Imagined Realism

Author : The Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 1477323767

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Imagined Realism by The Amon Carter Museum of American Art Pdf

This is the first major publication on the art and lives of twentieth-century Fort Worth artists Scott (1942–2011) and Stuart (1942–2006) Gentling. Prolific modern-day Renaissance men, the brothers created an extensive body of landscapes; portraits of regional and national luminaries; historical studies ranging from a visual reconstruction of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan to subjects drawn from the French and American Revolutions; and natural history illustrations of the flora and fauna of Texas. Realist painters, they drew inspiration from past masters such as Jacques-Louis David and John James Audubon, and they corresponded and collaborated with contemporaries such as Andrew Wyeth and Ed Ruscha. The Gentling brothers’ place within the canon of twentieth-century American art is established here. Along with 290 images, including 120 plates, the book includes five essays, two by scholars Erika Doss of the University of Notre Dame and Barbara Mundy of Fordham University; a trio of Carter museum curators provide deep analyses of the Gentlings’ artistic process, the output of their fifty-year career, and a chronology of their lives; plus several brief and incisive takes on specific aspects of the brothers’ multifaceted art and lives are featured throughout.

Author : Tanya Agathocleous
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521762649

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Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination in the Nineteenth Century by Tanya Agathocleous Pdf

Traces the development of cosmopolitanism and the growing importance of the city in nineteenth-century literature.

Author : Margaret Archer,Roy Bhaskar,Andrew Collier,Tony Lawson,Alan Norrie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136287251

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Critical Realism by Margaret Archer,Roy Bhaskar,Andrew Collier,Tony Lawson,Alan Norrie Pdf

Critical realism is a movement in philosophy and the human sciences most closely associated with the work of Roy Bhaskar. Since the publication of Bhaskars A Realist Theory of Science, critical realism has had a profound influence on a wide range of subjects. This reader makes accessible, in one volume, key readings to stimulate debate about and within critical realism. It explores the following themes: * transcendental realist * the theory of explanatory critique * dialectics * Bhaskar's critical naturalist philosophy of science.

Author : James Gurney
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780740785504

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Imaginative Realism by James Gurney Pdf

A examination of time-tested methods used by artists since the Renaissance to make realistic pictures of imagined things.

Author : Eli Park Sorensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000382013

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Postcolonial Realism and the Concept of the Political by Eli Park Sorensen Pdf

As the scholarly world attunes itself once again to the specifically political, this book rethinks the political significance of literary realism within a postcolonial context. Generally, postcolonial studies has either ignored realism or criticized it as being naïve, anachronistic, deceptive, or complicit with colonial discourse; in other words—incongruous with the postcolonial. This book argues that postcolonial realism is intimately connected to the specifically political in the sense that realist form is premised on the idea of a collective reality. Discussing a range of literary and theoretical works, Dr. Sorensen exemplifies that many postcolonial writers were often faced with the realities of an unstable state, a divided community inhabiting a contested social space, the challenges of constructing a notion of ‘the people,’ often out of a myriad of local communities with different traditions and languages brought together arbitrarily through colonization. The book demonstrates that the political context of realism is the sphere or possibility of civil war, divided societies, and unstable communities. Postcolonial realism is prompted by disturbing political circumstances, and it gestures toward a commonly imagined world, precisely because such a notion is under pressure or absent.

Author : Dr Rosa Mucignat
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472401397

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Realism and Space in the Novel, 1795–1869 by Dr Rosa Mucignat Pdf

Posing new questions about realism and the creative power of narratives, Rosa Mucignat takes a fresh look at the relationship between representation and reality. As Mucignat points out, worlds evoked in fiction all depend to a greater or lesser extent on the world we know from experience, but they are neither parasites on nor copies of those realms. Never fully aligned with the real world, stories grow out of the mismatch between reality and representation-those areas of the fictional space that are not located on actual maps, but still form a fully structured imagined geography. Mucignat offers new readings of six foundational texts of modern Western culture: Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed, Stendahl'ss The Red and the Black, Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, and Gustave Flaubert's Sentimental Education. Using these texts as source material and supporting evidence for a new and comprehensive theory of space in fiction, she examines the links between the nineteenth-century novel's interest in creating substantial, life-like worlds and contemporary developments in science, art, and society. Mucignat's book is an evocative analysis of the way novels marshal their technical and stylistic resources to produce imagined geographies so complex and engrossing that they intensify and even transform the reader's experience of real-life places.

