01860nam a22003374a 4500 ebr10224777 CaPaEBR 20260707193949.0 m u cr cn||||||||| 020520s2003 enk sb 001 0 eng 2002071590 0826460682 0826460798 (pbk.) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)290596049 NX180.S46 H37 2003eb 701/.4 21 Harris, Roy, 1931- 129731 The necessity of artspeak [electronic resource] : the language of the arts in the western tradition / Roy Harris. London ; New York : Continuum, 2003. xvii, 222 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-214) and index. 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Semiotics and the arts. 165028 Electronic books. local 190 ebrary, Inc. 191 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10224777 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view EBK 237799 209051