abstractionism
Americannoun
noun
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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
They disavow both literal story-telling and the abstractionism of painters who paint to please themselves.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because the paintings of these founding fathers were mostly abstract, art historians have generally argued that Abstract Expressionism was a descendant of analytical Cubism, or the abstractionism of Russia's Wassily Kandinsky.
From Time Magazine Archive
Professor Joseph Schumpeter, of Vienna, carries out economic abstractionism to its logical limits, both in "statics" and in "dynamics."
From Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive by Anderson, Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester)
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