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Necessity of Artspeak - The Language of Arts in the Western Tradition (Hardcover)
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Necessity of Artspeak - The Language of Arts in the Western Tradition (Hardcover)
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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are long out of date?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.
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