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. The books 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.
Chapter 1: Drawing, depicting and imagining
Chapter 2: Narrative
Chapter 3: Drawing Demonstration One: expounding anothers thought in the style of that thought
Chapter 4: Drawing Demonstration Two: time and self-observation
An ambitious contribution to the expanding literature dedicated to theorizing comics and visual storytelling, A Theory of Narrative Drawing is impressive in both approach and depth of research. & Summing Up: Recommended. & Graduate students, researchers, faculty. (S. B. Skelton, Choice, Vol. 55 (8), April, 2018)
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