Deanna Petherbridge is one of the most respected graphic artists of the past 50 years. Since the 1960s, her practice has moved between making drawings and writing critically about art and architecture. She has designed murals and stage-sets, curated exhibitions, taught in the studio and lectured internationally a career trajectory that anticipated the multiple practices of todays' conceptual artists. Drawing is her primary concern both as an artist and as a historian. Her drawings are to be found in virtually every major UK collection, including the British Museum, the Tate Gallery and the V&A; and her book, The Primacy of Drawing: Histories and Theories of Practice (Yale University Press, 2010), is the pre-eminent study in the field. She has also made a significant international impact on the study of drawing through catalogues of the exhibitions The Quick and the Dead: Artists and Anatomy, 1977, and Witches and Wicked Bodies, 2013, which she curated. This monograph celebrates the vitality and originality of an extraordinary body of work.