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Necessity of Artspeak : The Language of Arts in the Western Tradition by Roy Har
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
ISBN-10
0826460798
ISBN-13
9780826460790
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2338876
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Publication Name
Necessity of Artspeak : the Language of Arts in the Western Tradition
Language
English
Subject
Criticism & Theory, Linguistics / General
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Art, Language Arts & Disciplines
Format
Uk-Trade Paper
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
12.2 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number
2
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2002-071590
Dewey Decimal
306.47
Table Of Content
Introduction 1. Artspeak and necessityPart I: Traditional artspeak2. Artspeak in antiquity3. With glory not their own4. The rise and fall of beautyPart II: Artspeak modern5. Artspeak and the machine6. The flight from meaning7. Cultivating the primitive8. Finding the wordsPart III: Artspeak and Communication9. Surrogational artspeak10. The artspeak contract11. The devil's questionPostscript
Synopsis
Are contemporary art theorists and critics speaking a language that has lost its meaning? Is it still based on concepts and values that are long out of date? Does anyone know what the function of the arts is in modern society?Roy Harris breaks new ground with his linguistic approach to the key issues. He situates those issues within the long-running debate about the arts and their place in society which goes back to the Classical period in ancient Greece. Contributors to the debate included some of the most celebrated artists and philosophers of their day--Plato, Aristotle, Leonardo, Kant, Hegel, Wagner, Baudelaire, Zola, Delacroix--but none of these eminent figures or their supporters provided a reasoned overview examining the multilingual development of Western artspeak as a whole. Nor did they develop any explicit account of the relationship between the arts and language.The Necessity of Artspeak shows for the first time that what have usually been considered problems of aesthetics and artistic justification often have their source in the linguistic assumptions underlying the terms and arguments presented. It also shows how artspeak has been--and continues to be--manipulated to serve the interests of particular social groups and agendas. Until the semantics of artspeak is more widely understood, the public will continue to be taken in by the latest fads and fashions that propagandists of the art world promote., Are contemporary art theorists and critics speaking a language that has lost its meaning? Is it still based on concepts and values that are long out of date? Does anyone know what the function of the arts is in modern society?Roy Harris breaks new ground with his linguistic approach to the key issues. He situates those issues within the long-running debate about the arts and their place in society which goes back to the Classical period in ancient Greece. Contributors to the debate included some of the most celebrated artists and philosophers of their day--Plato, Aristotle, Leonardo, Kant, Hegel, Wagner, Baudelaire, Zola, Delacroix--but none of these eminent figures or their supporters provided a reasoned overview examining the multilingual development of Western artspeak as a whole. Nor did they develop any explicit account of the relationship between the arts and language.The Necessity of Artspeak shows for the first time that what have usually been considered problems of aesthetics and artistic justification often have their source in the linguistic assumptions underlying the terms and arguments presented. It also shows how artspeak has been--and continues to be--manipulated to serve the interests of particular social groups and agendas. Until the semantics of artspeak is more widely understood, the public will continue to be taken in by the latest fads and fashions that propagandists of the art world promote.>
LC Classification Number
NX180.S46H37 2002
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