The Responsibility of Forms: Critical Essays on Music, Art, and Representation - Softcover

Barthes, Roland

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9780520072381: The Responsibility of Forms: Critical Essays on Music, Art, and Representation
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ISBN 10: 0520072383 ISBN 13: 9780520072381
Publisher: University of California Press, 1991

Synopsis

These late essays of Roland Barthes's are concerned with the visible and the audible, and here the preoccupations are particularly intense and rewarding, in part because Barthes was himself, by predilection, an artist and a musician, and in part because he was of two minds about the very possibility of attaching to art and to music a written text, a criticism.

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About the Author

Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at universities in Romania and Egypt, he joined the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, where he devoted himself to research in sociology and lexicology. He was a professor of the Collège de France until his death in 1980.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Publication date
1991
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0520072383
ISBN 13 
9780520072381
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
320
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