It shows that McCarthy believes in using everything - the Modernist legacy as well the realist mode.

"We will eventually define this as a particular kind of realism within a whole variety of realist modes in the 20th century," Mr. Wilmerding said.

Like most of his fiction, it is written in a social realist mode.

In the 1960's and 70's, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger remained in the realist mode.

Doris Lessing, for example, began publishing in the 1950s, but did not question the appropriateness of the realist mode to her conceptual concerns until the 1960s.

(The work seems more about glass than martyrdom, but Mr. Hirst could probably do a more compelling version in his new realist mode.)

Indeed, today her reputation rests largely on her taut, brilliantly controlled short stories written squarely in the realist mode.

The second room features, more successfully, a large horizontal painting done in the artists' familiar and accomplished realist mode.

William Dean Howells (1837-1920) wrote fiction and essays in the realist mode.

It also allows Minton, without breaking the realist mode, to manipulate scale so that, by academic standards, the feet are too large in relation to the head.