A global survey of drawing today featuring over 100 contemporary artists Vitami n D offers a fresh and pioneering overview of the current state and underlying s ignificance of drawing as an artistic medium. It highlights the originality and innovation with which contemporary artists in the genre - from across the world and in a vast variety of contexts - experiment with a diversity of styles and st atements. Vitamin D features the work of 109 contemporary artists, selected by some of the world's foremost critics and curators for their unique outlook. It i s in itself an artistic compilation of the endless possibilities that drawing of fers an artist from any background. This book is a captivating composition of e xamples of the evolution of drawing in the twenty-first century. It reveals the energy of contemporary drawing, in a subtle presentation of the richness and ver satility of the medium. With several pages dedicated to images of each artist's work and a deeply analytical parallel text, Vitamin D is at once a detailed refe rence book for art world aficianados and an absorbing introduction for newcomers to the scene. Highly informative and aesthetically stimulating, this book is a n essential work in its own right, through its exposition of just how fundamenta l an artistic medium drawing continues to be.