minimalist
She put together a show of classic minimalism from the museum's collection.
The works reflect the German duo's interest in public art, minimalism, and architecture.
His elegant minimalism translates into furnishings for new stores opening in New York and L. A.

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Examples of minimalism

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How children's relatives solve a problem for minimalism.
All in all, the choice to compare and contrast semantic minimalism with extreme contextualism has both its merits and its hidden dangers.
This chapter can also be profitably read as a self-contained proposal, not merely as an argument in favour of semantic minimalism.
He explores the dynamic between his concert and installation works, and extends the journey by discussing the 'theatricality of minimalism'.
Admittedly, disjunctive minimalism is a messy account of virtue.
But this explanation fits neatly with disjunctive or intrinsic minimalism.
One of the attractive features of disjunctive minimalism, then, is that it is compatible with the most plausible forms of consequentialism and with non-consequentialism.
In other words, disjunctive minimalism fits better with the way we talk about virtues in everyday life.
Above all, though, these writers are united in a disdain for metropolitan postmodernism, suburban minimalism, campus selfreflexivity.
The final challenge in defending disjunctive minimalism is showing that it can fit into a sufficiently coherent general ethical theory.
Minimalism represents sentences as symbolic structures resulting from a formal process of syntactic derivation.
But of course the whole thrust of minimalism is a reaction to complexity, and it's basically a healthy one.
Which is why minimalism and its offshoots have been so successful.
Similarly, under minimalism, the study of variation is valuable only in so far as it promotes an understanding of the larger principles.
You can say he's a sort of advanced minimalist, or in an elite field of minimalism, perhaps!
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