About 15 years ago when I was a student at the Boston Museum School, I took an art history class for which this book was required reading. I was thoroughly impressed with this $5.95 book at the time. Unfortunately, I had the hots for this girl who wanted to borrow the book and swore that she’d return it. I’ve been looking to purchase the book ever since, but it’s been out of print.
The second edition is now available for $19.90 and I still think
it’s a good deal for the money. What Rawson does is to define a grammar of drawing, using terms which are unambiguous, and then to discuss drawing in terms of that grammar. I recommend this book because for me as an artist, the book is both an inspiration
to do and an elucidation of what it is that I do. In a time when
