The necessity of artspeak the language of the arts in the western tradition /

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Main Author: Harris, Roy, 1931-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Continuum, 2003.
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Table of 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.