单词 | constructivism |
释义 | constructivismn. 1. [ < Russian konstruktivizm.] a. The theory or use of mechanical structures in theatrical settings. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > [noun] > types of constructivism1924 formalism1927 biomechanism1928 space staging1937 1924 H. Carter New Theatre Soviet Russia 71 Constructivism was also influenced by futurism. 1929 H. Carter New Spirit Russ. Theatre 225 There are two methods by which an artist may express an idea: (1) Constructivism, or symbols and emblems of the world without us; and (2) Expressionism, or symbols and emblems of the world within us. 1929 Observer 1 Dec. 15/2 Constructivism was simply to be the theatrical parallel to industrial technique, demanding the exclusion of all useless decoration and the precise functional organization of the stage. 1959 W. C. Lounsbury Backstage from A to Z 24 Constructivism, a once popular theatre movement in Russia (during the twenties) with the emphasis on machines, mechanical devices, and skeleton construction. b. An artistic movement, originating in Moscow in 1920, concerned mainly with expression by means of constructions (construction n. 4a); the type of art produced by this movement. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > constructivism or kineticism > [noun] constructivism1929 kineticism1966 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > constructivism or kineticism constructivism1929 ready-made1935 productivism1959 kineticism1966 1929 Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Jan. 74/4 The cubism and surrealism of Paris, the futurism of Italy, the constructivism of Moscow. 1933 H. Read Art Now 110 We are in a world of inorganic, of mechanic, sensibility. If there is an undertone it is an undertone of the machine: the dynamo, the rock-drill, the hydraulic pump. Because of this relation, this aspect of cubism is sometimes given a special label: Constructivism. 1948 H. Read Philos. Mod. Art (1952) xii. 217 Naum Gabo..was..one of the founders of the abstract movement in Moscow known as Constructivism. 1948 Archit. Rev. 104 299/1 The Renaissance school which took the place of this nihilistic constructivism is also proving worthless in face of the new Soviet architecture. 1961 Times 23 Jan. 16/1 All this makes constructivism one of the most satisfying types of abstract art. 2. A view of mathematics according to which only constructive proofs, and entities demonstrable by them, are admissible. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [noun] > theories or branches of menadry1570 pure mathematics1605 mechanics1612 residuation1846 chaos theory1880 number theory1901 formalism1913 intuitionism1913 replacement theory1914 biomathematics1923 proof theory1929 finitism1935 mereology1938 combinatorics1941 cryptarithmetic1943 game theory1945 numerical analysis1946 queueing theory1951 constructivism1959 complexity1963 catastrophe theory1971 chaology1985 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > mathematical philosophy > [noun] > doctrines of number theory1899 mathematicism1917 proof theory1929 finitism1935 constructivism1959 1959 Philos. Rev. 68 324 In the philosophy of mathematics, Platonism stands opposed to various degrees of constructivism. 1981 Davis & Hersh Math. Experience vii. 318 In any discussion of the foundations of mathematics, three standard dogmas are presented: Platonism, formalism, and constructivism. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1924 |
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