Definition of reductivism in English:
reductivism
noun rɪˈdʌktɪvɪz(ə)mrəˈdəktəˌvizəm
1
another term for minimalism
Example sentencesExamples
- She was an artist ahead of her time, a modernist who used minimalism and anticipated the reductivism of the 1970s.
- For those who accept Greenberg's formulation, it is possible to regard modernism as having come to an end in the extreme reductivism of Minimal art.
- But for all her reductivism, Thomas was a champion of sensory perception.
- Noting that the pieces are the very essence of reductivism, he concludes approvingly, ‘It would be hard to do less.’
- But art is far too elusive for this reductivism.
2
another term for reductionism
Example sentencesExamples
- The temptation of epigrammatical reductivism as a means of describing this ‘careless’ loss of yet another judge is only worth resisting if, unlike Wilde, one can resist anything including temptation.
- The Sixties colluded with the crudest Freudian reductivism - or reduction of Freud - in insisting that what we really want can be cashed out in biological terms.