This collection is a response to Alex Potts's provocative 2013 book Experiments in modern realism. Twenty essays by leading art historians explore Pott's recasting of realism, providing a new understanding of artworks dating from the eighth to twenty-first centuries and challenging established thinking on art's relation to the everyday.
This collection is a response to Alex Potts's provocative 2013 book Experiments in modern realism. Twenty essays by leading art historians explore Pott's recasting of realism, providing a new understanding of artworks dating from the eighth to twenty-first centuries and challenging established thinking on art's relation to the everyday.
Malcolm Baker is Distinguished Professor in the History of Art at the University of California, Riverside Andrew Hemingway is Professor Emeritus in the History of Art at University College London
Inhaltsangabe
Preface: essays in honour of Alex Potts Introduction: realism then and now Andrew Hemingway PART I: THEORY 1 The transactions of detail Briony Fer 2 Realism's credibility problem Joshua Shannon PART II: SCULPTURE 3 Attending to the veristic sculptural portrait in the eighteenth century Malcolm Baker 4 Elasticity and sculptural form Caroline Arscott 5 A portrait of the artist as a dead man Jon Wood 6 Death metal Anne M. Wagner PART III: LANDSCAPE DESIGN 7 Recurrent dialogues in the history of Chinese and English garden design Martin J. Powers 8 Traditional views: conservative anti naturalism and landscape aesthetics in France around 1900 Neil McWilliam PART IV: PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND MAKING STRANGE 9 Willem Kalf on Reflexykonst: the aesthetics of transformation in still life Celeste Brusati 10 Democratic light: phenomenology and the worldliness of painting Brendan Prendeville 11 Body and soul in the work of Thomas Eakins and F. Holland Day Rebecca Zurier 12 From Menzel to Burtynsky: episodes from an imagery of capitalism T. J. Clark PART V: PHOTOGRAPHY AND CINEMA 13 Constance Stuart's war: women and documentary's excess Tamar Garb 14 Antonioni's Blow up (1966): photography and film Lisa Tickner 15 'Dirty realism': documentary photography in 1970s Britain a maquette Steve Edwards PART VI: POST MEDIA/CONTEMPORARY PRACTICES 16 The roots of Mike Kelley's Realism: subterranean homesick blues Thomas Crow 17 The moment of guerrilla art Alistair Rider 18 Every day, something happens to us: realism at the crossroads Gail Day Coda: on Margate Sands... Adrian Rifkin Index
Preface: essays in honour of Alex Potts Introduction: realism then and now Andrew Hemingway PART I: THEORY 1 The transactions of detail Briony Fer 2 Realism's credibility problem Joshua Shannon PART II: SCULPTURE 3 Attending to the veristic sculptural portrait in the eighteenth century Malcolm Baker 4 Elasticity and sculptural form Caroline Arscott 5 A portrait of the artist as a dead man Jon Wood 6 Death metal Anne M. Wagner PART III: LANDSCAPE DESIGN 7 Recurrent dialogues in the history of Chinese and English garden design Martin J. Powers 8 Traditional views: conservative anti naturalism and landscape aesthetics in France around 1900 Neil McWilliam PART IV: PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND MAKING STRANGE 9 Willem Kalf on Reflexykonst: the aesthetics of transformation in still life Celeste Brusati 10 Democratic light: phenomenology and the worldliness of painting Brendan Prendeville 11 Body and soul in the work of Thomas Eakins and F. Holland Day Rebecca Zurier 12 From Menzel to Burtynsky: episodes from an imagery of capitalism T. J. Clark PART V: PHOTOGRAPHY AND CINEMA 13 Constance Stuart's war: women and documentary's excess Tamar Garb 14 Antonioni's Blow up (1966): photography and film Lisa Tickner 15 'Dirty realism': documentary photography in 1970s Britain a maquette Steve Edwards PART VI: POST MEDIA/CONTEMPORARY PRACTICES 16 The roots of Mike Kelley's Realism: subterranean homesick blues Thomas Crow 17 The moment of guerrilla art Alistair Rider 18 Every day, something happens to us: realism at the crossroads Gail Day Coda: on Margate Sands... Adrian Rifkin Index
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