anti-romanticism
noun[U]
art,literature,musicspecialized(alsoanti-Romanticism,antiromanticism)uk/ˌæn.ti.rəʊˈmæn.tɪ.sɪ.zəm//ˌæn.ti.rəˈmæn.tɪ.sɪ.zəm/us/ˌæn.taɪ.roʊˈmæn.t̬ə.sɪ.zəm/astyleofart,music, andliteraturethat isopposedto theideasofRomanticism(= astylethatdealswith thebeautyofnatureandhumanemotions):
Itlacksthebleakanti-romanticism of his earlypoems.
the hard-edged anti-romanticism of the 1980s
- Variousstrandsof anti-Romanticismranthroughmodernistliterarycriticism.
- He isassociatedwith anacuteformof anti-Romanticism.
- It's a hard-edgedcrimedramawith akindofmelancholyanti-romanticism.
Art history & artistic movements
- abstract
- aesthetic
- anti-modern
- anti-modernism
- anti-modernist
- expressionism
- expressionist
- expressionistic
- expressionistically
- figurative
- modernist
- montage
- naturalism
- naturalistic
- non-abstract
- rococo
- romantic
- romanticism
- screen printing
- silkscreen