English translation: (fig.) rewrite around 're-link', reintegrate, counterweight/rebound, etc., (Helen Shiner) evokes its opposite [context-driven]
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German term or phrase:
Widerlager
English translation:
(fig.) rewrite around 're-link', reintegrate, counterweight/rebound, etc., (Helen Shiner) evokes its opposite [context-driven]
German to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / art history
German term or phrase:Widerlager
Sobald diese Elemente aus dem Gefüge des Gemäldes herausgelöst und dabei auch entstellt worden waren, konnten sich an ihnen Widerlager zu eben jenen Verfahren ausbilden, die diese Herauslösung und Entstellung durchgeführt hatten.
As far as I can tell, "Widerlager" is a construction or engineering term that is being used figuratively here. It is important to preserve the sense of opposition and also the sense of anchoring. Any ideas?
Explanation: Pending **further context** (with Ingeborg & Phil @ 'discussion') - e.g.:
No sooner had these (elements / objects) been prised and alienated out of the overall composition, than they elicited a converse response, a reintegrative counterweight to the strategies of estrangement applied.'
Such might make sense if we're 'witnessing' the development of a painting through several stages, or again, of how contemporaneous viewers saw/would have seen the work. Are we?
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Thanks, E. - and Helen, And Andrew. PS, the painting (or whatever it was that was washed clear of it) had better be a good one after our joint efforts!
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Thanks, E. - And Helen. And Andrew. PS, the painting or whatever was washed clear of it, had better be a good one after our joint efforts!
For some reason I did not get email notification of answers to my question--that's why requests for more context went unheeded. I apologize for that. Thanks especially to Helen Shiner for "one of those moments of tension where something evokes its opposite." And thanks to Stephen Reader for demonstrating the need for the sentence to be reworked. 4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer
I am sure we can be of further assistance if we know something about the artwork (its background, time, the artist (if known), the purpose of this text, etc.). Thanks.
I'll 'third' that.
Meanwhile, to add some discursive ballast.... Without further context I'd presume 'the isolating & alienation of (x-y elements) out of the composition allowed/invoked a rebound process, a reintegrative counterbalance to the very processes by which they had been segregated in the first place'. Ugh. Would seem to call for a rewrite. 'contradictory', 'opposing', '(the) converse' feel like useful concepts here. At a (wild) stretch & depending on period of the ptg concerned, even 'a kind of conceptual contrapposto', but wouldn't that just be asking for 'pseud!' (etc.) calls. NB Widerlager doesn't sound as recherché in Ger. as the architectural equivs in Eng. in this fig. context.
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The renaissance of religions seems to have been underway for quite some time already. As more and more spheres of life fall under the sway of economic dictates, the »counterfort to functionalism« and the question of the sense connection of the whole take on increasing significance.
Ijust saw is doesnt open in English?
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Annie and Rolf Reiser Local time: 19:57 Specializes in field Native speaker of: German, English
3 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
rewrite. 're-link', reintegrate, counterweight
Explanation: Pending **further context** (with Ingeborg & Phil @ 'discussion') - e.g.:
No sooner had these (elements / objects) been prised and alienated out of the overall composition, than they elicited a converse response, a reintegrative counterweight to the strategies of estrangement applied.'
Such might make sense if we're 'witnessing' the development of a painting through several stages, or again, of how contemporaneous viewers saw/would have seen the work. Are we?
-------------------------------------------------- Note added at 7 days (2010-11-15 21:56:03 GMT) Post-grading --------------------------------------------------
Thanks, E. - and Helen, And Andrew. PS, the painting (or whatever it was that was washed clear of it) had better be a good one after our joint efforts!
-------------------------------------------------- Note added at 7 days (2010-11-15 21:58:21 GMT) Post-grading --------------------------------------------------
Thanks, E. - And Helen. And Andrew. PS, the painting or whatever was washed clear of it, had better be a good one after our joint efforts!
Stephen Reader Local time: 03:57 Specializes in field Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 95
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For some reason I did not get email notification of answers to my question--that's why requests for more context went unheeded. I apologize for that. Thanks especially to Helen Shiner for "one of those moments of tension where something evokes its opposite." And thanks to Stephen Reader for demonstrating the need for the sentence to be reworked.
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