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illusionism |
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illusionism a theory or doctrine that the material world is wholly or nearly wholly an illusion. — illusionist, n. — illusionistic, adj. See also: Philosophy |
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She was as much opposed to teaching the Renaissance legacy of illusionism to her African students as she was against the modernist rejection of that legacy, which she saw as pointless experiments with formal possibilities (Trowell 1957:124). With startling photographic illusionism, the silhouetted and foreshortened shoe acts like a kick in the face to the viewer and also makes it abundantly clear that Majerus couldn't care less about respecting old-fashioned pictorial devices such as the rectangular frame of the picture plane. Rather, the neo-Wilsonians who promoted the Iraq War were guilty of illusionism, a cognitive failure to produce an adequate roadmap of means that would balance the risk and realism in their vision. |
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