zeroist

plural zeroists

1. A proponent of zero population growth (ZPG).

   It leads to the assumption that, unable to resolve many social and economic problems affecting today's America, the administration in Washington has in fact clutched at the recommendations of the "zeroists."

   1971, USA: Economics, Politics, Ideology - Issues 7-12, page 114

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   But, whereas failure to follow the indications of the “zeroists " will later on have unpleasant consequences for these nations, inability to check population growth in many parts of the developing world may mean that the countries concerned are doomed to sink, irreversibly and in the near future, into an ever-deepening miasma of economic and social stagnation.

   1974, Ceres, page 133

2. artAn artist who is part of the movement called zeroism; An artist whose works have no message or meaning.

   Let us admit at once that the author has made out a case against the zeroist who uses words as a squid uses its color-sac — to becloud vision.

   1929, Printers' Ink - Volume 147, page 154

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   What are you talking about Ali this is the text we are creating it verbally we are the text we do not exist either we are a pack of lies dreamt up by the unreliable narrator in love with the zeroist author in love with himself but absent in the nature of things, an etherised unauthorised other.

   1975, Christine Brooke-Rose, Thru, page 155

plural Zeroists

1. A member of the artistic movement that grew out of Zero-61, which rejected past influences in an attempt to produce fresh new works.

   For very young artists today the achievements of the Zeroists stimulated a renewed interest in Mondrian and De Stijl. For too long there had been no trace of De Stijl's influence in Dutch art.

   1969, Art and Artists - Volume 4, Issues 7-12, page 22

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   The critic-historian begins confidently with Symbolism and Naturalism, and soon finds himself involved with Expressionism, Imagism, Futurism, Ultraism, Dada, Trans-sense, Vorticism, Surrealism, Functionalism, Social Realism, the New Apocalypse, the Movement, New Romantics, Beats, Angries, Renascents, Projectivists, Lettrists, Concretists, Zeroists, and their rivals and splinters.

   1968, Roy McMullen, Art, Affluence, and Alienation: The Fine Arts Today, page 76

   […] to mix photography with other mediums points to the multiplicity of their artistic practice; some were practicing painters, while others went on to create more conceptually-based work. The Zeroists' transgressions of their medium and of tradition […]

   2005, Lynne Warren, Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography