The necessity of artspeak : the language of the arts in the western tradition
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The necessity of artspeak : the language of the arts in the western tradition
Continuum, 2003
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- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. [209]-214
Includes index
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: hbk ISBN 9780826460684
Description
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 Is it still based on concepts and values that are long out of date?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.
Table of Contents
Introduction - Artspeak and necessity - Part I: Traditional artspeak - Artspeak in antiquity - With glory not their own - The rise and fall of beauty - Part II: Artspeak modern - Artspeak and the machine - The flight from meaning - Cultivating the primitive - Finding the words - Part III: Artspeak and communication - Surrogational artspeak - The artspeak contract - The devil's question - Postscript
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780826460790
Description
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? This title situates these issues within the long-running debate about the arts and their place in society that goes back to the classical period in ancient Greece. "The Necessity of Artspeak" shows 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 is 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.
Table of Contents
Introduction - Artspeak and necessity - Part I: Traditional artspeak - Artspeak in antiquity - With glory not their own - The rise and fall of beauty - Part II: Artspeak modern - Artspeak and the machine - The flight from meaning - Cultivating the primitive - Finding the words - Part III: Artspeak and communication - Surrogational artspeak - The artspeak contract - The devil's question - Postscript
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