Includes bibliographical references and index.

A recent history of drawing -- I. The line : Abstractions : Tomma Abts, Martin Creed, Trisha Donnelly, Wade Guyton, Zarina Hashmi, Arturo Herrera -- Drawing form and space : Anna Barriball, Richard Deacon, Tomaśw Saraceno, Bojan Šarčević, Thomas Scheibitz, Rachel Whiteread, Alison Wilding -- II. Style, narrative, language : Telling stories : Kaoru Arima, Fernando Bryce ; Jake and Dinos Chapman ; Marcel Dzama, Pavel Pepperstein, Raymond Pettibon, Olivia Plnder, Yosimoto Nara, David Shrigley -- Drawing in motion : Tacita Dean, William Kentridge, No ghost just a shell (conceived by Philippe Parreno and PierreHyghe), Qui Anxiong, SUn Xun, Erik van Lieshout -- Invented worlds ; Ryoko Aoki, Charles Avery, Dirk Bell, Ernesto Caivano, Ellen Gallagher, Yun-Fei Ji, Keith Tyson -- The self and identity : Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Nikhil Chopra, Tracey Emin, Moshekwa Langa, Mark Manders, Grayson Parry, Kara Walker -- Language : Fiona Banner, Annabel Daou, Joseph Grigely, Karl Holmqvist, Glenn Ligon, Qiu Zhijie, Song Dong, Frances Stark, Xu Bing -- III. Drawing the world : Rethinking mimesis : Russell Grotty, Michael Landy, Lucy McKenzie, David Musgrave, Chloe Piene, Paul Sietsema, Shahzia Sikander, Lucy Skaer -- The built environment : Pablo Bronstein, Los Carpinteros, Lu Hao, Toba Khedoori, Jorge Macchi, Julie Mehretu, Paul Noble, Marjetica Potrč -- Drawing off the page : Cai Guo-Qiang, Monika Grzymala, Alan Johnston, Matt Mullican, Dan Perjovschi, Robin Rhode, Kateřina Šedá, Joëlle Tuerlinckx.

This study into contemporary drawing structures itself around three broad subjects: abstraction and drawing; drawing as narrative; and drawing as engagement. It explores how practitioners have addressed and redefined notions of medium specificity in relation to drawing, and how it has been particularly significant for artists pursuing an interdisciplinary practice.