| 单词 |
purism |
| 释义 |
purism|ˈpjʊərɪz(ə)m|
[ad. F. purisme, f. pur pure: see -ism.]
1. a. Scrupulous or exaggerated observance of, or insistence upon, purity or correctness, esp. in language or style.
1804Mitford Inquiry 392 Before we attempt to exercise on our language the spirit of what the French used to call purism. 1821Sporting Mag. VIII. 236 The purism of modern times and your fastidious delicacy..would not allow me to give this story at full length. 1860Marsh Lect. Eng. Lang. xxvii. 598 The spirit of nationality and linguistic purism..has..purged and renovated so many decayed and corrupted European languages. 1869M. E. Braddon Lady's Mile 247 The strictest pureism in the ethics of costume. 1905Athenæum 26 Aug. 269/2 The works and views of the writers on [French] grammar who upheld purism.
b. with pl. An instance of this; a scrupulously or excessively pure expression or principle.
1803Edin. Rev. I. 254 The glory of illuminating his countrymen in purisms. 1844Blackw. Mag. LVI. 144 The purisms of political delinquency had little share..in any remorse which Shah Soojah might ever feel.
2. Art. (With capital initial.) An early twentieth-century movement in painting arising out of a rejection of cubism and characterized by a return to the representation of recognizable objects with emphasis on purity of geometric form.
1931A. Ozenfant Foundations Mod. Art p. xi, I have sought to formulate those tropisms which are most clearly apprehended. On them I base the art that derives from ‘constants’. I call it ‘Purism’. 1959Archit. Rev. CXXV. 356/2 Jeanneret's contribution to Purism was curious. It is the work of a follower, but the pictures have greater presence than those they emulate. 1961M. Levy Studio Dict. of Art Terms 92 Purism, a movement in modern painting and sculpture, founded in 1918 by the painters, Amédée Ozenfant, Le Corbusier, and Brancusi. Purism was a reaction against the analytical spirit of Cubism and sought to remake, and thus purify, the world of objects, etc. 1973Times 27 Nov. 12/5 For a time in the early twenties Servranckx worked in a style known as Purism, associated with Leger and Ozenfant, of simplified brightly coloured abstractions of machine forms. |
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