Drawing From Life: The Journal as Art by Jennifer New

Drawing From Life: The Journal as Art

Features

Cover Type: Paperback with 192 pages

Published by: Princeton Architectural Press June 2, 2005

Written in: English

ISBN 10 Number: 1568984456

ISBN 13 Number: 978-1568984452

Book Dimensions: 9.8 x 8 x 0.8 inches

Weighs: 1.7 pounds

The Boston Globe, August 2005
A richly illustrated exploration of 31 list-, chart-, and sketch-filled journals by painters, filmakers, engineers, designers, and other visual thinkers.

Metro New York, July 2005
Shows how various talented people use their journals as a record and rough draft for their lives and work.

Reader Reviews
This book is really inspiring! Its subject is the visual journal or notebook, but this isn't limited to just artists. An anthology of several pages out of people's journals, each accompanied by a brief backstory, it's about a diversity of techniques, mainly visual, that a whole variety of people use to record their reflections on the world around them. It includes travel journals, a songwriter's notebook, architect's sketchbooks, naturalists, even a volcanologist. What pulls them all together is the fearlessness with which each uses the journal -- each entry is a compelling illustration of the idea of the journal as a tool for discovery. It's not that the drawings or collages in a particular journal are necessarily works of art in themselves, but that all are visual spaces for the mind to explore ideas out loud. As a final point, I find the excellence of all the examples to be encouraging rather than intimidating. It's the kind of thing that makes you want to run out and by a new sketch book to scribble in. Comment | | (Report this)

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