metarealist

plural metarealists

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

   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.

   2003, James Hollis, The Archetypal Imagination

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

comparative more metarealist · superlative most metarealist

1. Characteristic of, or related to metarealism, a direction in Russian poetry and art.

   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.

   2015, Mikhail N. Epstein, Alexander A. Genis, Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture