Reflections on drawing
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Date
2006
Authors
Schmidt, Leoni
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Publisher
Department of Communication Science, University of the Free State
Abstract
This article is presented in three parts. An introduction considers the current emphasis
on drawing within the visual arts and literacy debate. An analysis is then offered of key
strategies and counter-strategies (including trajectories and cornerstones) in the recent
history of drawing as a complex arts practice predicated on different and often
contestatory assumptions about how we understand and visualise our world. The third
section explores connections between drawing and registers for visual communication
and literacy, with specific attention to Umberto Eco's semiotic typology of modes of
sign production.
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Keywords
Drawing, History of drawing, Visual communication, Literacy
Citation
Schmidt, L. (2006). Reflections on drawing. Communitas, 11, 53-63.