... and reception, this study aims to illuminate how racial politics influenced a politics of style in this volatile moment. To do so, it situates Die in relation to a mounting attention to protest, violence, social realism, and black aesthetics, especially as they crystallized in writer Amiri Baraka’s engagement...

... of social realism, in particular Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, whose work encouraged unity of classes and the glorification of folk roots and peasant culture. Through his extensive travels and experimentation, Johnson later became focused on abstract expressionism and explored it through the rest of his...

... are perceived as ahistorical objects. Even though they are practiced in contemporary times, they are still approached in anthropological designations. Certainly, the uses of the supernatural in non-Western visual art are grouped together under the rubric of magical realism, and humanistic scholars have given...

... of contemporary conceptual art, in "My Dungeon Shook." And part of the manifestation of this intention actually belong instead in a noble tradition of social realism where art, is a social device for which nobody admits responsibility, a device of which rather than lecture the world or piss...

... and Social Realism. It argued that black artists had a responsibility to reflect and generate specif...

.... in his domestic environment. Yet in these works his “Toekenning van R1,000 onregverdig” (Award vision is not one of social realism but rather an affir- of R1,000 unfair) and “Kunstenaars kwaad oor mation of dignity and hope. The titles signify the Bantoe se prys” (Artists angry...

... using commercial products to reinvent a sort of social 'realism' laced As a photographer, I have seen most of the with Pop imagery" and asks, without answering photographs that come out of South Africa, his own question, "whether the situation in South whether from...

..., Lewis taught at the Thomas Jefferson School of Social Science in New York, where social realism was encouraged. Both eventually left their positions at the school, feeling their integrity as artists at stake. 13 To other African Americans, this move and his evolving abstract style in the 1940s may have...

... between the wars, who vocally turned away from European formalism. The American Regionalist movement Benton is associated with, however, elided with broad social realism, being very much of the Depression moment in America in its focus on national events, settings, and shared themes of perseverance...

..., which stem from travel, study, and experimentation and generally evade tidy labels. Unlike her older Black peers in Spiral, including Hale Woodruff, Romare Bearden, and Norman Lewis, who were rooted in social realism and turned toward abstraction in the 1950s, Amos started her artistic career...

... realism, Outside the Law , taking the form of a gangster film, failed to garner the label of authenticity in its treatment of the Algerian War of Independence. By analyzing the shift from Day of Glory to Outside the Law in the filmic language that characterizes Bouchareb’s style, and the public response...

... of sharpening the scythe held by one man), and amply demonstrates White s distinct and profound embrace of social realism aesthetics. The scythe in Harvest Talk was unmistakably evocative of the sickle, as in the emblem of the hamm­ er and sickle as a symbol of proletarian solidarity that was first adopted...

..., science in munity. This particular visual proverb stresses the general, the arts, religion, social organization, medi- importance of returning to one’s ancestral roots and cine, writing, engineering, architecture.”8 Writers wisdom, a striking metaphor for Wiley’s journeys further praised...

... with black people." of Bruegel, Rubens, de Gheyn and Jordaens, and in his appro• Ecstasy of Medusa is after Rubens's original and also refer• priation of the early modernist realism of Manet's meditation on ences Caravaggio's circular depiction of the screaming female...

..., William “Bill,” Harlem. Like Woodruff’s, York University and Atlanta Alston’s work was con- Hines, Felrath, 1913–93 1930–82 University. Woodruff met cerned with social realism. Retired...

... and labor movement. Like Ad Reinhardt, imposed boundaries seemed to create an unnecessary limitation. Lewis taught at the Communist-sponsored lefferson School of At the same time, the show was a spectacularly beautiful ex• Social Science, an institution located...

... to fixate on Steve McQueen's "Western Deep" as the most political and social systems that mediate the relationship between successful piece. This appears to be due to its conflation of doc• labor and capital which he was exploring. The same is true with the umentary-like realism with highbrow aesthetics...

... in the the End of Documentary Realism: Zwelethu representation of the lyric imaginary specific architectural residue of life on Mthethwa’s Color Photographs,” in Briel- of personal expression and the stark the margins. maier, Zwelethu Mthethwa, 100–115. facts of social crisis...

... and the possibilities of photography, exploring the ways that Fani-Kayode bent the medium for vernacular and nonnormative intentions. The book is nally an engagement with the vast cultural, social, and political terrains that are crowded into the 1980s, a de- cade that de es easy summation. Most powerful of all...

... remains a hallmark for relating movement to questions about social conditions of the body. That is, modernity is inextricably tied to the ways in which people move through and within space. The body, immersed in a network of identity politics, responds, pondering its autonomy and entrapment as a result...