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neo-ˈclassic, -ˈclassical, a.
[neo-.]
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a style of art, architecture, music, literature, etc., that is based on or influenced by classical style or by a style that has become established as ‘classical’; spec. of such a style in 18th-century literature, late-18th-century art and architecture, or 20th-century music.
1877Contemp. Rev. Feb. 360 The imagination of the men of Spenser's time was affected by his use of the neo-classical mythology of the Renaissance. 1881Athenæum 19 Feb. 270/2 The neo-classic, if not the Italian, mood of design. 1882Pitman Mission Life Greece 42 The written [modern Greek] is a form of the ancient, called neo-classical. 1923C. Gray Contingencies (1947) ii. 65 We find throughout almost all the work of Brahms..the perpetual striving after the ideal of a grandiose, neo-classic art. 1927P.M.L.A. Mar. 237 This linguistic attitude, expressing itself in grammars of arbitrary rules, seems to be but another manifestation and survival of that tendency called the neo-classic creed of literary criticism. 1933Archit. Rev. LXXIV. 79/2 Many is the ill-built block of London flats whose internal planning has been sacrificed for some ponderous neo-classical façade. 1934C. Lambert Music Ho! ii. 101 Stravinsky's neo-classical period,..apart from the adoption of eighteenth-century forms and titles, is chiefly noticeable for its attempt to create melody by synthetic means. 1944Burlington Mag. Apr. 97/1 A fully developed neo-classic sculptor. 1964J. Summerson Classical Lang. Archit. v. 37/1 The Panthéon is the first major building which can be called neo-classical—‘neo-classical’ being the expression which has come to be used for architecture which..tends towards the rational simplification advocated by Cordemoy and Laugier and..seeks to present the orders with the utmost antiquarian fidelity. 1966English Studies XLVII. 150 In the period up to the Civil War the neo-classic Happy Husbandman becomes the neo-Stoic Contemplator of the world. 1974Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Mar. 259/4 Throughout the book—as for example in the emphasis on jobs rather than on the ownership of capital as a key determinant in occupational mobility—the authors assume the validity of neo-classical economics as taught in the United States.
Hence neo-ˈclassicism, neo-classic style or principles; neo-ˈclassicist, a follower or exponent of neo-classic style or principles.
1893Times 6 May 17/2 A man must be a scholar before he can make neo-classicism even tolerable in art. 1930Times Educ. Suppl. 3 May 197/2 The schools or coteries of the last few decades—the symbolists, neo-classicists, neo-symbolists, [etc.]. 1934C. Lambert Music Ho! ii. 73 Pulcinella..marks the beginning of the movement sometimes dignified with the name of neo-classicism. Ibid. iv. 245 It may seem contradictory to condemn composers like Honegger for basing their work on the contemporary scene after complaining that the neo-classicists are so out of touch with contemporary life. 1943Philological Q. XXII. 143 The fairy tales about ‘neo-classicism’ and ‘romanticism’ in the eighteenth century which have so long been allowed to come between us and the direct appreciation of eighteenth-century texts. 1944Burlington Mag. Apr. 97/2 He..gives no hint of any sympathy with the principles of the Neo-Classicists. 1947Penguin Music Mag. Sept. 24 Both men [sc. Schumann and Mendelssohn] turned to a sort of neo-classicism before they had done. 1965Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Nov. 1063/2 The ‘lower order’ was one which allowed Gay his particularly delicate critical assimilation of the vulgar writers and the ‘trivial’ moderns, while himself remaining, in theory at least, in the camp of the neo-classicists. 1972Listener 21 Sept. 361/3 What was then called the ‘True Style’ which we now tend to call Neo-Classicism. |