CRITICAL REALISM IN CONTEMPORARY ART/

What is the place of Critical Realism today, given the fact that both realism and commitment in art have become highly problematic n otions since at least several decades? Realism in the first place appears to be relegated to the museum of pre-modern styles and dev ices, 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 naïve confusion between Critical Realism and notions like Social(ist) Realism or Political Correctne ss has c...[Llegir més]