A philosophical or aesthetic position that values or emphasizes the artificial, constructed, or man-made over the natural.
From 'artificial' + '-ism' (doctrine or practice). Emerged as a philosophical term in the 19th and 20th centuries to describe theoretical positions favoring artifice.
Artificialism represents a radical inversion of Romanticism—while Romantics worshipped nature, artificialism asks: why is human creation less valuable than what occurred by accident?
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