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pseudorealism en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

Etymology tree Pre-Greekder.? Ancient Greek ψεύδω (pseúdō) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Proto-Hellenic *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -ής (-ḗs) Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudḗs)der. Middle English pseudo- English pseudo- Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís Proto-Italic *reis Classical Latin rēs Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin reālisder. Old French reelbor. Middle English real English real Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English realism English pseudorealism From pseudo- + realism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A dramatic or artistic technique in which an altered view of reality is presented as being real.
    • The specter of pseudorealism raises the crucial issue of how Bazin’s theory of total cinema relates to the current fascination with immersive media, both as an ongoing technology and a historical tradition. […] While Bazin never directly states this, I believe that it was precisely the stimulation (and simulation) of sensation that Bazin associated with pseudorealism, with trompe l’oeil, with that aspect of the image that he opposed to his ideal of realism and designated as a trick, an illusion—a deceit. 2011, Tom Gunning, “The World in Its Own Image: The Myth of Total Cinema” (chapter 11), in Dudley Andrew, editor, Opening Bazin, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 124:
    • The quarrel over realism in art stems from a misunderstanding, from a confusion between the aesthetic and the psychological; between true realism, the need that is to give significant expression to the world both concretely and in its essence, and the pseudorealism of a deception aimed at fooling the eye (or for that matter the mind); a pseudorealism content in other words with illusory appearances. 1960, André Bazin, translated by Hugh Gray, “The Ontology of the Photographic Image”, in Film Quarterly, volume 13, number 4, translation of original in French, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 7:
    • His advice to the young artist is to strive for triumphant expression through the masquerade of pseudorealism in the suave juxtaposition of plane upon counterplane, also to eat freely of ice cream and spinach that the hungry soul may not starve in its age-long search for dynamic symmetry. 1932 February 19, Craddock, “Quis Vadit?”, in The Kentucky Kernel, volume 22, number 36, page 2:

Relateds

pseudorealistic · pseudorealist