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English translation: I don't think it's vague


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11:59 Sep 1, 2011
Chinese to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / Fine art installation
Chinese term or phrase: clauses
今天,在众多的装置艺术中,其作品形态主要是展开性思维,它往往借用特定的构
思,并使众多的细节以展开性的方式加以显现,这是当下绝大多数装置作品最主要的方法
论。

I'm not sure what the latter two chinese clauses mean.......it seems a bit vague.....

Rough translation.....
These days amongst the numerous installation works around, one of the main forms uses associative thinking, often using particular ideas and allowing numerous details in the art work become increasingly apparent when using the associative approach, this is an important methodology used in many installation works....
Artemesia
English translation:I don't think it's vague
Explanation:
Installation is now a very common artform. One methodology which is common to the vast majority of artwork in this form is an open, associative approach. An installation will generally start from a particular idea, then explore this idea from a rich variety of angles, expressed in a thousand details of the artwork.

今天,在众多的装置艺术中,其作品形态主要是展开性思维,它往往借用特定的构思,并使众多的细节以展开性的方式加以显现,这是当下绝大多数装置作品最主要的方法论。
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5 +2I don't think it's vague
Phil Hand
3并使众多的细节 missing one word here
Wei Poulin
3句子johnnyfish
3展开性思维
Leo Young


  

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展开性思维


Explanation:
These days amongst the numerous installation works around, one of the main forms uses associative thinking, which, as an important methodology used in many installation works, usually borrows particular ideas and displays numerous details in the art works in an associative approach.

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I don't think it's vague


Explanation:
Installation is now a very common artform. One methodology which is common to the vast majority of artwork in this form is an open, associative approach. An installation will generally start from a particular idea, then explore this idea from a rich variety of angles, expressed in a thousand details of the artwork.

今天,在众多的装置艺术中,其作品形态主要是展开性思维,它往往借用特定的构思,并使众多的细节以展开性的方式加以显现,这是当下绝大多数装置作品最主要的方法论。

Phil Hand
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agree  Jun Ng: This translation is easier to understand in an English context, because the logical order of the sentences makes more sense this way.
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agree  Dariush Robertson
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句子


Explanation:
今天 = Nowadays
在众多的装置艺术中 = amongst numerous installation arts
其作品形态主要是 = one of the main forms of expression is
展开性思维 = expansive thinking
它往往借用 ... 并使 ... 加以显现 = through the use of ... display ...
装置作品 = installation artworks
方法论= methodology

Nowadays, amongst numerous installation arts, one of the main forms of expression is expansive thinking which, often through the use of a particular idea, displays numerous subtle details in an expansive manner. This is the methodology applied by most installation artworks.

(I think the original text is not well written, perhaps translated from another language.)

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并使众多的细节 missing one word here


Explanation:
并使用众多的细节
It is hard to understand otherwise.


Wei Poulin
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