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contextualism
[ kuhn-teks-choo-uh-liz-uhm ]
noun
- (in motion-picture criticism) the theory that all incidents in a film must be viewed in the social, political, and cultural context with which the film concerns itself and in which it was made.
- Architecture. the aesthetic position that a building or the like should be designed for harmony or a meaningful relationship with other such elements already existing in its vicinity.
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Other 51Թ Forms
- Dz·ٱt·· noun adjective
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of contextualism1
First recorded in 1925–30; contextual + -ism
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The architecture has a certain giddy touch, joyously untempered by the good taste of contextualism so often claimed as an urban ideal.
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