ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the idea that depictions embody their producers and readers in specific relationships between subject, social institution, material and idea, in order to examine depiction in the context of narrative drawings of cultural and national differences. It aims to elucidate the roles of imagination and habituation in the production of ideology and the implications of objectification in cases where depictions are approached as resemblances of the situations that depict. For Podro, is a cognitive mechanics of recognition that underlies this capacity to understand the relationships between depiction and what is depicted, rather than any putative resemblance between the content of depictions and the situations that they depict. Facture is the material of plot not through a function of resemblance or objectification, even where objectification results from hegemony or self-conscious dissent, but as a result of habitual recognition in agreed situations of they are the continually mutable expression. In cultural hegemonic relationships, imagined relationships motivate practices, apparently counter-intuitively.
