The Story of Drawing: An Alternative History of Art

Frontmatter Contents Introduction 1. Scribes, saints and sinners 2. The wide world 3. In the Renaissance workshop 4. Discoveries 5. Shows of emotion 6. Close encounters 7. Enchanted landscapes 8. Virtuoso performances 9. Culture and colonisation 10. Peculiar ground 11. Searching for the self 12. Places of the mind 13. Marbles and models 14. Observation and imagination 15. New subjects, new methods 16. Mediums of modern life 17. Rethinking the body 18. Mapping the mind 19. The human span 20. Bearing witness Glossary On the bookshelves Notes List of illustrations Index