Full Description
Arguing for the necessity of taking art's contribution to contemporary realism seriously, this edited collection intervenes on contemporary debates about realism by demonstrating that the arts do not simply illustrate philosophical theories. The significance of art's realism in times characterised by the normalisation of fake, manipulated and distorted representations of reality can only be fully understood by attending to the ways that the arts mediate, visualise and even shape reality. Each chapter features a different approach to realism and its aesthetic dimensions not only in the visual arts, but also in sound art, film, scientific imaging and literature.
Contents
Introduction: Mediating Reality: Art's Riposte to the Post-Truth Era - Maryse Ouellet and Amanda Boetzkes
Part I. Typologies of Realism
Chapter 1. Novel Realism as Speculative Verisimilitude in Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Fiction - Monika Kaup
Chapter 2. Cavell's Realism. Toward a Theory of the Type - Markus Klammer
Chapter 3. 'Real Life Was the Better Director': Arnheim, Chaplin and the Productive Limits of Satire - Ian Verstegen
Chapter 4. The Real Sound of Music - Jocelyn Benoist
Part II. Realist Intimacies
Chapter 5. The Instant of Death, Site of the Real? The Thanatological Realism of Caravaggio - Itay Sapir
Chapter 6. Carried by Currents: Intimate Beings Between First and Second Nature - Jeff Diamanti
Chapter 7. Sounding the World: Three Perspectives on Sound Art and Realism - Pauline Nadrigny
Part III. Remediations of the Real
Chapter 8. Reoriginations of Realism in Contemporary Inuit Art - Amanda Boetzkes
Chapter 9. Pattern Recognition: Art and Forms of Visualisation in Particle Physics - Jens Schröter
Chapter 10. The Shape of the Blind Spot: Making the Frame of Reality - Dagmara Genda
Chapter 11. Revealing Through Opacity, or How to Expose Truth in the Post-Truth Era - Maryse Ouellet
