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representational, a.|rɛprɪzɛnˈteɪʃənəl|
[f. representation + -al1.]
a. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, representation; also, holding the doctrine of representationism.
1855in Ogilvie Suppl. 1858Pirie Inq. Hum. Mind ii. 46 The representational school of the Greek philosophers. 1867Bushnell in Hours at Home Nov. 5, I speak of the representational office they are designed to fill. 1876Fairbairn in Contemp. Rev. June 134 If..religion exist only in the relative and representational form.
b. spec. in Art. (See quots. 1961, 1962.)
1923[see non-representational s.v. non- 3]. 1934C. Lambert Music Ho! ii. 115 The repetitions of..[an] underlying curve in an abstract or representational picture have no dramatic content. 1956R. Macaulay Towers of Trebizond xxii. 256, I could see he [sc. an ape] was going to be a painter of the abstract type... I thought Suliman ought to try and be a little representational too. 1959Halas & Manvell Technique Film Animation 12 Though there is still..some useful place in normal draughtsmanship and painting for the exactly representational illustration as against a good photograph, there would seem to us to be no argument in favour of an exactly representational animated picture. 1961M. Levy Studio Dict. Art Terms 96 Representational art, that kind of painting or scuplture which tries..to reproduce the physical appearance of objects, persons, or other subjects. As distinct from non-representational art where the interest in surface appearances is of little or no account. 1962R. G. Haggar Dict. Art Terms 286/2 Representational, describes art in which figures and objects are depicted as they appear to the eye, or as they are known to be, in contradistinction to abstract or non⁓representational art. 1965New Statesman 9 Apr. 566/2 The academy is now positively soliciting exhibits from Pop artists and abstractionists. However,..there's no cause for alarm. The R[oyal] A[cademy] will continue to show the best of British representational art, but it aims, also, to provide an annual cross-section of everything which is being done by British artists.
Hence represenˈtationalism; represenˈtationalist a. and n.; represenˈtationally adv.
1846J. D. Morell Hist. View Philos. I. ii. 232 The great aim of Reid's philosophy..was..to controvert the representationalist hypothesis. 1867Bushnell in Hours at Home Nov. 6 The objects of nature are relationally or representationally made. 1899Haldane Ferrier ii. 52 This system of ‘representationalism’, of representative ideas, necessarily leads to scepticism. 1921A. Huxley Crome Yellow xii. 115 One could admire representationalism in the Old Masters... But in a modern? 1934C. Lambert Music Ho! ii. 113 It is all very well to hammer out a theory, however mistaken, that applies to an art functioning in space: it is quite another matter to apply this to an art that functions in time. Most of the modern fallacies about abstraction, literary sentiment, representationalism, romantic contamination, etc. in music are due to ignoring this elementary distinction. 1937R. I. Aaron John Locke ii. iii. 121 These accounts would have been the same if Locke had never adopted the representationalist position... Though nominally Locke remains representationalist in his explanation of the knowledge we have of our minds, actually he proceeds as if we know ourselves and our operations directly. 1976Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXIV. 567/1 The Brocks were among the last great representationalists, preservers of a world of recognizable human types in clearly defined historical settings. 1978N. & Q. Feb. 91/2 He felt attracted to this best ally of representationalism. |