Word of the day???

[tree_and_leaf]

Tumorkritik, which appears to be a term of criticism of the German enlightenment, meaning a dislike of lumpy, overloaded baroque art (or Gothic, because bizarrely, at least in the early period there was a tendency to lump the two together, incredible as that seems to modern eyes).

I haven't the faintest idea what one would call this in English.

Comments

[mk-tortie.livejournal.com]

I haven't the faintest idea what one would call this in English.

I'd love to be able to help, but I have no idea either! I love how German has so many incredibly specific words for things that require long explanations in English.

[tree_and_leaf]

It's a brilliant word, isn't it?

[azdak.livejournal.com]

Carbuncle criticism! A la HRH!

[tree_and_leaf]

I rather like that, actually...

[azdak.livejournal.com]

::bows::

[scionofgrace.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is totally a German original. I'd hijack that word before trying to come up with an English equivalent.

[tree_and_leaf]

German is very good on that sort of bizarre compound noun... (I think I'm going for "Tumorkritic (gloss).

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Seconded. Though I suppose you could describe it as a "dislike of excrescences".

[tree_and_leaf]

That's a bit flat, but it might well do as part of a gloss!

[owl]

LOL, that's a brilliant word!

[tree_and_leaf]

I am looking for an opportunity to drop it into every day conversation. (Oddly enough, there is still a German turn of phrase, used of garish colours or of overloaded decoration, 'you could get cancer of the eye from that')