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Drawing From Life: The Journal as Art
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Drawing From Life: The Journal as Art
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by Jennifer New
Sales Rank: 63802
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List Price: $25.00
$16.50
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on 10-28-2008
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Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press June 2, 2005
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1568984456
ISBN-13: 978-1568984452
Product Dimensions:
9.8 x 8 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
Product Review
"Refreshes the power, beauty and possibility of knowing ourselves through daily chronicle and tactile sensation." -- Santa Fe Reporter, September 7, 2005
A richly illustrated exploration of 31 list-, chart-, and sketch-filled journals by painters, filmakers, engineers, designers, and other visual thinkers. -- The Boston Globe, August 2005
A window into the creative minds of people from all walks of life. -- Anthem, May 2005
Shows how various talented people use their journals as a record and rough draft for their lives and work. -- Metro New York, July 2005
Product Description
Who hasn't, at one time or other, kept a journal? The impulse to record our daily lives on paper is nothing if not universal. Still, only a few of us have the discipline to make it past the first few entries, and fewer still manage to create diaries whose insight and visual beauty can inspire anyone but their authors. Drawing from Life: The Journal as Art is an exploration of these exceptions books of obsessive wonder filled to their borders with drawings, sketches, watercolors, graphs, charts, lists, collages, portraits, and photographs. Jennifer New takes readers on a spirited tour into the private worlds of journal keepers an architect, a traveler, a film director, an archeologist, a cancer patient, a songwriter, a quiltmaker, a gardener, an artist, a cyclist, and a scientist, to name just a few illustrating a broad range of journaling styles and techniques that in the end show how each of us can go about documenting our everyday lives. Excerpts from journals by such artists as Maira Kalman, Steven Holl, David Byrne, and Mike Figgis give us a peek at how creative souls observe, reflect, and explore. For those who already keep a journal, Drawing from Life will be an inspiration. For those who have always wanted to or tried and failed it might just be the motivation needed to get past that first week.
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