plastician

Noun

plastician (plural plasticians)

1. Someone or something that transforms or reshapes objects.
   • Quite apart from the question of finance and the basic difficulty of finding the very large sums for completely refacing buildings, the writer personally comes down solidly on the side of the "plastician" rather than the "face-lifter".1955, The Royal Engineers Journal - Volume 69, page 303
   • Today, I manipulate the sonic object as a sound plastician, and find myself confronted by the expression of a gesture which I cannot share except through the trace it leaves behind: the labelled object—that is, the sound recording.2001, Musicworks - Volumes 79-81, page 21
2. One who works with molding metal.
   • Tho first plastician was not a scientist, but with the gront demands of modern civilization the plastician today is attempting to systematize and simplify his job1945, Plastic Flow in Metals, page iii
   • The general problem of analyzing stresses and strains during even simple forming operations is still beyond the range of the theoretical plastician.1953, Metal Progress - Volumes 63-64, page 134
3. An artist involved with the plastic arts.
   • I am an architect, a plastician, a constructor. In trying to explain the circumstances of the invention of a working tool meant for people engaged on construction, I have thought and written from the architect's standpoint.1968, Le Corbusier, The modulor
   • They are also related to what has come to be recognized as 'found art', alongside the work of other modern artists or plasticians like the sculptor John Chamberlain, who worked out of junked car metal.2014, Laetitia Zecchini, Arun Kolatkar and Literary Modernism in India: Moving Lines, →ISBN, page 125
4. An artist whose work is part of the plasticism movement.
   • Even those who would practise a form of modern architecture (such as Le Corbusier. who is basically a cubist painter and plastician) conceive of architecture as painting, or as abstract composition in three dimensions, around which, but not in which, man walks in admiration.1955, Frank Lloyd Wright: His Contribution to the Beauty of American Life, page 327
   • The history of contemporary art in Quebec presents itself fundamentally as an axis whose starting point is the automatist movement (1940-1950), followed by the plastician movement (1950-1965).1980, Art and Artists - Volume 15, page 37
5. (dated) A plastic surgeon.
   • And this is particularly true in operative work on the face; and especially in the repair of breaches made by excision around the eye, mouth and nose; for here the experienced plastician, by studied plan, can often cover or disguise unsightly lines left by the scalpel; or if this be denied, then...1896, Levi Cooper Lane, The Surgery of the Head and Neck, page 454
   • Gross and minute physical deformities could be corrected by the plastician while at the same time preserving function.1950, Filipino Nurse - Volumes 20-22, page 149