antiquization
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[edit]antiquization (countable and uncountable, plural antiquizations)
- The act or result of antiquizing
- 1967, Edwin Arnley Hopkins, The Accusative Object as a Verbal Complement in German, pages 74–75:
- It is a frequent device in German prose to indicate a stylization or antiquization on the part of a speaker.
- 2001, Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges, Rolf Solli, editors, Organizing Metropolitan Space and Discourse, →ISBN, page 40:
- Streets would not only be finely paved and perfectly clean, but beautifully adorned with two identical rows of arcades or houses of the same height in an antiquization of a medieval fabric.
- 2012, Oliver Lubrich, “Like Bronze Statues of Antiquity 2000”, in Rex Clark, Oliver Lubrich, editors, Cosmos and Colonialism: Alexander von Humboldt in Cultural Criticism, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, pages 285, 291:
- Especially in the description of the Orinoco river journey through the Venezuelan rain forest Humboldt makes use of diverse classical images. The antiquization as cognitive and aesthetic strategy is thus intensified in certain places of the travel narrative, in a specific spatial-mythological and cultural-philosophical context. […] The Relation historique du Voyage aux Régions équinoxiales du Nouveau Continent speaks of the metamorphoses of a European discourse in the struggle to grasp the geographically and culturally foreign. It may be read as a narrative about the failure of the antiquization of America and about the deconstruction of classicism.
- 2017, Armen Kazaryan, “Part X. Armenia and Georgia”, “44. The “Classical” Trend of the Armenian Architectural School of Ani: The Greco-Roman Model and the Conversion of Medieval Art”, in Zara Martirosova Torlone, Dana LaCourse Munteanu, Dorota Dutsch, editors, A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 530:
- Classical art and, correspondingly, the “antiquizations” of medieval art and classicist styles of the New Time were treated with piety.