A examination of time-tested methods used by artists since the Renaissance to make realistic pictures of imagined things.

When Trisha Low moves west, her journey is motivated by the need to arrive “somewhere better”—someplace utopian, like revolution; or safe, like home; or e

1. The realist tradition

America today faces a world more complicated than ever before, but our politicians have failed to envision a foreign policy that addresses our greatest threats.

Explores the possibilities and limits of a concept of realism that seeks a point of equilibrium between the principle of autonomy of the literary work vis-a-vis