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American Scene Painting - American Regoionalism and Social Realism
Social Realism is a type of American realism which is more overtly political in content, critical of society, marked by its realistic depiction of social problems. The American movement is separate from the French Realist movement of Gustave Courbet and Eduoard Manet.
http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/americanscene/
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Social Realism - Britannica
Trend in American art originating in about 1930 and referring in its narrow sense to paintings treating themes of social protest in a naturalistic or quasi-expressionist manner.
http://www.britannica.com/art/Social-Realism-painting
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Artists from the Social Realism Movement
Social Realism is a naturalistic realism focusing specifically on social issues and the hardships of everyday life. The term usually refers to the urban American Scene artists of the Depression era, who were greatly influenced by the Ashcan School of early 20th century New York.
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/social-realism.html
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Social realism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Social realism, an international art movement, refers to the work of painters, printmakers, photographers and filmmakers who draw attention to the everyday conditions of the working class and the poor; social realists are critical of the social structures which maintain these conditions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_realism
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Social Realism Movement, Artists and Major Works - The Art Story
Artworks and artists: The Social Realist artistic explorations flourished during a time of global economic depression, heightened racial conflict, the rise of international totalitarian regimes.
http://m.theartstory.org/movement-social-realism.htm
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Social Realism in Art: History, Characteristics - Visual Arts
Social Realism (c.1930-45): Style of Depression-Era Painting and Poster Art Led by Ben Shahn, Margaret Bourke-White.
http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art/social-realism.htm
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BFI Screenonline: Social Realism - Screen Online
The most 'typically British' of all film genres.
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1037898/
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Social Realism - Xroads
Because of the desperate economic and social conditions of the 1930s, artists developed a renewed interest in displaying the plights of laborers and disenfranchised individuals (the Ashcan School had dealt with these themes earlier, at the turn of the 20th century). Building out of leftist concerns, social realism aimed at social change, and the mural seemed uniquely able to argue for this as a very public art form.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA03/staples/douglas/socialrealism.html
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Peter Worsley On Contemporary Social Realism
Social Realism Art, sometimes known as Socio-Realism, started as depictions of social and racial injustice, and economic hardship, through unvarnished pictures of life's struggles; often depicting working class activities as heroic.The movement was a style of painting in which the scenes typically convey a message of social or political protest edged with satire.
http://www.peterworsley.com/Links/Contemporary_Social_Realism.html
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Get real: Why Socialist Realist Painting Deserves Another Look - The Calvert Journal
I have a confession to make. In the last few years I have acquired a morbid fascination with socialist realism. This is hard to admit, partly because the cult of the Russian avant-garde is so enduring, with countless retrospectives in the US and UK alone.
http://calvertjournal.com/articles/show/3475/socialist-realism-Soviet-official-painting
