Undressed Art

"We all draw as children: we scrawl a sun-beamed circle for a face and dots for eyes, and then we move on to portraits of Mom with an upside-down U for hair and Dad with trousers up to his armpits. But sooner or later, almost everyone stops. In this book, Peter Steinhart explores why some of us keep on drawing - and what happens when we do." "Combining the scientific, the historical, the anecdotal and the personal, Steinhart asks some questions: Why do drawings often speak to us more eloquently than paintings? What is the mind doing when we draw? Why is so much drawing of the face and of the…