reductivism
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Roston himself acknowledges the reductivism he’s engaged in when he writes, “I imagine reducing his book to a clinical diagnosis or, perhaps worse, putting it in the self-help category, would make Vonnegut shudder.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2022
In place of reductivism, she championed art that replenished painting with inwardness, subjectivity and lush brushwork.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 27, 2020
There had to be a happier way to live, a comfort zone somewhere between recherché reductivism and A&E’s “Hoarders.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2018
Moonlight eschews this reductivism entirely, brilliantly portraying in a lyrical story how love and connection attempt to take hold.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 29, 2016
Next, Frank Stella’s 1959 hallmark of reductivism, the black-banded “Marriage of Reason and Squalor” hangs in solitary splendor amid wall and floor sculptures by Lynda Benglis, Richard Serra, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman and Giovanni Anselmo.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2011
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