单词 | productivism |
释义 | productivismn. 1. Political Economy. The doctrine or theory that increasing productivity is the primary goal of socio-economic activity. ΚΠ 1901 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 10 156 The concept of ‘productivism’ is..difficult to unravel. It appears to be the pursuit of such a policy..as will result in keying the production capacity of every individual up to the highest pitch. 1936 E. A. J. Johnson tr. E. Teilhac Pioneers of Amer. Econ. Thought in 19th Cent. iii. 134 Rejecting..optimistic productivism.., George declares that it is not the increase of productive power that affects wages and interest. 2004 Statesman (India) (Nexis) 24 Dec. The legacy of Socialism was identified not only with economic disaster, but also with environmental damage to much of the Soviet land-mass... Crude technologies and a desperate productivism had ruined large parts of the tundra, taiga and steppe ecologies. 2. Art. Also with capital initial. The identification of the value of artistic creation with utility and a focus on the mechanisms of production; the artistic movement (an offshoot of constructivism) associated with this. Cf. constructivism n. 1b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > constructivism or kineticism constructivism1929 ready-made1935 productivism1959 kineticism1966 1959 H. Read Conc. Hist. Mod. Painting Index 374 Productivism. 1971 Slavic Rev. 30 697 Constructivism emerges..as an idea encompassing views ranging from Formalism to Productivism. These views..all subscribed to the fundamental principle of..the formation of a new way of life by means of art and architecture. 1981 Art Jrnl. 41 207 Such revolutionary criteria as utilitarian productivism and utopian aesthetics. 1996 J. A. Isaak Feminism & Contemp. Art iii. 83 The Russian avant-garde was able to move..quickly from a high art practice to the utilitarian modes of Productivism and Constructivism. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1901 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。