discussing critical theories regarding realism in painting; relationship between painting and photography. Peter Greenham, Lucien Freud, Francis Bacon, Lukacs, Marcuse, Macheray, Dan Graham, Sol Lewitt, Donald Judd, Robert Smithson, Gerhard Richter, Manet, Courbet, Degas, Eakins

similarities in the works of Welling and Graham; connections to the art of the 1960s. James Welling, Rodney Graham, Peter Halley, Sherrie Levine, Haim Steinbach, Jack Goldstein