New Objectivity
Proper noun
Meaning
New Objectivity
An anti-expressionist artistic movement of the first half of the twentieth century that espoused direct, unadorned, matter-of-fact aesthetics.
Examples
Pabst is also identified with another genre which branched from the New Objectivity - that of social and political films.
He later became one of the leading proponents of New Objectivity in the theatre.
The founders intended to fuse the arts and crafts with the practical demands of industrial design, to create works reflecting the New Objectivity aesthetic in Weimar Germany.
The New Objectivity artists did not belong to a formal group.