Vitamin D3: Today’s Best in Contemporary Drawing Phaidon Book

Over the past 50 years, drawing has been elevated from a supporting role to a primary medium, ranking alongside painting as a central art form. Since Phaidon’s publication of the first such surveys (Vitamin D in 2005 and D2 in 2013), contemporary artists have continued to explore drawing’s possibilities from intimate to large-scale works, in a diversity of mark-making processes and materials. Vitamin D3 showcases more than 100 such artists, as nominated by a global panel of more than 70 international art experts.

The more than 70 nominators include such iconic figures including Iwona Blazwick, Louisa Buck, Mark Coetzee, Thelma Golden, Laura Hoptman, Geeta Kapur, Pablo Len de la Barra, Christine Macel, Kate Macfarlane, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Zoe Whitley.

The more than 100 selected artists include Miriam Cahn, Robert Crumb, Tom Friedman, Tania Kovats, Claudette Johnson, Rashid Johnson, Otobong Nkanga, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Deanna Petherbridge, Christina Quarles, Qiu Zhijie, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Wael Shawky, Emma Talbot and Johanna Unzueta.

The author

Phaidon Editors are grounded in both academic and professional expertise in a diverse range of subjects including art, architecture, cookery and design. Working with a broad and diverse panel of contributors from around the world, Phaidon Editors have created many of Phaidon’s classic publications, including30,000 Years of Art,The Fashion Book,The Gardener’s Gardenand theAtlas of Brutalist Architecture.

Hardcover,11 3/8 x 9 7/8 in., 304pages, 400 illustrations