I want nature against ideas, formalism, academism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dokoupil and Jetelova] Reference

Even in the days of baroque and academism the Italian theory remained in all countries the basic theory of art.    From Wordnik.com.  [MIMESIS] Reference

Not much interested in the academism and formalism of a research career within the French system that was then open to me, I returned to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roger Guillemin - Autobiography] Reference

It is probably in Switzerland that his influence was the most fertile: Bodmer borrows from him to fight against Gottsched's academism, and Sulzer takes him as a basis for his theory of sensibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [18th Century French Aesthetics] Reference

To be more practical, learn how to express your inner self on film - I don't trust academism as much as I believe in the power of someone's will and passion: if you want to move to film-making, go ahead, grab a camera, get some film and shoot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference

As this rich show of 120 paintings, drawings and photographs makes clear, Courbet (1817-1877) was an artist of astonishing versatility, turning his hand to almost every genre, a determined realist leading the way from 19th-century academism to "modern" painting and the impressionists that were to follow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Masters of the German Renaissance] Reference

Unsecured unemployed claimed loans are absolutely absolved from the academism of acclaim checking.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

This book was written to create a moment in which great works such as this can be freely analyzed and critiqued, without distinctions such as high culture versus subculture, academism versus otaku, for adults versus for children, and art versus entertainment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anime Nano!] Reference