This approach helped shape the New Realism movement, transforming perceptions of painting and viewer interaction with art. Jenney’s work brought together idealism and realism in innovative ways, and ...

Ted Bromund, Michael Auslin, and Colin Dueck want to “reclaim American realism,” and spell out what they mean by that in a new article for American Affairs. The idea that realism needs to be ...

Between the Civil War and the First World War, realism was the most prominent form of American fiction. Realist writers of the period include some of America's greatest, such as Henry James, Edith ...

Just like we buy new clothes as a reaction to the overwear of a set, new phases in Art came as a reaction to the old ones in the set. And one such was the era of Romanticism, followed by Realism.