Art & Architecture
Introducing… our broad range of books on Architecture, Photography, Art Forms, Film TV & Radio, Dance and Performing Arts, Music and History of Art. In our Film TV & Radio section, we have many other sub-genres such as Books That Inspired Movies including Gone Girl, The Enigma, Fifty Shades of Grey and Foxcatcher. Our Music section includes biographies and sheet music of famous musicians past and present, international and Irish – Elvis, Taylor Swift, David Bowie, Bob Geldof, Ed Sheeran, One Direction, Bono and many more.
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Art & Architecture
Paperback. How can you determine whether an artwork is copyrighted? How do you procure a high-quality reproduction of an image? Is it ever legitimate to use the work of an artist without permission? Exploring intellectual property law as it pertains to visual imagery, this title discusses the uncertainties that plague writers who work with images. Num Pages: 144 pages, 35 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table. BIC Classification: AB; LNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 185 x 14. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226046389
- ISBN
- 9780226046389
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.27
€ 19.99
€ 17.27
Paperback. Any listener knows the power of music to define a place, but few can describe the how or why of this phenomenon. This title showcases how American jazz defined a culture particularly preoccupied with place. It analyzes both the performances and cultural context of leading jazz figures, including the many famous venues where they played. Num Pages: 312 pages, 8 halftones, 11 line drawings, 10 musical examples. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; AVGJ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226044958
- ISBN
- 9780226044958
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.49
€ 52.49
Hardcover. Any listener knows the power of music to define a place, but few can describe the how or why of this phenomenon. This title showcases how American jazz defined a culture particularly preoccupied with place. It analyzes both the performances and cultural context of leading jazz figures, including the many famous venues where they played. Num Pages: 312 pages, 8 halftones, 11 line drawings, 10 musical examples. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; AVGJ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226044941
- ISBN
- 9780226044941
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.17
€ 152.17
Paperback. Showcases the author's engraving techniques that allowed text and images to be published on the same page. This book features engravings of over four hundred animals alongside descriptions of their characteristics as scientifically understood at the time. Num Pages: 542 pages, 331 line drawings. BIC Classification: ACQ; ACV; AFH; AGB; AGN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 36. Weight in Grams: 798.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Facsimile
- Number of pages
- 542
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226044804
- ISBN
- 9780226044804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.49
€ 32.49
Hardcover. Explores how Shakespeare's plays were produced both in his own time and in succeeding centuries. This book explains how the Elizabethan playhouse conveyed a sense of place using minimal scenery, from the Forest of Arden in "As You Like It" to the tavern in "Henry IV, Part I". Num Pages: 256 pages, 53 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; 3JD; AN; DSGS; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226044781
- ISBN
- 9780226044781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 39.95
€ 39.95
Paperback. This volume examines the creative work of the avant-gardist John Cage, from an interdisciplinary perspective. His activities as a composer, performer, thinker and artist are explored. Num Pages: 304 pages, 7 halftones, 11 drawings, 4 colour plates, 1 table, 22 musical reproductions. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGC6; AVH; DSBH; DSC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226044088
- ISBN
- 9780226044088
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.82
€ 52.82
Paperback. Situates dance within a larger Chicago landscape of segregated social practices. Focusing on new forms of appropriation in an era of multiculturalism, the author underscores the institutionalization of racial disparities and offers insights into the intersection of race and culture in America. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ASD; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 230 x 15. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226043104
- ISBN
- 9780226043104
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.08
€ 46.08
Paperback. Before the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as "art" but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presence of the "Holy", Hans Belting traces in this volume the long history of the sacral image and its changing role in European culture. Translator(s): Jephcott, Edmund. Num Pages: 676 pages, 12 colour plates, 294 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; AGR; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 169 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1068.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 676
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226042152
- ISBN
- 9780226042152
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 96.30
€ 96.30
Paperback. This text traces popular music back to its roots in jazz, blues, and country through the rise of rock 'n' roll and the emergence of heavy metal, punk, and rap. The author argues that despite the balance of these origins, something has gone seriously wrong with the sound and sensibility of music. Num Pages: 462 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGJ; AVGK; AVGL; AVGP; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 230 x 35. Weight in Grams: 734.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 462
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226039596
- ISBN
- 9780226039596
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.63
€ 46.63
Hardcover. On July 9, 1975, Dutch-born artist Bas Jan Ader set sail from Chatham, Massachusetts, on a thirteen-foot sailboat. The damaged boat was found south of the western tip of Ireland nearly a year later. Ader was never seen again. The author resituates Ader's art and life within the conceptual art world of Los Angeles in the early 1970s. Num Pages: 208 pages, 44 halftones. BIC Classification: ACXJ5; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 236 x 20. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226038537
- ISBN
- 9780226038537
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.49
€ 126.49
Paperback. Num Pages: 266 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: ACXD7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 133 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226035604
- ISBN
- 9780226035604
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.83
€ 44.83
