neofuturism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An artistic movement in the late 20th and early 21st century that was more optimistic in tone than postmodernism.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The avant-garde (with the prefix "post," naturally) is represented primarily by conceptualism (there have also been attempts at neofuturism, but their prospects are dim)."
- "Indeed we changed it to neofuturism and so forth, but in fact that was not it."
- "David Gerstein (1944–), a Jerusalem artist, has evolved a pictorial, multistyled virtuosity in sculpture that repeats itself in highly colorful cutouts (of wood or iron), displaying an optimistic, decorative neofuturism."
- "His neofuturism and his heavy use of catenary curves obviously owe something to his father's neofuturism and use of catenary curves, but in the son's aesthetic they feel completely different, and are one foot shorter."
- "Reviewing material made accessible through the Archigram Archival Project hosted by the University of Westminster and the Cedric Price Collection held at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, this chapter examines some of the key expressions of neo-futurism captured by these 1960s,^([sic]) designs."