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Art as Worldmaking: Critical Essays on Realism and Naturalism

Art as Worldmaking: Critical Essays on Realism and Naturalism

Hardcover

Art Criticism & TheoryArt History

ISBN10: 1526114909
ISBN13: 9781526114907
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Oct 23 2018
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.85
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
Art as worldmaking is a response to Alex Potts's provocative 2013 book Experiments in modern realism. Twenty essays by leading scholars test Potts's recasting of realism through examinations of art produced in different media and periods, ranging from eighth-century Chinese garden aesthetics to video work by the contemporary Russian collective Radek Community. While the book does not neglect avatars of pictorial realism such as Menzel and Eakins, or the question of nineteenth-century realism's historical antecedents, it is contemporary in orientation in that many contributors are particularly concerned with the questions that sculpture, photography and non-traditional media pose for realism as an aesthetic norm. It will be essential reading for students of art history concerned with art's truth value or more broadly with conceptual problems of representation and the intersections of art and politics.

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