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
