Books: Silvia Bächli

Silvia Bächli
Shift, 2019

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Drawings & Notes ~ Bookselection 
In the new year Drawings & Notes selects new and interesting books about drawing. First selection: Silvia Bächli's catalogue Shift, which accompanied her exhibition at the Kunsthalle Karslrule.
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Swiss artist Silvia Bächli (1956) is one of the most renowned draftswomen in the world. In her subtle works and the staging of them, she reflects not only on her medium, but also again and again on how drawings interact in space. In the exhibition shift at the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, for the first time, she is showing works on paper as well as small sculptures, along with a wall installation developed in cooperation with Eric Hattan. She thus addresses not only drawing as a way of translating perceptions into atmospheres, but also the relationship between head and body, perception and appearance, found object and artistic intervention, single work and group of works, the experience of space and two-dimensionality. The accompanying publication presents these multifaceted interactions.

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Books about drawing

Drawings & Notes Favorite Books about contemporary drawing

When starting researching contemporary drawing for Drawing & Notes in 2008, a couple of books were (and are still) of much use. All these publications were sources of inspiration and good guides to discover the varied world of contemporary drawing. And still are. 

Compass in Hand. 
Selections From The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary
Drawings Collection (The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2009). 
This book was published to accompany a major 2009 exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art of the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection.

Vitamin D  (Phaidon, 2007) 

Probably the most influential and inspiring compendium of contemporary drawing. It shows the work of 109 artists, using a wide variety of styles, from representational to abstract. Along with the descriptions by the curators who picked the artists for the book, it was a very rich well for this weblog.

Contemporary Drawing: From the 1960s to Now (Katherine Stout, 2015)

Vitamin D2: New Perspectives in Drawing (Phaidon, 2013)

Drawing Now: Eight Propositions
(Laura Hoptman, Museum of Modern Art, 2002)


Walk the Line: The Art of Drawing

(Ana Ibarra and Marc Valli, 2013)

Drawing People: The Human Figure in Contemporary Art

(Roger Malbert, Thames & Hudson, 2015)

Linie, Line, Linea: Contemporary Drawing 

(Dumont, 2010)
This survey examines the state of drawing in Germany through the lens of 19 artists working in the medium, among them Irina Baschlakow, Marc Brandenburg, Monika Brandmeier, Fernando Bryce, Marcel van Eeden, Pia Linz, Theresa Lükenwerk, Nanne Meyer, Christian Pilz, Alexander Roob, Malte Spohr, German Stegmaier, Markus Vater, Jorinde Voigt and Ralf Ziervogel.


Drawing Book: A Survey of Drawing : The Primary Means of Expression
Edited by Tania Kovats (Black Dog Publishing, 2007)


Drawing from The Modern, Volume 2: 1945-1975
(Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2005)


On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century
(The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2010)


Drawing Futures: Speculations in Contemporary Drawing for Art and Architecture
(Edited by Laura Allen and Luke Caspar Pearson, 2016)

Marcel Dzama: Sower of Discord (2013) is a beautiful monograph about Marcel Dzama's work. Lavishly illustrated and with a foreword by Raymond Pettibon, three original short stories inspired by Dzama’s work by Dave Eggers, an essay by the art historian Bradley Bailey, and an interview with Dzama by the filmmaker Spike Jonze. [Even more books here]


Cy Twombly: Fifty Years of Works on Paper

(Schirmer/Mosel, 2016)

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also check Drawings & Notes' list Books on Contemporary Drawing.

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Books about contemporary drawing

When starting my research on contemporary drawing for Drawing & Notes in 2008, a couple of books were (and are still) of much use. All these books were beautiful sources of inspiration and will be a good start to discover the varied world of contemporary drawing. Beneath you will find a couple of my favorites, but a more complete list (updated regularly) can be found on my list Books on Contemporary Drawing.

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Vitamin D
(Phaidon, 2007) Probably the most influential and inspiring compendium of contemporary drawing. It shows the work of 109 artists, using a wide variety of styles, from representational to abstract. Along with the descriptions by the curators who picked the artists for the book, it was a very rich well for this weblog.


Compass in Hand. Selections From The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
(The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2009). This book was published to accompany a major 2009 exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art of the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection.


Vitamin D2: New Perspectives in Drawing
(Phaidon, 2013)

Contemporary Drawing: From the 1960s to Now
(Katherine Stout, 2015)


Drawing Now: Eight Propositions
(Laura Hoptman, Museum of Modern Art, 2002)

Walk the Line: The Art of Drawing 
(Ana Ibarra and Marc Valli, 2013)


Drawing People: The Human Figure in Contemporary Art (Roger Malbert, Thames & Hudson, 2015)


Drawing from The Modern, Volume I: 1880-1940


Drawing from The Modern, Volume 2: 1945-1975


Marcel Dzama: Sower of Discord (2013) is a beautiful monograph about Marcel Dzama's work. Lavishly illustrated and with a foreword by Raymond Pettibon, three original short stories inspired by Dzama’s work by Dave Eggers, an essay by the art historian Bradley Bailey, and an interview with Dzama by the filmmaker Spike Jonze. [Even more books here]


Nedko Solakov: 99 Fears


Cy Twombly: Fifty Years of Works on Paper


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