Practices of Looking, pp. 141-150

This week's reading primarily had to do with realism in art. As has been the case with all other elements of the practice of looking thus far, it would seem that "realism," though popularly conceived of in universal terms, is culturally-determined. No great surprise there, but I have certainly been finding it interesting reading just how philosophical art can be. What is real? What is true? How do we come to know? I suppose it's in the eye of the beholder...though sometimes the beholder happens to be an entire culture...or perhaps more specifically, an entire culture set in a particular period of time and organized around convention.