abstractionism
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- abstractionist noun
Etymology
Origin of abstractionism
1905–10, for an earlier sense; abstraction + -ism
Example Sentences
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Mr. Khrushchev, who had simple tastes and was facing serious political challenges, flew into a rage against abstractionism and made threats of coercion.
From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2017
Harris's book tells the story of English art's journey away from pure abstractionism to a tactile, particularising concern with the local and the contingent, with "stones and leaves".
From The Guardian • Dec. 2, 2010
He was one of a number of painters who plunged into abstractionism and then returned to the figure�and his defection helped inspire a full-scale rebellion among painters around San Francisco.
From Time Magazine Archive
I know several dealers of abstract expressionism, especially second-generation abstractionism, who have had a great deal of trouble.
From Time Magazine Archive
A thing after your own heart, but ruined in my eyes by the same kind of vicious abstractionism which your thesis shows.
From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by James, William
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