historicism
noun
a theory that history is determined by immutable laws and not by human agency.
historicist
-
a word derived from
historicism.
Example Sentences
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The building’s original architect, Kirk Peterson, told Berkeleyside after its completion in 2020: “I wanted to make art. I wanted to do a correct, authentic, historicist building. Now it looks like crap. It looks god-awful.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2022
Vintage cocktails seem essential to the historicist approach of Gage & Tollner.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2021
Whitney Krahn, who recently competed her PhD on Viollet-le-Duc’s writing, said the architect viewed his additions not as historicist pastiche but as modern and vital.
From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2019
The embrace of period instruments by the society, founded in 1815 to promote the performance of the music of the two composers, marked the ascendancy of the historicist movement.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 24, 2014
Wilson was a historicist; many intellectuals were by his day.
From Salon ● May 26, 2013
