academicism

Brock's caveat against academicism is surely informed by a suspicion of what Matt Hills has called the "horror-as-schooling" tendency of much academic writing about horror fiction and film, which typically subordinates the fictions themselves to some theoretical or philosophical agenda.

With their eldest son Emilio, they returned to the Philippines, just in time for Diosdado to plunge into the artistic ferment of the immediate pre- and postwar period and become one of the legendary '13 moderns' who rebelled against the stodgy academicism of their seniors, and opened up new vistas of artistic expression.

We tried to avoid academicism in advertising and programme notes.

and] a sort of aesthetic academicism privileging 'balance', 'harmony', and 'pure and noble ideas' in narrative art" (Casanova 149).

(1) Paris, however, was simply a starting point, meant to facilitate the reevaluation of the work of these artists, and the exhibition gave equal attention to the artistic avant-garde as well as to those adhering to academicism and naturalism (fig.

Italian artist was a bold innovator, who challenged the main artistic trends of that era - mannerism and academicism, contrasting them with harsh realism and the democracy of his art.

could not find room within the boundaries of the chilled academicism of Protestantism, in his own creative consciousness, and his unconscious invariably resided in the deepest ...

These artists took serious inspiration from Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, whose vast public murals spurred the move away from academicism toward modernist flatness and linearity.

For example, he was obliged to leave the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Montreal after delivering a lecture declaring war on academicism - so instead he taught at the more experimental Ecole du Meuble.

Psychoanalytic institutes must defend against the temptation to lapse into academicism, medical fetishisms, and new age obscurantism.

occasionally pedantic tones of English academicism, would be hard to

Lawn is definitely not one of the worst examples, but the academicism stands out in this book because its subject-matter is politics, and because novels have a strong experiential aspect and are written for a broader audience.