Meanings
- uncountableOpposition to symbolism.
Thus the extreme antisymbolism, antiornament and anti-Beaux-Arts position of the Bauhaus and other European modems.
1976, AIA Journal, volume 65, page 662 more examples
These are only a few of the absurdities of the theory of antisymbolism, but they are sufficient, one should think, to confute it.
1854, Richard Graves, An Analysis of the Revelations, page 229These are materialism, antiformalism and antisymbolism, verification through practical results, the partisanship of science, and the need of modifying scientific dogma only by action of the political leadership […]
1963, Carl Joachim Friedrich, Man and his government: an empirical theory of politics, page 632
Origin
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