Presents an introduction to Realism, describing the art movement's basic tenets, how and when it started, and its most significant artists.
"The realist outlook is exemplified in the work of George Grosz in his observations of urban life in Weimar Germany or, in America, in the high focus paintings of Edward...
The interpretative task looks very different from Davidson's interpretative perspective . First , Davidson does not think of the notion of truth in his theories of interpretation as deflationary . He thinks that a deflationary notion ...
In Political Realism, Jonathan Rauch argues that well-meaning efforts to stem corruption and increase participation have stripped political leaders and organizations of the tools they need to forge compromises and make them stick.
America today faces a world more complicated than ever before, but both political parties have failed to envision a foreign policy that addresses our greatest threats. As a result, the...
Shares tips and techniques on creating a realistic picture of aliens and creatures, places, and machines.
The contributors to this volume seek to bring realism into a new phase, constructive rather than merely combative. To this end they examine three distinct kinds of realism.
Conscientious realism -- Conscious realism -- Socialist realism.
In Defence of Realism is a powerful indictment of the fog of bad philosophy and worse linguistics that has shrouded much contemporary literary theory and criticism.
Siân Reynolds ( New York : Harper & Row ) . ... Spenser's Allegory of Love : Social Vision in Books III , IV , and V of ' The Faerie Queene ' ( Madison , Teaneck , and London : Farleigh Dickinson University Press and AUP ) .
This reader is designed to make accessible in one volume, to lay person and academic, student and teacher alike, key readings to stimulate debate about and within critical realism.