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classicize
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clas·si·cize
/ ˈklasəˌsīz/
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v. [intr.] [usu. as adj.] (classicizing)
imitate a classical style:
the classicizing strains in Guercino's art.
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Modern Classicism.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 12/10/1988; 700+ words
; ...architecture. Less than a decade later, classicism is the dominant language in new building...quite what it actually was. Modern classicism has now begun to provide not just a...the pages of a recent guide-MODERN CLASSICISM*, by an American architect, Mr Robert...
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Friedrich Nietzsche and Weimar Classicism.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Friedrich Nietzsche and Weimar Classicism. By PAUL BISHOP and R. H. STEPHENSON...philosophical concerns with those of Weimar Classicism. Paul Bishop and Roger Stephenson...authors attempt to define Weimar Classicism at the outset and then to furnish...
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The Literature of Weimar Classicism
Magazine article from: German Quarterly; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...ed. The Literature of Weimar Classicism. Rochester: Camden House, 2005...90.00 hardcover. Weimar Classicism has for long been associated almost...writers while also suggesting that "Classicism" extends also to other writers...
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 "The New York Observer (New York, NY)")
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Hodgepodge Exhibition Is Classicism--Not.(Arts&Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY); 7/17/2000; 700+ words
; ...What, if anything, can the word "classicism" now be taken to mean when applied...by the exhibition called New York-Classicism-Now, which Gregory Hedberg and Barbara...kitchen mixer as examples of contemporary classicism. The standard dictionary definitions...
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Albion's Classicism: The Visual Arts in Britain, 1550-1660.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...ISBN: 0-300-06381-4. Albion's Classicism is the second volume in a series published...essays, and no common definition of classicism or attitude toward classical style emerges...studies. There is general agreement that classicism involves hierarchical organization...
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CLASSICISM: SERIOUS AND SASSY
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/2/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...Daw's kooky sculptures are part of "Classicism Revisited," one of two similarly inspired...Fuller Museum of Art in Brockton. In "Classicism Revisited," which is at the museum...scupture and decorative arts use aspects of classicism. The other show, "Motif and Meaning...
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The Literature of Weimar Classicism.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; The Literature of Weimar Classicism. Ed. by SIMON RICHTER. (Camden...Indeed, the very term 'Weimar Classicism' has to be viewed less as a descriptive...cites the traditional term 'Weimar Classicism', but the editor, Simon Richter...
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Winterer, Caroline: the Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; Winterer, Caroline The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual...January 2002 Caroline Winterer's The Culture of Classicism reveals how classicism moved from the center of American educational and...
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IN THE SOUTH, CLASSICISM RISES AGAIN.(Rodney M. Cook brings classicism to Atlanta)
Magazine article from: WWD; 7/25/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...He's out to restore gentility and classicism to Atlanta, a city that long ago shed...an organization founded to promote classicism in architecture, Cook might be the...and connections to bring a frisson of classicism to Atlanta's modernist image. Through...
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Refined, subtle classicism the big idea at Ideabiella Show.
Magazine article from: Daily News Record; 3/31/1987; ; 700+ words
; Refined, Subtle Classicism the Big Idea at Ideabiella Show Economics...direction of a refined and subtle classicism. "At the price points of the clothing...direction of reasonable but interesting classicism. Last year, there was a certain...
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Classicism
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
CLASSICISM CLASSICISM. In general, classicism can be defined as a style in literature, visual art, music, or architecture that draws on the styles of ancient Greece and Rome, especially fifth- and fourth-century b.c.e. Athens and late...
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New Classicism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
New Classicism. Classical architecture has played a hugely important role...Renaissance , and gaining new attention and respect with C18 Classicism and Neo-Classicism . As a reaction to Beaux-Arts , Neo-Baroque , and Art Nouveau...
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classicism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
classicism a term that, when applied generally...architecture. Because the principles of classicism were derived from the rules and practices...Thereafter The first major revival of classicism occurred during the Renaissance (c...
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classicism, classic
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
classicism, classic, are terms used in several...imitated. More narrowly, ‘classicism’ may be taken to denote the...often qualified as ‘ neo-classicism ’, which flourished in England...
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stripped Classicism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
stripped Classicism. Classical architecture from which mouldings...among many others, experimented with stripped Classicism . It is a feature of late-C18 and early C19 Neo-Classicism , as well as of the Rational architecture of...
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