Drawing in the Present Tense

Drawing in the Present TenseA richly illustrated, up to the minute overview of new approaches in drawing, in the context of recent developments of other forms of contemporary art. Drawing in the Present Tense explores the variety of ways in which contemporary artists from around the world have come to approach drawing as the primary element of their practice. One which is autonomous: an end in itself, rather than a means to an end in another, more substantial medium. In an era

How is the South African image projected

unflinching

Gerda Scheepers (b

the individual newspapers are of questionable value once they have been used

where participants could come to understand the means of production in practice

Dams shore up water as time with which to bargain for seasons and settlements

which recognises accomplished artists

His pictures are a remarkable portrayal of modern love and its aftermath

unknown to each other

of imprisonment

He died in 1972 and his photographs might have died with him

as a bewigged Andy Warhol cast in crimson and as both sisters in Diane Arbus’ infamous Identical Twins