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

roland barthes richard howard

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.

Genres philosophyartnonfictionphotographytheoryliterary criticismessaysdesigncriticismmusic

320 pages, Paperback

First published September 1,1982

This edition

Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Published: February 7, 1991 by University of California Press
ISBN: 9780520072381
ASIN: 0520072383
Language: English

About the author

roland barthes

Roland Barthes of France applied semiology, the study of signs and symbols, to literary and social criticism.

Ideas of Roland Gérard Barthes, a theorist, philosopher, and linguist, explored a diverse range of fields. He influenced the development of schools of theory, including design, anthropology, and poststructuralism.

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