This makes for an intensely readable experience — there is no turgid academism that needs excising in these tautly - rendered two hundred or so pages. (sensesofcinema.com)
The prolific character of what is to become recognized years later as specifically Brazilian modernism was rooted in a rejection of the strict academism, experimentation, and strong socio - political engagement. (widewalls.ch)
Some of them would eventually climb to stardom, but in those early days they were underdogs, dissenters from the mainstream academism and from «regionalists,» like Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood. (twocoatsofpaint.com)