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purism

[pyoor-iz-uhm] / ˈpyʊər ɪz əm /




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Purism has always been an exception, delighted borrowing the rule.

From The Guardian • Feb. 24, 2011

He did Purism too, further sanitizing the cleaned-up version of Cubism espoused by Le Corbusier and Amédée Ozenfant.

From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2010

By 1950 he had changed course, abandoning Purism, as he called it, for something more robust and sculptural.

From Time Magazine Archive

Futurism, Orphism, Expressionism, Synchronism, Abstract Dadaism, Rayonism, Machinism, Suprematism, Constructivism, Purism, Concretionism�by the 19205 there were so many isms that the artists themselves got mixed up.

From Time Magazine Archive

Purism in art, its nature and definition, ii.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) by Ruskin, John




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