The necessity of artspeak : the language of the arts in the western tradition / Roy Harris.

By: Harris, Roy, 1931-Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Continuum, 2003Description: xvii, 222 p. ; 25 cmISBN: 0826460682; 0826460798 (pbk.)Subject(s): Semiotics and the artsDDC classification: 701/.4 LOC classification: NX180.S46 | H37 2003Online resources: Table of contents | Contributor biographical information | Publisher description
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Preface -- The artspeak aphorism through the ages --Introduction -- 1 Artspeak and necessity --Part I: Traditional Artspeak -- 2 Artspeak in antiquity -- 3 With glory not their own -- 4 The rise and fall of beauty --Part II: Artspeak Modern -- 5 Artspeak and the machine -- 6 The flight from meaning -- 7 Cultivating the primitive -- 8 Finding the words --Part III: Artspeak and Communication -- Linguistic preliminaries to Part III -- 9 Surrogational artspeak -- 10 The artspeak contract -- 11 The Devil's question -- Postscript --References -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-214) and index.

Machine generated contents note: Preface -- The artspeak aphorism through the ages --Introduction -- 1 Artspeak and necessity --Part I: Traditional Artspeak -- 2 Artspeak in antiquity -- 3 With glory not their own -- 4 The rise and fall of beauty --Part II: Artspeak Modern -- 5 Artspeak and the machine -- 6 The flight from meaning -- 7 Cultivating the primitive -- 8 Finding the words --Part III: Artspeak and Communication -- Linguistic preliminaries to Part III -- 9 Surrogational artspeak -- 10 The artspeak contract -- 11 The Devil's question -- Postscript --References -- Index.

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