artifiziert

English translation: artifice

10:41 Jul 4, 2016

German to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Philosophy / Art appreciation, Philosophy &/or anthropology, aesthetics, sociology, prestige-maintaining Academia-speak

German term or phrase: artifiziert

Catalogue text. The context is a contemporary artist's venturing into (& then staying with) ceramics. The gist of "artifiziert" will be s'where between 'wrought', 'of human invention' and 'artificial' as in sophisticated (of which 'recherché' may be a pej. form, but here the slant is pos./neutral).-
Thus in an additional firing of the Boxes ((overall title f. a set of wks)), glass, and in the Stellar cycle ((ditto)), gold, come into play to extend the range of materials drawn on, and in the Dirty Corners((ditto)), ‘arcane knowledge’ of special mixtures too. In refining the objects by means of coating the surfaces, they are further ....
Durch die Verfeinerung der Objekte mittels Beschichtung der Oberflächen werden diese weiter *artifiziert*.

Regards and thx in advance to you friends out there!

Stephen Reader KudoZ activity Questions: 13 (none open) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 181
Local time: 09:58

English translation:artifice

Explanation:
I think that something incorporating the noun "artifice" is needed. We don't have a verb from this in English but you could try something like "further artifice is added", "further levels of artifice are added", "drawn further into the realms of artifice" or "their artifice is enhanced".

Selected response from:

Armorel Young
Local time: 08:58

Grading comment

Thanks again, Armorel (and everyone!). In the end, closest I'd say, intuitively (after not trusting my intuition). 'artification' may in fact do what the Ger. does, but my unashamedly subjective feeling (what else have we got) militates against - well, both, and the gist behind them seems to be in your positive sense.
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Summary of answers provided

2 +1

artifice

Armorel Young

enhanced/cultivated/acculturated

Ramey Rieger (X)

receive further artification

Michael Martin, MA

artful

gangels (X)

Discussion entries: 9

Stephen Reader

ASKER

Erratum to final comment/choice

22:33 Jul 9, 2016

... meant to say: ... and the gist behind them seems to be *artifice* in your positive sense.
PS it also avoids "International Art English" (which see written on online - haven't the URL to hand just now).

Stephen Reader

ASKER

Orla, yes,

17:34 Jul 4, 2016

no need to apologise surely, this is the track. Doesn't undo all of the foregoing either (just some). Artist is Markus Karstiess. Yours too? Admittedly there are a no. of 'workers in clay' & not all of them 'decorative'.
Best
Stephen

oa_xxx (X)

Germany

@asker

17:27 Jul 4, 2016

oh sorry, I didnt see your latest comments Stephen!

oa_xxx (X)

Germany

If I have the right artist:

17:26 Jul 4, 2016

'I do like the continuously [sic] transformation of the material clay/earth. From something that most people call “dirt” to a highly artificial artefact.
All the works are made quite rough and direct, using my body, the studio floor or ancient rocks. [...] Throughout the transformation of the hardening by fire and the covering in glazes like platinum you can still feel the soft soil." a quote from the artist in an interview on tractionmagazine.co.uk - I assume that he spoke in English hence the non-native mistakes rather than it being a dodgy translation - just thought the sentiment was interesting and relevant to the context here - and "an intricate, large-scale wall relief which the artist cast directly from his studio floor, its elaborate beauty belying its humble origins." from a review - again this idea of transforming something "humble", "natural" into something more elaborate, artistic, abstract (ie not natural) - turning it into a "work of art".

Stephen Reader

ASKER

So I've opted for this, & all of you've contrib'd

17:16 Jul 4, 2016

Refining the objects by means of coating the surfaces further underscores their nature as conscious art constructs.

((thus avoiding that Artification, which I don't yet see a reason to encourage, will Academe forgive me?))

Stephen Reader

ASKER

Removal (& elevation) from 'craft'...

17:01 Jul 4, 2016

seems to be a non-specialist lang. synonym I'd venture for the definition of 'artification' (which I find ghaaastly) as used here: http://www.contempaesthetics.org/newvolume/pages/article.php... . I wish it'd been 'artifice' in that pos. sense (thx again, Armorel et al.)!

Armorel Young

I'm not convinced ...

14:53 Jul 4, 2016

... that "artifice" is necessarily disparaging. My version of the Oxford Dict. defines "artifice" as 1. a clever device; a contrivance; 2. cunning/an instance of this; 3. skill, dexterity. In that third sense the word isn't disparaging at all.

gangels (X)

Doesn't the tenor of the text.....

13:34 Jul 4, 2016

point toward "zweckentfremdet"? Artifice has a derogatory connotion a la Trick or Kunstgriff

TonyTK

Might it not be ...

12:02 Jul 4, 2016

... "artificialised" in the sense of "Verkünstlichung"?
(Although I also like "Armorel's take on it.)

Answers

29 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

artifice

Armorel Young
Local time: 08:58
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 14

Grading comment

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks, Armorel. Artifice won't quite leave my mind either, but the tenor of the text is definitely not disparaging. I'm at the On-tip-of-tongue stage. Around sophistication/invention, maybe the latter (i.e. inventiveness really) is in the right direction...

2 hrs confidence:

artful

Explanation:
By personalization of the objects by means of surface layering they assume an artful appearance.

gangels (X)
Local time: 01:58
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English,

German
PRO pts in category: 4

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks, gangels. Hm, artful too - here's begging patience from you all while I let things sink in (or pop up) with your suggestions...

7 mins confidence:

enhanced/cultivated/acculturated

Explanation:
There's plenty of options, really

ennobled
sophisticated......

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What about fabricated?

Ramey Rieger (X)
Germany
Local time: 09:58
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 12

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks, Ramey, yes, enhanced is tumbling about my mind too. Now if 'contrivance' weren't tinted with suspicion...

4 hrs confidence:

receive further artification

Explanation:
I was thinking of 'artistic refinement' first, overlooking that 'refinement' already came up in the first part of the sentence.

'Artifiziert' is not disparaging at all and also doesn't mean 'made more artificial'

Michael Martin, MA
United States
Local time: 03:58
Works in field
Native speaker of:

German,

English
PRO pts in category: 28

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