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accumulative arts

French translation: art(s) cumulatif(s)

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English term or phrase:accumulative arts
French translation:art(s) cumulatif(s)
Entered by: Eve Lasserre

15:12 Apr 6, 2012
English to French translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
English term or phrase: accumulative arts
Arts produced in Africa by "power associations" (komo, kono for example), a dynamic form of arts, in which the objects are made of diverse materials and the leader of the "power association" uses them a bit like a chaman to help people, there may be a performance around the objects and the leader modifies them from one use to another, also they are not shown entirely to keep the secret of their power. "Boliw" are such objects.
I wonder if there is a term in French for "accumulative arts", I haven't found any.

Context: conference on African arts.
Eve Lasserre
France
Local time: 23:59
art(s) cumulatif(s)
Explanation:
16. L’approche purement fonctionnaliste de l’art africain qui devait s’imposer dans les années 50, du reste contestable en soi, ne suffit pas à faire oublier les exégèses cubistes et les pratiques désastreuses qu’elles inspiraient. Ce n’est que depuis deux ou trois décennies que l’on a admis, dans la vague du succès que «l’art cumulatif» (A. Warhol, Arman F., J.-W. Mestach) a soulevée en Occident, que l’ «objet» africain relevait lui aussi, comme nous l’avons dit, d’une forme d’ «esthétique de l’accumulation».
(http://ceroart.revues.org/253)
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Barbara Carrara
Italy
Local time: 23:59
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C'est ce que j'aurais tenté mais je n'étais pas certaine que le terme existe. Merci beaucoup !



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art(s) cumulatif(s)


Explanation:
16. L’approche purement fonctionnaliste de l’art africain qui devait s’imposer dans les années 50, du reste contestable en soi, ne suffit pas à faire oublier les exégèses cubistes et les pratiques désastreuses qu’elles inspiraient. Ce n’est que depuis deux ou trois décennies que l’on a admis, dans la vague du succès que «l’art cumulatif» (A. Warhol, Arman F., J.-W. Mestach) a soulevée en Occident, que l’ «objet» africain relevait lui aussi, comme nous l’avons dit, d’une forme d’ «esthétique de l’accumulation».
(http://ceroart.revues.org/253)

Barbara Carrara
Italy
Local time: 23:59
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
Grading comment
C'est ce que j'aurais tenté mais je n'étais pas certaine que le terme existe. Merci beaucoup !
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