Meanings
- uncountableartAn approach to creating artworks by which the artist aims to evoke certain ideas in the audience.
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 evoked
1934, The Artist - Volumes 7-9, page 612 more examples
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 expression
1999 Summer, S Davies, “Review: The Pleasures of Aesthetics: Philosophical Essays”, in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, volume 57, number 3Different from both, Dusyanta seems to espouse what may be termed as emancipated evocationism. He represents the privileged viewpoint of the artist critic, also its limitations and perils.
1991, Girdhari Lal Chaturvedi, Re-visiting Śākuntalam, page 113
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