I don’t remember where I first came across the work of André Mare. He was a French artist who was associated with the Cubism and Art Deco movements, and his World War I sketchbooks are quite remarkable. No discussion about Cubism can be complete without at least some mention of André Mare. Yet even in conversations … Continue reading André Mare’s Sketchbooks →
A fitting way to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I: an English soldier’s diary of his time as a prisoner of war in 1918. One of the photos below shows that the diary was re-written in 1920. I wonder if the original writings were in a diary similar to this … Continue reading Henry Wilkinson’s World War I Diary and Sketchbook →
Notebooks, journals, sketchbooks, diaries: in search of the perfect page…
