This book offers new definitions, vocabularies and insights for “scribbling”, viewing it as a fascinating and revealing process shared by many different disciplines and practices. The book provides a fresh and timely perspective on the nature of mark making and the persistence of the gestural impulse from the earliest graphic marks to the most sophisticated artistic production. The typical treatment of scribbling in the literature of artistic development has cast the practice as a prelude to representation in drawing and writing, with only occasional acknowledgment of the continuing joy and experiment of making marks across many arts practices. The continuous line the author traces between the universal practice of scribbling in infancy and early childhood and the work of radical creativity for contemporary and historical artists is original and clarifying, expanding the range of drawing behaviors to that of avant-garde painters, performance and the digital.
Author(s): Victoria de Rijke
Series: Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education, 34
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 226
City: Singapore
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
1 Introduction: Not Defining Scribble
1.1 First: Not Defining Scribble
1.2 Scribble Wall Drawings
1.3 Non-method
1.4 Refractive Thinking
1.5 Scribble as (if) Metaphor
1.6 Scribbling and Time
References
2 Scribble Art on Caves and Walls
2.1 Parietal Beginnings
2.2 Fluting
2.3 Timeless Dance
2.4 What a Wall Wants
2.5 High Art Graffiti
2.6 Spatial Time
2.7 Finally, Now-Ness
References
3 Children and Animals’ Scribble
3.1 Scribble Action
3.2 Scribble as Developmental Marker
3.3 Fanpablo
3.4 Scribble as Artform
3.5 Scribble’s Inconclusive Conclusion
References
4 Spiritual Scribble
4.1 Refractive Communication
4.2 Syncretic Scribble
4.3 Mystical Scribble
References
5 Scribble and the Avant-Garde
5.1 A Looping Method
5.2 First Loop: WWI-WWII
5.3 Arts Education
5.4 The Meeting Point of Two Loops: The Intrasubjectives Exhibition of 1949
5.5 Second Loop: The Sixties
5.6 The Third Loop: Viewing the Avant-garde Differently
5.7 Loop 3: Emily Kame Kngwarreye
References
6 Scribble as Music and Movement
6.1 Scribble on the Move
6.2 Emergence
6.3 Twombly: Master Scribbler
6.4 Turbulent Flow
6.5 Sculpted Scribble
6.6 Rhythms, Weights, Glides, Flights
References
7 Scribble on Screens and by Machines
7.1 Kinetic Machine Scribble
7.2 Synaesthetic Scribble
7.3 Len Lye’s Zizz and Bergson’s Flux
7.4 Flux and Visual Music
7.5 Synaesthetic Envisioned Sound and Music
7.6 Scribble on Television Screens
7.7 Scribble Migrates to Computer Screens
7.8 Multimedia/Multiple Scribble
7.9 Scribbling Out/Over
7.10 Is Any of This Anything? Scribble Psychoanalysis
7.11 Finally, Fractals
References
8 Coda: Scribble’s Metaphors, Scribble Time
8.1 The Scribble Membrane
8.2 The Scribbly Gum
8.3 As If Scribble
8.4 Scribble Arrhythmia
8.5 Scribble Flow
8.6 Scribble Synaesthesia
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