Audiodeskrypcja nie jest ekfrazą
Audio description is not an ekphrasis

Author(s): Marta Przasnek
Subject(s): Visual Arts, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: audio description; ekphrasis; visual arts; museum
Summary/Abstract: The article points out some dangers that stem from the comparison of audio description (AD) to ekphrasis. The comparison has been proposed by Robert Więckowski and since then used in the Polish literature concerning the topic. Emphasized are the differences in the reception of the two literary forms: ekphrasis encourages mental visualisation based on the recipient’s own experience, while AD is to evoke aesthetic experience also among people whose imagination is devoted of visual qualities. The two forms of description have other goals as well: ekhprasis aspires to become an autonomous literary work, whereas AD is only a tool directing to the art piece. The reflections proposed are initiated in the practical experience of a text-writer, but come back to the general problems concerned with the goal of AD and its relation to the work of art.

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