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Line Let Loose: Scribbling, Doodling and Automatic Drawing
David Maclagan
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Description for Line Let Loose: Scribbling, Doodling and Automatic Drawing
Hardback. David Maclagan's book is an investigation of scribbling, doodling and automatic drawing, marginal forms that have all been used by modern artists seeking spontaneous or 'unconscious' creation. Num Pages: 176 pages, 30 colour. BIC Classification: AFF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 206 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 486.
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Line Let Loose is a sustained investigation of the evolution of scribbling, doodling and automatic drawing. Of these three forms of drafting, scribbling is the most basic: it is seen as playing a formative role in the drawings of both children and primates. Doodling, whilst still being a widespread phenomenon, is largely an adult preoccupation, a nomadic form of...
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780230825
SKU
V9781780230825
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About David Maclagan
David Maclagan is a retired university lecturer and art therapist. based in Yorkshire. He has published numerous articles on Outsider art, art therapy and image-based psychology, and is the author of Creation Myths: Man's Introduction to the World (1977), and Psychological Aesthetics: Painting, Feeling and Making Sense (2001) and Outsider Art (Reaktion, 2009).
Reviews for Line Let Loose: Scribbling, Doodling and Automatic Drawing
Like the humble doodle, this slim volume belies the profundity to be found within. Richly illustrated, this work can be enjoyed as much for its visual enchantments as for its insights on the creative self.
Fortean Times
Maclagan . . . constructs a carefully organized journey through what he calls marginal forms of drawing,...
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Maclagan . . . constructs a carefully organized journey through what he calls marginal forms of drawing,...