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Transcribing an Art Work

(left) Jeff Wall, Picture for Women, Transparency in lightbox, 1979 (right) Edouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies"Bergere, 1882To transcribe essentially means to translate something into another form, as in "a Mozart string quartet transcribed for piano", and in visual arts it can mean to translate from another medium, or to reinterpret the ideas and themes within the work.mid 16th century (in the sense "make a copy in...

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