Realism the artistic form of the truth /

Realism the artistic form of the truth / [videorecording] : Artistic form of the truth - Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2007. - 1 videodisc (54 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

"ISM Great Movements of Western Culture."

Introduction.-- Realism vs. Romanticism.-- Realism and Science.-- The birth of naturalism.-- Death, women and art.-- American Realism.-- 20th century realism.-- The future of realism.

Director of photography, Marc Cubella. Director of photography, Marc Cubella.

It is a creative impulse as old as humanity itself: to depict life faithfully, accurately, in words or images. This program shows how that impulse led to Realism--a widespread artistic movement, born in the latter half of the 19th century, which rejected pretense, distortion, and sentimentality. Incorporating interviews with art historians and literary scholars, the program explores the sociopolitical origins of the phenomenon in the 1848 Revolution in France and the concurrent wave of industrialization that swept Europe and America. Examines realism in the work of literary writers, and early photographers and filmmakers, as well as the first stirrings of feminism


DVD


Closed-captioned

35428-K Films for the Humanities & Sciences


Realism in art--19th century.
Realism in art--United States--19th century.
Painting, American--19th century.
Realism in literature.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Documentary films.

NX454.5.R4 / R435 2007

709.0343 759.13