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RCA Symposium: Reportage drawing at the end of the world (2020)
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Embury, G. (2020, July). RCA Symposium: Reportage drawing at the end of the world. Presented at Royal College of Art Symposium, Online

Symposium RCA 2020: Reportage drawing at the end of the world Reportage drawing has always borne witness to the world’s most consequential events. For most of the 19th century, reportage drawing was the news image and its perception as a piece of o... Read More about RCA Symposium: Reportage drawing at the end of the world.

Learning from Lissitsky: Illustration and the new objectivity (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Embury, G. (2020, February). Learning from Lissitsky: Illustration and the new objectivity. Poster presented at Illustration Research methods symposium Kingston University, Kingston University

El Lissitzky believed the artist could be an agent for change. The Russian avant-garde artist declared a break with traditional modes of representation, and embracing geometric abstraction aiming to revolutionize artistic practice. The Creator of ‘Be... Read More about Learning from Lissitsky: Illustration and the new objectivity.