Realism Today?
Editors
For this roundtable we invited several respondents to reflect upon both the history and the present of artistic realism. We ask how its various revivals...
The True Meaning of the Work of Saturnino Herrán: The False Critics
Carlos Mérida
The introductory essay places “The True Meaning of the Work of Saturnino Herrán: The False Critics” (1920), a piece of early criticism written by the...
The Two-Fold Global Turn
Anneka Lenssen
This essay is a review of art historian Chika Okeke-Agulu's Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria (Duke University Press, 2015). The book offers...
Realism + Its Discontents: Determinism Noir
Amanda Beech
This short comic based narrative depicts the challenges to and climate of an alternative form of realism in the art-world as a new project for...
“The Wrong Building, in the Wrong Place, at the Wrong Time”: Marcel Breuer and the Grand Central Tower Controversy, 1967–1969
Salvatore Dellaria
In the late 1960s, New York's Landmarks Preservation Commission rejected a scandalous proposal submitted by Marcel Breuer and Associates to float a fifty-five-story office tower...
Introduction to Carlos Mérida’s “The True Meaning of the Work of Saturnino Herrán”
Harper Montgomery
The introductory essay places “The True Meaning of the Work of Saturnino Herrán: The False Critics” (1920), a piece of early criticism written by the...
