Jane Tormey, Photographic Realism. Late Twentieth-Century Aesthetics

Jane Tormey ". . . discusses uses of photography in the context of art practice, and relates them to wider cultural debates" to quote the back cover. The book is divided in two parts, part 1 acting as a sort of theoretical introduction, and the much longer part 2 developing six different...

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Auteur principal: KEMPF, Jean
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Langue:Anglais
Publié: E-rea 2014
Accès en ligne:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Résumé:Jane Tormey ". . . discusses uses of photography in the context of art practice, and relates them to wider cultural debates" to quote the back cover. The book is divided in two parts, part 1 acting as a sort of theoretical introduction, and the much longer part 2 developing six different modalities of realism in contemporary photographic practice (dialogic, poetic, fictional, phenomenal, political, discursive). Ms Tormey's program is very promising: "My context is the cultural exchange refra...