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Line let loose : scribbling, doodling and automatic drawing /

By: Maclagan, David, 1940-.
Publisher: London : Reaktion, 2014Description: 168 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781780230825; 9781780230825:; 1780230826.Subject(s): Creative ability | Drawing -- History | Spiritualism in art | Drawing, AbstractDDC classification: 741.0118 MAC
Contents:
1. From innocence to experience -- 2. The career of the scribble -- 3. The doodle and beyond -- 4. Early automatic drawing -- 5. Automatism, the unconscious and modern art -- 6. Meta-doodles and other elaborations.
Summary: This title presents an investigation of scribbling, doodling, and automatic drawing, marginal forms that have all been used by modern artists seeking spontaneous or 'unconscious' creation. The book includes well-known artists including Klee, Pollock, Miro, and Sol Lewitt, as well as many less familiar or anonymous artists.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 741.0118 MAC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Lost Checked out 03/02/2020 0065176
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-162) and index.

1. From innocence to experience -- 2. The career of the scribble -- 3. The doodle and beyond -- 4. Early automatic drawing -- 5. Automatism, the unconscious and modern art -- 6. Meta-doodles and other elaborations.

This title presents an investigation of scribbling, doodling, and automatic drawing, marginal forms that have all been used by modern artists seeking spontaneous or 'unconscious' creation. The book includes well-known artists including Klee, Pollock, Miro, and Sol Lewitt, as well as many less familiar or anonymous artists.

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