magic realism
magic realism,a term coined by Franz Roh (Nach-expressionismus, magischer Realismus: Probleme der neuesten europäischer Malerei, 1925 ), to describe tendencies in the work of certain German artists of the neue Sachlichkeit (new objectivity), characterized by clear, cool, static, thinly painted, sharp-focus images, frequently portraying the imaginary, the improbable, or the fantastic in a realistic or rational manner. The term was adopted in the United States with the 1943 exhibition (containing work by Charles Sheeler , 1883 – 1965 , and Edward Hopper , 1882 – 1967 ) at the New York Museum of Modern Art, entitled ‘American Realists and Magic Realists’. The term has subsequently been used to describe the works of such Latin American authors as Borges , García Márquez , and Alejo Carpentier ( 1904 – 80 ), and elements of it have been noted in Grass , Calvino , Fowles , and other...
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