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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TABLEAU VIVANT

Literally: living picture.
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PRONUNCIATION OF TABLEAU VIVANT

tableau vivant  [tablo vivɑ̃] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TABLEAU VIVANT

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tableau vivant is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TABLEAU VIVANT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

tableau vivant

Tableau vivant

Tableau vivant means "living picture". The term, borrowed from the French language, describes a group of suitably costumed actors or artist's models, carefully posed and often theatrically lit. Throughout the duration of the display, the people shown do not speak or move. The approach thus marries the art forms of the stage with those of painting or photography, and as such it has been of interest to modern photographers. The most recent heyday of the tableau vivant was the 19th century, with virtually nude tableaux vivants or poses plastiques providing a form of erotic entertainment. Occasionally, a Mass was punctuated with short dramatic scenes and tableaux. They were a major feature of festivities for royal weddings, coronations and royal entries into cities. Often the actors imitated statues, much in the manner of modern street entertainers, but in larger groups, and mounted on elaborate temporary stands along the path of the main procession.

Definition of tableau vivant in the English dictionary

The definition of tableau vivant in the dictionary is a representation of a scene, painting, sculpture, etc, by a person or group posed silent and motionless.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TABLEAU VIVANT


ci-devant
sidəvɑ̃

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TABLEAU VIVANT

table runner
table salt
table setting
table talk
table tennis
table top
table wine
table-rapping
table-turning
tableau
tableaux
tableaux vivants
tablecloth
tableful
tableland
tableless
tablemat
tablemate
tablespoon
tablespoonful

WORDS THAT END LIKE TABLEAU VIVANT

adjuvant
bon vivant
civil servant
conservant
domestic servant
galivant
gallivant
general servant
Havant
irrelevant
levant
maidservant
manservant
observant
public servant
pursuivant
relevant
savant
servant
the Levant

Synonyms and antonyms of tableau vivant in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «tableau vivant» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TABLEAU VIVANT

Find out the translation of tableau vivant to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tableau vivant from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tableau vivant» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

画面VIVANT
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tableau vivant
570 millions of speakers

English

tableau vivant
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

झांकी vivant
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

اللوحة فيفان
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

живая картина
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tableau vivant
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

লৌকিক উদ্যান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tableau vivant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tableau vivant
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

tableau vivant
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

タブロー·ヴィヴァン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

타블로 vivant
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tableau vivant
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hoạt cảnh Vivant
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

காட்சிப்படம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अचानक घडवून आणलेला नाट्यपूर्ण प्रसंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Tablo vivantı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tableau vivant
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tableau vivant
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

жива картина
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tablou vivant
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

tableau vivant
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

tableau vivant
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

tableau vivant
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tablå livsnyteren
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tableau vivant

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TABLEAU VIVANT»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TABLEAU VIVANT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tableau vivant

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TABLEAU VIVANT»

