The primacy of drawing: histories and theories of practice

Prolegomena : Thinking about drawing

Authorship and connoisseurship

Part one : Drawing as continuum

The origins of drawing and the primacy of line

The persistent cult of the sketch

Finished, autonomous and presentation drawings

Part two : The linear economy

Line, mark, linear codes and touch

Material traces

Drawing strategies

Invisible lines : the affective semiotics of design and composition

Part three : Drawing as discipline

Drawing and learning

Bodies in pieces : anatomical and drawing manuals for artists

The complex contradictions of copying

Part four : Drawing the self

Drawing the drawer : the naturalisation of practice

Drawing the studio : power and legitimation

Part five : Drawing the other

Charged lines and vernacular bodies

Drawing death and desire

Part six : Drawing the future

Drawing now.