{"product_id":"art-as-worldmaking-malcolm-baker-9781526114914","title":"Art as Worldmaking: Critical Essays on Realism and Naturalism","description":"\u003ci\u003eArt as worldmaking\u003c\/i\u003e is a response to Alex Potts's provocative 2013 book \u003ci\u003eExperiments in modern realism\u003c\/i\u003e. Twenty essays by leading scholars test Potts's recasting of realism through examinations of art produced in different media and periods, ranging from eighth-century Chinese garden aesthetics to video work by the contemporary Russian collective Radek Community. While the book does not neglect avatars of pictorial realism such as Menzel and Eakins, or the question of nineteenth-century realism's historical antecedents, it is contemporary in orientation in that many contributors are particularly concerned with the questions that sculpture, photography and non-traditional media pose for realism as an aesthetic norm. It will be essential reading for students of art history concerned with art's truth value or more broadly with conceptual problems of representation and the intersections of art and politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Malcolm Baker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1526114917\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781526114914\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 1.00d","brand":"Malcolm Baker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48175424438527,"sku":"9781526114914","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6c29aef1-e323-4741-80c5-6fc861cb59b8.jpg?v=1771333650","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/art-as-worldmaking-malcolm-baker-9781526114914","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}