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‖ œuvre|œvr|
[Fr., = work.]
A work of art, music, or literature; the corpus of work produced by an artist, composer, or writer, considered as a whole. Cf. chef d'œuvre. Hence œuvre-catalogue, a catalogue of an artist's complete work; œuvre de vulgarisation, a work conveying knowledge of an academic or esoteric subject for the popular taste.
1875Geo. Eliot Let. 10 Oct. in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) III. xvii. 264 Our unprinted matter, our œuvres inédites, were safe. 1889E. Dowson Let. 31 July (1967) 97 If I can only shake off Cursitor St I will go to the oeuvre like one oclock. 1890― Let. 10 or 11 June (1967) 153 The bêtise of a public which boycotts his oeuvre & buys Chomondley's pretty little ineptiae. 1898C. Phillips Later Work of Titian iii. 66 The technical execution of these canvases, the treatment of landscape in the former would lead the writer to place them some years farther on still in the œuvre of the master. 1917R. Fry in Burlington Mag. Aug. 61/2 A better opportunity for a general study of Cézanne's oeuvre than any other book. 1934T. S. Eliot Eliz. Ess. 136 Even without an œuvre, some dramatists can effect a satisfying unity and significance of pattern in single plays. 1938W. S. Maugham Summing Up 184 A body of work, an œuvre, is the result of long-continued and resolute effort. 1958Listener 2 Oct. 540/1 The spreading abroad of his [sc. Palestrina's] bulky oeuvre gained considerably from the attentions of the romantics. 1959Ibid. 20 Aug. 289/1 Were they in fact oeuvres de vulgarisation or attempts to stimulate craftsmen to new formal conquests? 1962Economist 14 Apr. 141/3 An oeuvre de vulgarisation to bring his fifteen volume history..before a wider public. 1965New Statesman 16 July 92/1 Only four oil-paintings before 1913 are listed in his oeuvre-catalogue. 1974Listener 17 Jan. 66/2 A television serial which should incorporate the Palliser oeuvre entire. 1976Publishers Weekly 15 Mar. 57/2 The author tells his engaging tale with disarming simplicity and the illustrator's pictures do justice to the oeuvre. 1976Times 16 July 12/1 Raymond Lister at Cambridge..is currently working on an oeuvre catalogue for [Samuel] Palmer. 1978Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Aug. 950/2 His oeuvre is the perfect place of exercise for..jocular pedantry. |