ABSTRACT
The gesture of drawing is transitive and intransitive at the same time. This chapter focuses on artists and philosophers whose practice of concepts foreground the gesture of drawing as intransitive. It presents notions of drawing as developed by the French Philospher Jacques Derrida, German artist Albrecht Drer, French critic Roland Barthes, American critic Rosalind Krauss and German philosopher Walter Benjamin. Their notions of drawing and gesture will be demonstrated by using them for a reading of the drawing practices of the German artists Albrecht Drer and Hans Holbein the Elder, Dutch artist Armando, American artist Cy Twombly and Swiss artist Britta Huttenlocher. Robert Morris, for instance, produced a series of drawings in 1973 entitled Blind Time in which he completed self-imposed assignments with his eyes shut and within a limited period of times.
