social realismn.
/ˌsəʊʃl ˈrɪəlɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌsoʊʃ(ə)l ˈriəˌlɪz(ə)m/ Art and Literary Theory.
The realistic depiction of contemporary (esp. working-class) life as a means of social or political comment; spec. (the name of) a U.S. artistic movement of the 1930s that favoured this approach.
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society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > specific movement or period
cinquecento1762
classicality1784
romanticism1821
classicism1827
Renaissance1836
classicalism1840
Queen Anne1863
classic1864
renascence1868
classical1875
modernism1879
New Romanticism1885
Colonial Revival1887
shogun1889
super-realism1890
verism1892
neoclassicism1893
veritism1894
social realism1898
camerata1900
peasantism1903
proto-Renaissance1903
Biedermeier1905
expressionism1908
futurism1909
Georgianism1911
Dada1918
Dadaism1918
German expressionism1920
expressionismus1925
Negro Renaissance1925
super-realism1925
settecento1926
surrealism1927
Neue Sachlichkeit1929
Sachlichkeit1930
neo-Gothicism1932
socialist realism1933
modernismus1934
Harlem Renaissance1940
organicism1945
avant-gardism1950
nouvelle vague1959
bricolage1960
kitchen-sinkery1964
black art1965
neo-modernism1966
Yuan1969
conceptualism1970
sound art1972
pre-modernism1976
Afrofuturism1993
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > literary movements or theories
romanticism1821
romantism1828
naturalism1845
realism1856
sensationism1862
symbolism1866
classicisma1878
eroticism1881
impressionism1883
sensitivism1891
verism1892
neoclassicism1893
veritism1894
social realism1898
neo-realism1908
futurism1909
Félibrism1911
postmodernism1914
vorticism1914
Dada1918
Dadaism1918
Scythism1921
Scythianism1923
Russian Formalism1925
surrealism1927
Neue Sachlichkeit1929
populism1930
Sachlichkeit1930
dirty realism1931
ultraism1932
thingism1935
formalism1943
organicism1945
lettrism1946
New Wave1960
socialist realism1967
catastrophism1969
pointillism1972
po-mo1986
1898 Times 23 Aug. 8/1 Mr. Merrick has found good material, in his Actor-Manager, for one of those romances of social realism in which he excels.
1937 L. Cheskin in Education Nov. 186/2 Current art..expresses mainly group action, mass movement, class struggle, not individual characters. The artists of today seek to express mainly social realism, not organic realism or naturalism.
1967 G. H. Hamilton Painting & Sculpt. in Europe 5 The scope of strictly formalist criticism has undoubtedly been enlarged by surrealism and by the doctrines of social realism.
1972 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 27 May 14/3 The dismal social-realism caricatures that passed for art in the Thirties.
2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Sept. 30/2 Before the 1970s,..the British novel was apparently characterized by social realism and imperial nostalgia.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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