The Theatre of Drawing
Bonnie Marranca editor Daniel Sack editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:PAJ Publications,U.S.
Publishing:27th Oct '26
£24.99
This title is due to be published on 27th October, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
An in-depth look at the creative processes of the 20th century's most groundbreaking multidisciplinary artists
The Theatre of Drawing highlights 42 American artists from the 1960s to the present, featuring individual portfolios for such prolific theatre figures as Robert Wilson, Meredith Monk, Ann Hamilton, Julie Mehretu, Trisha Brown, Gyun Hur, Annie-B Parson, Raven Chacon, Ralph Lemon, Jibz Cameron, Laurie Anderson, and Joan Jonas. The first book to present such an expansive theatrical perspective, the portfolios cover a wide range of genres—theatre, dance, music, installation, performance art—with each offering three to six pages of full color drawings.
The artists in this volume make use of multiple materials to create pieces that take on the forms of map, chart, storyboard, notation, score, notebook entry, character study, and works for exhibition. The portfolios offer a remarkably intimate look into the creative process that transforms drawing into the art of performance.
“An unexpectedly moving volume, in which visual lightness is anchored by emotional weight. Julie Mehretu’s 'mind breath' sketches, Laurie Anderson’s chalky smears, Trisha Brown’s wobbly, fragile lines: these and other drawings disclose the eloquent 'hesitations of the thinking body,' as Ann Hamilton calls them. Other pages compel attention by the artists’ fierce concentration, their determination to save ideas before they disappear. Throughout (as Joan Jonas says in a sentence that could apply to this whole, beautiful book), 'drawing…does draw you in.' ”
—Marc Robinson, Yale University, author of American Performance in 1976
“A thrilling selection and wide-ranging survey of artists utilizing drawing as a mode of visual thinking and conceptualization for theatre performance and dance-related works.”
—Ann Butler, Director of Library and Archives, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College
"The Theatre of Drawing is an extraordinary book showing drawing as a way to think, drawing as memory, which captures the process of thinking and living."
—Hans Ulrich Obrist, artistic director, Serpentine, and author of The Interview Project
ISBN: 9781555541699
Dimensions: unknown
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214 pages