Drawing now : eight propositions /
Laura Hoptman
- New York : Museum of Modern Art, c2002
- 192 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: drawing is a noun -- 1. Science and art, nature and artifice -- 2. Ornament and crime: toward decoration -- 3. Drafting an architecture -- 4. Drawing happiness -- 5. Mental maps and metaphysics -- 6. Popular culture and national culture -- 7. Comics and other subcultures -- 8. Fashion, likeness, and allegory -- Conclusion: The emancipation of drawing -- Catalogue of the exhibition -- Selected exhibition history and bibliography -- Index of illustrations -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Trustees of the museum of modern art.