Meanings
- rareuncountableA policy of doing things on behalf of others.
[…] I'm not positively discriminating in favour of black and Asian programme-makers. Behalfism, I call it, always doing something on behalf of others, always being representative.
1987, Michael Kustow, One in four, page 831 more example
Having executed the 'Floods' series, Patwardhan became once more seized by his fear of behalfism: Was he, as an artist, exploiting his subject? From this dilemma, there arose a series of studies of the artist in his studio.
2010, Sudhir Patwardhan, Ranjit Hoskote, Sakshi Gallery, Sudhir Patwardhan, page 25
Origin
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