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eclecticism

noun

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The practice of drawing from varied ideas, styles, or sources.

The exhibition's eclecticism brought together pottery, photographs, and woven art.
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The curator defended her eclecticism as a purposeful choice to let different approaches speak to one another. Fusion described the integrated sound-and-paper installation more precisely than it described every work sharing the room. The array of bowls, for example, remained a collection whose separate objects could be compared side by side. In her introduction, she explained why each format belonged in the exhibition, showing that breadth of selection could rest on a clear organizing idea rather than on indiscriminate accumulation.
From An Exhibition Across Styles.
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