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studio|ˈstjuːdɪəʊ|
[a. It. studio: see study n.]
†1. Fine Art. = study n. 10. Obs. rare—1.
1819Shelley Let. to Peacock 25 Feb., The most remarkable is the original studio by Michael Angelo of the ‘Day of Judgment’.
2. a. The work-room of a sculptor or painter; also, that of a photographer.
1819Edin. Rev. XXXII. 322 The greatest work which proceeded from his [Cimabue's] studio, was his scholar Giotto. 1820T. S. Hughes Trav. Sicily I. x. 282 We had seen some beautiful casts from different figures of this sculpture in the studio of Monsieur Fauvel. 1837Lockhart Scott IV. xi. 363 Chantrey requested that Scott would come and breakfast with him next morning before they recommenced operations in the studio. 1881Spons' Encycl. Industr. Arts iv. 1536 The ‘studio’ pertains to professional photography... It is..a well-lighted apartment in close proximity to the dark room. 1897Watts-Dunton Aylwin iii. ix, In the studios of artists she was in request as a face model of extraordinary value.
b. transf. ? Obs.
1854Thackeray Newcomes v, I would as soon have thought..of volunteering to take an arm-chair in a dentist's studio, and have a tooth out, as of entering into that awful precinct.
c. Cinematogr. A room in which a cinematographic film is shot. Hence, a film-making complex including film studios and attendant offices and premises (also in pl.); the company which runs this. Cf. film studio s.v. film n. 7 c.
1911C. N. Bennett et al. Handbk. Kinematogr. xiii. 102 Covered-in studios provided with expansive glass roofs for daylight work..are hardly among the first flights of commercial Kinematographic enterprise. 1923Variety 15 Nov. 18 (heading) Hollywood studios moving to less costly locations. 1928Morning Post 20 Oct. 4/3 The ‘dedication’ of Fox's new 8,000,000-dollar Movietone Studio at Los Angeles. 1937A. Huxley Let. 12 July (1969) 423 With regard to the handling of my work, I am prepared to authorize you to take up the matter with film studios. 1956H. Kurnitz Invasion of Privacy iii. 26 The actor was undoubtedly a handsome youngster... Five studios were squabbling over him now. 1971Guardian 2 Dec. 11/2 The studio, Paramount, was ‘not happy with it’ [sc. a film] and failed to promote it.
d. Radio and Television. In a broadcasting station, etc.: a room from which items are broadcast live or in which they are recorded for subsequent transmission; the premises housing such a studio or studios. Also pl.
1922J. Reith Diary 29 Dec. (1975) ii. 129 Newcastle... Here I really began my BBC responsibility. Saw transmitting station and studio place. 1923Radio Times 5 Oct. 38/3 ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is being..broadcast from our own studio. 1938Encycl. Brit. Bk. of Year 633/2 The apparatus will operate satisfactorily either in natural or artificial light, the technique used in the television studio being somewhat similar to that in a film studio. 1968M. Bragg Without City Wall xxviii. 255 The television studios..were on the edge of town. 1972Daily Tel. 6 Jan. 1/2 Mr. Wilson, Leader of the Opposition, visited a television studio yesterday morning to pre-record his contribution to the programme.
e. A room used for recording and editing music, etc. to be reproduced on a gramophone record or similar medium.
1928[see recording studio s.v. recording vbl. n. 5]. 1932Daily Mirror 21 Oct. 10/3 It is good watching a record being made in a gramophone studio. 1955L. Feather Encycl. Jazz 341 The bands of Andy Kirk, Count Basie, Hot Lips Page and Eddie Durham, the last two being studio-assembled combinations. 1977Rolling Stone 24 Mar. 55/4 Ten months devoted to Fleetwood Mac's album has left Buckingham spindly and studio wan.
f. = studio flat, sense 3 b below. orig. U.S.
1942D. Powell Time to be Born (1943) v. 100 Amanda's furnished ‘studio’..was..a one-room apartment. 1962P. Moyes Death on Agenda vi. 94 [The flat] was what is known on the Continent as a studio—that is to say, a one-room bachelor apartment with its own tiny hallway, off which led a box-sized kitchen and a dwarf bathroom. 1977I. Shaw Beggarman, Thief iv. i. 365 Home was a nasty little one-room studio near the university.
3. a. attrib.
