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Museo de Sitio de la Represión

Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

Museo del Barro (Paraguay)

English translation:

Clay Museum; Museum of Clay and Earthenware

Added to glossary by Michael Powers (PhD)
Oct 14, 2007 21:42
16 yrs ago
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Spanish term

Museo del Barro (Paraguay)

Spanish to English Art/Literary Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting Paraguay // Art/Historical Museum
How would you translate the name of this museum into English? My intention is to do so only once, in brackets, in the document I am working on. "Clay" is usually "barro cocido". "Mud museum" sounds strange and vaguely humorous.

Any suggestions? Below is part of the abstract of the article I've translated:



En el marco de dos escenas de musealidad fragilizada, como son los casos de Chile y Paraguay, se abordan dos ejemplos prácticos de trabajo micro-político: Museo del Barro (Asunción del Paraguay) y Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende (Santiago de Chile). A partir de la intervención de Gordon Matta-Clark realizada en el Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Santiago de Chile en 1971, se elabora una historia de las formaciones de dos experiencias: 1) el Museo del Barro, articulando de modo flexible y en plano de igualdad formal tres colecciones (arte popular, arte indígena, arte contemporáneo), dando lugar a la producción de una contemporaneidad combinada y desigual, desarrollada como un proyecto autónomo que produce institucionalidad cultural desde fuera del Estado; 2) el Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, como gesto político de artistas y críticos en contra de los medios de comunicación de masas que organizan en 1970 el boicot informativo en contra del gobierno popular de Salvador Allende. Hoy día, este museo alberga en una sola estructura, un Memorial, un Museo de Sitio de la Represión y una Colección de arte contemporáneo. Finalmente, modificaciones de la noción de
solidaridad, en la actual coyuntura chilena.
Proposed translations (English)
4 +5 Clay Museum; Museum of Clay and Earthenware
5 Museum of Mud
4 Museum of Pottery Clay
Change log

Oct 15, 2007 00:07: Michael Powers (PhD) changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/55340">Robert Forstag's</a> old entry - "Museo del Barro (Paraguay)"" to ""Clay Museum; Museum of Clay and Earthenware""

Proposed translations

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Clay Museum; Museum of Clay and Earthenware

Robert,

Look at the second translation of "barro" in the Oxford Dictionary:

Oxford

barro m
1 a (lodo) mud; traes los zapatos llenos de barro your shoes are covered in mud; arrastraron su buen nombre por el barro they dragged his good name through the mud
b (Art) clay; una cazuela de barro a clay o an earthenware dish; barros earthenware

Mike :)

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Note added at 26 mins (2007-10-14 22:09:19 GMT)
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Country Information, a world portal on countries, politics and ...
This article is about the city in Paraguay. For other uses, see Asunción .... Municipality of Asunción; Clay Museum; Cabildo Cultural Center ...
www.countryiworld.com/wiki-Asuncion,_Paraguay - 71k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

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Visual Arts in Asunción (Directory/South America/Paraguay/Asunción ...
Museo del Barro, Asuncion, Paraguay traveling to - Universidad UNIACC gallery . ... The Center for Visual Arts / The Clay Museum is of outmost importance in ...
www.worldwidirectory.com/South.America/Paraguay/Asuncion/Ar... - 26k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
Asunción
Image:Asunción del Paraguay 1892.jpg Asunción is one of the oldest cities in South .... Municipality of Asunción; Clay Museum; Cabildo Cultural Center ...
www.simplifiedwiki.com/index.php/Asunción - 54k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

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Asunción - Mirrorpedia
The event influenced the independence of Paraguay, which then .... Municipality of Asunción; Clay Museum; Cabildo Cultural Centerar:أسونسيون ...
www.mirrorpedia.com/wiki/Asunción - 50k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

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You're welcome, Robert - Mike :)
Peer comment(s):
agree Cecilia Della Croce
1 min
Thank you, Cecilia - Mike :)
agree Marian Martin (X)
8 mins
Thank you, m_martin - Mike :)
agree Robert Copeland
12 mins
Thank you, Robert - Mike :)
agree Terry Burgess : I can't be a stick-in-the-mud:-)
24 mins
Thank you, Terry - better to be a "stick-in-the-clay" or "earthenware" - Mike :)
agree Aïda Garcia Pons
40 mins
Thank you, Aida - Mike :)
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "It sounds strange in English, but it is undoubtedly accurate. Thank you, Mike. Thanks to everyone else as well."
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Museum of Mud

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Museum of Pottery Clay

"barro" was and still is used by the indigenous culture (the Guanches) in the Canary Islands where I live, to make pottery without the use of a potter's wheel, shaping it by hand.
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