Research Catalog

Title

Art as worldmaking : critical essays on realism and naturalism / edited by Malcolm Baker and Andrew Hemingway.

Publication

• Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2018]
• ©2018

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Additional Authors

• Baker, Malcolm
• Hemingway, Andrew
• Potts, Alex

Description

xx, 346 pages : illustrations, portraits (black and white); 25 cm

Summary

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.

Subject

• Realism in art
• Naturalism in art

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JQE 19-124

ISBN

• 1526114909
• 9781526114907

OCLC

1028590859

Title

Art as worldmaking : critical essays on realism and naturalism / edited by Malcolm Baker and Andrew Hemingway.

Publisher

Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Baker, Malcolm, editor.

Hemingway, Andrew, editor.

Potts, Alex, honoree.

Research Call Number

JQE 19-124