1891Kipling Light that Failed xiii. (1900) 226 Somebody hammered at the studio door. 1894Du Maurier Trilby ii. I. 120 He..found studio French a different language altogether from the formal and polite language he had been at such pains to acquire. 1894Outing XXIV. 31/1 When it blows great guns and the rain comes down..there is plenty of studio work to do, and plenty of fine old lofts with improvised studio windows to do it in. 1908A. M. Hind Engraving & Etching 175 Two other large etchings have generally been regarded by recent criticism as studio productions. 1922[see sense 2 d above]. 1944L. MacNeice Christopher Columbus 16 The radio dramatist must..be studio-conscious, remembering what results can.. be obtained. 1956B. Holiday Lady sings Blues (1973) iii. 35 Benny [Goodman] was a radio-studio musician who talked a lot then about having his own band one day. 1972P. Black Biggest Aspidistra i. iii. 28 The studio announcer introduced the band and the place, and wished the nation good night.
b. attrib. and Comb., as (senses 2 c, d) studio audience, studio manager; studio apartment U.S. = studio flat below; studio bed, couch, a couch which converts into a bed; studio flat, a flat containing a spacious room with large windows, which is or resembles an artist's studio; more recently, a small one-roomed flat; studio party, an informal party held in an artist's studio; also, a social gathering at a film studio; studio portrait, a posed photograph, as taken in a photographer's studio; studio potter, a potter (freq. one of a small group) who works in a studio producing hand-thrown pottery; hence studio pottery; studio theatre, (an) experimental theatre.
1903Archit. Rec. July 240 The most economical way of combining a good high studio with an economical disposition of space would be to make the studio apartment two-storied in the service and living portions, and only one-storied in the space devoted to the studio. 1929Washington Post 1 Sept. 6/5 Studio Apartment $100. 1949Archit. Rec. Nov. 125 At the foot of the San Jacinto mountains, this small group of studio apartments is keyed to the needs..of a specific class of tenant—artists who spend part of the year in Palm Springs. 1978J. Irving World according to Garp xix. 428 Roberta went to..Duncan's live-in studio... Duncan's studio-apartment.
1932B.B.C. Year Bk. 1933 20 Comedians probably most need the stimulus of the crowded hall, for which the ‘studio audience’ is a poor substitute. 1977B. Pym Quartet in Autumn x. 90 The radio offered a choice of comedy, with a braying studio audience.
1963M. McCarthy Group vi. 118 Across the room, a big lumpy studio bed was covered with a black velveteen spread.
1931Sears, Roebuck Catal. Spring 662 New ‘Sun Bed’ Latest Style Couch... This new type davenport-bed or studio couch. 1977A. Scholefield Venom i. 3 His bedroom..had been designed..as a bed-sitter..and the bed itself was a studio couch.
1934A. Huxley Let. 13 Oct. (1969) 385 We are in London for the winter—having found a studio flat, miraculously large. 1970K. Giles Death in Church ii. 31 He had what they call a studio flat—bed, gas fire and tiny kitchenette.
1937R. Chandler in Black Mask Jan. 19/1 The call letters of the station revolved in neon letters... I..got to see a Mr. Dave Marineau, studio manager... ‘We get one in the radio column about every second month. We're a small station still.’ 1980S. Brett Dead Side of Mike i. 13 ‘I'm sorry, I don't speak BBC. What's an SM?’ ‘Studio Manager. Knob-twiddler..tape-machine starter and what you will.’
1909E. Nesbit Daphne in Fitzroy St. xvii. 275 ‘Meals in studios are always rather like picnics.’..‘Oh, yes,’ she said. ‘I've been to lots of studio parties. They're great fun, aren't they?’ 1931R. H. Heaton Perfect Hostess 110 (heading) Miss Eighteen borrows the Attic for her first Studio Party for her young friends from the Slade. 1974A. Morice Killing with Kindness viii. 59, I had met her..at a studio party.
1938M. Allingham Fashion in Shrouds xviii. 329 The story had made..headlines on the front pages, most of which also carried studio portraits of Miss Adamson. 1978F. Olbrich Desouza pays Price xv. 93 A signed studio portrait of herself taken with a soft-focus lens.
1940B. Leach Potter's Bk. iii. 43 A potter's prime need is good clay. Whether he be industrial, peasant or studio potter the raw material of which pots are made is of fundamental importance. 1979China Now Mar./Apr. 9/1 We saw the sort of simple country pots that we as studio potters (people actively engaged in making pots ourselves—by hand in a machine age) so much admire.
1959J. & D. V. Baker Pottery Bk. iii. x. 59 At a studio pottery (generally a small pottery with perhaps half a dozen partners or employees..) machinery plays the least possible part. 1980Times 11 Dec. 16/6 At Sotheby's Belgravia studio pottery was also making high prices.
1933P. Godfrey Back-Stage xiii. 160 The studio or art theatre exists..to prevent dramatic art from being wiped out by the commercially minded. 1965Listener 20 May 738/1 What we most lack today..is the type of experimental studio-theatre that flourished in Stanislavsky's lifetime. 1971J. Elsom Theatre outside London x. 172 There will be a high fly-tower, a studio theatre, fine foyers, a restaurant and good backstage facilities. |