Catchword: wasm

Filed Under: English, Arts & Literature

Part of Speech: n.

Quotation: “Isms” have long since become “wasms,” no longer capable of explaining the rapidly changing ideas and intentions of 20th-century art. Stephen Little’s Isms: Understanding Art… is, therefore, deeply unfashionable. It also stretches a point since he begins with the Renaissance, and sustains several injuries by straining to find “isms” everwhere. Ghastly neologisms result, perspectivisim and allegoricism among them.

Article or Document Title:
“Art: Reputations in the frame” (URL)

Author:
Frank Whitford

Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
Times

Publishing Location:
London, Eng.

Date of Publication:
Nov. 28, 2004

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