SeeAnew -- Main Page

This web gallery or "webbery" is the work of Robert P. Taylor of Teachers College, Columbia University, and all its images were created by him. In the context of a website, it explores the arrangement of visual data in the form of sketches. Other Taylor sites also explore characteristics of classifying and arranging visual data (seeRelated Taylor websites below), presenting digitized versions of drawings in a variety of concurrent exhibits. Art on Art, for example, preceded See Anew, but like it, uses the relatively new, website medium to approach a very old subject - the recycling or reworking of one artist's work by another. See Anew differs from that earlier site, though, by restricting its subject art to sculpture - it uses the digitized versions more than 125 drawings of 25 pieces of sculpture. Of course, the assessment put upon the work displayed here or in Art on Art can vary widely from one viewer to another. Some may regard the "copies" in See Anew as debasing the originals; some, as going off in a new direction, and some, as creating work that compliments the original. Whatever the opinion about this aspect of the site, it does explore important ideas about drawing and digitization. This exploration is found partly in comments within the site but scattered across many of the pages featuring individual drawings. It also appears in more concentrated form in Background Observations, Digitization and drawing and Sketches: drawings in progress (see links below), with the latter two going into specific detail with illustrations. To simply navigate the site, use Index to all Exhibits, below.