Paperback. Relating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Baker offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its vernacular level. He shows how the "blues voice" and its economic undertones are both central to the American narrative and characteristic of the Afro-American way of telling it. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; 2ABM; AV; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 339.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226035383
- ISBN
- 9780226035383
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.06
€ 45.06
Paperback. Baker perceives the Harlem Renaissance as a crucial moment in a movement, predating the 1920's, when Afro-Americans embraced the task of self-determination and in so doing gave forth a distinctive form of expression that still echoes in a broad spectrum of 20th-century Afro-American arts. Num Pages: 142 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; 2AB; AB; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 146 x 9. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 142
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226035253
- ISBN
- 9780226035253
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.66
€ 38.66
Hardcover. Offers an account of Dickens and early American film by tracing the unexpected history and intricate strategies of the sentimental mode and showing how it has been reimagined over the past three centuries. This title begins with a look at Frank Capra and the Capraesque in American public life. Num Pages: 392 pages, 68 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; APFA; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226034959
- ISBN
- 9780226034959
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.91
€ 67.91
Paperback. Num Pages: 190 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACG; CFA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226033433
- ISBN
- 9780226033433
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.39
€ 54.39
Paperback. Since its founding in 1964 Tanzania has used music, dance and other cultural productions as ways of imagining and legitimizing the new nation. Focusing on the politics surrounding Swahili performance, Kelly Askew demonstrates the crucial role of popular culture in Tanzania's history. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 392 pages, 22 halftones, 5 maps, 4 line drawings, 25 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFGT; 1M; ASZ; AVGE; GTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 74
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226029818
- ISBN
- 9780226029818
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.39
€ 69.39
Paperback. Over the past three centuries, supporters of German music ranging from music scholars to politicians have nurtured the notion that the German speaking world possesses a peculiar strength in the cultivation of music. This volume explores this notion and the role of music in identity Editor(s): Applegate, Celia; Potter, Pamela M. Num Pages: 296 pages, 7 line drawings, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DFG; AV; HBJD; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226021317
- ISBN
- 9780226021317
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.47
€ 49.47
Paperback. Presents the essays that range from front-line interventions in debates on poetics to fugitive pieces from the '60s and '70s. From Andy Warhol to Allan Kaprow, Mark Rothko to Ludwig Wittgenstein, this title takes the reader on an idiosyncratic, personal journey through twentieth-century culture. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJP; AB; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 326 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226020976
- ISBN
- 9780226020976
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.63
€ 46.63
Hardcover. Focuses on the terrifying notion of murder committed against one's will in silent cinema and contemporaneous literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book helps readers understand anxieties about the onslaught of visual media and the reach of vast corporations that seem to absorb our own identities. Series: Cinema and Modernity Series. Num Pages: 192 pages, 13 halftones. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226020549
- ISBN
- 9780226020549
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.77
€ 64.77
Hardcover. In late seventeenth-century London, the most provocative images were produced not by artists, but by scientists. This book reveals that these natural philosophers shaped Restoration London's emergent artistic cultures by forging collaborations with court painters, penning art theory, and designing triumphs of baroque architecture. Num Pages: 304 pages, 10 colour plates, 66 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JD; ACQ; PDX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 261 x 189 x 25. Weight in Grams: 840.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226017297
- ISBN
- 9780226017297
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.71
€ 81.71
Paperback. This work offers not only important statements by composers and critics, but also musical speculations by poets, novelists, philosophers, and others - all of which combine with Daniel Albright's commentary to place modernist music in the context of a broader intellectual history. Num Pages: 440 pages, 19 halftones. BIC Classification: AV; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 167 x 25. Weight in Grams: 684.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226012674
- ISBN
- 9780226012674
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.28
€ 60.28
Paperback. From its dissonant musics to its surrealist spectacles, Modernist art often seems to give more frustration than pleasure to its audience. In this text Daniel Albright shows that this perception arises partly because we usually consider each art form in isolation, rather than collaboration. Num Pages: 376 pages, 25 halftones, 12 line drawings, 60 musical examples. BIC Classification: AB; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226012544
- ISBN
- 9780226012544
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.25
€ 65.25
Paperback. Offers a narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle to house the "deserving poor." This title offers the novel concept of "design politics" to show how issues of architecture and urbanism are intimately bound up in thinking about policy. Series: Historical Studies of Urban America. Num Pages: 384 pages, 63 halftones, 6 line drawings. BIC Classification: AM; JFFB; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226012452
- ISBN
- 9780226012452
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.29
€ 46.29
Hardcover. Dutch painter Piet Mondrian died in New York City in 1944, but his work and legacy have been far from static since then. This title explores controversial circumstances under which our conception of artist's work has been shaped since his death, an account that describes money-driven interventions and professional rivalries in forthright detail. Num Pages: 316 pages, 22 colour plates, 65 halftones. BIC Classification: ACXD; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 261 x 189 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1234.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226008691
- ISBN
- 9780226008691
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.91
€ 67.91