Signs and Images: Writings on Art, Cinema and Photography - Brossura

Barthes, Roland

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ISBN 10: 1803092742 ISBN 13: 9781803092744

Casa editrice: Seagull Books, 2023

Riassunto

A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback.

Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator—often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another—he first gained an audience with his pithy essays on mass culture and then went on to produce some of the most suggestive and stimulating cultural criticism of the late twentieth century, including Empire of Signs, The Pleasure of the Text, and Camera Lucida. In 1976, this one-time structuralist outsider was elected to a chair at France’s preeminent Collège de France, where he chose to style himself as a professor of literary semiology until his death in 1980.

The greater part of Barthes’s published writings has been available to a French audience since 2002, but now, translator Chris Turner presents a collection of essays, interviews, prefaces, book reviews, and other journalistic material for the first time in English and divided into five themed volumes. Volume four, Signs and Images, gathers pieces related to his central concerns—semiotics, visual culture, art, cinema, and photography—and features essays on Marthe Arnould, Lucien Clergue, Daniel Boudinet, Richard Avedon, Bernard Faucon, and many more.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Roland Barthes (1915­–80) was one of the leading French writers, philosophers, and critics of the twentieth century. Chris Turner is a writer and translator who lives in Birmingham, England.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Seagull Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2023
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1803092742
• ISBN 13: 9781803092744
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 152
• Redattore: Turner Chris
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