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This collection of studies, reviews, and recollections focuses on music and the visual arts deals with Arcimboldo, Erte, the American artist Cy Twombley, Greek theater, and romantic art song

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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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  • PublisherFarrar Straus & Giroux
  • Publication date1986
  • ISBN 10 0809015226
  • ISBN 13 9780809015221
  • BindingPaperback
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Number of pages320
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