American Regionalism is an American
realist modern art movement that included paintings, murals, lithographs, and illustrations depicting realistic scenes of rural and small - town America primarily in the Midwest and Deep South.
Although «magic realism» is a term today more commonly associated with the 20th - century literature of Latin America, it was first coined in 1925 by the German
art historian and critic Franz Roh to describe an emerging style of
modern realist paintings with fantasy or dreamlike subjects, and is often seen as parallel to or overlapping with the New Objectivity
movement.