Discussions by Two Artists of the Background to Their Drawings

Top left: Dmitry Mitrokhin. 'Glass', pencil and watercolour on paper, 18 x 12.5cm, 1972. (Fig. 3, cf. page 225) Top right: Nicholas Orsini. 'Fossil Garden', oils, oilpastels on canvas, 150x 108cm, 1977. (Fig. 8, cf. page 180) Center: S. J. Edwards and A. J. Langley, Colours produced by one to seven layers of cellophane (left) between crossed polarisers and (right) between parallel polarisers. (Fig. 7, cf. page 190) Bottom left: K. Wejchert. 'Water Portraits' with colour-patch characteristics without distinct shapes, colour slides. Location (clockwise from top left): Copenhagen, Denmark; New York City, U.S.A.; Lulea, Sweden; Sidi-Farush, Algeria. (Fig. 4, cf. page 217) Bottom right: Jean-Louis Viora. 'Kinetic Sculpture, No. 61', mobile, iron wire with plastic sheath (diam. 2.7cm), cotton thread (0.25g/m), 50 x 45 x 45cm, 1980. (Fig. 1, cf. page 213)

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