The art of sketching 400 years of travel diaries

• Main Author: Argod, Pascale (Author)
• Other Authors: Corkett, Thomas (Translator)
• Format: Book
• Language: English; French
• Published: Barcelona, Spain Promopress 2016
• Edition: English-language edition
• Subjects: Travel in art; Artists > Travel; Artists > Pictorial works > Travel; Artists > Diaries; Artists > Diaries > Pictorial works; Notebooks; Notebooks > Pictorial works; Drawing > Technique
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Memories of other places, travel notebooks chronicle the experience of getting to know each other and ourselves. They have been companions of artists from Durer to Philip Delord, going through the orientalists, those who did the Grand Tour and explorers. The Art of Sketching illustrates the great sc...

Table of Contents:

• A genre through history
• Hybridity in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
• Artistic techniques
• Types of travel diary
• Travel diary artists