https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0829-6603
Anna Wendorff – PhD, Assistant Professor of Spanish Language Literature at the Department of Spanish Philology, University of Lodz (Poland); her research interests are focused on contemporary Latin American literature and literary and audiovisual translations. Author of four monographs: Vanguardias poéticas en el arte digital en Latinoamérica, Gobierno Bolivariano de Aragua Publishing House, Aragua (Venezuela), 2010; Estructuras narratológicas en la literatura digital de Jaime Alejandro Rodríguez, Aracne editrice, Roma, 2015; Acercamientos a las poéticas de Oliverio Girondo: Estudio específico sobre un poeta de la vanguardia argentina, Lodz University Press, Lodz, 2023 and Sztuka dostępna dla niewidomych i niedowidzących odbiorców w londyńskich muzeach / Accessible art for the blind and visually impaired in London museums, Lodz University Press, Lodz, 2023.
Anna Wendorff
Romanica Cracoviensia, Tom 24, numer 1, Tom 24 (2024), s. 59 - 68
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.24.006.19715Anna Wendorff
Przekładaniec, Numer 35– Słowo i obraz w przekładzie 2, 2017, s. 86 - 106
https://doi.org/10.4467/16891864PC.17.014.8227The article compares experience, often raised in contemporary aesthetic theories, of translating image into words, a relationship of the visible and linguistic with a translation technique, as well as museum experience in order to indicate some regularities in the creation of audio description (AD) of works of art, understood as a new way of making artifacts accessible to people who suffer from visual impairment, as well as one of the areas of practice applied in museology, which, by trial and error tries to adapt artistic means of expression to perceptive abilities of a distinct group of visitors. The first part of the publication discusses theories combining a picture with a word, as well as a description of an image in terms from the perspective of AD. Then it analyses two descriptions of the Neoplastic Room in Museum of Art in Łódź: a description by an art historian, Janina Ładnowska, which was created in the late 1980s as a curatorial description and was not made for the blind, and an audio description created by students of the Department of the History of Art of the University of Łódź with the support of the Audiodescription Foundation and the Culture without Barriers Foundation and through consultations with people with visual impairments in the academic year 2013-2014 dedicated to the blind and visually impaired. The article also deliberates an issue of methods of supporting reception of a work of art with multi-sensory experience. The main research questions are: - While creating descriptions, should we look for beauty/moving elements/emotions (all being inalienable characteristics of all art exploring experience) or should we confine ourselves to simple descriptions?; - Should we create simulacra of works of art (such as the much praised by blind people: typhlographics, 3D prints, referential objects that imitate the feel of the original)?