For over forty years, American Literary Realism has brought readers critical essays on American literature from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The whole panorama of great authors ...

From the American Revolution to the Civil War -- Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer -- Still-life and populist trompe-l'oeil -- Realism and the American Impressionists -- The Ashcan School -- ...

Magical realism has traveled far beyond Latin America, influencing Caribbean, Chicano, and global literatures. Yet its roots in… Read more.

What is African American literature? People tend to call literary texts “African American” or “black” whenever they feature African American main characters alongside certain historical themes, ...

Expressing the life and cause of the masses : ideologies and institutions -- Articulating history to the radical present : murals -- Chronicling the contemporary crisis : graphic art -- Forging a ...

At the start of the Cold War, American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr addressed critics of his magazine, Christianity and Crisis, who faulted him for taking a hard line against Joseph Stalin’s Russia.

BOGOTÁ — In the 1960s, when experimentation was the rage and the world seemed to have started afresh, the producer and ...

The Smithsonian American Art Museum is opening a new exhibition to showcase examples of modern realism from 20th century artists. "Modern American Realism'' opens Friday, featuring 70 paintings and ...