21:46 Sep 25, 2010 |
German to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / Ausstellung Galerie | |||||||
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The atmosphere of the space is established by the austere or practially sacred lighting environment Explanation: This is just a suggestion. Synonyms can be inserted practically everywhere. You may want to add some commas. |
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is achieved not only via the museum-like or almost sacral lighting environment Explanation: another option |
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... museum-like, almost devotional Explanation: ..an atmosph. sustained by means of both the museum-style, almost devotional lighting of the space and by (the ambient sound of...) |
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The space owes its atmosphere in equal measure to the lighting, which is like that of a museum or ev Explanation: This is the slightly freer translation option. I said "shrine" instead of church because a shrine is a sacred structure but relates better to "museum". I thought I'd better translate the whole sentence to give it context. I translate materials about exhibition spaces using words like "museal" and "sacral" all the time (in German, that is. I avoid using the words "museal" and"sacral" in English.) -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 461 days (2011-12-31 16:06:51 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- The space owes its atmosphere in equal measure to the lighting, which is like that of a museum or even a shrine, and a thrumming sound like an aeroplane motor. |
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Reference: Museal Reference information: Meanwhile the term museal also became a qualification for the kind of art lending to the sterile, imposing and authoritarian nature of the architecture as well as the cultural circumstances of the institute, which exercises a certain power over the cultural inheritance but also over the development of art. The qualification is conceived both positive (acknowledgement, quality, established) and negative (adaptive, isolated, established). In common language museal means: 'suitable for the museum' (a museal piece). http://www.abandon.nl/museal.htm |
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