poetism means An avantgarde approach to art introduced by Karel Teige in Czechoslovakia in the 1920s in reaction to the prevailing proletarian art, encouraging lyricism and an epicurean attitude. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 95 out of 100.
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POETISM — [Noun] An avant-garde artistic movement introduced by Karel Teige in 1920s Czechoslovakia, emphasizing lyricism, unfettered imagination, and an epicurean embrace of life’s pleasures in deliberate reaction to the rigid utilitarianism of proletarian art. Coined by Karel Teige from poet + -ism, denoting a system or movement. Unlike "constructivism" (which pursued a rigorous, functionalist purity) or "poeticism" (which denotes a cloying or affectedly ornate turn of phrase), Poetism was a manifesto for creative liberty. It is the warmth of sunlight on a cafe tablecloth, the collage where a locomotive dissolves into a bouquet, and the deliberate pursuit of a wandering afternoon as the highest form of work—a brief, bright argument that joy, too, has an architecture.
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- An avantgarde approach to art introduced by Karel Teige in Czechoslovakia in the 1920s in reaction to the prevailing proletarian art, encouraging lyricism and an epicurean attitude.“And it should be pointed out that poetism is less harmful to poetry than scientism, because although it may make a poetic text seem cranky or pretentious, it will not denature it.”