concretism

Meaning

  1. (countable, uncountable) An abstractionist painting movement that evolved in the 1930s.
  2. (countable, uncountable) Reification; the fallacy of treating an abstraction as a real entity.

Synonyms

concrete representation

concrete poetry

hypostatisation

concrete verse

Translations

Vergegenständlichung

Reifikation

konkrete Dichtung

Konkretismus

poésie concrète

Etymology

From concrete + -ism.

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