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trama contextual

English translation: contextual plot/plotting


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Spanish term or phrase:trama contextual
English translation:contextual plot/plotting
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Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
Spanish term or phrase: trama contextual
The word is in this phrase and its about a modern art piece:

"las narrativas derivadas de su trama contextual y su propia lectura"

Would you use something like "contextual plot" or maybe "contextual frame"?
Thanks for your help.
Lenaps
Spain
contextual plot /plotting
Explanation:
Your choice of "contextual plot" is correct. It is talking about a "narrative", so "plot" fits well within the context.
You could also say the "contextual plotting" (plotting suggests more depiction, deliniating, more pictorial).
I would favor plot (or plotting) over setting. I don't believe it needs to be a common term or made phrase, it is after all an art critique or essay, which is entitled much literary freedom.
Another choice would be "contextual scenario".
Avoid "scheme", since there is such a thing as "contextual scheme" in semiotics, but it is translated as "esquemas contextuales", this is probably another subject/reference alltogether (Signs in use: an introduction to semiotics, Jørgen Dines Johansen,Svend Erik Larsen).

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Jocelyn Gonzalez
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Summary of answers provided
4contextual plot /plotting
Jocelyn Gonzalez
4...the plot and the context...
eski
4contextual matrix
Jenni Lukac
3contextual plot; contextual setting
Deborah Lockett
2contextual frame
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contextual frame


Explanation:
http://books.google.es/books?id=3-vBCWC_hOcC&pg=PA155&lpg=PA...

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Note added at 40 minutos (2009-10-14 11:38:33 GMT)
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"Trama" es una estructura textual para desarrollar una idea. Probablmente "scheme" / "pattern" / "structure" quedaría mejor en este contexto.

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neutral  Jim Tucker: OK - but "framework"
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contextual plot; contextual setting


Explanation:
according to this reference, a "contextual plot" is "passive" and refers to events which surround (in your case) a work of art

http://www.google.es/search?hl=es&source=hp&q="Usually thoug...

Deborah Lockett
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contextual matrix


Explanation:
Another approach. Some examples of "contextual matrix":"Within a pervasive, politicized social subtext, Southern or regional themes are often explored by Twiggs, who appears to enjoy consideration of the familiar. But, such themes may be telegraphed into a larger contextual matrix of human experience..." http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/4aa/4aa597a.htm or "... that art cannot be fully determined by—or reducible to—its contextual matrix" http://www.google.es/search?hl=es&q=trama contextual matrix ... "Matrix" shares some of the "weft / weave" qualities of trama, that may be more relevant here than the concept of "plot".

Jenni Lukac
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...the plot and the context...


Explanation:
I would be nice to say "contextual plot" but it doesn't seem to be a very common term.

Can there be a naive modern art? It seemed to me that without naivete still ... lack of correlation between the naive plot and the modern social context. ...
books.google.com.mx/books?isbn=1584651407...
Outline of Aristotle's Theory of Tragedy - [ Traducir esta página ]The beginning, called by modern critics the incentive moment, must start the ... By this Aristotle means that the plot must be structurally .... pity and fear that are aroused through an intricately constructed work of art (context). ...
www.cnr.edu/home/bmcmanus/poetics.html - En caché - Similares
Outline of Aristotle's Theory of Tragedy - [ Traducir esta página ]30 Oct 2008 ... Plot is the “first principle,” the most important feature of tragedy. ... in modern terminology the dénouement (context). 2. The plot must be .... are aroused through an intricately constructed work of art (context). ...
www.docstoc.com/.../Outline-of-Aristotles-Theory--of-Traged... - En caché - Similares
São Paulo Museum of Art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - [ Traducir esta página ]With that purpose, the São Paulo City Hall donated a plot of ground, .... Still in the context of Western art, the museum possesses important holdings of ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/São_Paulo_Museum_of_Art - En caché - Similares
[PDF] Tree Textures: Modern Techniques in Art-historical Context∗ - [ Traducir esta página ]Formato de archivo: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Versión en HTML
Tree Textures: Modern Techniques in Art-historical Context∗. Ann-Sophie Lehmann .... contrast plot shows a gradual decrease of the illuminance ...
www.macs.hw.ac.uk/texture2005/programme/papers/013.pdf - Similares
de AS Lehmann - Artículos relacionados


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contextual plot /plotting


Explanation:
Your choice of "contextual plot" is correct. It is talking about a "narrative", so "plot" fits well within the context.
You could also say the "contextual plotting" (plotting suggests more depiction, deliniating, more pictorial).
I would favor plot (or plotting) over setting. I don't believe it needs to be a common term or made phrase, it is after all an art critique or essay, which is entitled much literary freedom.
Another choice would be "contextual scenario".
Avoid "scheme", since there is such a thing as "contextual scheme" in semiotics, but it is translated as "esquemas contextuales", this is probably another subject/reference alltogether (Signs in use: an introduction to semiotics, Jørgen Dines Johansen,Svend Erik Larsen).



Jocelyn Gonzalez
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