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American Realism was a style in art, music and literature that depicted contemporary social realities and the lives and everyday activities of ordinary people. The movement began in literature in the mid-19th century, and became an important tendency in visual art in the early 20th century.
William Dean Howells (/ ˈ h aʊ əl z /; March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters".
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Andrew Newell Wyeth ( / ˈwaɪɛθ / WY-eth; July 12, 1917 – January 16, 2009) was an American visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style. He believed he was also an abstractionist, portraying subjects in a new, meaningful way.
As the United States rapidly developed during the late 19th and early 20th century, with great industrial, economic, and socio-cultural changes, the wish to capture the American landscape and urban spaces in a realistic manner through art appeared.
Realists set their fiction in places that actually existed, and they were interested in recent or contemporary life, not in history or legend. Setting in Realistic fiction was important but was not limited to a particular place or region.
Aug 29, 2012 · Introduction. Variously defined as distinct philosophical approaches, complementary aesthetic strategies, or broad literary movements, realism and naturalism emerged as the dominant categories applied to American fiction of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Aug 12, 2019 · Published: 12 August 2019. Split View. Annotate. Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism offers thirty-five original chapters with fresh interpretations of the artistic and political challenges of representing life accurately.
