From Alamo to Photo

Although drawn lines on paper have played an important part in helping both explain and design our world, it would be a mistake to imagine drawing is just about images made with pens, pencils and paper. Before introducing the twenty drawings and ten artists that are The University of The Arts , London’s contribution to this exhibition I would like to establish a starting point by looking at two radical and unconnected examples of drawing that took place on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean during the mid- nineteenth century.