imagistn.adj.

1912 E. Pound Let. Oct. (1971) 11 I've had luck again, and am sending you some modern stuff by an American, I say modern, for it is in the laconic speech of the Imagistes, even if the subject is classic.

1914 R. Aldington in Egoist 1 June 201/1 (title) Modern poetry and the Imagists.

1931 F. L. Allen Only Yesterday ix. 229 Theodore Dreiser, Willa Cather,..the Imagists and exponents of free verse had been breaking new ground since before the war.

1970 Eng. Stud. 51 269 This period also saw the birth and death of other more obviously revolutionary groups such as the Vorticists, Imagists, [etc.].

2000 S. Raitt May Sinclair vi. 196 Sinclair had her own feelings of ambivalence about what the imagists were trying to do.

1940 Parnassus Nov. 14/2 I do not think it follows that graduation from a college is to be regarded as an essential process or passport either for the ordinary technical designer or professional imagist, or for the rarer creative artist.

1959 P. Selz New Images of Man (1969) 12 Picasso's reinvention of anatomy, which has been called cubism, was primarily concerned with exploring the reality of form and its relation to space, whereas the imagists we are now dealing with often use a similarly shallow space in which to explore the reality of man.

1980 E. Mordden Guide to Orchestral Mus. ii. 422 Bartók's native savor is pervasive. It lifts the lively first movement with the imagist's eyes, sighted on the folk fiddle, the dance at the tavern, the plains and forests.

1993 W. W. Dixon Early Film Crit. F. Truffaut iv. 137 A good portion of Wise's skills as a creator of mise-en-scène resides in his ability to direct actors rather in than his brilliance as an imagist.

1997 H. L. Klawans Chekhov's Lie 47 The artists whose works I now collect are called Imagists. The Chicago Imagists... And what they do is create images. They make no claim on reality.

1953 H. H. Price Thinking & Experience viii. 239 The Imagist does not deny that words have meaning, but he holds that they have it only indirectly, as substitutes for images.

2002 J. J. Prinz Furnishing Mind ii. 26 Imagists also assume that we can generate concepts by reflecting on our mental states.

1912 E. Pound Let. Aug. (1971) 10 I send you all that I have on my desk—an over-elaborate post-Browning ‘Imagiste’ affair and a note on the Whistler exhibit.

1915 Egoist 1 May 70/2 One of the first ‘Imagist’ poems by T. E. Hulme.

1919 W. P. Trent et al. Hist. Amer. Lit. II. 266 Isle of la Belle Rivière..was written in what is now called imagist verse, at the age of thirty.

1960 W. H. Auden Homage to Clio 42 No ‘imagist’ poem can be more than a few words long.

1975 K. Jha Figurative Poetry in Sanskrit Lit. p. vii The question whether suggestive poetry is imagist and vice-versa is relevant.

1999 Sewanee Rev. 107 p. xxxiii/2 Even allowing for the imagist climate favoring descriptive precision, her renderings have a distinctive zoom-lens acuity.

1932 Parnassus Apr. 26/2 It is either a scholastic art, depicting types of activity,..or an imagist or mystical art expressing an immediate experience in an indivisible coincidence of formal and pictorial elements.

1975 H. Rosenberg Art on Edge xix. 210 Chicago Imagist art is not regional in the old sense of picturing local settings, history, folkways. Schulze's Chicagoans turn inward, away from Chicago.

2006 S. Klein Art & Laughter i. 23 Imagist works may be described as seriously witty in ways that excite the mind and delight the eye.

1948 Mind 57 481 He [sc. Ewing] backs it up with his criticisms of Behaviourist accounts of Belief and Verbalist and Imagist accounts of Thinking.

1953 H. H. Price Thinking & Experience viii. 241 The starting point of the Imagist theory..is private thinking, and private thinking of the ‘free’ symbol-using kind.

1972 Science 12 May 630/2 Thus he can adopt an imagist theory of meaning after carefully listing several objections to it which are never answered.

1995 G. McCulloch Mind & its World ii. vi. 132 One cannot help but see the imagist theory of ideas as an attempt at a model of the phenomenology both of material body and of minds.