anti-formalist
adjective
an·ti-for·mal·ist
| \ ˌan-tē-ˈfȯr-mə-list
, ˌan-tī-\
, ˌan-tī-\
variants:
or antiformalist
Definition of anti-formalist
: opposed to formalism
This would make nonsense of those anti-formalist claims that denigrate the study of form by seeking to empty form out, excluding all worldly relations from it.— William V. Spansos et al
Other Words from anti-formalist
anti-formalism
or antiformalism \ ˌan-tē-ˈfȯr-mə-ˌli-zəm
, ˌan-tī- \
noun
, ˌan-tī- \
noun
It was not long ago that Surrealism was widely dismissed. Modernists had little use for the movement's anti-formalism, for its concerns with things like disorder, excess and exotica.
— Michael Kimmelman
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