Margaret Davidson – författare

First Published in 1990. Written by an editor and now Journalism Professor, who when directing stringers in New York state, who was struck by the tremendous desire of those correspondents to learn and grow in their job, despite the paltry pay they received for their efforts. This guide has been prepared to help meet the stringer’s need for constructive criticism. It assumes that all places are interesting and full of newsworthy activities for a professional writer with a good nose for news.

Drawing is experiencing an unparalleled surge in the art world. Passé notions that once defined drawing as being a preparatory stage for painting or sculpture have long since been cast aside. Drawing is now fully recognized as its own art form—in the biennials, art fairs, museum exhibitions, and beyond. Drawing has come of age.            Contemporary artists are increasingly discovering that drawing is something unique and different from painting. It is an intense, sensitive, compelling, personal, and utterly direct art form, one with its own concepts, characteristics, and techniques. In addition, contemporary drawing is not governed by any particular imagery, but rather encompasses a variety of approaches, including realist, abstract, modernist, and post-modernist.            Contemporary Drawing delves into the essential and far-reaching concepts of this medium, exploring surface, mark, space, composition, scale, materials, and intentionality in turn. Key techniques, such as using nature to induce marks and working with a checklist to determine a drawing’s problems, are introduced throughout. Plus, an in-depth chapter examines a number of artists, such as William Kentridge and Gego, who are breaking traditional boundaries that separate one artistic discipline from another.Lushly illustrated by a wide range of highly accomplished contemporary artists, Contemporary Drawing offers a broad perspective on this expansive and energized field of art. From the Hardcover edition.

First Published in 1990. Written by an editor and now Journalism Professor, who when directing stringers in New York state, who was struck by the tremendous desire of those correspondents to learn and grow in their job, despite the paltry pay they received for their efforts. This guide has been prepared to help meet the stringer’s need for constructive criticism. It assumes that all places are interesting and full of newsworthy activities for a professional writer with a good nose for news.

First Published in 1990. Written by an editor and now Journalism Professor, who when directing stringers in New York state, who was struck by the tremendous desire of those correspondents to learn and grow in their job, despite the paltry pay they received for their efforts. This guide has been prepared to help meet the stringer’s need for constructive criticism. It assumes that all places are interesting and full of newsworthy activities for a professional writer with a good nose for news.