Year: 1978
Type: book
Abstract: Artists reveal themselves with disarming candor in their drawings. As faithful records of changes in forms and compositions or as notations of experiments with new imagery, drawings provide insights into an artist's creative processes that cannot be gained in any other way. Neither verbal descriptions nor written records of an artist's work can duplicate the immediacy of the information communicated directly by drawings. In Iran and India, where the names of all but the most famous artists are unknown, drawings are especially important since they offer tantalizing glimpses into those artistic techniques and traditions that were transmitted from generation to generation in imperial studios as well as in provincial workshops.
Authors: Esin Atıl, Freer Gallery of Art
Language: English
Subfield: Conservation
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W648267101