Fan/academicism is indeed. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction] Reference
Yet "On Becoming an Artist" begins not with modernism, but with high academicism. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution of a Sculptor] Reference
Not surprisingly, theory offers a darker view of fan/academicism, complicating our understanding of possible relations to the past. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction] Reference
In other words, while retaining the basic format of a scholarly paper he does not argue against academicism in a purely academic fashion. From Wordnik.com. [POETRY AND CULTURAL STUDIES: A READER, Eds. MARIA DAMON & IRA LIVINGSTON] Reference
The intellectual fiasco of the Sovietology “left,” who camouflaged their ideology with the robes of academicism, should not be forgotten. From Wordnik.com. [Apparently, the MSM coverup of Climategate has worked] Reference
His revolution against the academic quickly hardened into an academicism of his own, with new rules to replace the old, applied with identical vigor and inflexibility. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography]
In these ways he created and perpetuated a counter discourse to the Shaftesburyian "civic humanism" or academicism, of which so much has been made of late by art historians. From Wordnik.com. [Lenin's Paintings] Reference
Some are succinct and moving on the reasons why we can't live without music, others fully representative of the dense academicism that puts so many people off the stuff altogether. From Wordnik.com. [Living daylights?] Reference
Her sculptures are characterized by full, rounded shapes, possibly echoing the French sculptor Aristide Maillol (1861 – 1944), to whose work she turned with a sensitivity far from academicism. From Wordnik.com. [Antonietta Rapha��l.] Reference
He was talking about the period of academicism, of the time when such work was looked upon with indifference, of the time when pseudo-intellectual and not truly educational criteria prevailed at this school. From Wordnik.com. [Castro Speech at 29 Mar Potato Harvest Ceremony] Reference
To those familiar with Meier's sleek and self-assured style — modern academicism of a high order — the Getty scheme is a veritable compendium of all his major conceptions and minor motifs, an abridged version of his complete works. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Rock Candy Mountain] Reference
It seems possible that these are merely rhetorical, that I am not really expected to answer them but be devastated by such points, since it would be odd for Mr. La Farge to want the opinions of someone marred by serious flaws and linked to the most petrified academicism. From Wordnik.com. [Letters] Reference
I don't want to sound like I am advocating for: 1. a return to academicism or more coursework in the fundamentals of painting, drawing, etc. or 2. more trendy courses that train the art student who is chasing the carrot of market success to make stuff that will fit in with whatever the flavor of the year is. From Wordnik.com. [Uh] Reference
This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking and nowadays the errors of academicism do not stay in the academy; they make their way into the world and what begins as a failure of perception among intellectual specialists finds its fulfillment in policy and action. From Wordnik.com. [Apparently, the MSM coverup of Climategate has worked] Reference
The more I see of academicism the more I distrust it. From Wordnik.com. [The Note-Books of Samuel Butler] Reference
I like this space, which also suits the almost trudging academicism of. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Vivacity enjoys a perky academicism, opting for a busy fugato, almost per expectation. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
There is something Greek about him, too; not the archæological Greek of Germany, nor yet the Græco-Roman academicism of. From Wordnik.com. [Since Cézanne] Reference
Although these artists did not adhere to a fixed style typical of a school, they were united in their defiance of academicism. From Wordnik.com. [NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art] Reference
Deleuze, and Foucault, Hickey takes on museum culture, arid academicism, sclerotic politics, and more-all in the service of making readers rethink the nature of art. From Wordnik.com. [The Chicago Blog] Reference
I am aware that some will regard this as a questionable statement; for the academicism of Tegnér is not the stately, bloodless, Gallic classicism of the Gustavian age, of which. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on Scandinavian Literature] Reference
It would seem as if, even in this guise, a universal need of the mind is being satisfied, a need which we, too, have known after experiencing a chilling academicism, and when modern culture had overthrown the ancient idols. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese Painters A Critical Study] Reference
But civic and academic honours were not likely to be showered on a man who had spent his life in strenuous opposition to academicism in art and letters, and in vigorous attacks upon both political parties, and upon the established order of things. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of John Ruskin] Reference
I well remember one dark night in the Adirondacks, after a good dinner at a neighbor's, the eloquence with which, as we trudged down-hill to his own quarters with a lantern, he denounced me for the musty and mouldy and generally ignoble academicism of my character. From Wordnik.com. [Memories and Studies] Reference
We have spent hundreds of thousands, or more probably of millions, on national art collections, schools of art, preliminary training and academicism, without wanting anything in particular, but when the nation did at last try all it knew to design a sixpence, it failed. From Wordnik.com. [The Note-Books of Samuel Butler] Reference
Above this picture there hang two others — also very interesting, from being examples of, as it were, the last groans of true art while being stifled by academicism — or it may be the attempt at a new birth, which was nevertheless doomed to extinction by academicians while yet in its infancy. From Wordnik.com. [Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino] Reference
I know the great power of academicism; I know how instinctively academicism everywhere must range itself on Mr. Darwin's side, and how askance it must look on those who write as I do; but I know also that there is a power before which even academicism must bow, and to this power I look not unhopefully for support. From Wordnik.com. [Luck or Cunning?] Reference
Indeed it is not in the public interest that straightforwardness should be extirpated root and branch, for the presence of a small modicum of sincerity acts as a wholesome irritant to the academicism of the greatest number, stimulating it to consciousness of its own happy state, and giving it something to look down upon. From Wordnik.com. [Erewhon Revisited] Reference
Incidentally the didacticism of modern writers, and their absorption in the affairs of the moment, have not only served to make a breach between themselves and English literature as a whole, to the detriment of their perspective, but have also set a gulf between themselves and those of another school, for whom world literature is more important than the literature of to-day, for whom erudition and interest in the past are not to be lightly dismissed as academicism. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
"There was a slickness to this other group's work, but they'd traded in any idiosyncratic subject matter for Duchampian academicism. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
"academicism.". From Wordnik.com. [Memories and Studies] Reference
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