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Social realism

Art showing conditions of the working classGrant Wood's magnum opusAmerican Gothic, 1930, has become a widely known (and often parodied) icon of social realism.Social realism is work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers, filmmakers and some musicians that aims to draw attention to the real socio-political conditions of the working class as a means to critique the power structures behind these conditions.

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