TY - BOOK AU - Harris,Roy ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - The necessity of artspeak: the language of the arts in the western tradition AV - NX180.S46 H37 2003eb U1 - 701/.4 21 PY - 2003/// CY - London, New York PB - Continuum KW - Semiotics and the arts KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://ezproxy.taylors.edu.my/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/taylorscollege/Doc?id=10224777 ER -