Draw It with Your Eyes Closed: The Art of the Art Assignment
Draw It with Your Eyes Closed: The Art of the Art Assignment
Draw It with Your Eyes Closed: the Art of the Art Assignment, is a unique and wide-ranging anthology featuring essays, drawings, and assignments from over 100 contributors including: John Baldessari, William Pope.L, Mira Schor, Rochelle Feinstein, Bob Nickas, Chris Kraus, Liam Gillick, Amy Sillman, James Benning, and Michelle Grabner. Practical and quixotic in equal parts, the art assignment can resemble a riddle as much as a recipe, and often sounds more like a haiku, or even a joke, than a clear directive. From introductory exercises in perspective drawing to graduate-level experiments in societal transformation, the assignment coalesces ideas about what art is, how it should be taught, and what larger purpose it might, or might not, serve. The book is a written record of an evolving oral tradition. Bringing together hundreds of assignments, anti-assignments, and artworks from both teachers and students from a broad range of institutions, Draw It with Your Eyes Closed serves as an archive and an instigation, a teaching tool and a question mark, a critique and a tribute (Amazon). Contributors: Pam Lins, Heather Haart, Carrie Moyer, Oliver Wasow, George Rush, Patricia Treib, Molly Smith, David Robbins, Laura Frantz, Corin Hewitt, Mary Walling Blackburn, Kevin Zucker, Jillian Mayer. Graham Campbell, Rachel Frank, Sean Downey, Margaret Lee, Nathann Carter, Harry Roseman, Shirley Irons, Kurt Ralske, Bill Komodore, Tommy White, Alfredo Gisholt, Wayne Gonzales, Ira Fay, Kenji Fujita, Justin Lieberman, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Demetrius Oliver, Fiona Gardner, John Baldessari, Munro Galloway, Fabienne Lasserre, Cameron Martin, Jo-ey Tang, Dana Hoey, Colleen Asper, Julian Kreimer, Matt Phillips, Rachel Foullon, Dan Torop, Jackie Gendel, Tom McGrath, Bob Nickas, Anna Craycroft, Marina Rosenfeld, Antoine Craycroft, Andrew Berardini, Anonymous, Miranda Lictenstein, John Menick, Jesse Bransford, William Villalongo, Mamie Tinkler, Kamrooz Aram, Lane Arthur, David Levine, Peter Brown, Jessica Powers, Brad Farwell, Ryan Johnson, Chris Kraus, Sofia Olascoaga, Aura Rosenberg, Thomas Brauer, Jon Pylypchuck, Chrisine Hill, David Kearns, Paul Thek, William Pope L., Julie Ault, David True, Mira Schor, Rochelle Feinstein, Helen Mirra, Amie Siegel, Jay Battaile, Jeremy Sigler, Amy Sillman, Julian Myers, Dominic Willsdon, Angela Dufresne, Richard Wentworth, Judith Barry, Jackie Brookner, Martin Beck, Anonymous, Michelle Grabner, Liam Gillick, James Benning, and Michael Smith.