Definition of "depiction"

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, page 182

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

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

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, page 48