champ vivant

English translation: living field: still open to experimentation, creation, and more generally, change, as in the living/dead language opposition.

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French term or phrase:	champ vivant
English translation:	living field: still open to experimentation, creation, and more generally, change, as in the living/dead language opposition.
Entered by:	Franck Le Gac (X)

12:52 Jul 22, 2004

French to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting

French term or phrase: champ vivant

Introductory words re an art school (in an exhibition brochure):
"l'objectif de [XXX] est de préparer des étudiants à devenir des acteurs de haut niveau dans le champ vivant des arts visuels: recherche, créations et production."

Does the term "champ vivant" have overtones of something current and with practical application?

jbc KudoZ activity Questions: 37 (none open) (3 without valid answers) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 23
Local time: 14:51

the living field

Explanation:
I would stay with a simple equivalent and avoid overtranslating, especially since in French the term sounds a bit general and fuzzy (with a marketing effect intended, rather than an actual, hard meaning). I also understand it as something current with practical application, perhaps in one of these old oppositions with art history/criticism and theory (often assumed to play the 'dead' part).

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Franck Le Gac (X)
Local time: 15:51

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Thanks for your comments, it confirmed I was thinking along the right lines.
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4 +2

the thriving field of

Paul Lambert

5 +1

flourishing field

CarolynB

Real world/day-to-day field

Lora Boisseau

the living field

Franck Le Gac (X)

evolving world

Josephine Billet

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1 min confidence:

Real world/day-to-day field

Explanation:

Lora Boisseau
Local time: 14:51
Works in field
Native speaker of: English

The asker has declined this answer

10 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

the thriving field of

Explanation:
given the context, i think that something like 'the thriving field of' might be appropriate.

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Note added at 14 mins (2004-07-22 13:06:53 GMT)
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on second thoughts, probably better with \'world\' here as opposed to \'field\'

Paul Lambert
United States
Local time: 06:51
Native speaker of: English

The asker has declined this answer

42 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

flourishing field

Explanation:
I like the alliteration

CarolynB
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 30

The asker has declined this answer

1 hr confidence:

the living field

Franck Le Gac (X)
Local time: 15:51
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

Thanks for your comments, it confirmed I was thinking along the right lines.

1 hr confidence:

evolving world

Explanation:
Champ here is used to describe the general field / milieu, so world would be a reasonable alternative. Vivant could certainly be transalted literally or soehting else perveying the "ever-changing" : progressive : living nature of the arts.

Josephine Billet
Local time: 15:51
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

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