actionismn.

1875 Atlanta Constit. 12 May The professor..seems to forget that heat, light, actionism, mesmerism, galvanism, etc., are all nothing but modifications of the one, universal, simple principle, we call electricity, and Moses calls the spirit of God.

1912 Internat. Socialist Rev. Dec. 475/1 (heading) Pure-and-simple political actionism.

1942 Washington Post 12 Nov. 12/2 Actionism requires to be preached till plans have been realized in performance.

1961 Philos. Rev. 70 317 Lenin's Marxism was actionism and intellectualism within the tight band of a dogma that in essence was a religious revelation.

1998 European (Nexis) 6 Apr. 24 We take our decisions with a long-term perspective; short-sighted actionism is not our style.

2007 P. Wolfe Havoc in Hub vii. 110 Though typically American in his proneness to action, he has taken both Yankee actionism and its attending can-do mentality to its raw edge.

1953 Yuma (Arizona) Daily Sun 29 Oct. ii. 3/2 The ‘actionists’ are interested in the physical process of painting only... Though actionism hasn't shown much development in recent few years, one cannot say definitely that it has spent itself.

1964 Art Educ. 17 vii. 5/1 The second surge of abstract expressionism in America. Actionism, the acting out of feelings upon the canvas. Influence of Hans Hofmann. Emergence of Arshile Gorky. New methods of Jackson Pollock.

1989 New German Critique Spring–Summer 81 Body-centered Actionism.

2005 A. Haywood & G. Pitcher Austria (Lonely Planet) (ed. 4) 42 Actionism sought access to the unconscious through the frenzy of an extreme and very direct art: the Actionists quickly moved from pouring paint over the canvas..to using bodies (live people, dead animals) as ‘brushes’, and using blood, excrement, eggs, mud..as ‘paint’.