neofuturism

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Etymology

From neo- +‎ future +‎ -ism or neo- +‎ futurism.

Noun

neofuturism (uncountable)

  1. An artistic movement in the late 20th and early 21st century that was more optimistic in tone than postmodernism.
    • 1992, Russian Studies in Literature, volume 29, page 91:
      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).
    • 1998, Stephen C. Foster, The Eastern Dada Orbit, →ISBN, page 116:
      Indeed we changed it to neofuturism and so forth, but in fact that was not it.
    • 1998, Gideon Ofrat, One Hundred Years of Art in Israel, page 300:
      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.
    • 2016, Adam Ehrlich Sachs, Inherited Disorders: Stories, Parables & Problems, →ISBN, page 100:
      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.
    • 2019, Zoë Hendon, Anne Massey, editors, Design, History and Time: New Temporalities in a Digital Age, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 131:
      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, designs.
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