Realism

Realism, Realist or Realistic may refer to:

The arts

*Realism (arts), the depiction of subjects as they appear in everyday life
*Realism (dramatic arts), a movement towards greater fidelity to real life
*Realism (visual arts), a style of painting that depicts what the eye can see
*Classical Realism, an artistic movement in late 20th Century that valued beauty and artistic skill
*Hyperrealism (painting), a genre of painting that resembles high resolution photography
*Kitchen sink realism, an English cultural movement in the 1950s and 1960s that concentrated on contemporary social realism
*Literary realism, a 19th century literary movement
*Magic realism, an artistic genre in which magical elements appear in an otherwise realistic setting
*Nazi heroic realism or the art of the third Reich, a style of propaganda art associated with Nazi Germany
*New Realism, an artistic movement founded in 1960 by Pierre Restany and Yves Klein
*Poetic realism, a film movement in France in the 1930s that used heightened aestheticism
*Photorealism, a genre of painting that resembles photography
*Romantic realism, an aesthetic art term popularized by writer/philosopher Ayn Rand
*Social realism, an artistic movement which depicts working class activities
*Socialist realism, a style of propaganda art associated with Communism

International relations

*Defensive realism, a theory that anarchy on the world stage causes states to increase their security, resulting in greater instability
*Liberal realism or the "English school of international relations theory", the theory that there exists a 'society of states'
*Neorealism or "structural realism", a theory that international structures act as a constraint on state behavior
*Offensive realism, a theory that states will exploit opportunities to expand whenever they are presented
*Political realism, a theory that the primary motivation of states is the desire for power or security, rather than ideals or ethics
*Subaltern realism, a theory that Third World states are more concerned with short term gains

Law

*Legal realism, a theory that law is made by human beings and thus subject to human imperfections
*Left realism, a theory that crime disproportionately affects working class people
*Right Realism, a theory about the prevention and control of crime

Philosophy

*Aesthetic Realism, a philosophy founded by the American poet and critic Eli Siegel
*Australian realism or Australian materialism, a 20th Century school of philosophy in Australia
*Christian Realism, a philosophy advocated by Reinhold Niebuhr
*Constructive realism, a philosophy of science
*Cornell realism, a view in meta-ethics associated with the work of Richard Boyd and others
*Critical realism, a philosophy of perception concerned with the accuracy of human sense-data
*Direct realism, a theory of perception
*Entity realism, a philosophical position within scientific realism
*Epistemological realism, a subcategory of objectivism
*Hyper-realism or Hyperreality, the inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy
*Mathematical realism, a branch of philosophy of mathematics
*Moderate realism, a position holding that there is no realm where universals exist
*Modal realism, a philosophy propounded by David Lewis, that possible worlds are as real as the actual world
*Moral realism, the view in philosophy that there are objective moral values
*Mystical realism, a philosophy concerning the nature of the divine, advanced by Nikolai Berdyaev
*Naive realism, a common sense theory of perception
*New realism (philosophy), a school of early 20th-century epistemology rejecting epistemological dualism
*Organic realism or the Philosophy of Organism, the metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead, now known as process philosophy
*Philosophical realism, the belief that reality exists independently of observers
*Platonic realism, a philosophy articulated by Plato, positing the existence of universals
*Quasi-realism, an expressivist meta-ethical theory which asserts that though our moral claims are projectivist we understand them in realist terms
*Representative realism, the view that we cannot perceive the external world directly
*Scientific realism, the view that the world described by science is the real world
*Transcendental realism, a concept implying that individuals have a perfect understanding of the limitations of their own minds
*Truth-value link realism, a metaphysical concept explaining how to understand parts of the world that are apparently cognitively inaccessible

Other fields

*Realism (album), a 2006 album by the German electronic band Steril
*Depressive realism, a contested theory that individuals suffering from clinical depression have a more accurate view of reality
*Ethnographic realism, a writing style, in anthropology, which narrates the author's experiences and observations as if they were first-hand
*Tactical realism, a genre of combat simulations in computer gaming
*Realists, a typeface in VOX-ATypI classification

ee also

*Anti-realism
*Fantastic Realism (disambiguation)
*Irrealism (disambiguation)