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Swedish to English: Den svenska konsten under 1900-talet (Rolf Sōderberg, 1961) General field: Art/Literary Detailed field: Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
Source text - Swedish Surrealism
Surrealismen är en antiestetisk fantasikonst, som enligt sitt program söker ge bildmässig form åt de tidigare obelysta mänskliga skikt, som den moderna psykoanalysen och drömforskningen bragt i dagen. Rörelsens teoretiker Andre Breton är en f.d. läkare, som studerat Freuds psykoanalys och som på krigssjukhusen under första världskriget lyssnat till sina krigsskadade patienters okontrollerade tal och bevittnat deras hallucinationer. Deras makabra och irrationella ordström hade en mörk men suggestiv effekt. Breton sammanfattade 1924 sina synpunkter i “Manifeste du surréalisme”, som är pionjärstadiets, automatismsurrealismens, dokumentärskrift. Konstnären eller skalden skulle som ett passsivt eller somnambult medium registrera den ström av sällsamma impulser, som vällde fram ur hans av tanke och medvetande okontrollerade undermedvetna.
Translation - English Surrealism
Surrealism is an art form fuelled by the imagination. Freed from the constraints of aesthetics, it seeks to visually manifest that which was previously concealed within the layers of the human mind and later exposed by modern psychoanalysis and the interpretation of dreams. Pioneering the theories of surrealism was André Breton, a former doctor and student of Freudian psychoanalysis, who witnessed first hand the uncontrollable speech and hallucinations emanating from wounded soldiers hospitalised during world war one. Their macabre and often irrational word flow had a sinister yet evocative effect. Breton concluded his views on the subject in a 1924 manifesto “Manifeste du Surrealisme” which documented the primary stage, the surrealist automatism. Artists were to become aware of the random and continuous flow of impulses, surging from their subconscious mind, whilst remaining in a passive state where, like a medium, neither awareness nor thought were in control.
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Master's degree - UCL
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Years of experience: 10. Registered at ProZ.com: Apr 2011.
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Welcome to my profile. I am an independent freelance translator, writer and marketing professional based in London. If you need your website, book, press release or brochure translated you can contact me. I specialise in art and literature, IT, telecoms and general business but am open to discuss any translation project you may have in mind.
Born and raised in Sweden I moved to the US to study marketing and gained my BA at InterContinental University in Los Angeles. I moved to London where I have been based for the past 20 years and have a MA in History of Art from UCL. I spent many years doing marketing for large multinational IT clients (telecoms and networking hardware) throughout Europe including press releases, exhibition documentation, advertising copy, direct marketing and brochures. In recent years I have worked much in the world or art and art history, including philosophy. Being a mother of two children I have also written and translated several children's books.
Making sense of your written word, whatever the language.
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