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| | artnet.com: Resource Library: Neo-classicism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-31) |
 | | Term coined in the 1880s to denote the last stage of the classical tradition in architecture, sculpture, painting and the decorative arts. |
 | | Almost paradoxically, the quest for a timeless mode of expression (the true style, as it was then called) involved strongly divergent approaches towards design that were strikingly focused on the Greco-Roman debate. |
 | | On the one hand, there was a commitment to a radical severity of expression, associated with the Platonic Ideal, as well as to such criteria as the functional and the primitive, which were particularly identified with early Greek art and architecture. |
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