单词 | auto-destructive |
释义 | auto-destructiveadj. 1. Having the property of bringing about its own destruction or annulment; that tends to destroy or cause harm to oneself. Cf. self-destructive adj. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > self-destructive or destroyed self-destroying1613 self-destroyed1637 self-destructive1641 suicidal1768 auto-destructive1895 self-destruct1955 self-destructing1962 society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [adjective] > specific movement or period classical1546 pastoral1566 classic1597 Medicean1652 romantic1812 tedesco1814 realistic1829 realista1832 pseudo-classic1833 classicist1838 pseudo-classical1838 renaissant1839 modernist1848 post-classic1850 post-classical1851 pseudo-Gothic1853 classicizing1865 classicistic1866 serio-grotesque1873 geometric1877 neoclassical1877 modernistic1878 neoclassic1878 pseudo-archaic1878 William Morris1883 protocorinthian1884 veristic1884 William and Mary1886 Yuan1888 romanticistic1889 veritistic1894 auto-destructive1895 pre-Romantic1895 Trajanic1906 neo-realistic1909 New Romantic1909 neo-realist1912 futuristic1915 postmodern1916 Dada1918 Dadaist1918 surrealist1918 proto-Romantic1920 expressionistic1921 modernista1924 super-realist1925 superrealistic1925 postmodernist1926 proto-Baroque1926 post-symbolist1927 pre-modernist1927 surrealistic1930 Renaissancist1932 Colonial Revival1934 neo-baroque1935 socialist-realist1935 social realist1949 social realistic1949 kitchen sink1954 William IV1955 formalistic1957 Zhdanovite1957 neo-Dadaist1960 neo-modernist1960 William Morrisy1960 neo-Dada1962 Zhdanovist1966 conceptual1969 conceptualist1973 po-mo1987 pathetic1990 1895 Med. World Oct. 383/2 Bacteria are auto-destructive from the action of deleterious material hostile to their development. 1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 26 Mar. 720/1 It seems not unreasonable to think that the soft, glandular substance will readily yield and so set free the auto-destructive secretion of the gland. 1977 Business Week 12 Sept. 10/2 Some..come through to me as real ‘empire-builders’ who..grow out of proportion to their environment. Thus, they become autodestructive and disruptive. 1993 S. J. Ettinger Pocket Compan. Textbk. Vet. Internal Med. lxii. 268 Trauma to the spinal cord triggers a progressive series of autodestructive events. 2006 German Q. 79 18 The attempt to constitute the self through imaginary relations unleashes an aggressivity of rivalry that is ultimately auto-destructive. 2. Of or relating to an artistic movement founded by Gustav Metzger (b. 1926), in which the disintegration or decay of objects is elevated to an artistic process. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [adjective] > others all'antica1605 neo-Gothic1878 Barbizon1890 chinoiserie1909 neoprimitive1922 omega1922 Suprematist1922 beaux arts1924 ashcan1934 vitalistic1937 Euston Road1941 precisionist1943 abstract impressionist1950 abstract-concrete1955 neo-expressionist1957 metaphysical1958 structurist1958 auto-destructive1959 Rayonist1968 post-minimal1971 assemblagist1977 Neo-Geo1987 1959 G. Metzger Auto-destructive Art (1965) 28 Auto-destructive paintings, sculptures and constructions have a life time varying from a few moments to twenty years. When the disintegrative process is complete the work is to be removed from the site and scrapped. 1968 Listener 22 Feb. 252/2 Some of the far-out psychedelic or autodestructive groups justify their old-fashioned sub-Scriabin noises with a lordly take-it-or-leave-it, man. 1990 B. Berliner Bk. of Answers vi. 69 What is the most famous auto-destructive work of art? Probably Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely's Homage to New York. 2009 Nature 1 Oct. 563/1 As the prime mover of the auto-destructive art movement, Gustav Metzger has been a major cultural influence since the early 1960s. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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