Meanings
imagistic1
comparative more imagistic · superlative most imagistic · alternative Imagistic
- artOf or pertaining to imagism.
So much 'performance art' tends to be a kind of closed, aloof, imagistic, private vision.
1988 January 29, Justin Hayford, “Stage Business: a young director mixes it up at the Goodman”, in Chicago Reader
Imagistic2
comparative more Imagistic · superlative most Imagistic
- alternativeAlternative form of imagistic.
The same will be true of Imagism: a certain degree of variation from a purist definition of the school will take us to a kind of poetry that “Imagism" can no longer describe, although we may still wish to speak of Imagistic tendencies or echoes in the derivative verse.
1989, Brian Trehearne, Aestheticism and the Canadian Modernists, page 40
Origin
From imagist + -ic or image + -istic.
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