THE RESPONSIBILITY OF FORMS by Roland Barthes

Hill and Wang, 1985 First American Edition, 312pp., 6" X 8 1/2"

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These late essays of Roland Barthes's are concerned with the visible and the audible, and here the preoccupations are particularly intense and rewarding, in part because Barthes was himself, by predilection, an artist and a musician, and in part because he was of two minds about the very possibility of attaching to art and to music a written text, a criticism.