metarealist

metarealist

English

Etymology

meta- +‎ realist

Noun

metarealist (plural metarealists)

1. One who tends to interpret things in ways that go beyond conventional reality.

   • 2003, James Hollis, The Archetypal Imagination

     Kafka, in my view, is a metarealist, for he takes ordinary events and turns them ever so slightly so that we are obliged to question what reality may be.

2. An artist or a poet who follows metarealism, a direction in Russian poetry and art.

Adjective

metarealist (comparative more metarealist, superlative most metarealist)

1. Characteristic of, or related to metarealism, a direction in Russian poetry and art.
   • 2015, Mikhail N. Epstein, ‎Alexander A. Genis, ‎Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture

     With its multiple levels, its elasticity, resilience, and expandability, its ability to extend out of itself and beyond itself, in its visible meta-physicality, space is the major player in metarealist art.