Drawing in our historical moment

"The current revival of interest in freehand (analog) drawing is a predictable response to the deluge of new images available in print and on film, television, and the Internet. It echoes other moments in history: when movable type and the printing press allowed the Renaissance to be broadcast across the European world, and when photography, industrial publishing, and chromolithography energized the mid-nineteenth century."
The Visual Language of Drawing (2012)