What does "precisionism" mean?

A modernist art movement that emerged in the United States after World War I, reducing subjects to their essential geometric shapes and eliminating detail.

Precisionism

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A modernist art movement that emerged in the United States after World War I, reducing subjects to their essential geometric shapes and eliminating detail. uncountable

Etymology

From precision + -ism.

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