Table of Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-x

Notes on Contributors

pp xi-xiv

Introduction.: Mediating Reality: Art’s Riposte to the Post-Truth Era

pp 1-24

Part I - Typologies of Realism

pp 25-26

1. - Novel Realism as Speculative Verisimilitude in Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

pp 27-54

2. - Cavell’s Realism: Towards a Theory of the Type

pp 55-88

3. - ‘Real Life Was the Better Director’: Arnheim, Chaplin and the Productive Limits of Satire

pp 89-112

4. - The Real Sound of Music

pp 113-136

Part II - Realist Intimacies

pp 137-138

5. - The Instant of Death, Site of the Real?: The Thanatological Realism of Caravaggio

pp 139-164

6. - Carried by Currents: Intimate Beings Between First and Second Nature

pp 165-192

7. - Sounding the World: Three Perspectives on Sound Art and Realism

pp 193-224

Part III - Remediations of the Real

pp 225-226

8. - Reoriginations of Realism in Contemporary Inuit Art

pp 227-252

9. - Pattern Recognition: Art and Forms of Visualisation in Particle Physics

pp 253-278

10. - The Shape of the Blind Spot: Making the Frame of Reality

pp 279-300

11. - Revealing Through Opacity, or How to Expose Truth in the Post-Truth Era

pp 301-324

Index

pp 325-331