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neoclassicism: see classicism classicism, a term that, when applied generally, means clearness, elegance, symmetry, and repose produced by attention to traditional forms. It is sometimes synonymous with excellence or artistic quality of high distinction. ..... Click the link for more information. . neoclassicism 1. a late 18th- and early 19th-century style in architecture, decorative art, and fine art, based on the imitation of surviving classical models and types 2. Music a movement of the 1920s, involving Hindemith, Stravinsky, etc., that sought to avoid the emotionalism of late romantic music by reviving the use of counterpoint, forms such as the classical suite, and small instrumental ensembles www.comcen.com.au/~carowley/neoclass.htm www.hypermusic.ca/hist/twentieth3.html How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| But Monahan is not an ironic neoclassicist blithely reanimating unfashionable forms; rather, his relationship to the depiction of the human figure is dead serious, even fraught. That influence was at first musical--choreographer Michel Fokine was fascinated to note that Isadora would dance to a Beethoven symphony--yet it seems to me it was the neoclassicists who, perhaps subliminally, absorbed the unforced naturalism of Duncan most profoundly. They examine the importance of theory to Poussin's practice of art, demonstrate his innovations in depicting the passions and affections, and include a chapter on his deployment of "a truly neoclassicist aesthetic. |
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