Feb 19, 2017 18:57
7 yrs ago
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Spanish term
Argentina
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Native in: English (Variants: UK, US, Canadian) 
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norma culta
Spanish to English
Art/Literary
Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
THis is a description of the work of a Canadian art collective:
Desde fines de la década de 1960 y hasta 1994, el grupo trabajó como una troupe performática, organizando eventos y celebraciones, produciendo pinturas, esculturas, objetos, instalaciones, films, videos y publicaciones, siempre a partir de la apropiación, ya sea de las imágenes de la cultura de masas, ya sea de las formas y las ideas de la norma culta, aunque localizando en la segunda muchas de las bases conceptuales de sus estrategias y procedimientos.
From what I am seeing onlibne, "norma culta" seems to be something like standard usage, but that doesn't make sense, to me, here.
Thanks
Desde fines de la década de 1960 y hasta 1994, el grupo trabajó como una troupe performática, organizando eventos y celebraciones, produciendo pinturas, esculturas, objetos, instalaciones, films, videos y publicaciones, siempre a partir de la apropiación, ya sea de las imágenes de la cultura de masas, ya sea de las formas y las ideas de la norma culta, aunque localizando en la segunda muchas de las bases conceptuales de sus estrategias y procedimientos.
From what I am seeing onlibne, "norma culta" seems to be something like standard usage, but that doesn't make sense, to me, here.
Thanks
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +1 | cultural élite |
Muriel Vasconcellos
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| 4 +1 | intellectual (standard/s) |
neilmac
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Proposed translations
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1 hr
Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
United States
Native in English
United States
Each translation a gem!
Native in: English (Variant: US)
Works in: Spanish to English, Portuguese to English
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cultural élite
Rather than a literal translation, I think you could do a nice play on words here, between "cultural of the masses" and the ideas, etc., of the "cultural élite."
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Examples:
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cultural EliteApr 6, 2009 - **Cultural Elite. People that are waaayyyyyyy cooler than you are.**
www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/cullen/cmrel.htmApr 7, 1994 - **Religion and the Cultural Elite**: A lecture given at Saint Ambrose University, in Davenport, Iowa. by Cullen Murphy. I noted in the press release ...
https://www.theguardian.com › Arts › Art & designDec 20, 2007 - "We find little evidence for the existence of **a cultural elite who would consume 'high' culture while shunning more 'popular' cultural forms**," they ...
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Oops! Typo in my first sentence. It should be "culture of the masses".
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Note added at 1 hr (2017-02-19 20:41:21 GMT)
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Examples:
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cultural EliteApr 6, 2009 - **Cultural Elite. People that are waaayyyyyyy cooler than you are.**
www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/cullen/cmrel.htmApr 7, 1994 - **Religion and the Cultural Elite**: A lecture given at Saint Ambrose University, in Davenport, Iowa. by Cullen Murphy. I noted in the press release ...
https://www.theguardian.com › Arts › Art & designDec 20, 2007 - "We find little evidence for the existence of **a cultural elite who would consume 'high' culture while shunning more 'popular' cultural forms**," they ...
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Oops! Typo in my first sentence. It should be "culture of the masses".
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "thanks"
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intellectual (standard/s)
But I'd probably use something along the lines of:
"... whether the imagery of mass culture, or the more intellectual forms and ideas of the intelligentsia..."
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Charles' suggestion "high culture" looks promising...
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NB: "Cultural elite" is how I understand "intelligentsia"...
"... whether the imagery of mass culture, or the more intellectual forms and ideas of the intelligentsia..."
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Note added at 1 hr (2017-02-19 20:18:10 GMT)
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Charles' suggestion "high culture" looks promising...
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Note added at 13 hrs (2017-02-20 08:50:25 GMT)
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NB: "Cultural elite" is how I understand "intelligentsia"...
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