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1. Minimalism
   [n] - an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color
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2. minimalism
   An action-based and task-oriented approach to documentation. It emphasises what users should do and it avoids swamping readers with information that is not relevant. The central principle is task-orientation. Brevity is a key element, but only because it can aid task-oriented activity. Minimalism ha...
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3. Minimalism
   A Mid 20th Century style of painting and sculpture. The finished piece of art is reduced to a minimum number of lines, colours and shapes. Space and relationship of the elements are key in the art work.
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4. Minimalism
   Minimalism or Minimal art is an extreme form of abstract art that developed in the USA in the second half of the 1960s. It can be seen as extending the abstract idea that art should have its own reality and not be an imitation of some other thing. It picked up too on the Constructivist idea that art...
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5. minimalism
   minimal art noun an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color
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6. minimalism
   chiefly American movement in the visual arts and music originating in New York City in the late 1960s and characterized by extreme simplicity of ... [10 related articles]
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7. Minimalism
   John M. Carroll's approach to instructional design that stresses the importance of providing learners with meaningful tasks early in instruction and allowing them to make and then correct errors. Rather than guiding users step-by-step through a new learning situation, learner's are given tasks to tr...
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8. minimalism
   minimalism, schools of contemporary art and music, with their origins in the 1960s, that have emphasized simplicity and objectivity.Sections in this article:IntroductionMinimalism in the Visual ArtsMinimalism in Music
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9. Minimalism
   In the film industry a very simplified form of realism. Minimalist cinema almost takes on the form of documentaries in that few, if any of the technical innovations of the industry are used. Camera in hand (possible on a stand), few props, little scenery and a lose script bring this aspect of filmmaking to the bare minimum
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10. minimalism
    Movement in abstract art and music towards extremely simplified composition. Minimal art developed in the USA in the 1950s in reaction to abstract expressionism, rejecting its emotive approach in favour of impersonality and elemental, usually geometric, shapes. It has found its fullest expression in...
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11. MINIMALISM
    A style of painting and sculpture in the mid 20th century in which the art elements are rendered with a minimum of lines, shapes, and sometimes color. The works may look and feel sparse, spare, restricted or empty.
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12. Minimalism
    A nonrepresentational style of sculpture and painting, usually severely restricted in the use of visual elements and often consisting of simple geometric shapes or masses. The style came to prominence in the late 1960s.
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13. Minimalism
    A movement in American painting and sculpture that originated in the late 1950s. It emphasized pure, reduced forms and strict, systematic compositions.
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14. Minimalism
    `Minimalism` describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features. As a specific movement in the arts it is identified with developments in post–World War II Western Art, most strongly with Am...
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15. Minimalism
    (computing) In computing, `minimalism` refers to the application of minimalist philosophies and principles in hardware and software design and usage. History: In the 1950s, some mainframes had only 1,000 characters of memory. In the 1960s, mainframes had 4 to 64 Kilobytes of storage. In the l...
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16. Minimalism
    (technical communication) Minimalism in structured writing or topic-based authoring is based on the ideas of John Millar Carroll. Like Robert E. Horn`s work on Information Mapping, John Carroll`s principles of Minimalism were based in part on cognitive studies and learning research at Harvard...
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