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norma culta

English translation: cultural élite

18:57 Feb 19, 2017
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
Spanish term or phrase: norma culta
THis is a description of the work of a Canadian art collective:

Desde fines de la década de 1960 y hasta 1994, el grupo trabajó como una troupe performática, organizando eventos y celebraciones, produciendo pinturas, esculturas, objetos, instalaciones, films, videos y publicaciones, siempre a partir de la apropiación, ya sea de las imágenes de la cultura de masas, ya sea de las formas y las ideas de la norma culta, aunque localizando en la segunda muchas de las bases conceptuales de sus estrategias y procedimientos.

From what I am seeing onlibne, "norma culta" seems to be something like standard usage, but that doesn't make sense, to me, here.

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Wendy Gosselin
Argentina
Local time: 08:54
English translation:cultural élite
Explanation:
Rather than a literal translation, I think you could do a nice play on words here, between "cultural of the masses" and the ideas, etc., of the "cultural élite."

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Examples:

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cultural EliteApr 6, 2009 - **Cultural Elite. People that are waaayyyyyyy cooler than you are.**

www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/cullen/cmrel.htmApr 7, 1994 - **Religion and the Cultural Elite**: A lecture given at Saint Ambrose University, in Davenport, Iowa. by Cullen Murphy. I noted in the press release ...

https://www.theguardian.com › Arts › Art & designDec 20, 2007 - "We find little evidence for the existence of **a cultural elite who would consume 'high' culture while shunning more 'popular' cultural forms**," they ...



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Oops! Typo in my first sentence. It should be "culture of the masses".
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Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 04:54
Grading comment
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1cultural élite
Muriel Vasconcellos
4 +1intellectual (standard/s)
neilmac


Discussion entries: 5





  

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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
cultural élite


Explanation:
Rather than a literal translation, I think you could do a nice play on words here, between "cultural of the masses" and the ideas, etc., of the "cultural élite."

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Note added at 1 hr (2017-02-19 20:41:21 GMT)
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Examples:

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cultural EliteApr 6, 2009 - **Cultural Elite. People that are waaayyyyyyy cooler than you are.**

www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/cullen/cmrel.htmApr 7, 1994 - **Religion and the Cultural Elite**: A lecture given at Saint Ambrose University, in Davenport, Iowa. by Cullen Murphy. I noted in the press release ...

https://www.theguardian.com › Arts › Art & designDec 20, 2007 - "We find little evidence for the existence of **a cultural elite who would consume 'high' culture while shunning more 'popular' cultural forms**," they ...



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Note added at 1 hr (2017-02-19 20:42:26 GMT)
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Oops! Typo in my first sentence. It should be "culture of the masses".

Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 04:54
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 92
Grading comment
thanks

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agree  Marie Wilson
10 mins
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
intellectual (standard/s)


Explanation:
But I'd probably use something along the lines of:
"... whether the imagery of mass culture, or the more intellectual forms and ideas of the intelligentsia..."

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Charles' suggestion "high culture" looks promising...

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NB: "Cultural elite" is how I understand "intelligentsia"...



    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligentsia
neilmac
Spain
Local time: 13:54
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 124

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agree  MPGS: :-)
3 mins
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