A Theory of Narrative Drawing
A 277 page academic book, proposing a new theory of drawing and narrative.
- Submitting institution
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University of Chester
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32-01/621118
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9781137521651
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Output
The research output is A Theory of Narrative Drawing (ISBN 9781137521651), a 277 page academic book, proposing a new theory of drawing and narrative.
Research process
Explanations of visual narrative have been fragmentary, in semiotics, social semiotics, linguistics and media studies, for example. Semiotic and media studies approaches overlook the significance of experiences of different visual media. Linguistic approaches overlook the relationships between visual perception and imagination. Semantic approaches have analysed particular historic instances, but are often unsystematic. Explanations of drawing and narrative remained a particularly significant omission. To explain drawing is to explain depiction and embodiment, visual perception and imagination, sign systems, language and writing, as part of a systematic account of the functional relationships between them. The output provides a systematic account by explaining experiences of drawing. It focuses on those areas of study overlooked in the existing scholarship and establishes a system of relationships between them and between areas in which explanations already exist. In doing this, it substantiates a wide academic dissemination of insights.
Research insights
The output explains areas of study overlooked in the existing. These include descriptions of the drawing body, the causes and consequences of drawing, the institutional relationship between ideas and percepts, the role of conventional ideas in establishing the status of drawings, a model of narrative, the remediation of the narrator and a critical evaluation of visual language theory. The output concludes with a series of demonstrations of the output’s new theory of narrative drawing, in the form of questions answered by making drawings.
Dissemination (see Supplementary information above)
The output A Theory of Narrative Drawing substantiated an international programme of academic, peer-reviewed dissemination: one authored publication, three book chapters, one journal article, three conference papers, one academic seminar and eight items of media commentary (reviews in academic journals).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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