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1. The principles of those who advocate extreme measures, as radical reform, and the like

1. 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