Bricoleur

Quick meaning: Bricoleur is a noun meaning (anthropology, art) A person who constructs bricolages; one who creates using whatever materials are available.

Meaning

(anthropology, art) A person who constructs bricolages; one who creates using whatever materials are available.

Example Sentences

The bricoleur is a specialist in combinatorial logic, a craftsman who creates objects by rearranging other objects.

We see in this picture what a potent political bricoleur he is, borrowing images and rhetoric from any source and combining them in new, lucid collages with changed meanings.

The engineer has science to guide him; the bricoleur has intuition. Significantly, while the bricoleur can only classify perceived differences, the engineer's scientific system enables him to classify things not yet seen.

Glassie was attracted to Claude Lévi-Strauss's metaphor of the artisan as bricoleur — someone who brings together materials that happen to be at hand and uses them to carry out the task of building what needs to be built.

Word Forms

• bricoleurs

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bricolagist, constructer, bridgebuilder, brickmaker, bridgemaker, bricklayer.

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