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The Aesthetics of Presence: The Landscape Paintings of Peter Holbrook
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 July 2009
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Since its inception in the mid-1960s, photorealism has been criticized by those who viewed it as a naive perpetuation of pop art, but it has received the praise of those who have recognized the contributions of photorealism and their relevance to the intellectual climate of opinion of the last few decades. Photorealism challenges our conception of reality by raising questions about the way we see things.
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