Critical Realism in Contemporary Art
by Baetens, Jan; Van Gelder, HildeFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-12-31
Publisher(s): Leuven Univ Pr
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Summary
What is the place of Critical Realism today, given the fact that both realism and commitment in art have become highly problematic notions since at least several decades? Realism in the first place appears to be relegated to the museum of premodern styles and devices, safely locked-up in the toolbox of 19th-Century art history. Secondly, in our cool, postmodern times, the place for commitment has become highly confuse. The naive confusion between Critical Realism and notions like Social(ist) Realism or Political Correctness has complexified that situation.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| A Note on Critical Realism Today | p. 6 |
| Critical Realism. Theory and Practice | |
| Realism and the Digital Image | p. 12 |
| Loops of History Allan Sekula and Representations of Labor | p. 28 |
| Critical Realism Text, Context and Time | p. 40 |
| Critical Realism. Photography and Other Arts | |
| Depicting the Contemporary Artist's Studio Four Early Works by Bik van Der Pol | p. 54 |
| Painting Through Photography Critical Reflections on the Work of Dirk Braeckman, Luc Tuymans and Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven in the Early 1990S | p. 64 |
| Photography Seeing Time / Experiencing Time | p. 76 |
| Critical Realism. Institutions | |
| Against Affirmative Culture Rene Block's Appropriation of 'Capitalist Realism' | p. 90 |
| Beyond Compassion How to Escape the Victim Frame in Social Documentary Photography Today | p. 100 |
| The Lottery of the Sea | p. 114 |
| Epilogue | |
| A Debate on Critical Realism Today | p. 120 |
| Interview with Allan Sekula | p. 138 |
| Photography as Diagnosis of Contemporaneity | p. 152 |
| Photographs | p. 160 |
| Shipwreck and Workers | p. 185 |
| The Lottery of the Sea | p. 188 |
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