American realism, a movement of the early 20th century, is one of many modern movements to use realism in this sense.

American realism became the new direction for American visual artists at the turn of the 20th century.

Through this latter resonance we can see the connection between the functionalist style and American legal realism.

The "Bridge" novels take American realism to its outer limits.

My heritage is in the theater, and I wanted to transfer the tradition of American realism to the opera house.

It's a simple reality - the powerful political conjunction between pragmatism and idealism that can be called American democratic realism.

Hendricks' work has been noted as unique for its matrimony of both American realism and post-modernism.

American social realism had been the mainstream in the 1930s.

They can be described as heirs to the tradition of American lyrical realism.

American realism was an early 20th century idea in art, music and literature that showed through these different types of work, reflections of the time period.