Download or read book The Responsibility of Forms written by Roland Barthes and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 1991-02-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.