单词 | bricoleur |
释义 | bricoleurn. 1. Originally in French contexts: a person who performs a variety of manual jobs; someone who fixes things in an ingenious manner. ΚΠ 1869 All Year Round 1 May 521/1 A ‘bricoleur’ engaged at the markets on any odd jobs that chanced to fall in his way, had noticed..the negligence of these charbonniers. 1963 Manatee County (Florida) Call 3 Oct. 3/3 The famed ‘Flea Market’, which amateur bricoleurs also consider an excellent source for old wood panelling, antique hinges and doorknobs. 1993 Daily Mail 19 Aug. 44/2 The virgin who has never put up a shelf is soon driven to become a bricoleur, white-knightly with tools. 2. A person (esp. an artist, writer, etc.) who appropriates and improvises with a diverse range of existing materials or sources to create a new artwork, theory, etc.; the creator of a bricolage.In quot. 1965, as part of a review of Mythologiques (1964) by Claude Lévi-Strauss; cf. the etymology. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > artist > [noun] > artist of specific movement or period mannerist1695 romanticist1821 trecentist1821 classicist1827 romantic1827 expressionist1850 classicalist1851 Gothicist1861 literalist1862 realist1868 modernist1879 verist1884 classic1885 symbolist1888 decadent1890 veritist1894 neoclassicist1899 neo-romantic1899 renaissancer1899 social realist1909 avant-garde1910 futurist1911 pasticheur1912 Bloomsbury1917 postmodern1917 pre-Romantic1918 Dadaist1919 German expressionist1920 super-realist1925 surrealist1925 New Romantic1930 brutalist1934 socialist-realist1935 avant-gardist1940 New Negro1953 neo-modernist1958 bricoleur1965 popster1965 sound artist1966 performance artist1975 1965 Amer. Anthropologist 67 777 Man, as creator of Culture, is like a bricoleur,..who makes constructions for the fun of the thing out of anything that is lying around. 1976 J. C. Rowe H. Adams & H. James iv. 121 The bricoleur must interpret what effects his rearrangement of elements will have on each component. 1991 P. Sweeney Virgin Directory World Music 103 The playful and ironic musical bricoleur Francesco Baccini. 2001 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 15 Nov. 28/1 A bricoleur of genius, Katchor works..from things he has seen and heard in the street or bought in junkshops and bargain book racks. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1869 |
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