Discover the use of tableau vivant in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tableau vivant and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Rites of Realism: Essays on Corporeal Cinema
embodiment of painting that the tableau vivant as visual spectacle is most suggestive for an analysis of intermediality. As we shall see, this does not preclude its erotic lure. Tableau vivant is a meeting point of several modes of representation, ...
Ivone Margulies, 2003
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Goethe Yearbook 12
Although Jooss is careful to differentiate between the mimoplastic "attitude" — that is, the imitation of a classical sculpture — and the tableau vivant proper, this too becomes a rather slippery distinction.) Attention is paid to the technical and ...
Simon J. Richter, 2004
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The Material Image: Art and the Real in Film
1 The other origin of tableau vivant is pornographic: the best known tableaux of this genre may be those staged by an eighteenth-century London sex therapist in which Emma Hart posed scantily clad as a "nymph of health," tableaux ...
Brigitte Peucker, 2007
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Dictionary of the Theatre: Terms, Concepts, and Analysis
Further reading: Szondi 1972b; Valdin 1973; Bar- thes TABLEAU VIVANT Fr.: tableau vivant; Ger.: lebendes Bild; Sp.: cuadro viviente. Staging of one or more actors who are immobile and fixed in an expressive pose suggestive of a statue or ...
Patrice Pavis, 1998
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The Function of the Dream and the Body in Diderot's Works
Let us now examine more closely the subject of analogic communication and representation as Diderot conceived it, and its relation to my proposed study of the body's analogic communication in the tableau vivant. Tableau Vivant, Corps ...
Jennifer Vanderheyden, 2004
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Phantom Communities: The Simulacrum and the Limits of ...
FOUR A Utopia of Images The Logic of the Tableau Vivant No form better exemplifies the constitutive ambiguities of the simulacrum than that art, for the most part lost to us today, but still familiar to the salons of the late nineteenth century: the ...
Scott Durham, 1998
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Historical Magazine: And Notes and Queries Concerning the ...
2— Tableau Vivant, 'A Sketch by Boz.' " 3 — Amilie Quadrille. " 4 — Tableau Vivant, ' The Seasons,' a poem, " with music. « 5 — Quadrille Waltz, selections. " 6 — Tableau Vivant, the book of ' Oliver Twist.' « 7 — Quadrille March, Norma.
‎1867
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The Historical Magazine: And Notes and Queries Concerning ...
The following arrangements are also rec- " ommended: — " ORDER OP THE DANCES AND TABLEAUX V IV ANT. « l_Grand March. " 2— Tableau Vivant, ' A Sketch by Boz.' " 3— Ainilie Quadrille. " 4 — Tableau Vivant, ' The Seasons,' a poem ...
John Ward Dean, George Folsom, John Gilmary Shea, 1867
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the historical magazine and notes and queries concerning the ...
1 — Grand March: " 2— Tableau Vivant, ' A Sketch by Boz.' " 3— Ainilie Quadrille. " 4 — Tableau Vivant, ' The Seasons,' a poem, " with music. « 5 — Quadrille Waltz , selections. « 6— Tableau Vivant, the book of ' Oliver Twist.' " 7 — Quadrille ...
‎1867
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The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the ...
2—Tableau Vivant, ' A Sketch by Boz.' 3—Amilie Quadrille. 4—Tableau Vivant, ' The Seasons,' a poem, “ with music. “ S-Qnadrille Waltz, selections. “ 6—' 'ableau Vivant, the book of 'OliverTwist.' “ 7—Quadrille March, Norma. “ 8-Tableau ...
‎1867

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TABLEAU VIVANT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tableau vivant is used in the context of the following news items.
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Ce tableau vivant va vous pétrifier d'angoisse
Créé par la société AtmosFX, ce tableau possède une particularité inédite. Représentant une jeune femme tenant un bouquet de fleurs entre ses mains, celui-ci ... «Gentside, May 15»
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Shapiro & Smith: A dance evening of risk
Risks — physical and artistic — fill Shapiro & Smith Dance's “Tableau Vivant,” now at the Cowles Center. Choreographer Joanie Smith, who has led the ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Apr 15»
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Stage spotlights: 'And the World Goes 'Round,' 'Tableau Vivant'
Choreographer Joanie Smith takes the concept of the tableau vivant and uses it to explore iconic female relationships, with the help of Scott Killian's original ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Apr 15»
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Tableau vivant in BS Lyceum
Die kreeg deze keer de titel 'Tableau vivant'. Al snel werd duidelijk dat dit begrip een levend schilderij betekende. Om deze les te laten slagen, hadden we veel ... «Het Belang van Limburg, Mar 15»
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D'humain à tableau vivant
Alexa Meade, une jeune artiste peintre, transforme des modèles vivants en ... peint ses sujets jusqu'à donner l'illusion qu'ils sortent littéralement d'un tableau. «Sympatico Actualités, Mar 15»
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A 3-D View of UCF Celebrates the Arts 2015
Before film and television, a type of art called tableau vivant – or “living picture” – was often presented by costumed actors or models who posed with backdrops ... «University of Central Florida, Mar 15»
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Word For Word Theater Brings Alice Munro's Stories to Life on Stage
... acted out as if in a tableau vivant, with actors striking poses, aping characters that never existed? That might give you some idea of what Word For Word is like. «Newsweek, Mar 15»
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Vêtu de Walther, devenez un tableau vivant
Vêtu de Walther, devenez un tableau vivant. LE MONDE | 11.02.2015 à 11h32 • Mis à jour le 11.02.2015 à 11h41 | Par Emmanuelle Lequeux. Abonnez-vous «Le Monde, Feb 15»
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Snapshot: Two families, each anomalous in its own wonderful way
This is a tableau vivant (“living picture”) arrangement of a scene from the history of culture and art. Frozen, and in this case photographed. It is now on view at the ... «Haaretz, Jan 15»
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Orofara : Tableau vivant pour clôturer le centenaire de la léproserie
La journée a été rythmée par le récit de toute l'histoire de la léproserie, illustrée de tableaux vivants en costume d'époque mettant en scène habitants du village ... «TAHITI INFOS, Jan 15»

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