Signs and Images - Writings on Art, Cinema and Photography

Roland Barthes was a 20th-century philosopher known for his essays on mass culture, cultural criticism, and semiology. This collection of his published writings, translated into English, includes essays, interviews, prefaces, book reviews, and journalistic material, divided into five themed volumes. Volume four, Signs and Images, focuses on his central concerns, such as semiotics, visual culture, art, cinema, and photography, with pieces by notable figures like Marthe Arnould, Lucien Clergue, Daniel Boudinet, Richard Avedon, and Bernard Faucon.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 152 pages
Publication date: 05 August 2023
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd

Roland Barthes was a restless and versatile thinker. A relentless innovator, often acting as a daring smuggler of ideas across disciplines, he initially gained recognition with his concise essays on mass culture. Subsequently, he went on to produce some of the most suggestive and thought-provoking cultural criticism of the late twentieth century, including "Empire of Signs," "The Pleasure of the Text," and "Camera Lucida." In 1976, this once-outsider structuralist was elected to a chair at France's esteemed Collège de France, where he chose to present himself as a professor of literary semiology until his passing in 1980.

The majority of Barthess's published writings have been accessible to a French audience since 2002. However, translator Chris Turner now presents a collection of essays, interviews, prefaces, book reviews, and other journalistic material for the first time in English, divided into five themed volumes.

Volume four, "Signs and Images," gathers pieces related to his central concerns, semiotics, visual culture, art, cinema, and photography. It features essays on Marthe Arnould, Lucien Clergue, Daniel Boudinet, Richard Avedon, Bernard Faucon, and many more.

Weight: 180g
Dimension: 127 x 203 x 10 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781803092744