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reductivism|rɪˈdʌktɪvɪz(ə)m|
[f. reductive a. and n. + -ism.]
1. Art. = minimalism.
1967Listener 17 Aug. 220 Bernard Cohen's White Plant dates from the period when his earlier ‘linguistic’ style had degenerated into a hothouse aestheticism; the rather self-conscious reductivism of his recent exhibition was far less cloying. 1970[see reductive a. 2 c].
2. = reductionism.
1972Village Voice (N.Y.) 1 June 74/3 Dylan had been moving toward Duchamp's brand of Cartesian reductivism and public withdrawal. 1975Times Lit. Suppl. 23 May 566/1 The reductivism implied in this enterprise—the reducing of ideas to another level of meaning or set of causes.
So reˈductivist a. and n. = minimalist B. 2 and A. 2.
1967Listener 13 July 45/3 Harold and Bernard Cohen were the two foremost British painters during the early 'sixties who were trying to evolve a visual language to correspond to what ‘the artist thinks’. Now both seem to have given this up as a bad job and fallen in line with current reductivist tendencies. 1967Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 23 Sept. 23 New York..is dominated by large numbers of artists who swim in one or two schools producing closely related works—lately, the reductivists and the remainders of the Pop people. |