ARTH 262 - Aspects of the History of Drawing

• T&J - 15:00-15:30
• EV-1.615
• INSTRUCTOR: CHARLES GAGNON

Drawing has been said to record its own making, registering aspects of the body, thoughts, or various invisible forms of energies. Drawing accompanies, replaces and resembles writing, thus offering a possible method for philosophical renderings. For French philosopher Félix Ravaisson drawing is a kind of metaphysics no less than orthodox philosophy, it is a figured metaphysics, with metaphysics being a written drawing. From Ravaisson’s pedagogy of drawing and his notion of the serpentine line to Sigmar Polke’s Boredom Loop, the course will consider various types of line making and the knowledge these produce.