The Sketch: A Promise of Dialogue
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Sketch
These various modes, which we convene under the term sketch, have a common preparatory function and consequently, a status of incompletion. The sketch leads to a wide range of strategies and gives rise to new research on the materiality, temporality, and spatiality of a work. To do this, it still takes the traditional route of drawing, painting, and sculpture, and sometimes of new technologies, while also referring to the outline of a movement or a brief posture. Therefore, we designed this issue to reflect the abundance of possibilities and deliberately break away from an essentially discipline-based approach to drawing, focusing instead on the creative intention found in the sketch and the fluctuations of its outcomes.
Editorial
Feature
Drawing Lines
The Sketch Artist: Interview with François Morelli
Drawing Inuit Satiric Resilience: Alootook Ipellie’s Decolonial Comics
The Sketch in the Work of Frances Stark, Jacolby Satterwhite, and Sue Tompkins
Sketchy Machines: Propositions Around Three Robotic Artworks
Praxis of the Unfinished
Being Brief
Portfolios
Columns
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Current Issue
Family
As the basis for social organization and the primary site of socialization, the family has drawn particular attention in the visual arts since the inception of art history. As contemporary art seems well engaged in an examination of cultural practices, the family, in all its forms, is returning to the spotlight. Many artists today revisit family traditions, sites, and taboos, challenge what has been held as unspeakable by digging into archives, and invent new, intimate forms of sociability out of biographical experiences. This issue reflects on family histories as they are rewritten in contemporary art.
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