Imagism
Chicago Imagist style centered on imaginative transformation of observable sources, pictoral content within paintings, flattened or narrowly layered space, linear distortion, sharp color, emphasis on craft and objectness, use of patterning, literary and narrative play, ironic content. (“Chicago Imagism: The Movement and the Style” by Roger Bowman in Who Chicago? An Exhibition of Contemporary Imagists, Sunderland Arts Centre Ltd., London, 1980)
