PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Realism

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Reference · Wikidata

artistic style of representing subjects realistically

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

In art, realism is generally the attempt to represent subject-matter truthfully, without artificiality, exaggeration, or speculative or supernatural elements. The term is often used interchangeably with naturalism, although these terms are not necessarily synonymous. Naturalism, as an idea relating to visual representation in Western art, seeks to depict objects with the least possible amount of distortion and is ti…

Book · DOAB

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” w…

Full text · Open Library

Image · DPLA

Issue 7.3 of the Review for Religious, 1948.