She was an artist ahead of her time, a modernist who used minimalism and anticipated the reductivism of the 1970s.
For those who accept Greenberg's formulation, it is possible to regard modernism as having come to an end in the extreme reductivism of Minimal art.
But for all her reductivism, Thomas was a champion of sensory perception.
Noting that the pieces are the very essence of reductivism, he concludes approvingly, ‘It would be hard to do less.’
But art is far too elusive for this reductivism.
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another term for reductionism
Example sentencesExamples
The temptation of epigrammatical reductivism as a means of describing this ‘careless’ loss of yet another judge is only worth resisting if, unlike Wilde, one can resist anything including temptation.
The Sixties colluded with the crudest Freudian reductivism - or reduction of Freud - in insisting that what we really want can be cashed out in biological terms.
Definition of reductivism in US English:
reductivism
nounrəˈdəktəˌvizəm
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another term for minimalism
Example sentencesExamples
Noting that the pieces are the very essence of reductivism, he concludes approvingly, ‘It would be hard to do less.’
She was an artist ahead of her time, a modernist who used minimalism and anticipated the reductivism of the 1970s.
But art is far too elusive for this reductivism.
For those who accept Greenberg's formulation, it is possible to regard modernism as having come to an end in the extreme reductivism of Minimal art.
But for all her reductivism, Thomas was a champion of sensory perception.
2
another term for reductionism
Example sentencesExamples
The Sixties colluded with the crudest Freudian reductivism - or reduction of Freud - in insisting that what we really want can be cashed out in biological terms.
The temptation of epigrammatical reductivism as a means of describing this ‘careless’ loss of yet another judge is only worth resisting if, unlike Wilde, one can resist anything including temptation.