anti-formalist
adjective
an·ti-for·mal·ist
ˌan-tē-ˈfȯr-mə-list
ˌan-tī-
variants
or antiformalist
: opposed to formalism
This would make nonsense of those anti-formalist claims that denigrate the study of form by seeking to empty form out, excluding all worldly relations from it.—William V. Spansos et al.
anti-formalism
noun
or antiformalism
ˌan-tē-ˈfȯr-mə-ˌli-zəm
ˌan-tī-
It was not long ago that Surrealism was widely dismissed. Modernists had little use for the movement's anti-formalism, for its concerns with things like disorder, excess and exotica.
—Michael Kimmelman
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