American Social Realism
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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Social realism became an important art movement during the Great Depression in the United States in the 1930s. As an American artistic movement it is closely related to American scene painting and to Regionalism. American Social Realism includes the works of such artists as those from the Ashcan School, and Thomas Hart Benton, Ben Shahn, Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Rafael Soyer, Isaac Soyer, Reginald Marsh, John Steuart Curry, Aaron Douglas, Grant Wood, Horace Pippin, Walt Kuhn, Isabel Bishop, Paul Cadmus, Philip Evergood, Harry Sternberg, Louis Lozowick, William Gropper, Philip Guston and others. It also extends to the art of photography as exemplified by the works of Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Margaret Bourke-White, Lewis Hine, Edward Steichen, Gordon Parks, Arthur Rothstein, Marion Post Wolcott, Doris Ulmann, Berenice Abbott, Aaron Siskind, Russell Lee, Ben Shahn (as a photographer) among several others.