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New RealismEarly 20th-century movement in metaphysics and epistemology that opposed the idealism dominant in British and U.S. universities. Early leaders included William James, Bertrand Russell, and G. E. Moore, who adopted the term realism to signal their opposition to idealism. In 1910 William Pepperel Montague, Ralph Barton Perry, and others signed an article entitled “The Program and First Platform of Six Realists,” and followed it with a cooperative volume, The New Realism (1912). In defending the independence of known things, New Realism affirmed that in cognition “the content of knowledge, that which lies in or before the mind when knowledge takes place, is numerically identical with the thing known” (a form of direct realism). To some realists, this epistemological monism seemed unable to give a satisfactory explanation of the mind's proneness to error. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| These works are closer to the action painting from which Muehl's performance work departed, and recall the products of Nouveau Realisme and arte povera. Two years later, the artist made his first "Allure d'objets," 1958-60, paintings in which found items, like pearls, were used instead of brushes, and paved the way for the object appropriation that would come to define Nouveau Realisme. It is precisely for this reason (and seen from a historical perspective) that the objects (natural sponges, plates, and other banal items) Klein covered with blue pigment in the late '50s seem to reduce the philosophical breadth of the blue monochrome--in comparison with which such pre-Pop forms, approaching the nouveau realisme of the time, feel constrained. |
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