Picture-Story Composition

PUIL 3233 | Fall 2011 | Faculty: Ben Katchor

Through a series of exercises, students will explore the possibilities of expression that arise when text and image are combined on the same page. Creative writing and journalism students will analyze, through drawing, descriptive passages in their own written texts. Art students will discover and amplify, through text, the stories suggested by their drawings. The course will examine prospective systems, body-language, projective drawings and graphology. New possibilities of narrative structure and visual composition will be developed through work and classroom discussions. This course wills emphasis handmade drawing and the cultivation of an "autographic voice." All students, regardless of experience, will be expected to write and draw.