Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An artistic movement emphasizing the concrete reality of shape and color independent of representation or symbolism.
- noun The practice of writing concrete poetry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The habit or practice of regarding as concrete or real what is abstract or ideal.
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- proper noun In painting, an abstractionist
movement evolving in the 1930's out of the work of De Stijl, the Futurists and Kandinsky around the Swiss painter Max Bill. It came to fruition in Northern Italy and France in the 1940's and 1950's through the work of the groups Movimento d'arte concreta (MAC) and Espace.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a representation of an abstract idea in concrete terms
Etymologies
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concrete + -ism
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Examples
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Although the terminology varies (one can equivalently speak about reism, concretism or nominalism), two claims of any theory going against general (abstract) objects should be very sharply distinguished.
Lvov-Warsaw School Wole&324;ski, Jan 2009
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His friend KotarbiÅski formulated a very extreme nominalism, called variously reism, pansomatism, and concretism, according to which the only things that exist are material bodies.
StanisÅaw LeÅniewski Simons, Peter 2007
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Schendel's interest in poetry and sparse graphic forms tied her to Concretism, just as her manipulation of paper aligned her with Neo-concretism.
artforum.com 2008
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