#bernice rose

Thinking is Form. The Drawings of Joseph Beuys, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA / The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1993 [Benoît Waterkeyn. Art: © ARS, New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn]

Excerpts from Bernice Rose’s “Drawing Now” (1976)

Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective, Edited by Gary Garrels, Bernice Rose, and Michelle White, with additional contributions by Lizzie Borden, Magdalena Dabrowski, Richard Serra, and Richard Shiff, The Menil Foundation, Houston, TX, 2011 (Internet Archive here) [Saint-Martin Bookshop, Bruxelles-Brussel. Art: © Richard Serra / ARS, New York]

"Line in its pure state describes only itself, "  Drawing Now, (1976) Bernice Rose, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

"It is the relationship of one line to another that makes line function descriptively."

I would state too, the obvious: Lines have the job of description (representative), but only because it is with what interpretation we bring to them...