Meanings
- not comparableIn an abstractionistic way.
Through the medium of visual metaphors or vignettes, they can expose social, human or psychological experience realistically, surrealistically , or abstractionistically.
2001, Visual Arts in ASEAN: Continuity and Change2 more examples
[…] of recalling that Pound had been reading Kandinsky's On the Spiritual in Art about the time of his experience in the Paris Metro which he treated selectively and abstractionistically in his most famous and model Imagist poem.
1975, David W. McAleavey, If to Know is Noble: The Poetry of George OppenIdeally, the abstractionist position should eventually be developed and defended ‘internally’, that is, from the perspective of an abstractionistically acceptable version of set theory.
2009, Roy T Cook, “Hume’s Big Brother: counting concepts and the bad company objection”, in Synthese, volume 170, number 3, Springer, →ISSN, pages 349–369
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Translations
Finnish abstraktionistisesti
- abstraktionistisestiTranslations
Polish abstrakcjonistycznie
- abstrakcjonistycznieTranslations
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