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Why has the act of reportage drawing persisted and thrived in our ever-changing media landscape?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book offers a deep dive into the world of reportage drawing, a world which is provocative, mixed media, transdisciplinary, and immersed in the idiosyncratic vision of the artist. Where the traditional orientation of reportage was on the communicative function of the image as a record of an event, contemporary practitioners, largely detached from commissioning structures of the 19th and 20th centuries, now seek to capture more experiential qualities of place and choose locations which have highly personal and political significance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLiberated from old conceptions of reportage drawing as objective and true, artists today embrace subjectivity and are seeking a rich dialogue with their subjects, using drawing to tell important stories about protest, human migration, war, corporate capitalism, and homelessness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLouis Netter distinguishes contemporary reportage drawing from its historical function through a critical exploration of the aesthetic of the sketch, the role of caricature, and the nature of experience. 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The combination of experiences and disciplines in the expanded field has established a vibrant art movement that has been progressively burgeoning in the last few years. The Introduction contextualises the background and identifies contemporary approaches to performance drawing. As a way to embrace the different voices and various lenses in producing this book, the authors combine individual perspectives and critical methodology in the five chapters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhile embedded in ephemerality and immediacy, the themes encompass body and energy, time and motion, light and space, imagined and observed, demonstrating how drawing can act as a performative tool. 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