TY - ADVS AU - Salem,Leyla AU - AU - Aparicio,Didac AU - Scherer,Chris ED - Prodimag, S.L ED - Films Media Group. ED - Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm) TI - Realism: the artistic form of the truth AV - NX454.5.R4 R435 2007 U1 - 709.0343 759.13 PY - 2007/// CY - Princeton, N.J. PB - Films for the Humanities & Sciences, KW - Realism in art KW - 19th century KW - United States KW - Painting, American KW - Realism in literature KW - Films for the hearing impaired KW - Documentary films N1 - "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 N2 - 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 ER -