depiction

plural depictions

1. countableA lifelike image of something, either verbal or visual.

   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.

   2005 May 23, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 182

2. countableA drawing or painting.
3. countableA representation.
4. uncountableThe act of depicting.

   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; […]

   1973, Daniel W. Doerksen, Conflict and Resolution in George Herbert's The Temple, University of Wisconsin–Madison, page 108

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   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.

   1950, Max Meldrum, The Science of Appearances, The Shepherd Press, page 12

   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.

   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