Simon Grennan Books

This accessible book explains the significance of relationships between the body and the mark, visual imitation, drawing and writing and visual storytelling, providing a simple guide to these key ideas. For millennia drawing has been conceived as an exploratory activity, mediating between the vision of the drafter and what they are drawing. Drawing reveals hidden relationships, directs attention, scrutinises the material world and provides plans for further action.The book unpacks the key ideas that have shaped the rich, complex and foundational activity of drawing. It presents an unexpected, engaging and authoritative range of illustrated examples of drawings made by culturally and historically diverse people for different purposes, with different media, in widely different times and situations.Educator, author and artist Simon Grennan builds together concepts to create a complete guide to ideas about drawing.

Inspired by Anthony Trollope's 1879 novel John Caldigate, Dispossession embeds the reader in a uniquely wrought experience of the mid-nineteenth century, including the first ever appearance of the Aboriginal Wiradjuri language in a graphic novel.

Exploring the intricate connections between drawing and narrative, this book presents a novel framework for visual storytelling grounded in embodied social behavior. It delves into critical issues such as the interplay between vision and imagination, and the role of the body in representation. The author challenges traditional theories by integrating linguistic concepts and offers practical insights through two original visual demonstrations that highlight the dynamic relationships between subjects and media. This work stands out for its comprehensive approach and innovative contributions to the field.

Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval 1847–1890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century, focusing on new types of cultural work by women and establishing Duval as a unique but exemplary figure in a transformational period of the nineteenth century. -- .