An ideological movement or philosophy that opposes classical traditions, standards, and aesthetic principles.
From anticlassical + -ism (system or belief). Creates an abstract noun describing a coordinated set of beliefs opposing classicism.
This noun names an entire movement—when 20th-century artists rejected proportion, symmetry, and order in favor of abstraction and chaos, they were practicing anticlassicalism as a philosophy.
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