The Translation Between Literary And Images

My curatorial practice "10+N ways to image the solitude " is the initial motive of this essay. After closing, I tried to assorted my thoughts of the exhibition and reflect on all my confusions, then I found the deep concerning of translation between words and images. It seems like just as a process of translating, but actually it deals with many links of ideas, techniques, consciousness and psychological movements of the creators. So,in this essay, I attempted to discuss the translation between words and images through my exhibition together with Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude.Based on the text of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, the illustrations made by creators from the printmaking department of CAA and Columbia artist Luis Cantillo’s Looking for Melquiades, the paper analyzed these three kinds of artworks and intended to debate the relationship of imagination bound to words(non-image) and the visual imagery of images.There are four chapters of this essay. At the first chapter was a classification and analysis of historical traditions of words and images. The second chapter dealt with the relationship of words and images in the aspect of theoretical, reflected on thesis like "images are representations of words". And in the third part, I adopted a viewer’s perspective by doing close-reading of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, the illustrations of the novel and Luis Cantillo’s photography Looking for Melquiades, discussed the complicated relationships between the reader, author, the image-creators and imagery. And I use these examples in further discussion to show how these creators to represent the imagery of Márquez’s text in different media and analyzed the relationship between words(non-image) and the visual imagery of images.