academism

See also: Academism

English[edit]

academism (plural academisms)

Alternative form of academicism [First attested in the mid 18th century.]^[1]
- 1912, Haldane Macfall, A History of Painting: The Modern Genius Part Eight, T. C. and E. C. Jack, page 87:
  For art, academism is death. Academism is the painting in the manner of some one else, whether that other be Greek or Florentine, […]
- 1935, “The Artist and His Means of Expression”, in The Canadian Author, volumes 13-15, Canadian Authors Association, page 11:
  Contemporary Canadian art suffers from new academisms. […] , her reaction is through Keats, Shelley and Byron. Her writing, based on these is perfection itself but still an academism and therefore non-contributive.

^ Brown, Lesley, ed. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. 5th. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

academism n (uncountable)

Declension of academism