Abstract
In a previous corpus-based descriptive study, we concluded that a linguistic metaphor is a frequently used technique in audio description (AD) for art museums and proposed a set of categories to describe this resource. These results led us to compose increasingly creative and subjective ADs for a series of audio descriptive guided tours of art exhibitions carried out within the Words to See accessibility project. In the present study, the same categories are applied to the analysis of the ADs created for these guided tours. In these ADs, metaphors are used to describe both representational and abstract art, while some categories of deliberate metaphor are more frequently used to describe abstract works. These results are discussed in relation to our and other authors’ studies in this field, as well as to theories of art education and gallery teaching.
Highlights
In a previous corpus-based descriptive study, we concluded that a linguistic metaphor is a frequently used technique in audio description (AD) for art museums and proposed a set of categories to describe this resource
Subjective ADs do not necessarily lead to patronizing practices. They could foster blind and partially sighted (BPS) individuals’ understanding and experience of visual art. This hypothesis lies at the basis of our study of metaphor, which we consider to be an indicator of subjectivity and creativity in AD for art museums and exhibitions
In a previous corpus-based descriptive research, we concluded that linguistic metaphors and especially deliberate metaphors are a frequent resource in the audio descriptive guides used in art museums
Summary
According to Eisner (2002), the goal of art education programs should be to help learners develop their capacity to have aesthetic experiences in their daily lives; he states that aesthetic seeing “requires the ability to slow down perception so that visual qualities can be inspected and savored. With regard to visual art AD, in their proposal for a method to describe paintings and sculptures, De Coster and Mühleis (2007) highlighted the need to translate both clear and ambivalent visual signs, including the sensations produced by the visual sign in the viewer. Subjective ADs do not necessarily lead to patronizing practices On the contrary, they could foster BPS individuals’ understanding and experience of visual art. They could foster BPS individuals’ understanding and experience of visual art This hypothesis lies at the basis of our study of metaphor, which we consider to be an indicator of subjectivity and creativity in AD for art museums and exhibitions. A fundamental element of both our descriptive research and practice is our close collaboration with generous individuals, museums, companies and organizations involved, in one way or another, in accessibility to the arts
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