Realism in Art

Realism - in art, the movement of the mid-19th cent. formed in reaction against the severely academic production of the French school. Realist painters sought to portray what they saw without idealizing it, choosing their subjects from the commonplaces of everyday life. Major realists included Gustave Courbet, J. F. Millet, and Honoré Daumier. In a broader sense the term is applied to Read More...

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Realism: A Study in Art and Thought
by Arthur McDowall. 302 pgs.

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Preface

Contents

Chapter I: Introductory

Chapter II: The Form of Realistic Art

Chapter III: Realism of Treatment

Chapter IV: Flaubert's Impersonalism

Chapter VI: The Fallacy of Naturalism

Chapter VII: The Present Situation

Chapter VIII: Realism in Thought

Chapter IX: Realism and Values

Chapter X: Conclusions and Applications

Index
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American Painting of the Nineteenth Century: Realism, Idealism, and the American Experience
by Barbara Novak. 352 pgs.

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The works of 12 American artists, including Homer, Eakins, Church, and Ryder, are introduced.

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Preface

Preface to the Second Edition

Acknowledgments

1. Prolegomena to the Nineteenth Century: Copley and the American Tradition

2. Washington Allston: An American Romantic Tradition

3. Thomas Cole: The Dilemma of the Real and the Ideal

4. Asher B. Durand: Hudson River School Solutions

5. Luminism: An Alternative Tradition

6. Fitz Hugh Lane: A Paradigm of Luminism

7. Martin Johnson Heade: Haystacks and Light

8. William Sidney Mount: Monumental Genre

9. George Caleb Bingham: Missouri Classicism

10. Winslow Homer: Concept and Percept

11. Thomas Eakins: Science and Sight

12. Albert Pinkham Ryder: Even with a Thought

13. William Harnett: Every Object Rightly Seen

14. the Painterly Mode in America

Epilogue: The Twentieth Century

Notes

Brief Biographies of (eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Artists

Bibliography

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Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1780 to 1880 (Chap. 12 "Realism in France" and Chap. 14 "Under the Sign of Realism")
by Fritz Novotny. 290 pgs.

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List of Figures

List of Plates

Foreword

Abbreviations

Chapter 1: Introduction

Part One: Painting

Chapter 2 Classicism in France

Chapter 3: Classicism in Germany and Austria

Chapter 4: Landscape-Painting During the Classical Revival

Chapter 5: Classicism in Other Countries the Netherlands -- Italy -- Switzerland -- Scandinavia

Chapter 6: German Romanticism and the Nazarenes

Chapter 7: Francisco De Goya (1746-1828)

Chapter 8: The French 'Romantiques'

Chapter 9: Early Naturalism (Biedermeier Painting)

Chapter 10: German Biedermeier Romanticism Spitzweg -- Schwind -- Richter -- Rethel, and Others

Chapter 11: Late Romanticism and Early Realism in Other Countries

Chapter 12: Realism in France

Chapter 13: Naturalism in Germany

Chapter 14: Under the Sign of Realism

Chapter 15: 'Intellectual' Painting in the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 16: French Impressionism

Chapter 17: The Situation About 1880

Part Two: Sculpture

Chapter 18: The Sculpture of the Classicist Period

Chapter 19: Sculpture in the Days of Romanticism and Realism

Chapter 20: Sculpture in the Third Quarter of the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 21: The Return to Form

Notes

Bibliography

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American Literary Realism and the Problem of Trompe l'Oeil Painting, in Mosaic (Winnipeg)
by Anne Trubek. 20 pgs.

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Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community ("Magic Realism: Post-Expressionism" begins on p. 15)
by Wendy B. Faris, Lois Parkinson Zamora. 582 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris: Introduction: Daiquiri Birds and Flaubertian Parrot(Ie)S

Part I: Foundations

Magic Realism: Post-Expressionism

Magic Realism, New Objectivity, and the Arts during the Weimar Republic

On the Marvelous Real in America

The Baroque and the Marvelous Real

Magical Realism in Spanish American Fiction

Magical Realism in Spanish American Literature

The Territorialization of the Imaginary in Latin America: Self-Affirmation and Resistance to Metropolitan Paradigms

Sources of Magic Realism/Supplements to Realism in Contemporary Latin American Literature

Part II: Theory

Scheherazade's Children: Magical Realism and Postmodern Fiction

Magical Realism and Postmodernism: Decentering Privileged Centers

The Metamorphoses of Fictional Space: Magical Realism

The Textualization of the Reader in Magical Realist Fiction

Psychic Realism, Mythic Realism, Grotesque Realism: Variations on Magic Realism in Contemporary Literature in English

