eclecticism
(noun)
Any form of art that borrows from multiple other styles.
Examples of eclecticism in the following topics:
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Integrative Psychotherapy
- Eclectic practitioners are not bound by the theories or methodology of any one particular school.
- Technical eclecticism: This approach is guided primarily by data that indicates what has worked best for others in the past.
- The advantage of technical eclecticism is that it encourages the use of diverse strategies without being hindered by theoretical differences.
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Academic Architecture
- Though the Beaux-Arts style embodies an approach to a regenerated spirit within the grand traditions rather than a set of motifs, principal characteristics of Beaux-Arts architecture included: rusticated and raised first stories, a hierarchy of spaces (from "noble spaces"—grand entrances and staircases— to utilitarian ones) arched windows, arched and pedimented doors, classical details, references to a synthesis of historicist styles, and tendency to eclecticism.
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Modern Architecture: Form Follows Function
- Some historians regard Modernism as a matter of taste, a reaction against eclecticism and the lavish stylistic excesses of Victorian and Edwardian architecture.
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Academic Painting and Sculpture
- In this context it is often called "academism", "academicism", "L'art pompier", and "eclecticism", and sometimes linked with "historicism" and "syncretism. "
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Introduction to Psychotherapy
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Modern Architecture
- Still other historians regard Modernism as a matter of taste, a reaction against eclecticism and the lavish stylistic excesses of Victorian and Edwardian architecture.