As an art student in Milan he aligned himself with the youthful avant-garde and produced bust-length terra cotta and bronze "portraits" of local street types, raucous images that combined super-realist observation with the nipping humor of a Daumier.
It would be stretching a point to place Shore's images in the same dirty realist school of observation as Carver's stories, but there is a definable and precise everydayness to both of them.
It's among the ranks of Trump-averse realists that this observation has become especially common.
According to this realist point of view, ideal observations not only reflect the way things are during but also immediately before and after observation.[4] Such realism was opposed by both Bohr and Heisenberg.[5] Bohr took a position that, by taking acts of observation and measurement more generally as constitutive of phenomena, aligned him more closely with a Kantian point of view.
Although I doubt you could classify Stanišić as a kitchen-sink realist, he does have some witty political observations.
Kuhn's thesis of the theory-dependence of observation parallels related claims by realists.
Arguing from a "realist" position, Einstein contended that under ideal conditions observations (and measurements more generally) function like "mirrors" (or, as Crary argues, camera obscura) reflecting an independently existing, external reality (Crary 1995, 48).
The realist may also point that the theory-ladenness of observations concerns at most the estimation of progress (EP), but the definition of real progress (RP) as increasing truthlikeness does not mention the notion of observation at all.
Helping things along, Catherine's mother Alice Beth Dixonn) is a kind of Golden Girl realist recovering from a heart attack who spouts pithy observations while serving up martinis to lubricate the women for further self-revelations.
These observations concur with those made in a realist evaluation of AFR in Tanzania [ 35].
The synthesis of the literature shared below draws from the realist approach in recognition that systematic reviews often exclude important observations from studies deemed less rigorous that may illuminate "mechanisms" [ 22– 24] or pathways to PTB.
