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On Drawing:  Ideas in Transmission: LeWitt’s Wall Drawings and the Question of Medium, by Anna Lovatt

Found via: drawing paper / www.drawingdialogues.blogspot.com

Very much worth reading - if you might have an interest in drawing as a primary practice…

Like Martin’s gridded canvases, LeWitt’s wall drawings drain the graphic mark of autographic flourishes and demonstrations of technique, approaching something akin to Roland Barthes’s ‘writing degree zero’: a ‘style of absence which is almost an ideal absence of style’. - On Drawing:  Ideas in Transmission: LeWitt’s Wall Drawings and the Question of Medium, by Anna Lovatt

The near absence of style - as the near absence of the “hand of the artist” I interpret as just another form of style - to me there is an important difference between the “life” of a line (before it becomes a representational element). The perception changes completely when a line is drawn by free hand, or ruled, or with the aid of a machine (plotted drawing) or computer generated (mediated)…  

drawing-paper:

We are pleased to announce we’ve just published Drawing Paper 3 featuring work by Steven Appleby, Jon Barraclough, Marina Berio, Jenny Berntsson, Kimbal Bumstead, Greig Burgoyne, Mike Carney, James Clarkson, Leonel Cunha, Daniel DeLuna, Emma Gregory, Hilary Judd, Cat Lauigan, Matthew Lloyd, Mike…

Good judgment in my opinion to withhold the pictures…

 file under the “endless visual stream” 

soupsoup:

WHITE HOUSE TO RELEASE BIN LADEN DEATH PHOTO
Tue May 03 2011 10:22:50 ET

President Obama decided Tuesday morning to release at least one photo showing Osama Bin Laden’s death, a top source claims.

The images, being described as ‘graphic’, are bound to stir emotions in the east and the west, and will likely become the most viewed photographs in modern history.

One image shows a bullet wound to his head above his left eye.

Will it remove all doubt about the death?

The exact timing on the release is being debated.

Developing…