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Art as Worldmaking
Critical Essays on Realism and Naturalism
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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...
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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.
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Description
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.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781526114914
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 20 January 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Illustration: 113 black & white illustrations
Contributors:
- Edited by Malcolm Baker
- Edited by Andrew Hemingway
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 25.0mm
Width: 170.0mm
Height: 240.0mm
Weight: 789g
Pages: 368
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About the Author
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
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