philistinism

Feeling word · 2 styles

Taste replaced by a calculation of gain. Colors bright, surface slick, image blown up to advertising scale; no brush trace. Of goods, poses, images.

Styles

• New Objectivity
• Verism

Co-occurs with

• defamiliarisation
• nausea
• necrosis
• satire
• twitchiness
• the uncanny
• isolation
• gallows humour
• disquiet
• frontal
• chill allure
• impersonality

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