Author : Gregor Kroupa,Jure Simoniti
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350101784

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New Realism and Contemporary Philosophy by Gregor Kroupa,Jure Simoniti Pdf

This open access book advances the current debate in continental realism. In the field of contemporary continental ontology, Speculative Realist thinkers are now grappling with the genealogy of their ideas in the history of modern philosophy. The Speculative Realism movement prompted a debate, criticizing the predominant postmodernist orientation in philosophy, which located its origins in Kantian “correlationism” which supposedly ended the period of early modern naive realist metaphysics by showing that the mind and the outside world can only ever be understood as correlates. The debate over a new kind of realism has attracted many supporters and critics. In order to refocus its specific interpretation of modern philosophy in general and of the Kantian gesture in particular, this volume brings together major authors working on contemporary ontology and historians of ideas. It underlines and illustrates the fact that contemporary continental philosophy is rediscovering its past in original ways by productively re-interpreting some of the key concepts of modern philosophy. The perspectives and accounts of the key concepts of the history of philosophy are different in the views of individual contributors, and sometimes radically so, yet the discussion between contemporary realists and their critics shows that the real battleground of new ideas lies not in developing the philosophical motifs of the end of the 20th century, but rather in rethinking the milestones of modern philosophy. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com.

Author : Linda Nochlin
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Realism by Linda Nochlin Pdf

Author : Kryssi Staikidis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004392854

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Artistic Mentoring as a Decolonizing Methodology by Kryssi Staikidis Pdf

To expand the possibilities of “doing arts thinking” from a non-Eurocentric view, Artistic Mentoring as a Decolonizing Methodology: An Evolving Collaborative Painting Ethnography with Maya Artists Pedro Rafael González Chavajay and Paula Nicho Cúmez is grounded in Indigenous perspectives on arts practice, arts research, and art education. Mentored in painting for eighteen years by two Guatemalan Maya artists, Kryssi Staikidis, a North American painter and art education professor, uses both Indigenous and decolonizing methodologies, which involve respectful collaboration, and continuously reexamines her positions as student, artist, and ethnographer searching to redefine and transform the roles of the artist as mentor, historian/activist, ethnographer, and teacher. The primary purpose of the book is to illuminate the Maya artists as mentors, the collaborative and holistic processes underlying their painting, and the teaching and insights from their studios. These include Imagined Realism, a process excluding rendering from observation, and the fusion of pedagogy and curriculum into a holistic paradigm of decentralized teaching, negotiated curriculum, personal and cultural narrative as thematic content, and the surrounding visual culture and community as text. The Maya artist as cultural historian creates paintings as platforms of protest and vehicles of cultural transmission, for example, genocide witnessed in paintings as historical evidence. The mentored artist as ethnographer cedes the traditional ethnographic authority of the colonizing stance to the Indigenous expert as partner and mentor, and under this mentorship analyzes its possibilities as decolonizing arts-based qualitative inquiry. For the teacher, Maya world views broaden and integrate arts practice and arts research, inaugurating possibilities to transform arts education.

Author : John C. Cahalan
Publisher : John C. Cahalan
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780819146229

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Causal Realism by John C. Cahalan Pdf

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Author : Seungbae Park
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030878139

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Embracing Scientific Realism by Seungbae Park Pdf

This book provides philosophers of science with new theoretical resources for making their own contributions to the scientific realism debate. Readers will encounter old and new arguments for and against scientific realism. They will also be given useful tips for how to provide influential formulations of scientific realism and antirealism. Finally, they will see how scientific realism relates to scientific progress, scientific understanding, mathematical realism, and scientific practice.

