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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 exceptionsbooks 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 keepersan 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 fewillustrating 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 toor tried and failedit might just be the motivation needed to get past that first week.
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Close observation of a single subject, whether it is as tiny as Pasteur's microbes or as great as Einstein's universe, is the kind of work that happens less and less these days. Read the first page
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Close observation of a single subject, whether it is as tiny as Pasteur's microbes or as great as Einstein's universe, is the kind of work that happens less and less these days. Read the first page
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79 of 79 people found the following review helpful
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This book is absolutely stunning. It's a collection journals and notebooks from people of varying professions and interests. The book is broken down into 4 sections: observation, reflection, exploration and creation. Each section headed with introductory text with further text on the individual "journalists". The journals themselves vary widely in styles, from scribbled notes to pages that have been rigourously worked on. If you want to see some images then you should visit www.pergl.net/jennifernew. The shape of the book resembles a traditional journal, the paper is of good quality and the layout is clean and easy to enjoy. Drawing from life is truly inspirational.
21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
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This is the best book of journals I've seen - journals actually logging ideas rather than just prettified pages. Not that there isn't a place for that, but this is like getting to leaf through other creative people's working sketchbooks and journals. Quite different from all the scrapbooking/journalling books.
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
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I liked this book very much. Essentially, it is a collection of samples of the journals of a wide range of different kinds of people, some who use journals professionally, some as recreation. Therefore, the styles and contents vary widely. For me it is an invaluable source of reference material and ideas to try out in my own journals.
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The preface and introduction both contain useful information such as ( p10) the circular journalling process of: observation, reflection, exploration and creation, which the author... Read more
Published 19 months ago by watercolour
fantastic book
I fully agree with the reviews added by my predecessors. It is a beautiful and very ispiring book. The samples of journals are ever so interesting both in terms of the visual and... Read more
Published 22 months ago by K. A. Parker
Fantastic insight into the role of the journal in the creative process
I began keeping a journal some six years ago whilst doing a Masters Degree at university. Not having studied an `art' type degree before, the idea of a journal/sketchbook was new... Read more
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