Drawing
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Antony Gormley's Drawing gathers works and reflections on his drawing practice spanning decades, highlighting experimental materials and processes.
The book presents intimate sketchbooks, workbooks and finished pieces that illuminate how drawings inform his sculpture and thinking.
Gormley discusses using organic and bodily pigments, wet processes that allow forms to emerge, and the immediacy of drawing as parallel imaginative activity.
Illustrated throughout, the volume emphasizes drawing as a daily, foundational practice and invites readers to engage with mark-making.
It situates drawing not merely as preparatory work but as a primary artistic mode central to his career.
The book presents intimate sketchbooks, workbooks and finished pieces that illuminate how drawings inform his sculpture and thinking.
Gormley discusses using organic and bodily pigments, wet processes that allow forms to emerge, and the immediacy of drawing as parallel imaginative activity.
Illustrated throughout, the volume emphasizes drawing as a daily, foundational practice and invites readers to engage with mark-making.
It situates drawing not merely as preparatory work but as a primary artistic mode central to his career.
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