Definition of "concretism" [concretism]

• The practice of representing abstract concepts or qualities in concrete form, as in concrete poetry. (noun)

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• "Although the terminology varies (one can equivalently speak about reism, concretism or nominalism), two claims of any theory going against general (abstract) objects should be very sharply distinguished."
• "His friend Kotarbiński formulated a very extreme nominalism, called variously reism, pansomatism, and concretism, according to which the only things that exist are material bodies."
• "Schendel's interest in poetry and sparse graphic forms tied her to Concretism, just as her manipulation of paper aligned her with Neo-concretism."