New Realism "New Realism" arose at the turn of the twentieth century in opposition to the Idealist doctrines that the known or perceived object is dependent for its existence on the act of knowing and that the immediately perceived object...

New Realism (in French: Nouveau Réalisme) refers to an artistic movement founded in 1960 by the art critic Pierre Restany[1] and the painter Yves Klein during the first collective exposition in the Apollinaire gallery in Milan. Pierre Restany wrote the...

In 1988, Susan Dermody and Elizabeth Jacka described an Australian cinematic realism whose 'subject is usually an oppressed, socially-marginalized, urban individual or group, and the oppression is seen as a result of social pressures on the individual or group'.1 THE FILMS THEY LIST,...

On November 7, 2007, Governor Bill Richardson laid out his vision for U.S. foreign policy for National Interest online (www.nationalinterest.org), from which the following excerpts are taken. THE DEMOCRATIC values that unite America and its allies are indeed enduring, but the realities...

Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson said Thursday the United States must lead the way on global struggles by reducing its nuclear weapons, closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and dramatically cutting energy use.In the first foreign policy address of his nascent candidacy, Richardson indicated he...

Mr. McCain’s go-to Iraq expert says, for example, that he couldn’t believe his ears when Mitt Romney recently told ABC’s Good Morning America that he supports “timetables and milestones” for the Iraq government to meet, but ones that “shouldn’t be for public pronouncement.” Mr. McCain...