Realism
# Realism

Realism, Realistic, or Realists may refer to:

## In the arts

* Realism (arts), the general attempt to depict subjects truthfully in different forms of the arts

Arts movements related to realism include:

* Classical Realism
* Literary realism, a movement from the mid 19th to the early 20th century
* Neorealism (art)
   * Italian neorealism (film)
   * Indian neorealism (film)
* New realism, a movement founded in 1960
* Realism (art movement), 19th-century painting group
* Theatrical realism, one of the many types of theatre such as Naturalism
* Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, an art movement
* Socialist realism, an art style developed in the Soviet Union

## In philosophy

* Philosophical realism

Related realist philosophies include:

* Aesthetic realism (metaphysics)
* Agential realism (Barad)
* Australian realism
* Austrian realism
* Conceptualist realism (Wiggins)
* Critical realism (disambiguation)
* Dialectical realism (Hacking)
* Direct realism
* Empirical realism
* Entity realism
* Epistemic structural realism
* Epistemological realism
* Hermeneutic realism (Heidegger)
* Internal realism, also known as "pragmatic realism" (Putnam)
* Local realism, the view held by the authors of the EPR paper
* Logical realism, the conviction the rules of logic are mind-independent
* Metaphysical realism
* Modal realism
* Model-dependent realism (Hawking and Mlodinow)
* Moderate realism
* Moral realism
* Naïve realism
* New realism (philosophy)
* Ontic structural realism
* Peircean realism
* Perspectival realism
* Platonic realism
* Quasi-realism
* Rational realism (Bardili)
* Realistic monism (G. Strawson)
* Realistic rationalism (Katz)
* Referential realism
* Romantic realism
* Scientific realism
   * Musgrave's scientific realism
* Scotistic realism
* Semantic realism (epistemology) (a position criticized by Dummett)
* Semantic realism (philosophy of science) (Psillos)
* Semirealism (Chakravartty)
* Set-theoretic realism (Maddy)
* Speculative realism
* Subtle realism
* Theological critical realism
* Transcendental realism (Schelling, Schopenhauer, Bhaskar)
* Truth-value link realism (a position criticized by Dummett)

## In the social sciences

Realist approaches in the social sciences include:

* Ethnographic realism, either a descriptive word, i.e. of or relating to the first-hand participant-observation practices of ethnographers, or a writing style or genre that narrates in a similar fashion.
* Legal realism, the view that jurisprudence should emulate the methods of natural science, i.e., rely on empirical evidence
* Realism (international relations), the view that world politics is driven by competitive self-interest
   * Classical realism (international relations)
   * Neorealism (international relations)
* Structural realism, in international relations
* Subtle realism, in social science research methodology

## Media

* Realistic (album), an album by Ivy
* Realism (Steril album), an album by Steril
* Realism (The Magnetic Fields album), an album by The Magnetic Fields

## Politics

* Czech Realist Party, former political party in Austria-Hungary
* Realists (political party), conservative political party in the Czech Republic

## Other uses

* Realistic (brand), a brand of home audio electronics produced by RadioShack
