Monday, 20 November 2017

The Visual Narrative Reader - Neil Cohn

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Cohn, N (2016) 'The Visual Narrative Reader', London & New York, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

Visual Narrative Theory
  • pg.2 - 'in all channels we use systematic patterns stored in our long-term memories: words and idioms are systematic patterns of sound mapped to meanings...'
  • 'Gestural emblems are systematic meaningful manual expressions (like 'OK' or 'thumbs up')...'
  • Drawings also use systematic patterns whether as conventional ways of drawing people, houses or stick figures...'
  • pg. 3 - 'Just as spoken languages and sign languages differ from around the world, we should expect that different visual languages manifest in unique cultural contexts.'
Sequential Imagery
  • pg.1 - 'Drawing is a uniquely human capacity for expressing meaning'.
  • 'This unique capacity for image-making is pushed further by the use of sequential images to convey meanings beyond single expressions'.
  • 'Sequential visual narratives date at least as far back as cave paintings and have appeared in numerous cultural artefacts - woven into tapestries, painted on pottery, and drawn in sand, among others'.

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