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[ adjective ] taken out of the possession of another and transferred to your own use often without permission
Examples "the expropriated land was developed into a public playground" Used in print (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)In the Analytical phase of their Cubism , Braque and Picasso had not_only had to minimize three-dimensionality simply in_order to preserve it ; they had also had to generalize it - to the point , finally , where the illusion of depth and relief became abstracted from specific three-dimensional entities and was rendered largely as the illusion of depth and relief as_such : as a disembodied attribute and expropriated property detached from everything not itself . Related terms |
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