Overview
- Introduces a novel approach towards drawing that claims that drawings are produced in a system that embodies social behaviors
- Proposes a new conception of visual story telling that introduces a new approach to examining comics
- Discusses crucial issues in the field of visual story telling
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels (PSCGN)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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About this book
This book offers an original new conception of visual story telling, proposing that drawing, depictive drawing and narrative drawing are produced in an encompassing dialogic system of embodied social behavior. It refigures the existing descriptions of visual story-telling that pause with theorizations of perception and the articulation of form. The book identifies and examines key issues in the field, including: the relationships between vision, visualization and imagination; the theoretical remediation of linguistic and narratological concepts; the systematization of discourse; the production of the subject; idea and institution; and the significance of resources of the body in depiction, representation and narrative. It then tests this new conception in practice: two original visual demonstrations clarify the particular dialectic relationships between subjects and media, in an examination of drawing style and genre, social consensus and self-conscious constraint. Thebook’s originality derives from its clear articulation of a wide range of sources in proposing a conception of narrative drawing, and the extrapolation of this new conception in two new visual demonstrations.
Reviews
“A Theory of Narrattve Drawing delivers what its title promises and will be a rewarding read to students and scholars of both drawing in general and comics in particular, who are interested in considering aspects of the production and reception of drawings beyond its technical aspects.”( Antonia Purk, Closure, closure.uni-kiel.de, Issue 5, November, 2018)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Simon Grennan is an internationally acclaimed scholar of visual narrative, graphic novelist and cartoonist. He is the creator of Dispossession, the first graphic adaptation of a novel by Anthony Trollope, instigator of The Marie Duval Archive and, since 1990, half of international artists team Grennan & Sperandio.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Theory of Narrative Drawing
Authors: Simon Grennan
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51844-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-52165-1Published: 29 June 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-51844-6Published: 29 June 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6370
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6389
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 277
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Media and Communication, Fine Arts, Semiotics, Popular Culture, Graphic Design