A story is narrated, a process that is designated in Sanskrit by such words as purana (ancient story) and akhyana (illustrative narrative).
I think one of the reasons that you give a commission is that you want to explore the boundaries of a medium, and a lot of the writing that I've heard tends to be illustrative, narrative, on a one-to-one basis".
"The idea of taking this on tour came about in a conversation with my collaborator, illustrator, and good friend, Mike Ackerman, and when we realized he could weave an unfolding illustrative narrative over my projections, well, we both got very excited for Projecting West.
In an illustrative narrative, a patient's husband went to buy cigarettes for a brother visiting from China.
With that audience in mind, Cannon has selected artists who are more on the illustrative or narrative side of things, rather than being super-abstract, but he says he wants to eventually bring a broad range of artists on-board.
But whereas that book is composed primarily of analytical exercises accented by brief and pointedly illustrative personal narratives, Skinner's book takes advantage of its unusual format to convey fun, unexpected content.
A cookbook is generally understood to be a collection of recipes amplified by short illustrative or explanatory narratives.
Released after four years because of ill health, he wrote many popular songs, ballads, and novels that caught the spirit of 19th-century Ireland, including Poems, Sketches, and Narratives Illustrative of Irish Life (1870), Knocknagow; or, The Homes of Tipperary (1879), and For the Old Land: A Tale of Twenty Years Ago (1886).
Equal parts narrative and illustrative, Chau's works are rendered with pen-and-ink on printmaking paper, inspired by the drawings of Ben Shahn and Andy Warhol, as well as the paintings of Marc Chagall and Swedish mystic artist, Hilma af Klint.
We then discuss the methodology, highlighting that the narratives are illustrative of the variety, rather than a representative sample of the population of return migrants.
The following narratives are illustrative: Just living with HIV, one becomes depressed and wants to be alone, it takes time to adjust and accept until you reach a point where you need to choose the life that you want.
