Full Description
Bringing together a broad range of contributors including art, architecture, and design academic theorists and historians, in addition to practicing artists, architects, and designers, this volume explores the place of the sketchbook in contemporary art and architecture. Drawing upon a diverse range of theories, practices, and reflections common to the contemporary conceptualisation of the sketchbook and its associated environments, it offers a dialogue in which the sketchbook can be understood as a pivotal working tool that contributes to the creative process and the formulation and production of visual ideas. Along with exploring the theoretical, philosophical, psychological, and curatorial implications of the sketchbook, the book addresses emergent digital practices by way of examining contemporary developments in sketchbook productions and pedagogical applications. Consequently, these more recent developments question the validity of the sketchbook as both an instrument of practice and creativity, and as an educational device. International in scope, it not only explores European intellectual and artistic traditions, but also intercultural and cross-cultural perspectives, including reviews of practices in Chinese artworks or Islamic calligraphy, and situational contexts that deal with historical examples, such as Roman art, or modern practices in geographical-cultural regions like Pakistan.
Contents
Introduction, Angela Bartram, Nader El-Bizri, Douglas Gitten; Chapter 1 By Way of an Overture: Classical Optics and Renaissance Pictorial Arts, Nader El-Bizri; Chapter 2 Parerga - Carnet de Croquis: 'ni oeuvre, ni hors d'oeuvre', Nader El-Bizri; Chapter 3 Palimpsest, John Hendrix; Chapter 4 The Ontological Sketchbook, Robert Clarke; Chapter 5 Plotting the Centre: Bramante's Drawings for the New St. Peter's Basilica, Nick Temple; Chapter 6 The Relationship Between Sketching and Painting in Chinese Traditional Aesthetics, Li Wenmin; Chapter 7 The Design Sketchbook: Between the Virtual and the Actual, Douglas Gittens; Chapter 8 Drawn to Each Other: A Love Affair with Sketches, Rachel Hurst; Chapter 9 One Wound, Two Wounds: The Body as the Site for Writing, Catalina Mejia Moreno; Chapter 10 Let's Draw the Line: The Hidden Pages of Pakistani Artists, Roohi Shafiq Ahmed, Abdullah Muhammad Iyhab Syed; Chapter 11 The Destruction of Ideas: Disregarding and Discarding Sketchbooks and Avoiding Prying Eyes, Angela Bartram; Chapter 12 Curating Sketchbooks: Interpretation, Preservation, Display, Miriam Stewart; Chapter 13 My Arguments with the World, Mario Minichiello; Chapter 14 The Sketchbook as Collection: A Phenomenology of Sketching, Raymond Lucas; Chapter 15 Notebooks and Narratives: The Secret Laboratory of the Architect's Sketchbook, Paul Clarke; Chapter 16 Sketchbook or Reflective Journal? Documenting the Practical PhD, Christine Turner;
