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The Untimely Art of Scribble

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Authors:
  1. Victoria de Rijke

    1. Middlesex University, LONDON, UK

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  • Explores scribble across child, animal, and adult production
  • Addresses the fact that scribble occurs across educational, visual, performative, and digital disciplines
  • Uses interdisciplinary connections to create new knowledge and reveals new understandings of the form

Part of the book series: Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education (LAAE, volume 34)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction: Not Defining Scribble

    • Victoria de Rijke
    Pages 1-21

  3. Scribble Art on Caves and Walls

    • Victoria de Rijke
    Pages 23-46

  4. Children and Animals’ Scribble

    • Victoria de Rijke
    Pages 47-77

  5. Spiritual Scribble

    • Victoria de Rijke
    Pages 79-100

  6. Scribble and the Avant-Garde

    • Victoria de Rijke
    Pages 101-131

  7. Scribble as Music and Movement

    • Victoria de Rijke
    Pages 133-162

  8. Scribble on Screens and by Machines

    • Victoria de Rijke
    Pages 163-194

  9. Coda: Scribble’s Metaphors, Scribble Time

    • Victoria de Rijke
    Pages 195-213
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About this book

This book offers new definitions, vocabularies and insights for “scribbling”, viewing it as a fascinating and revealing process shared by many different disciplines and practices. The book provides a fresh and timely perspective on the nature of mark making and the persistence of the gestural impulse from the earliest graphic marks to the most sophisticated artistic production. The typical treatment of scribbling in the literature of artistic development has cast the practice as a prelude to representation in drawing and writing, with only occasional acknowledgment of the continuing joy and experiment of making marks across many arts practices. The continuous line the author traces between the universal practice of scribbling in infancy and early childhood and the work of radical creativity for contemporary and historical artists is original and clarifying, expanding the range of drawing behaviors to that of avant-garde painters, performance and the digital.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Middlesex University, LONDON, UK

    Victoria de Rijke

About the author

Dr. Victoria de Rijke is Professor in Arts & Education at Middlesex University and Research Director with over 30 years’ professional experience of teaching and researching interdisciplinary studies, working and publishing across education, visual, performing arts and literature, such as Nosebook: Representations of the Nose in Arts & Literature (2000) Duck (2007) and Art & Soul: Rudolf Steiner, Interdisciplinary Art and Education (2019). She has also exhibited artworks such as Duck’s Dialectic and This Book Is Intentionally Blank in UK and international galleries as part of playful arts practice.

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