Drawing Investigations : Graphic relationships with Science, Culture and Environment
- Submitting institution
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The University of Lancaster
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 299799444
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- ISBN
- 9781788310260
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This research is an illustrated monograph examining how drawing is used as an investigative tool and identifies an area of drawing practice that has been critically unexamined to date. The research asks how drawing, as a means of close looking and analysis, can contribute to new knowledge outside the creative arts, e.g. in medicine, mathematics, ecology, astronomy, and law, building upon international interest in art/science collaboration, focusing exclusively on drawing and extending ‘science’ to encompass a broader spectrum of research,
Through case studies, interviews and critical analysis, based on artist interviews and archival research in Europe, North America and the UK, the book analyses drawings by artists working collaboratively or in unexpected environments to demonstrate drawing’s capacity to sharpen visual faculties, develop unique approaches and create new knowledge.
Drawing Investigations is the first comprehensive attempt to consider the contribution of drawing to knowledge in both cognate and distant disciplines. It identifies the emergence of a way of thinking among an otherwise disconnected group of artists by exploring commonalities in the application of analytical drawing to the natural world, urban environment and social forces. Examples represent a spectrum of research around the world: an oceanographic Institute in California, the Antarctic Survey, geothermal research in Japan, the archives of Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, and the Kurdish diaspora in Iraq.
In doing so the authors identify drawing’s capacity to contribute to pressing current debates of global warming, international conflict and medical research, arguing that fine art drawing is emerging as a relevant powerful interdisciplinary research tool in the 21st century.
Drawing Investigations launched as an ebook and in hardcopy on 9th July 2020. Launch event hosted by Drawing Projects UK, a mini symposium with artists featured in the book from Canada, USA and the UK. This event is recorded and available on the DPUK website.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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