Art as worldmaking

Malcolm Baker is Distinguished Professor in the History of Art at the University of California, RiversideAndrew Hemingway is Professor Emeritus in the History of Art at University College London

• Preface: essays in honour of Alex PottsIntroduction: realism then and now - Andrew HemingwayPART I: THEORY1 The transactions of detail - Briony Fer2 Realism’s credibility problem - Joshua ShannonPART II: SCULPTURE3 Attending to the veristic sculptural portrait in the eighteenth century - Malcolm Baker 4 Elasticity and sculptural form - Caroline Arscott5 A portrait of the artist as a dead man - Jon Wood6 Death metal - Anne M. WagnerPART III: LANDSCAPE DESIGN7 Recurrent dialogues in the history of Chinese and English garden design - Martin J. Powers8 Traditional views: conservative anti-naturalism and landscape aesthetics in France around 1900 - Neil McWilliamPART IV: PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND MAKING STRANGE9 Willem Kalf on Reflexykonst: the aesthetics of transformation in still life - Celeste Brusati10 Democratic light: phenomenology and the worldliness of painting - Brendan Prendeville11 Body and soul in the work of Thomas Eakins and F. Holland Day - Rebecca Zurier12 From Menzel to Burtynsky: episodes from an imagery of capitalism - T. J. ClarkPART V: PHOTOGRAPHY AND CINEMA13 Constance Stuart’s war: women and documentary’s excess - Tamar Garb14 Antonioni’s Blow-up (1966): photography and film - Lisa Tickner15 ‘Dirty realism’: documentary photography in 1970s Britain – a maquette - Steve EdwardsPART VI: POST-MEDIA/CONTEMPORARY PRACTICES16 The roots of Mike Kelley’s Realism: subterranean homesick blues - Thomas Crow17 The moment of guerrilla art - Alistair Rider18 Every day, something happens to us: realism at the crossroads - Gail DayCoda: on Margate Sands… - Adrian RifkinIndex

‘Art as Worldmaking is a game changer. The essays within cast new light on a striking range of subjects, and the collection as whole completely reframes our current understanding of artistic realism.’Marnin Young, Associate Professor and Chair of Art History, Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University