Noun: ultraism 'úl-tru,i-zum
- The advocacy of extreme measures or views
"His ultraism in environmental policy alienated more moderate supporters"
- Movement in Spanish and Spanish American poetry after World War I, characterized by a tendency to use free verse, complicated metrical innovations, and daring imagery and symbolism instead of traditional form and content
"Jorge Luis Borges declared that the ‘newest aesthetic’, Ultraism, is the poetic alternative to ‘the prevailing Rubenism and Anecdotalism’"
Derived forms: ultraisms
Type of: art movement, artistic movement
Encyclopedia: Ultraism