neofuturism

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noun

An artistic movement in the late 20th and early 21st century that was more optimistic in tone than postmodernism.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nounneofuturism (uncountable)

alternative neo-futurism

  1. uncountableAn artistic movement in the late 20th and early 21st century that was more optimistic in tone than postmodernism.

    Indeed we changed it to neofuturism and so forth, but in fact that was not it.

    1998, Stephen C. Foster, The Eastern Dada Orbit, →ISBN, page 116
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    The avant-garde (with the prefix "post," naturally) is represented primarily by conceptualism (there have also been attempts at neofuturism, but their prospects are dim).

    1992, Russian Studies in Literature, volume 29, page 91

    David Gerstein (1944–), a Jerusalem artist, has evolved a pictorial, multistyled virtuosity in sculpture that repeats itself in highly colorful cutouts (of wood or iron), displaying an optimistic, decorative neofuturism.

    1998, Gideon Ofrat, One Hundred Years of Art in Israel, page 300

    His neofuturism and his heavy use of catenary curves obviously owe something to his father's neofuturism and use of catenary curves, but in the son's aesthetic they feel completely different, and are one foot shorter.

    2016, Adam Ehrlich Sachs, Inherited Disorders: Stories, Parables & Problems, →ISBN, page 100

    Reviewing material made accessible through the Archigram Archival Project hosted by the University of Westminster and the Cedric Price Collection held at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, this chapter examines some of the key expressions of neo-futurism captured by these 1960s,^([sic]) designs.

    2019, Zoë Hendon, Anne Massey, editors, Design, History and Time: New Temporalities in a Digital Age, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 131

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