piensa en acto

English translation: art is thought in action

18:32 Jul 11, 2019
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Philosophy
Spanish term or phrase: piensa en acto
This is from a text about a contemporary Argentine artist. When I google the phrase in Spanish, I got a number of hits in different sorts of texts.

En este sentido se trata no tanto de tener un tema de conversación sino de generar un discurso con/en la obra. De esto último deriva la instalada idea de que el arte es una forma de pensamiento. Podríamos decir que el arte piensa en acto y lo hace en un contexto que nunca está vacío dado que justamente reflexiona acerca de sus condiciones de posibilidad (las de la disciplina, las del lenguaje, su materialidad, su relación con las ideas).

"art thinks in action" "art enacts thinking"
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Wendy Gosselin
Argentina
Local time: 12:47
English translation:art is thought in action
Explanation:
Thought in Action: Expertise and the Conscious Mind ... - Amazon.com
https://www.amazon.com/Thought-Action-Expertise-Conscious-Mi...
Amazon.com: Thought in Action: Expertise and the Conscious Mind ... examples of optimal performance--culled from sports, the performing arts, chess, nursing, ...

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patinba
Argentina
Local time: 12:47
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Summary of answers provided
4Art thinks in actionS
Tomás Monti
3 +1art is thought in action
patinba
4art is the act of manifesting an idea
Francois Boye
3thinks in actual reality
Adrian MM.
3art acts thinking
Juan Arturo Blackmore Zerón
3thinks in act / The way art "thinks" is by way of performing a deed
JohnMcDove
1art thinking is action
Simon Charass


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art thinking is action


Explanation:
Maybe will help.

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or
thinking art is action

Simon Charass
Canada
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Art thinks in actionS


Explanation:
I think the plural is rather important, giving that it conveys actions as a unit of measure of sorts, metaphorically speaking.
Hope it helps.

Tomás Monti
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thinks in actual reality


Explanation:
- by analogy with 'en el acto' and in antithesis to thinking in a vacuum: '... y lo hace en un contexto que nunca está vacío...'

Query: and in real time.




    Reference: http://www.windandraven.com/blog/thinking-in-real-time
    Reference: http://www.proz.com/kudoz/spanish-to-english/general-convers...
Adrian MM.
Austria
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art is thought in action


Explanation:
Thought in Action: Expertise and the Conscious Mind ... - Amazon.com
https://www.amazon.com/Thought-Action-Expertise-Conscious-Mi...
Amazon.com: Thought in Action: Expertise and the Conscious Mind ... examples of optimal performance--culled from sports, the performing arts, chess, nursing, ...



patinba
Argentina
Local time: 12:47
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Anne Schulz: or "art is thinking in action", to avoid misunderstanding of "thought" as past participle of "think"? (maybe you even introduced this ambiguity on purpose?)
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art acts thinking


Explanation:
Just and idea.

Juan Arturo Blackmore Zerón
Mexico
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art is the act of manifesting an idea


Explanation:
http://mandyramsdell.com/art-is-the-act-of-manifesting-an-id...

Francois Boye
United States
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thinks in act / The way art "thinks" is by way of performing a deed


Explanation:
Art, the way it manifest itself is by one deed.

More than "one action" or "actions", it is "a deed" an action that is performed intentionally or consciously.

In other words, "art" thinks in terms of "a premeditated result," be that an emotional impact or an impression on the mind.

The "thinking" performed by "art" (or the artist) is the resulting "act," the resulting "deed" that now creates an impact in the viewer, the listener, the reader.

That'll be my take on this.

Saludos cordiales.

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As I note in the discussion, and since this is a philosophical subject, the applicable Spanish definition is indeed,

"Acto" DRAE: 9. m. Fil. Lo real, lo que es determinación o perfección de la potencia.

Thus, art "thinks" by way of creating a reality, something that was potential, something in the realm of possibility is now an actuality. Almost with its own life, now that it is completed.

JohnMcDove
United States
Local time: 08:47
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Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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