Note: those of us who thronged the Hayward Gallery to see the Tantra exhibition also read Rawson’s book Drawing (1969) [1]
Note: read the ‘preliminary considerations’ on page 76.
Note: drawing gives a syntactical dimension to visual knowledge.
Note: consider what is needed to stop syntactical propositions going adrift.
Note: it takes time to draw a drawing. [2]
Játékok: Two Personal Messages [3]
References:
[1] Philip Rawson (1969) Drawing: the appreciation of the arts 3, London: Oxford University Press.
[2] For more on the ‘attenuated’ poetry of Claude Royet-Journoud see Rosmarie Waldrop (1989) “Shall We Escape Analogy,” Studies in 20th Century Literature: Vol. 13: Iss. 1, Article 9.
[3] György Kurtág has been composing miniature piano pieces called játékok (‘games’) since 1973. He describes them as ‘pedagogical performance pieces’ in which pianists must trust the visual impact of the printed score, allowing the graphic picture it conveys to influence their interpretation of each piece. Listen to Víkingur Ólafsson play Kurtág’s A Voice in the Distance (Játékok / Book 5): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaacZYiqQHY