Imagist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Imagist is a noun meaning (art) A follower of any of the various artistic schools known as imagism.
Meaning
(art) A follower of any of the various artistic schools known as imagism.
More Meanings
- Characteristic of or pertaining to imagism.
Example Sentences
Most critics group Lanyon with the Chicago imagists, artists who use ordinary objects and meticulous detail to explore fantasy.
Altieri argues that 'Williams still locates affect in the rendering of a scene', which seems true of Williams's shorter, more imagist poems.
Their advertisements rely wholly on memory, which is why they can be (indeed must be) less detailed, more imagist, more distinctive—more memorable.
D. H. Lawrence would have been a poet of distinction without an imagist movement, but he became a modern poet, and a major one, by becoming an imagist, and in time he attained greater distinction than any of the other English poets who helped found the imagist movement.
Word Forms
- imagists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include imaginist, imaginism, impressionist, pictorialist, impressionism, imaginationalism.
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