New Objectivity

English

Etymology

Calque of German Neue Sachlichkeit.

Proper noun

New Objectivity

  1. A German anti-expressionist artistic movement of the first half of the twentieth century that espoused direct, unadorned, matter-of-fact aesthetics.
    • 2010, Matthew Beaumont, editor, A Concise Companion to Realism, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 151:
      New Objectivity takes its place—squarely and unblinkingly—in this new (if not lasting) environment, whose tenor was so different to the years of instability, war, and revolution, which had given rise to Expressionism.

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