{"product_id":"drawing-degree-zero-the-line-from-minimal-to-conceptual-art-9780271082431","title":"Drawing Degree Zero: The Line from Minimal to Conceptual Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Anna Lovatt\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History - 20th \u0026amp; 21st Century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eDrawing Degree Zero\u003c\/i\u003e examines a pivotal moment in the history of drawing, when the medium was disengaged from its connoisseurial associations and positioned at the forefront of contemporary art. From Mel Bochner's seminal exhibition \u003ci\u003eWorking Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art\u003c\/i\u003e of 1966 to the Museum of Modern Art's major survey \u003ci\u003eDrawing Now\u003c\/i\u003e ten years later, Anna Lovatt documents this period of restless artistic experimentation and fierce political ambition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTraditionally considered a preparatory or subsidiary practice, drawing's notational, provisional, and incidental qualities accrued new value in the context of post-Minimal and Conceptual art. Considering the work of Bochner, Sol LeWitt, Rosemarie Castoro, Dorothea Rockburne, and Richard Tuttle, Lovatt explores the strategies these artists used to confound long-standing presumptions about drawing, rendering it systematic rather than autographic, public rather than private, and conceptually rigorous rather than manually dexterous. \u003ci\u003eDrawing Degree Zero\u003c\/i\u003e argues that these artists pursued a neutral, anonymous mode of inscription analogous to Roland Barthes's concept of \"writing degree zero.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA lively examination of the resurgence of interest in drawing, \u003ci\u003eDrawing Degree Zero\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the medium's ability to foreground issues of authorship, process, location, and participation that remain fundamental to contemporary art. Scholars and art aficionados will welcome Lovatt's insights.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penn State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47889279549591,"sku":"9780271082431","price":7049.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780271082431.webp?v=1781175428","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/drawing-degree-zero-the-line-from-minimal-to-conceptual-art-9780271082431","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}