# 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:
* American Realism
* Classical Realism
* Literary realism, a movement from the mid-19th to the early 20th century
* Magical realism, a genre of fiction and art that blurs the line between speculation and reality
* 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
Realist approaches in philosophy include:
* Aesthetic realism (metaphysics)
* Agential realism (Barad)
* Aristotelian realism
* Australian realism
* Austrian realism
* Christian realism
* Conceptualist realism
* Constructive realism
* Critical realism (disambiguation)
* Dialectical realism
* Direct realism
* Empirical realism
* Entity realism
* Epistemic/ontic structural realism
* Epistemological realism
* Hermeneutic realism (Heidegger)
* Internal realism
* Local realism
* Logical realism
* Metaphysical realism
* Modal realism
* Model-dependent realism
* Moderate realism
* Moral realism
* Mystical realism
* Naïve realism
* New realism (philosophy)
* Peircean realism
* Perspectival realism
* Platonic realism
* Quasi-realism
* Rational realism
* Realistic monism
* Realistic rationalism
* Referential realism
* Relational realism
* Romantic realism
* Scientific realism
** Musgrave's scientific realism
* Scotistic realism
* Semantic realism (epistemology)
* Semantic realism (philosophy of science)
* Semirealism
* Set-theoretic realism
* Speculative realism
* Spiritual realism
* Subtle realism
* Theological critical realism
* Transcendental realism
* Truth-value link realism

## 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
* The Realist (American magazine), a satirical magazine
* The Realist (British magazine), a magazine dedicated to scientific humanism

## 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