As the title suggests, What Is Drawing? looks at new ways that artists have been using drawing, bringing it into a central position in their work, expanding its definition into a more fluid, varied discipline than has traditionally been allowed. Increasingly, drawing has become an important and vibrant genre in contemporary art, with many young artists exploring the possibilities of the medium in unconventional ways. Based on the work done at the Drawing Centre, London, What Is Drawing? combines incisive essays and interviews that consider these new directions, along with extensively illustrated artists? projects.