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Definition of Concretism
1. Noun. A representation of an abstract idea in concrete terms.
Generic synonyms: Internal Representation, Mental Representation, Representation
Specialized synonyms: Embodiment, Shape
Derivative terms: Concretistic
Definition of Concretism
1. Proper noun. In painting, an abstractionist movement evolving in the 1930's out of the work of De Stijl, the Futurists and Kandinsky around the Swiss painter Max Bill. It came to fruition in Northern Italy and France in the 1940's and 1950's through the work of the groups Movimento d'arte concreta (MAC) and Espace. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Concretism
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Concretism
Literary usage of Concretism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1894)
"Ziehen found that this "concretism" was characteristic of the clever or more
talented children up to the twelfth or thirteenth year. ..."
2. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Edward Burnett Tylor (1871)
"It is a surprising instance of this tendency to concretism, that among people so
civilized as the Buddhists, the most obviously moral beast-fables have ..."
3. Researches Into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization by Edward Burnett Tylor (1870)
"Though it is possible to render a great mass of simple statements or questions,
almost gesture for word, the concretism of thought which belongs to the ..."
4. Race Orthodoxy in the South: And Other Aspects of the Negro Question by Thomas Pearce Bailey (1914)
"The organic sensations of the negro, including the sexual sensations, seem to be
greatly developed. His imaginativeness, "sensual concretism," love of ..."
5. Studies of Childhood by James Sully (1896)
"... yet I am disposed to think that these are examples of the child's ' concretism,'
his reduction of our abstractions to living realities.1 It is equally ..."
6. Fraser's Magazine (1870)
"Admission to the fullest extent of the propriety of religions concretism, quoad
religion, and of its effectual influence in generating a devotional spirit, ..."
7. The Association Review by American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (1905)
"The use of the sign-language in the classroom, with its attendant detrimental
effects, its pictorial nature, its concretism of thought, its utter lack of ..."
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