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German to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / modern art | | German term or phrase: zu sich selbst befreit | I am translating the description of an exhibition that documents the history of "konstruktiv konkrete Kunst".
"Wie sie [die konstruktiv konkrete Kunst] ihre Galeristinnen und Galeristen, Sammlerinnen und Sammler und die Kunstkritik begeisterte, dokumentiert die von einer Publikation begleitete Sonderschau, indem es wichtige Galerien und deren Arbeit mit dieser Kunstrichtung vorstellt. Interviews und Bild- und Textdokumente erzählen von entscheidenden Situationen in der Auseinandersetzung mit dieser ***zu sich selbst befreiten*** Kunst."
The text ends here, so I don't have any further context.
I wondered about "art that is freed for itself", but I'm not completely happy with it. I'd be grateful for any help.
British English, if possible. |
| | | liberated to be itself ((& variants of same essence - to follow its own laws / whims.. ) )) | Explanation:
This is in the vein of that quote (Carl Andre?) re. art being about art and everything else being about everything else - the liberation from having to be 'about' anything but its own drama within/on its surface/support (in 2-D work), for example. Ultimately the liberation of art from an obligation to 'portent' ( as in C19 or the end-of-C19 to 1970s dread of it - history painting... in that sense, narrative... illustration... ) towards the abstract.
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  Stephen Reader
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6 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): -1 liberated from itself/went beyond its own limits
Explanation:
escaped its own boundaries
went beyond itself
| Ramey Rieger
Local time: 03:58
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Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 8
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32 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +2 liberated to be itself ((& variants of same essence - to follow its own laws / whims.. ) ))
Explanation:
This is in the vein of that quote (Carl Andre?) re. art being about art and everything else being about everything else - the liberation from having to be 'about' anything but its own drama within/on its surface/support (in 2-D work), for example. Ultimately the liberation of art from an obligation to 'portent' ( as in C19 or the end-of-C19 to 1970s dread of it - history painting... in that sense, narrative... illustration... ) towards the abstract.
| Stephen Reader
Local time: 03:58
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 95
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1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): +2
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