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hyperrealism
(redirected from Hyperreal)

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hy·per·re·al·ism  (hpr-r-lzm)
n.
An artistic style characterized by highly realistic graphic representation.

hyper·real·ist adj. & n.
hyper·real·istic adj.

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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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