‖ engagé, ppl. a.
(ɑ̃gaʒe)
[F.]
Of (the work of) writers, artists, etc. = committed ppl. a. b. (See also engaged ppl. a. 4.)
| [1948 H. Read Art Now (ed. 3) 139 ‘L'art engagé’, art in the service of the revolution.] 1955 G. Greene Quiet American 121, I don't know what I'm talking politics for. They don't interest me and I'm a reporter. I'm not engagé. 1956 Essays in Crit. VI. 388 His [sc. Hazlitt's] temper was active, sympathetic and engagé, rather than philosophical. 1959 Encounter Oct. 54/1 Surrealism built a functional, utilitarian literature—the first engagé art of our time. 1966 Listener 17 Mar. 378/1 We hear a lot of talk about the duty of the artist to be ‘committed’ or ‘engagé’. |