Celebrating Sketchbooks

Sketchbooks can take many different forms and serve many different purposes--practicing, designing, planning, recording, etc.  And, deliberately or not, they often serve as "finished" artworks or bodies of work unto themselves.  Even a simple MNCat search for "sketchbook" reveals published works from a surprising range of creative professionals.  In celebration of our current exhibit of sketches by University of Minnesota Architecture Professor Dewey Thorbeck, here are some published sketchbooks, and books about sketchbooks, in our collection.

Architects' sketches : dialogue and design

The notebooks and drawings of Louis I. Kahn

Roy Lichtenstein, landscape sketches, 1984-1985

Drawing from life : the journal as art

Giacometti; a sketchbook of interpretive drawings.

Michelangelo draftsman

Auguste Rodin : erotic sketches = erotische Skizzen

Architector : the lodge books and sketchbooks of medieval architects