This short comic based narrative depicts the challenges to and climate of an alternative form of realism in the art-world as a new project for art's politics and construction. Determinism Noir, Realism and Its Discontents calls upon the classic genre of noir narratives to situate themes of agency, mastery, rationalism and metaphysics. These ideas and images are generated in the nihilistic climate of alienation, itself borne out through the machinic, technological and capitalistic forces of the Twentieth Century. The comic presents three parts: first we see the formation of a project base to insinuate a rational determinism: A world of cause that is unpredictable but nevertheless, a pragmatic working environment; second we see a report, based on real life events, showing arguments from politics and the art-world that continue to voice the fear that it is representation itself that has blighted art's real political purchase. The comic criticizes these arguments as having left art with either a naive commitment to an abstract and essential mythology of present-ness or an antirealist self-contortion that dispossesses it of power. The third part of this narrative re-joins the work of the epistemological detective work that is the exercise for this new realist project. Beech's abstract story gels painterly construction, philosophical argument and political diatribe to extend her ongoing work. Here she argues that art must surpass the egotistic self-consciousness that have wrongly subtended claims to realism, whilst condemning those that aspire to exit realism altogether.

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现实主义及其不满：决定论黑色

这个简短的以漫画为基础的叙述描绘了艺术世界作为艺术政治和建筑的新项目时，现实主义的另一种形式的挑战和气候。黑色的决定论，现实主义及其不满要求黑色经典叙事的经典流派来定位代理，精通，理性主义和形而上学的主题。这些想法和图像是在虚无主义的疏远气氛中产生的，它本身是通过20世纪的机械，技术和资本主义力量证明的。这部漫画分为三个部分：首先，我们看到了一个旨在暗示理性确定性的项目基础的形成：一个无法预测但仍然务实的工作环境的世界；其次，我们看到基于现实生活事件的报告，政治和艺术界的争论继续表达着人们的恐惧，那就是代表自己本身削弱了艺术的真正政治购买力。漫画家批评这些论点是离开艺术，要么是天真地致力于抽象性和本质性的存在性神话，要么是一种反现实主义的自我扭曲，剥夺了权力。叙述的第三部分重新加入了认识论侦探作品的工作，这是这个新的现实主义作品的练习。Beech的抽象故事融合了绘画创作，哲学论证和政治political讽，以扩展她正在进行的工作。她在这里辩称，艺术必须超越错误地将对现实主义主张的自我主义自我意识，同时谴责那些渴望完全退出现实主义的自我意识。