poiesis
(pɔɪˈiːsɪs)
[f. Gr. ποίησις a making, creation; cf. poesis, poesy n.]
Creative production, esp. of a work of art.
| 1934 in Webster. 1962 Listener 24 May 901/2 The tutelary figure of all that belongs to poiesis. 1971 G. Steiner In Bluebeard's Castle iii. 72 The equivocations between poiesis—the artist's, the thinker's creation—and death. 1973 Matias & Willemen tr. Cegarra & Metz in Screen Spring/Summer 152 Metz uses the term realism to characterise both types [of filmic modernity]: in the case of Godard, ‘a copiously disorganised realism, a brilliant and euphoric avatar of poiesis’. |