Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A revival of surrealism mixed with pop art in the late 1970s and the 1980s, marked by an attempt to illustrate the bizarre imagery of dreams or the subconscious mind in painting and photography.
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- noun An
art movement based on thecomplex imagery ofdreams andsubconscious visions .
Etymologies
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neo- + surrealism
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Examples
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It must be magical realism or a satire or a neosurrealism or something equally literary.
Great Afternoon Glenda Larke 2008
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It must be magical realism or a satire or a neosurrealism or something equally literary.
Archive 2008-11-01 Glenda Larke 2008
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Is it a joke on us, neosurrealism or just a rip off of the Godhead books?
EP069: Her 2006
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