Metarealism Hyperrealism and Transcendence

             
                                                   
                                                     
On May 30, 2009, Seth Abramson, having read Mikhail Epstein  
on Russian Metarealism and Conceptualism, realized to his   
surprise and chagrin that he was an American Metarealist.
On that same date J J Gallaher commented beneath Seth's         
post and made a post on his own blog wherein that for him     
Conceptualism would be more fun.  He had been interested   
in Hyperrealism in painting.  Epstein saw the two he wrote  
about as opposites with all others somewhere between them.    
                                                            
In painting, metarealism involves depicting a mood while    
hyperrealism's goal is to equal the level of perfection     
reached by digital photography.                                
                                                          
If you allow a broad secular definition of transcendence,    
all artists ((musicians, painters, sculptors, architects,    
dancers, poets, and similar others) of whatever persuasion  
and in whatever medium)) strive for transcendence, a reaching 
beyond.                                                      
                                                              
Among the results of a Google metarealism search are:       
Wikipedia introduction
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Tendreams introduction
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a Google Books result                                             
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Abramson's post                                        
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Gallaher's post                                                     
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One result a Google hyperrealism search garners is:              
Wikipedia introduction
                                                
                                                 
                                               
                                                
                                                 
                                                    
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Rhetoric Questings

          
                                               
                                          
On Volume in Poetry                          
is a provocative essay in his continuing effort to define
a space hundreds of poets are exploring from hundreds of   
directions.  Names for this space have been proposed:    
Third Way, Elliptical, American Hybrid.  Perhaps it'd be   
best to let it be nameless.  The only other option is to   
make believe Ron Silliman is Euclid.  Then it could be  
named: Non-Silliman Poetries, or something to that defect.
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Read Mr. Abramson's essay and especially the comments by 
upinVermont, Art Durkee, and Curtis Faville in this order.

                                                            
In northern Wisconsin near Lake Superior the young poet,
Aaron Apps, posted Poet as Platypus: a fine example of       
the integrated thinking prevalent among many younger
poets.  Reading it will benefit your brain.  Charles  
Bernstein and William Blake are stars in it.          
                                                    
                                                      
                                                      
                                                        
                                                         
                                                       
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