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Caught between travel guides and artists’ books, the travel diary has swung between a journalistic documentary style and visual expression. It is a literary and artistic genre that is composite and plural, heterogeneous and subjective. This book illustrates the great scientific and journalistic adventures in history, from the Egyptian campaign to the war in Iraq, while describing the artistic techniques and contemporary trends in travel sketchbooks. It also explores more intimate territories, capturing the essence of our world to preserving the remembrances. Between text and image, this stunning collection travels through the centuries revealing the most beautiful pages of a very human adventure. The book ends with a complete overview of the different genres (from the educational trip to reportage) and types of travel diaries (from sketchbooks to audiovisual works), as well as the very diverse techniques used by different artists (from pencil work to the graphic arts and mixed techniques). As memories of other places, travel notebooks chronicle the experience of getting to know the place we visit and ourselves. They have been companions of artists from Dürer to Philip Delord, going through the orientalists and explorers.
Introduction
A genre through history
A meeting of the arts and human sciences
The formative journey - The humanist’s training - The trip to Italy - The “veduta," souvenir of the trip to Italy
The discovery of the world and the natural sciences - The journey to the Americas - The circumnavigations of botanists and naturalists - Scientific expeditions through geography - The quest for the evolution of species - The Société de Géographie and the Société des Explorateurs Français
Outdoor painting - The aesthetics of the “picturesque” - English watercolour, topographical drawing and architectural detail - From romanticism to impressionism
The call of the east - The taste for exoticism and Egyptology - The grand tour through the hand of writer - artists - The travel diary of the orientalist painters - Eugene Delacroix’s notebooks - Naval painters and their port diaries - The craze for tourism
The art of reportage - The birth of pictorial and travel reportage - From press cartoons to the rise of the comic strip - The illustrated travel - reportage diary - Picturesque publications and birth of ethnology and anthropology
From ethnography to the constitution of the human sciences - The anthropologist - ethnologist’s notebook - From the album to the ethnographic cinema - Art joins ethnography: the works of Paul Gauguin
The hybridity of the twentieth and twenty - First centuries
From artist’s book to interartistic work
The legacy of artistic movements - The livre d’artiste or artist’s book - The art of collage from cubism and the Dadaist movement - The juxtaposition of heterogeneous images following pop art - mail art since the fluxus movement
Contemporary artists’ inspiration - Mathurin Méheut: polymorphic and ethnographic notebooks - Le Corbusier: architecture notebooks - Jean Dubuffet: notebooks and abstract notes - Zao Wou - Ki: notebooks and mixing - Peter Beard: sketchbooks and collages - Claude Lagoutte: traces of travel - Max Pam: notebook - scrapbooks - Miquel Barceló: notebooks - nomadic installations - Hervé di Rosa: notebooks of the arts modestes - Tony Soulié: “photo - painting” books - Jean Pattou: notebooks of urban paintings - Julien “Seth” Malland : street art books
The artistic and literary genre - The literature of writing travellers - “Illustrated” or “graphic” literature - Road photographers - The emergence of a publishing genre in france - Travel guides and illustration
Contemporary trends - Towards the artist’s travel book - Towards illustrated reportage - Towards the illustrated tourist guide - Towards media flow and the combination of the arts - Towards digital and transmedia artistic techniques
The experience of travelling and observing, the artist, traveller and witness
Characteristics - Reporting and witnessing - The text - image link or the iconotextual - Narrating the book through images - The itinerary and the mental map
Techniques - Graphic arts adapted to travel - The sensory work and the awakening of the senses - The art of the portrait
Travel and creative time - Graphic reportage and sketches - In the field and in the workshop - The conceptual approach - From palimpsest to work in progress
Creativity and artistic innovation - The mixing of graphic arts and freedom of expression - The aesthetics of patchwork and the art of collage - The book - object and the form - Combining media
Book types
A genre at the crossroads of the arts, writing and travel
Reportage notebooks - Reportage notebooks, “world notebooks” - Court sketchbooks - Social notebooks - Meetings and portrait notebooks - Humanitarian notebooks - War diaries - Notebooks on cultural and geopolitical diversity - Sailors’ diaries - Scientific - expedition notebooks - Geographers’ notebooks - Show notebooks
Heritage notebooks - Regional heritage notebooks - Architecture notebooks - Memory notebooks - Ethnographic notebooks - Intercultural notebooks - Cultural - expedition notebooks - Journey notebooks - Urban notebooks - Archaeology notebooks - Geology notebooks - Naturalist notebooks - Foods and flavours notebooks
Intermedia notebooks - Travel - exhibition - Installation notebooks - Travel diaries on stage - Audio travel diaries - Diaries audiovisual - Multimedia travel diaries - Digital and animated travel diaries - Web notebooks
Notebook artists
Bruno Pilorget – Bertrand De Miollis – Cathy Beauvallet – Elsie Herberstein – Damien Chavanat – Noëlle Herrenschmidt – Denis Clavreul – Alan Johnston – Arnaud D’aunay – Philippe Delord – Giancarlo Iliprandi – Emmanuel Michel – Claire Et Reno Marca – Titouan Lamazou – Vincent Desplanche – Urban Sketchers – Simon – Les Carnettistes Tribulants – Stefano Faravelli – Fabrice Moireau – Lizzie Napoli – Damien Roudeau – Françoise Caillette - Deneubourg – Stéphanie Ledoux – Gwenaëlle Trolez – Catherine Legrand – Patrick Chappatte – Bastien Dubois – Karen Guillorel – David Lopez – Julie Sarperi – Emmanuelle Troy – Edmond Baudouin – Troub’s – Charles Berberian – Jacques Ferrandez – Loustal – Marc P.G. Berthier – Official Armed Forces Artists – Michel Montigné – Alain Bouldouyre – Nicolas Vanier
The Clermont - Ferrand Travel Diary Meeting
Bibliography - Acknowledgements - Photo credits