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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. <i>Drawing from Life: The Journal as Art</i> is an exploration of these exceptionsbooks of obsessive wonder filled to their borders with drawings, sketches, watercolors, graphs, charts, lists, collages, portraits, and photographs. <p>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.</p> <p>For those who already keep a journal, <i>Drawing from Life</i> wi

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Author

New, Jennifer

Publisher

Princeton Architectural Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781281065964

Category

art

Subjects

Architecture, Technology, Fiction

Rating

3.9 / 5 (5,198 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14