@phdthesis{discovery10006723,
            note = {Thesis: PhD  ART University of London Institute of Education, 1982.},
            year = {1982},
           title = {Drawing and the drawing activity},
          school = {Institute of Education, University of London},
        abstract = {This thesis is a philosophical examination of the phenomenon
of drawing. Drawing is considered as the means whereby the draughtsman
makes actual, through making graphic, his perceptual interchange
with and implicit reflection of the world. The concern is set not
so much in what is affected, as what is being affected. Drawing is
viewed primarily as process, as the movement toward meaning. This
movement is evidence of the draughtsman's imaginative engagement and
brings space and time together. Through his drawing, caught within
all its material structuring, he temporalises space and spatialises
time. These together found and promote its image. The drawing, as
image in form, demonstrates the draughtsman's move from the 'lived'
of his experience to the 'thought about'. His transcription moreover
discloses an intrinsic subject/object dialectic and founds the whole
possibility of the drawing's 'world', ordered and sustained through
all its representative and expressive potential. In this context
the views of Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Dufrenne, Wollheim and Witkin
among others are examined.
In the light of these theoretical considerations and as visual support for the arg-wnents, the drawings of five draughtsmen are
discussed. These are further amplified ?hrough transcripts of
conversations about their own drawing activity. The work of three
of these is presented through time-lapse sequence photographs, to
give opportunity to discuss in detail the process of the activity
itself.
The thesis maintains that the draughtsman is a phenomenologist.
Within the scope of all the ways he makes his marks, through all
their transmutations, he seeks routes for the interrogation of how
things are. Through his drawings he seeks to inscribe a fecund
spatiality that gives visibility back to vision. This is the ontological
status of drawing and this is the phenomenological concern.},
          author = {Bailey, G H},
             url = {http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.319736}
}