Author : Keith Newlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190056940

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The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism by Keith Newlin Pdf

The scholarship devoted to American literary realism has long wrestled with problems of definition: is realism a genre, with a particular form, content, and technique? Is it a style, with a distinctive artistic arrangement of words, characters, and description? Or is it a period, usually placed as occurring after the Civil War and concluding somewhere around the onset of World War I? This volume aims to widen the scope of study beyond mere definition, however, by expanding the boundaries of the subject through essays that reconsider and enlarge upon such questions. The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism aims to take stock of the scholarly work in the area and map out paths for future directions of study. The Handbook offers 35 vibrant and original essays of new interpretations of the artistic and political challenges of representing life. It is the first book to treat the subject topically and thematically, in wide scope, with essays that draw upon recent scholarship in literary and cultural studies to offer an authoritative and in-depth reassessment of major and minor figures and the contexts that shaped their work. Contributors here tease out the workings of a particular concept through a variety of authors and their cultural contexts. A set of essays explores realism's genesis and its connection to previous and subsequent movements. Others examine the inclusiveness of representation, the circulation of texts, and the aesthetic representation of science, time, space, and the subjects of medicine, the New Woman, and the middle class. Still others trace the connection to other arts--poetry, drama, illustration, photography, painting, and film--and to pedagogic issues in the teaching of realism. As a whole, this volume forges exciting new paths in the study of realism and writers' unending labor to represent life accurately.

Author : Cynthia J. Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198858737

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Pain and the Aesthetics of US Literary Realism by Cynthia J. Davis Pdf

The postbellum period saw many privileged Americans pursuing a civilized ideal premised on insulation from pain. Medico-scientific advances in anesthetics and analgesics and emergent religious sects like Christian Science made pain avoidance seem newly possible. The upper classes could increasingly afford to distance themselves from the suffering they claimed to feel more exquisitely than did their supposedly less refined contemporaries and antecedents. The five US literary realists examined in this study resisted this contemporary revulsion from pain without going so far as to join those who celebrated suffering for its invigorating effects. William Dean Howells, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, and Charles Chesnutt embraced the concept of a heightened sensitivity to pain as a consequence of the civilizing process but departed from their peers by delineating alternative definitions of a superior sensibility indebted to suffering. Although the treatment of pain in other influential nineteenth century literary modes including sentimentalism and naturalism has attracted ample scholarly attention, this book offers the first sustained analysis of pain's importance to US literary realism as practiced by five of its most influential proponents.

Author : Rae Greiner
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421407456

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Sympathetic Realism in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction by Rae Greiner Pdf

British realist novelists of the nineteenth century viewed sympathy not as a feeling but as a form of imaginative thinking useful in constructing their fiction. Rae Greiner proposes that sympathy is integral to the form of the classic nineteenth-century realist novel. Following the philosophy of Adam Smith, Greiner argues that sympathy does more than foster emotional identification with others; it is a way of thinking along with them. By abstracting emotions, feelings turn into detached figures of speech that may be shared. Sympathy in this way produces realism; it is the imaginative process through which the real is substantiated. In Sympathetic Realism in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction Greiner shows how this imaginative process of sympathy is written into three novelistic techniques regularly associated with nineteenth-century fiction: metonymy, free indirect discourse, and realist characterization. She explores the work of sentimentalist philosophers David Hume, Adam Smith, and Jeremy Bentham and realist novelists Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, and Henry James.

Author : Charlotte Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198857921

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Realism, Form, and Representation in the Edwardian Novel by Charlotte Jones Pdf

Charts developments in literary realism between fin-de-siècle naturalism and early modernism by examining a wide range of realist novels from the Edwardian period, focusing in particular on works by Joseph Conrad, May Sinclair, Arnold Bennett, H.G. Wells, and Ford Madox Ford.