Materiality in Comics - Reframing Sequential Function in Graphic Novels by Confronting the Page as Surface.

漫画中的物质性 - 通过将页面视为表面来重新构建图画小说中的顺序功能。

• 批准号: 2582677
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of the Arts London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2582677
• 关键词: Materiality; Comics; Reframing; Sequential; Function

This practice based PhD seeks to reframe the way we think about printed surface in graphic novels. I want to define the role materiality of surface plays in the interpretive mechanism of visual narrative, and use these findings to open up new forms of sequential readings.To do this, I will need to research Book Arts and Literary Criticism alongside Comics. The issue of materiality is common across these fields, but no comparative practice based research has yet been carried out.The term materiality as I use it, means the study of the physical surfaces that make up a book, the materials, actions and supports that comprise the original art work, and how this is represented by the printed page. The relationship between these material states, their interpretation by readers, and their mediation by technology, broadly defines my area of interest. These researches will frame a practice based program, wherein I will produce three graphic narratives. Though grounded in the graphic novel form, these narratives will utilise theoretical methods of interpretation encountered in my wider research. Their production will involve the material processes of soaking, embroidery, and pyrography which challenge the page surface through the action of moisture on material, the piercing of material, and the burning of material.The graphic narratives I create will form an account of the possibilities for sequential innovation opened up by a deeper understanding of materiality, working toward the development of a theory of materiality in graphic novels. The aim of this is to identify sequential strategies across these fields and arrive at a definition of the role materiality plays in their function. As well suggesting new methods of theoretical interpretation, this research will have implications for how we consume comics digitally and suggest more nuanced approaches to the digitisation of graphic narratives.

这个基于实践的博士试图重塑我们对图画小说中印刷表面的看法。我想定义表面的物质性在视觉叙事的解释机制中所扮演的角色，并利用这些发现来开辟新的顺序阅读形式。为了做到这一点，我需要研究书籍艺术和文学批评以及漫画。重要性问题在这些领域都很普遍，但尚未开展基于比较实践的研究。我使用的术语“物质性”是指研究构成一本书的物理表面，材料、动作和支撑构成原始艺术作品，以及这些如何通过印刷页面表现出来。这些物质状态之间的关系，读者对它们的解读，以及技术对它们的调解，大致定义了我感兴趣的领域。这些研究将构建一个基于实践的程序，其中我将产生三个图形叙述。虽然以图画小说的形式为基础，但这些叙述将利用我在更广泛的研究中遇到的理论解释方法。它们的制作将涉及浸渍，刺绣和热印等材料过程，这些过程通过材料的水分作用，材料的穿孔和材料的燃烧来挑战页面表面。我创作的图画叙事将形成一种顺序创新的可能性通过对物质性的更深入的理解，朝着图画小说物质性理论的发展而努力。这样做的目的是确定跨这些领域的顺序策略，并得出重要性在其功能中所起作用的定义。除了提出新的理论解释方法外，这项研究还将对我们如何以数字方式消费漫画产生影响，并为图形叙事的数字化提供更细致入微的方法。