Critical essays on realism and naturalism
Introduction : Realism and its others in the 21st century: Why Realism won't go away - Andrew Hemingway
Part I: Theory
1. The figure as double agent: realism and abstraction in European post-war art - Briony Fer
2. Realism's Credibility Problem - Joshua Shannon
3. If only; only if ... - Adrian Rifkin
Part II: Sculpture
4. Confronting the Veristic Sculptural Portrait - Malcolm Baker
5. Sculpture, Realism and the Neo-classical Ideal - Martina Droth
6. Elasticity and Victorian Sculptural Form - Caroline Arscott
7. Image of the People: Charles Ray's Recent Work - Anne M. Wagner
Part III: Garden Design
8. Of Gardens and Persons: the English Engagement with China's Garden Design - Martin Powers
9. Traditional Views. Conservative Anti-Naturalism and Landscape Aesthetics in France around 1900 - Neil McWilliam
Part IV: Painting and Photography
10. Willem Kalf on Reflexykonst and the Aesthetics of Transformation in Still Life - Celeste Brusati
11. Democratic light: phenomenology and the worldliness of painting - Brendan Prendeville
12. The Visibility of Labor - T.J. Clark
13. Body and Soul in the work of Thomas Eakins and F. Holland Day - Rebecca Zurier
Part V: Photography and Conema
14. Photography as counter forensics - Steve Edwards
15. Woman, War and Social Documentary Photography in South Africa - Tamar Garb
16. Antonioni's Blow-Up (1966): photography and film - Lisa Tickner
Part VI: Post-Media / Contemporary Practice
17. Peter Dreher's Everyday Realism - Alistair Rider
18. From grey and rainy Vermont - Thomas Crow
19. 'Every day, something happens to us': Realism at the crossroads - Gail Day
Index