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retrospective
[ re-truh-spek-tiv ]
adjective
- directed to the past; contemplative of past situations, events, etc.
- looking or directed backward.
- retroactive, as a statute.
noun
- an art exhibit showing an entire phase or representative examples of an artist's lifework.
- any exhibition or series of showings or performances, as of musical works or motion pictures, representing the work of an artist or performer over all or a major part of a career:
a retrospective of John Ford's movies.
retrospective
/ ˌɛٰəʊˈɛɪ /
adjective
- looking or directed backwards, esp in time; characterized by retrospection
- applying to the past; retroactive
noun
- an exhibition of an artist's life's work or a representative selection of it
Derived Forms
- ˌٰˈپԱ, noun
- ˌٰˈپ, adverb
Other 51Թ Forms
- r·t· adverb
- r·t·Ա noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of retrospective1
Example Sentences
Hopps was a wealth of information about Dada godfather Marcel Duchamp, whose now legendary 1963 retrospective he had organized for the Pasadena Art Museum.
There was recently a show at the Pompidou Center, a really exhaustive retrospective of Surrealism.
Andrew Kennedy KC has been appointed by the trust to chair a panel of expert clinicians to undertake the external retrospective clinical review.
That fact has been unmistakable since 1976, when Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts sparked the general revival of interest in his work with the artist’s first full retrospective exhibition in the U.S.
They are retrospective but don’t rue the passage of time.
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