Part III: History

Magical Realism, Compensatory Vision, and Felt History: Classical Realism Transformed in the White Hotel

Past-On Stories: History and the Magically Real, Morrison and Allende on Call

Narrrative Trickery and Performative Historiography: Fictional Representation of National Identity in Graham Swift, Peter Carey, and Mordecai Richler

Saleem Fathered by Oskar: Midnight's Children, Magic Realism, and the Tin Drum

Magical Archetypes: Midlife Miracles in the Satanic Verses

Derek Walcott and Alejo Carpentier: Nature, History, and the Caribbean Writer

Part IV: Community

Magic Realism as Postcolonial Discourse

Metoikoi and Magical Realism in the Maghrebian Narratives of Tahar Ben Jelloun and Abdelkebir Khatibi

The Magic of Identity: Magic Realism in Modern Japanese Fiction

Roads of "Exquisite Mysterious Muck": The Magical Journey through the City in William Kennedy's Ironweed, John Cheever's "The Enormous Radio," and Donald Barthelme's "City Life"

Magical Romance/Magical Realism: Ghosts in U.S. and Latin American Fiction

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

Index
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An Outline of 19th Century European Painting: From David through Cezanne (Chap. 9 "Realism")
by Lorenz Eitner. 700 pgs.

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Foreword

Introduction

2: David and His School

3: Francisco José De Goya Y Lucientes, 1746-1828

4: British Neoclassicism and William Blake

5: German Romantics Philipp Otto Runge, 1777-1810 Caspar David Friedrich, 1774-1840

6: English Landscape

7: French Romantics

8: French Landscape

9: Realism

10: Academic and Salon Painters

11: Edouard Manet, 1832-1883

12: Edgar Degas, 1834-1917

13: Impressionism

14: Paul Cézanne, 1839-1906

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Photograph Credits Numbers refer to plates.
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Documents of American Realism and Naturalism (Chap. Ten "Realism in Literature and Art")
by Donald Pizer. 474 pgs.

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Preface

Editorial Note

Part One the Critical Debate, 1874-1950

The Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, 1874-1914

Notes

One the Novel and Its Future

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Two Modern Fiction

Three the Art of Fiction

Four a Typical Novel

Five Selections from the "Editor's Study"

Six Realism and Romance

Seven Certain Tendencies in Current Literature

Eight the New Battle of the Books

Nine Selections from the Ethics of Literary Art

Ten Realism in Literature and Art

Eleven the Progressive Realism of American Fiction

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Twelve Productive Conditions of American Literature

Thirteen the New Story-Tellers and the Doom of Realism

Fourteen Three Essays on Naturalism

Fifteen the Responsibilities of the Novelist

Sixteen True Art Speaks Plainly

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Seventeen the Naturalism of Mr. Dreiser

Eighteen the Art of Theodore Dreiser

Nineteen William Dean Howells and the Realism of the Commonplace

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Twenty Naturalism in American Fiction

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Twenty-One the Opening Struggle for Realism

Notes

Twenty-Two "Not Men" a Natural History of American Naturalism

Twenty-Three Reality in America

Notes

Twenty-Four Some Observations on Naturalism, So Called, in Fiction

Notes

Part Two Modern Academic Criticism, 1951-1995

Introduction

Twenty-Five Taine in America

Notes

Twenty-Six New Ideas in the Novel

Twenty-Seven Norris Historically Viewed

Twenty-Eight Mark Twain and the Earlier Realism

Notes

Twenty-Nine American Realism Defined

Notes

Thirty "Realism": Toward a Definition

Thirty-One from Document to Symbol: Zola and American Naturalism

Notes

Thirty-Two American Literary Naturalism: The Example of Dreiser

Thirty-Three Realism

Notes

Thirty-Four the Country of the Blue

Bibliographical Note

Bibliographical Note

Thirty-Five Preface and Casting Out the Outcast Naturalism and the Brute

Notes

Thirty-Six Realism and "Absent Things in American Life"

Notes

Thirty-Seven Black and White Strangers

Notes

Thirty-Eight Expanding the Canon of American Realism

Bibliography Index

Bibliography

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The Immortal Eight; American Painting from Eakins to the Armory Show (1870-1913)
by Bennard B. Perlman. 226 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Prelude

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Epilogue

Index
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Daumier: Paintings and Drawings
by Gabriel White. 70 pgs.

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Daumier the Painter

Daumier's Paintings and Drawings

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