The wise body : conversations with experienced dancers /

This reviewer suspects that most art libraries have nothing in their holdings that quite resembles this book. Briefly, it is a compendium of writings and interviews by 12 theoreticians and practitioners, 9 British and all academics. The subject is postmodern, conceptual, and ideational drawing and graphics, and all of the philosophical thinking that builds itself around or is in fact the substance of the visual evidence. Following a foreword and introduction, essays include Steve Garner's "Towards a Critical Discourse in Drawing Research," Stephen Farthing's "Recording: And Questions of Accuracy," and Howard Riley's "Drawing: Towards an Intelligence of Seeing." This work should appeal to younger practitioners in particular. The volume's only shortcoming is that the writing and the arguments are necessarily hermeneutical and circular. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers. J. T. Frazer emeritus, Wesleyan University