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Realism, Realist or Realistic may refer to:
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
- 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
[edit] 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 Oganism, 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
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