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1. shinichi Post author28/01/2015 at 9:37 am

   isms and -ism

   by Michael Delahunt

   ArtLex

   http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/ij/isms.html

   "Isms" are distinctive doctrines, systems, or theories, and in the art world they typically signify art movements or styles. The suffix (word fragment added at the end of a word to modify its meaning) "-ism" marks a word as one signifying a doctrine, theory, or system of principles; or an attitude strongly in favor of or against a given group; a distinctive or characteristic trait; an action, process, or practice; a characteristic behavior or quality; a state or condition resulting from an excess of something specified.

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   Examples of art world -isms of the first kind — doctrines, theories, systems of principles:

   Abstract Expressionism

   aestheticism

   classicism and Neoclassicism

   Cubism or cubism, Orphism,

   deformalism

   existentialism

   expressionism and Expressionism

   formalism

   Futurism

   humanism

   Impressionism (including French, American, and variants of other regions — thus "American Impressionism"), Neo-Impressionism, and Post-Impressionism

   Luminism

   Mannerism

   Minimalism and Post-Minimalism

   Modernism, modernism and postmodernism

   multiculturalism

   Naturalism, naturalism

   Realism, realism, photorealism, social realism, and socialist realism

   Romanticism

   structuralism and post-structuralism

   Surrealism

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   Examples of isms of the second kind — signifying an attitude strongly in favor of or against a given group:

   Afrocentrism

   androcentrism

   anthropocentrism

   ethnocentrism

   Eurocentrism

   humanism

   lookism

   Orientalism or orientalism

   sexism (see feminism and feminist art and gender issues)

   Does anyone use the words "Americocentrism," "Francocentrism," "Italocentrism," etc.? And why not "NewYorkocentrism," "arcticocentrism," or even "Antarticocentrism"?! Anyone want to further the use or coinage of these words?!

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