formalism

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“It’s a compelling marriage of rock elements and classical formalism that doesn’t shortchange either.”

From New York Times

But the student rebellion of 1968 in Paris — the historic Events of May — traumatized the French architectural world, which subsequently questioned the cold, abstract formalism of Modernist architecture within a larger postmodernist critique of consumerism.

From New York Times

Throughout her career, Ms. Mayer rejected formalism for the avant-garde.

From New York Times

Why is originalism worrying, and how does this echo the 19th-century dominance of the legal doctrine known as "formalism"?

From Salon

That argument isn’t exactly brand-new; it extends back to the very first critics who ventured beyond formalism.

From Los Angeles Times