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Regionalism & Realism American Art & Literature Civil War – World War Winslow Homer

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Page 1: Regionalism & Realism American Art & Literature Civil War – World War Winslow Homer

Regionalism & Realism American Art & Literature

Civil War – World War

Winslow Homer

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The Civil War changed more than politics in America. After the Civil War, people weren’t much interested in

reading about the war hero. They had seen the brutality and

mental distress.

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They had lived the filthy outdoor

life and experienced the sheer boredom

of war.

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People who had lived the real thing couldn’t

stomach the the overactive

imaginations of writers who had lived their lives

behind desks.

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All that moping about the eerie and the mysterious went right out the window.

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Before and during the Civil War, people didn’t talk or read much about

different regions of the country.

Our troubles were firmly rooted in The North, the South, and what to

do with the West.

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After, with regional tensions gone, people wanted to read about different places around the

country.

Since they were interested in different regions, this was

called Regionalism.

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Southerners read about the North, and Northerners read

about the South.

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But the favorite of many people was the West.

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New Lands were opening up and people were headed out there. Folks back East loved to read

about it.

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The excitement and action of the Western hero appealed to many.

Frederick Remington

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Frederick Remington

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The Romantics portrayed Natives’ lives as exciting and

exotic, and the hardships were downplayed.

Because they lived more closely to Nature, Romantics

assumed they would have been more honest and pure.

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With the Realists, stories

about Native Americans

spotlight the hardships.

The stories are often true ones.

Frederick Remington

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The experiences of Euro-Americans with the Natives are often no longer the Romanticized

buddy-buddy relationships Natty Bumpoo had.

Frederick Remington

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People still liked to read about characters experiencing Nature.

Frederick Remington

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But this fairy-tale awe-inspiring Nature was gone (until the 1960’s anyway….) .

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Nature still dominated characters, but unlike this Romantic image…

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The Realists saw Nature as an overwhelming, destructive, and impersonal force.

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Romantics saw the individual as powerful, but the Realists had seen the foolish or the unlucky

find themselves at the mercy of nature.

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Sharks surround him, and a waterspout looms in the background.

The boat - a human creation - is useless. The mast and rudder are broken and

gone.

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Overall, the Realists found the World a much harder place

than the optimistic Romantics.

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