# @drawingcenter on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2017-07-20T18:52:34.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

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Every Thursday, we share a favorite book about drawing and artists working in the medium.
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“Lines have histories. Lines have weight. In dancing and in drawing, lines twist and bucket under the tensions of social space. Lines exist not only in relation to ‘the body’ but to the pleasures and purposes of specific bodies” - Catherine Lord
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This week’s book “Dance/Draw” is the catalogue associated with an exhibition held at The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston in Fall 2011 which explored the relationship between contemporary dance and drawing.“Dance/Draw” features over 40 artists, categorizing them into four main sections: More Than Just the Hand, The Line in Space, Dancing, and Drawing. 
As dance has evolved from strict, traditional forms to embrace more complex and childlike gestures, drawing, too, has matured to be more than pen on paper but to also include digitized, three dimensional and abstracted works. Through these evolutions the line has stayed consistent in both mediums and can be used to revamp classic understandings of space and body, both in the public and private realms. This book opens up new perspectives on how we view dance, drawing and line, and their relation to the world around us. 
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Book: “Dance / Draw,” curated by Helen Molesworth, Hatje Cantz, 2011
Plate 1: Tseng Kwong Chi, “Bill T. Jones Body Painting with Keith Haring”, 1983.
Plate 2: Sadie Benning, still from “Play Pause”, 2006.
Plate 3: Helena Almeida, “O Atelier/The Studio”, 1983.

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