We hear man's lift (5)
I believe the answer is:
raise
'lift' is the definition.
(I know that lift can be written as raise)
'we hear man's' is the wordplay.
'we hear' indicates a 'sounds like' (homophone) clue.
'man's' becomes 'Rays' (Man Ray was a 20th-century artist).
'rays' sounds like 'RAISE'.
(Other definitions for raise that I've seen before include "Advance" , "Pick up" , "rally" , "Gather" , "climb" .)