Review of Vidal Claramonte, M.ª Carmen África (2022). Translation and Contemporary Art: Transdisciplinary Encounters

Abstract

In the words of its author, Translation and Contemporary Art aims “to analyse the connections and parallelisms between translation and contemporary art and to show how contemporary art sees and uses translation” (p. 3). However, it transcends this relationship by going further and becomes an essential book on communication, which explains in an impeccable way how in every verbal or non-verbal communicative process there underlies a process of semiotic or intersemiotic translation. In short, it places translation at the centre of communication; even more so, it places translation at the very soul of communication in any vital and social situation. This open-minded, daring and free-hearted perspective denotes a vision that is both intelligent and sensitive.