Thinking about Drawing - Simon Grennan

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Biographie:
Simon Grennan is Leading Research Fellow at the University of Chester, UK. He is an awarded scholar of visual narrative, graphic novelist and cartoonist. He is the author of Drawing in Drag by Marie Duval (2019), A Theory of Narrative Drawing (2017) and Dispossession (2015), one of The Guardian Books of the Year 2015, which is a graphic adaptation of a novel by Anthony Trollope. He is co-author, with Roger Sabin and Julian Waite, of Marie Duval: Maverick Victorian Cartoonist (2020), Marie Duval (2018) and The Marie Duval Archive (2015), co-author of Key Terms in Comics Studies (2021) and co-editor, with Laurence Grove, of Transforming Anthony Trollope: 'Dispossession', Victorianism and 19th-century Word and Image (2015), among others. Since 1990, he has been half of international artists team Grennan & Sperandio, producer of over forty comics and books (www.kartoonkings.com).

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List of Illustrations Introduction: what is drawing? 1. Imitation The threshold of visualisation and the problem of media Depiction and visualisation Imitating vision and imitating drawing Digital imitation Analogue imitation Imitating experience 2. Mark Tone Line Planning Mapping Drawing systems representing three dimensions Typification Writing Mark making across media Introducing the body 3. Trace The surface The surface of the drawing as the skin of a body The surface as a visualisation of an idea The limits of the drawing The significance of drawing media Trace, media and body Trace and style Trace as evidence Movement, mind and absence Choreographing traces Trace and depiction 4. Story Story and point of view The story of the drawing Story and style Drawing style and character 5. Drawing Today Feeling Technology old and new Systematic drawings Identity and power Textiles and the line Conjecture and hypothesis Collaborative drawing Performing drawing Moving drawings Contemporary drawing and public cultural institutions Selective glossary References Further reading Index