequently exhibits works in drawing, painting, Western and Chinese calligraphy, photography and photo-collage and has works in several museum collections.



Introduction: Aims and Uses of this Book



Perceptual Drawing: Line and Edge



Draw What You See: A Matter of Choices



Many Kinds of Lines: Definitions and Perceptions



Contour, The Edge That Isn't There: A Sequential Development



The Albers Linear Studies: For Control and Facility



Linear Orchestration: Surface, Form and Expression



Calligraphic Ribbon: The Double-Edged, Shaped Line



Clustering Line: Tone and Texture



Linear Surface: Defining Form



Expressive Line: Delineating Emotion



Seeing the Light: Clarity and Shadow



Continuous Tone: Line as the Edge of Shape



Edgeless Tonality: Scaling Light and Dark



Lighting Form and Space: Modeling and Shadowing



Reading the Surface: Composition and Spatial Concepts



On the Picture Plane: Structuring the Rectangle



Picturing Space: Perspective in Perspective



Abstracting Form: Progressive Reduction



The Human Figure: Structure and Movement



Skeletal Framework: The Support System



Anatomical Basics: Building Bodily Form



Imparting Movement: Activating the Figure



Expanding Space and Time: Stretching The Space, Extending the Moment



Enlarging the Field: Multi-Unit Formats



Enlarging the Scope: Multiple Viewpoints



Beyond the Horizon: Fantasy and Illusion



Seeing with the Inward Eye: The Conceptual Vision



The Mind's Eye: Sur-reality and Dreams



Depicting the Unseeable: Conceptual Drawing



Control and Context: Criteria for Choice






Materials and Supplies, Presentation and Direction



Using Dry Materials



Using Liquid Materials



Basic Studio Needs and Presentation of Your Work


Bibliography


Index