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hyperreal [ˌhaɪpəˈrɪəl] adj 1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) involving or characterized by particularly realistic graphic representation 2. (Sociology) (Philosophy) distorting or exaggerating reality 3. (Sociology) (Philosophy) pertaining to or creating a hyperreality n 1. (Sociology) (Philosophy) the hyperreal that which constitutes hyperreality 2. (Mathematics) short for hyperreal number How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Though Grey's art graces rave fliers and New Age calendars, he is no naif--the declarative intensity of his strongest paintings depends in part on his sly appropriation of textbook medical imagery, whose hyperreal rhetoric paradoxically lends an air of actuality to his visionary bodies. In the end I want my students to consider writing as a fundamentally different kind of representation in language than the hyperreal discourse that dominates television. Set to a hauntingly anxious Philip Glass score, the film was both stylized and serious--a hyperreal nightmare that assembled a point-by-point indictment of a corrupt Texas legal system. |
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