WORDS

 "surrealism, n.". OED Online. June 2012. Oxford University Press. 16 June 2012.

 A movement in art and literature seeking to express the subconscious mind by any of a number of different techniques, including the irrational juxtaposition of realistic images, the creation of mysterious symbols, and automatism; art or literature produced by or reminiscent of this movement. The term surréalisme, coined by Guillaume Apollinaire, was taken over by the poet André Breton as the name of the movement, which he launched with his Manifeste du Surréalisme in 1924; his statement there of the term's meaning is given in quote 1935. 

"Surrealism, pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, verbally, in writing, or by other means, the real process of thought" (D. Gascoyne tr. A. Breton in Short Surv. Surrealism iv. 61).

 Hyperrealism, n. 

A style in art that attempts to reproduce highly realistic graphic representations

"Hyperrealism is a genre of painting and sculpture resembling a high-resolution photograph. Hyperrealism is considered an advancement of Photorealism by the methods used to create the resulting paintings or sculptures. The term is primarily applied to an independent art movement and art style in the United States and Europe that has developed since the early 2000s" (Bredekamp, Horst, Hyperrealism - One Step Beyond. Tate Museum, Publishers, UK. 2006. p. 1). 

Lincoln, Kenneth. Cormac McCarthy: American Canticles. New York: Palgrave Macmillan,

2009. Print.

“Canticles Down West: Hyperrealism”

“In Cormac McCarthy’s hyperreal novels a reader may assume the story fabricates reality, but on further reflection the fiction stands truer-to-life than flat dimensional ‘reality,’ that is, art real to the point of abruptive disbelief and breakthrough discovery” (20).