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evocationism

evocationism noun: an approach to creating artworks by which the artist aims to evoke certain ideas in the audience.

Noun

evocationism (uncountable)

  1. An approach to creating artworks by which the artist aims to evoke certain ideas in the audience.
    • After outlining the desiderata that must be met by any acceptable theory, Levinson lists the main contenders as basing their analyses on (i) evocationism, (ii) make-believe, (iii) metaphor, (iv) judgment, and (v) appearance of expression1999 Summer, S Davies, “Review: The Pleasures of Aesthetics: Philosophical Essays”, in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, volume 57, number 3
    • Perhaps, therefore, Impressionism is not so accurate a word as Evocationism, by which I mean the rendering of a vision such as an object or an idea has evoked1934, The Artist - Volumes 7-9, page 61

Origin of evocationism

From evocation + -ism.

Questions about evocationism

What does evocationism mean?
Evocationism means an approach to creating artworks by which the artist aims to evoke certain ideas in the audience.
What part of speech is evocationism?
Evocationism is a noun.

Words near evocationism in the dictionary

  1. evocate
  2. evocated
  3. evocates
  4. evocating
  5. evocation
  6. evocationism
  7. evocations
  8. evocative
  9. evocatively
  10. evocativeness
  11. evocator

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