depiction
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French dépiction, from Latin dēpictiō. By surface analysis, depict + -ion.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /dɪˈpɪkʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]depiction (countable and uncountable, plural depictions)
- (countable) A lifelike image of something, either verbal or visual.
- 2005 May 23, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism[1], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 182:
- If Demandt's essay served as a strident example of the German desire for normalcy, a more subtle example was provided by a brief allohistorical depiction of a Nazi victory in World War II written by German historian Michael Salewski in 1999.
- (countable) A drawing or painting.
- (countable) A representation.
- (uncountable) The act of depicting.
- 1950, Max Meldrum, The Science of Appearances, The Shepherd Press, page 12:
- It is nevertheless true that, whereas the teaching of music and literature is established on a scientific basis, the art of depiction is still taught in a primitive and inefficient way.
- 1973, Daniel W. Doerksen, Conflict and Resolution in George Herbert's The Temple, University of Wisconsin–Madison, page 108:
- But since "realism" or representational depiction is itself a mode of art, it can never escape some degree of formal removal from the raw data of experience; […]
- 2017, Simon Grennan, “[[Drawing, Depicting and Imagining] Drawing’s Affordances] Depiction”, in A Theory of Narrative Drawing (Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels), Palgrave Macmillan, published 2019, →ISBN, page 48:
- As previously described, depiction is a unique type of visual representation defined by both seeing the activities/marks that constitute the depiction whilst also seeing the object of the depiction.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]lifelike image
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drawing or painting
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representation
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