The six blind men
and an elephant in
the classroom
IV E Liceo “A.Modigliani” Padova
prof.Elianda Cazzorla
Exactitude
Exactitude
Your language is to be as much
accurate as possibile as for the
vocabulary used and as for the
conveyance of thoughts and
imagination.
(I.CALVINO, Lezioni Americane, Garzanti 1988)
OUR SOCIETY
Afflicted with the plague
Language
Images
Expressing an automatism
Which waters meanings down
Meaningless
conveys
Unbearable nuisance
Felling of estrangement
and uneasiness
Exactitude
Evocative power of images
Conveying words/thoughts
Words trying to convency
Sensible phenomena
Painting compositions
One can be translated
Into the other
Description o
argomentation
Intersemiotic translation
The translation from textual language into
iconographic one or vice versa has been
the thread which has guided us during our
work. We can now state that a translation is
never completely trustworthy: the outcome
always lacks some information which can
only be found in the original language.
LINEAR AND SYNTETHICAL FORM
According to R. Jakobson, intersemiotic
translations require the identification,
description and rating of the differences
between written texts and iconographic
language, between the linear form and the
synthetical form of an image, between the
conventions of the written language and those
of the iconographic tradition.
STEPS
Reading and interpretation of a Sufi
legend
 Comprehension of the meaning of the
legend to be translated into iconographical language
 Gino Strada, Pappagalli verdi, Feltrinelli
 Non-translation with the choice of a
blank space expressing sorrow (p.52, 53)
 The Biennial Exhibition of Modern Art in
Venice (video, picture story) and...
Northern Countries
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Modulo P.A.C.E. novembre 2007
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Angelo Beolco, Parlamento de Ruzante che iera vegnù de campo,
Scena II e III 1509
Relazioni con I sei ciechi e l’elefante:
- cecità dell’ignoranza: ----------------------------------------------- assurdità della guerra: “sono uomini di carne come siamo noi”
Gino Strada, Pappagalli verdi, pag. 52-53 (foto di guerra e racconto di
guerra)
Gino Strada, Pappagalli verdi, pag. 66-68 (Bloody Friday: la memoria
nell’album di foto)
Bertold Brecht, Generale il tuo carro armato è una macchina potente
1945
J.J Rousseau, Discorso sull’origine della disuguaglianza sociale1754
Dichiarazione dei diritti dell’uomo e del Cittadino 1789
Dichiarazione universale dei diritti umani 1948 approvata
dall’assemblea generale Onu
Fabrizio de Andrè, Smisurata preghiera, da racconto La sagra di
Magroll- Il gabbiere di Alvaro Mutis, Einaudi 1999
Gino Strada, I cessi di Oslo, Articolo su Smemoranda 2007- domande di
comprensione
Gianni Rodari, Il cielo è di tutti, Einaudi 1980