CATE3004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Presentation Of A Group, Mit Press, Contemporary Realism
25 Jul 2018
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This unit explores links between contemporary art and culture, and the concept of realism. As a result of realism"s connections with philosophies of "the real", and with the term "reality", the concept of realism goes back centuries. However, the most immediate antecdents for contemporary art and culture are modernism and the avantgarde. Therefore in addition to art and culture since 1960, this unit of study addresses historical art dated from 1850 and recognises the nineteenth century art movement called realism as a cornerstone of contemporary art. In postmodernity, though, the role of mass media and new media in the social construction of the real becomes increasingly important. Contemporary realism is a unit that addresses high art and popular culture, and every artistic medium from painting to fictional film, documentary film, video, and animation. It also acknowledges the view expressed by julian stallabrass in the overview of his edited book, documentary (whitechapel and.
