Drawing
Upon Art is a supplemental drawing workbook,
whose roughly 400 assignments address the fundamental,
historic questions and problems in Visual Art. It is designed
specifically to bring students in direct contact with
Art’s landmarks achievements. Thus, Drawing Upon
Art challenges students, with simple and direct exercises,
to experience for themselves history’s most advanced
and creative visual art problems and developments.
Drawing
Upon Art: Workbook for
Gardner's Art Through The Ages
(2009) by L.G. Williams, edited by Julia Friedman (Wadsworth,
2009).
Julia Friedman holds a Ph.D. in Art History from Brown University.
At present she is an Honorary Research Associate in the Department
of Art History at the University of Tokyo.
LG
WILLIAMS received his M.F.A from the University of California, Davis and
B.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute. He also holds an honorary
Ph.D. from ISSA, Cedar Rapids, IA. Williams has taught art, art
history and art appreciation courses at the University of California-Davis,
University of Southern California, California College of the Arts,
and the University of Hawaii, to name a few. Author of many books
and publications on art, art criticism, and poetry, Williams has
appeared in Modern Painters, Juxtapoz, Artweek, Art Papers, Village
Voice, San Francisco Chronicle, Honolulu Bulletin, Sacramento
Bee, LA Weekly, Maui Weekly, SF Weekly, and The Bay Guardian.
Williams’s recent curatorial projects include Wally Hedrick’s,
War Room, at San Francisco International Art Fair.
OTHER
ACADEMIC BOOKS
BY LG WILLIAMS
The
Drawing Handbook
by Dr Xing Zhao Ping and LG Williams
Wally
Hedrick: The Dark Millennium
by Gina Dorre and LG Williams
