Real Deceptions develops a brand new conception of realism via shut attention of myriad modern artwork, media, and cultural practices. instead of targeting transgressing deceptions which distort fact, the ebook argues that truth lies in the deceptions themselves. that's to assert, realism's political power emerges now not by means of revealing deception yet accurately by way of staging deceptions--particularly deceptions that imperil the very different types of precise and fake. In lieu of perceiving deception as a disadvantage to fact, it indicates how deception capabilities because the truth's precious conduit. different types invoked in realist works, similar to trompe l'oeil, phantasm, hypervirtuality, and simulation support to set up how realism may be obvious as relocating from the construction of mere epistemological uncertainty to radical ontologically-based indeterminacy. The e-book cultivates this schema by way of contemplating efficient connections among insights from Jacques Lacan and Jacques Rancière. Real Deceptions not just applies those theoretical frameworks to artwork and media examples, but in addition engages within the opposite flow of utilizing the "cases" to extra the theories. This twin process issues to the ways that efforts to supply realist representations usually provide upward push to the destabilizing Real.