Cultural Translation through Poetry and Painting: Gary Snyder and Brice Marden in Dialogue with Han-shan
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Date
2009-06
Authors
Melton, Ladaea
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The Ohio State University
Abstract
This paper discusses the value of cross-cultural and cross-media translations, specifically looking at Han-shan's Tang-dynasty era "Cold Mountain" poems. Gary Snyder, American poet, translated 24 of these poems in the mid-nineteenth century and Brice Marden, American painter, produced a series of 6 large-scale paintings based on the same set of poems. Ultimately, these works reveal more about the translator than the original author, more about the West than the East.
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Gary Snyder, Brice Marden, Cold Mountain, Han-shan, Translation