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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)…
