ˈimage-ˌmaker
a. A maker of images (usually in sense 1 a); a sculptor, carver, statuary.
| 1500 Nottingham Rec. III. 82 Thomas Hyll, image-maker. 1579–80 North Plutarch (1676) 145 Phideas the Image-maker..has undertaken to make the Image of Pallas. 1621 Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ iii. 530 A very vehement inuectiue against Image-makers. 1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 130 If you are not..an imitator or an image-maker. |
b. fig. (in sense 5 b of image).
| 1960 Guardian 7 Oct. 17/4 [Owing] to the failure of the image-makers..neither candidate seems to have put across a strong or provocative personality. 1969 Times 1 Aug. 6/7 The image-makers said that he was the family's best politician. 1971 Daily Tel. 23 Mar. 13/1 The population at large are as inwardly proud of their political rough-houses as they are of such image-makers as Ned Kelly, the waterless outback and Aussie-rules football. |
So ˈimage-ˌmaking n. and a.
| a 1930 D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 83 The gibe of image-making love. 1953 S. Spender Creative Element 50 For Yeats, spiritualism put him in touch, as he thought, with the image-making collective unconscious of all civilizations. 1967 Listener 3 Aug. 140/3 Darwin and Einstein..must have been endowed with an extraordinary capacity of image-making to be able to see the world in a startlingly new shape. 1972 E. Lucie-Smith Eroticism in Western Art xv. 262 Since erotic art obeys the necessity to be specific, photography..offered powerful competition to more traditional kinds of image-making in this field. |