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.
- ISBN10 0520072383
- ISBN13 9780520072381
- Publish Date 7 February 1991 (first published 23 January 1986)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 April 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 320
- Language English