The “value of drawing” and the “method of vision”. How formalism and connoisseurship shaped the aesthetic of the sketch

This essay explores how connoisseurship and formalism from the late nineteenth until the middle of the twentieth centuries contributed to the study of drawing that characterised and shaped sketches as a particular subgenre. By focusing on reoccurring and recontextualised expressions, phrases, and no...

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Main Author: Elvira Bojilova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Art History, University of Birmingham 2021-06-01
Series:Journal of Art Historiography
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Online Access:https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/bojilova.pdf