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Line Let Loose: Scribbling, Doodling and Automatic Drawing
David Maclagan
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Description for Line Let Loose: Scribbling, Doodling and Automatic Drawing
Hardback. David Maclagan's book is an investigation of scribbling, doodling and automatic drawing, marginal forms that have all been used by modern artists seeking spontaneous or 'unconscious' creation. Num Pages: 176 pages, 30 colour. BIC Classification: AFF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 206 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 486.
Line Let Loose is a sustained investigation of the evolution of scribbling, doodling and automatic drawing. Of these three forms of 'drawing', scribbling is the most basic: it is seen as playing a formative role in the drawings of both children and primates. Doodling, whilst still being a widespread phenomenon, is largely an adult preoccupation, a nomadic form of drawing typically produced during meetings of phone calls. Automatic drawing, on the other hand, even though those who engage in it are not necessarily trained artists, is a more dramatic event: the results of an absent-minded or trance-like state are sometimes ... Read more
Line Let Loose is a sustained investigation of the evolution of scribbling, doodling and automatic drawing. Of these three forms of 'drawing', scribbling is the most basic: it is seen as playing a formative role in the drawings of both children and primates. Doodling, whilst still being a widespread phenomenon, is largely an adult preoccupation, a nomadic form of drawing typically produced during meetings of phone calls. Automatic drawing, on the other hand, even though those who engage in it are not necessarily trained artists, is a more dramatic event: the results of an absent-minded or trance-like state are sometimes ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780230825
SKU
V9781780230825
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About David Maclagan
David Maclagan is a retired university lecturer and art therapist. His previous books include Creation Myths (1977), Psychological Aesthetics (1999) and Outsider Art (Reaktion Books, 2009).
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