History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -
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History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -
Paperback. Offers an inquiry into how to understand, describe, and represent what it is to live in the contemporary moment. This book argues that predictions that post-modernity would emerge as a global successor to modernity have not materialized as anticipated. Editor(s): Enwezor, Okwui; Condee, Nancy; Smith, Terry. Num Pages: 456 pages, 77 illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 156 x 234 x 28. Weight in Grams: 714.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822342038
- ISBN
- 9780822342038
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.47
€ 36.99
€ 33.47
Hardback. Argentinian figurative artist Antonio Berni (1905-1981) is known for his aesthetic originality and for art steeped in social commentary. This title documents the lives of two fictional characters, Juanito Laguna and Ramona Montiel. Series: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Num Pages: 464 pages, 270 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; AGB; AGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 325 x 252 x 36. Weight in Grams: 2728.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300196481
- ISBN
- 9780300196481
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.28€ 62.50
€ 75.28
€ 62.50
Paperback. Presents a monograph devoted to the oeuvre of Antonio Calderara (1903-1978), which retraces the steps of his over sixty-year-long artistic career. Num Pages: 288 pages, 250 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXD; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 280 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1552.
- Publisher
- Skira Italy
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788857217437
- ISBN
- 9788857217437
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.69€ 58.52
€ 63.69
€ 58.52
Paperback. A new reading of the philosophy of contemporary art by the author of The Politics of Time Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 226 x 23. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Publisher
- Verso Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781680940
- ISBN
- 9781781680940
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.22
€ 25.22
Hardback. In a world where 'smart' objects can talk to each other and a gun can be printed with a desktop 3D printer, the conditions for contemporary design are nothing if not surreal. This book charts the development of this fertile relationship, revealing how these ideas are being put to use by contemporary architects in extraordinary ways. Num Pages: 256 pages, 300 illustrations, 250 in colour. BIC Classification: ACXD7; AMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 290 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1592.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780500343203
- ISBN
- 9780500343203
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.00
€ 45.00
Paperback. Robert Bailey reconstructs the history of conceptual art collective Art & Language to show how its international collaborations with dozens of artists and critics between 1969 and 1977 laid the foundation for global contemporary art, all while highlighting how conceptual art exceeds the visual to impact the philosophical and political. Num Pages: 256 pages, 50 illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822361688
- ISBN
- 9780822361688
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.81
€ 30.99
€ 27.81
Hardback. Robert Bailey reconstructs the history of conceptual art collective Art & Language to show how its international collaborations with dozens of artists and critics between 1969 and 1977 laid the foundation for global contemporary art, all while highlighting how conceptual art exceeds the visual to impact the philosophical and political. Num Pages: 256 pages, 50 illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822361497
- ISBN
- 9780822361497
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.52
€ 116.52
Paperback. Through carefully chosen themes and topics rather than through a general survey, this title approaches the process of looking at works of art in terms of their audiences, functions and cross-cultural contexts. It includes essays which engage directly with topical issues around art and gender, globalisation, cultural difference and curating. Editor(s): Edwards, Steve; Wood, Paul. Num Pages: 416 pages, 255 colour. BIC Classification: ACV; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 285 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1272.
- Publisher
- Tate Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849760973
- ISBN
- 9781849760973
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.87
€ 26.99
€ 19.87
Paperback. Offers an overview of the art being made at the scientific research. This title shows how some of the world's most dynamic art is being produced not in museums, galleries and studios but in the laboratory, where artists probe cultural, philosophical and social questions connected with scientific and technological advances. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 273 x 232 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1130.
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780500289952
- ISBN
- 9780500289952
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.84
€ 26.99
€ 19.84
Hardback. Catalogue of an exhibition held October 3, 2015-January 10, 2016 at the Tacoma Art Museum; Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, Ga.: February 20-May 22, 2016; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY: June 23-September 11, 2016. Num Pages: 288 pages, 200 color illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6782 x 5334 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295994949
- ISBN
- 9780295994949
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 40.25
€ 46.99
€ 40.25
Hardback. Focuses on artwork produced from the 1950s to the 1970s, when Mao Zedong was in leadership. This book argues that important contributions were made during this period that require fuller consideration in Chinese art history, especially with relevance to the contemporary world. Editor(s): Shengtian, Zheng. Series: Asia Society. Num Pages: 280 pages, 50 black & white illustrations + 150 colour images. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; ACBP; ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 305 x 229 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1919.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300140644
- ISBN
- 9780300140644
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.07€ 66.80
€ 81.07
€ 66.80
Paperback. In Art and Democracy in Post-Communist Europe, Piotr Piotrowski examines the art made after 1989 in Eastern Europe in light of the profound political, social, economic and cultural transformations in the region. Num Pages: 272 pages, 60 colour illustrations, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DV; ACXJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 746.
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861898951
- ISBN
- 9781861898951
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 43.42
€ 51.99
€ 43.42
Hardcover. Investigating the uneasy relationship between aesthetics and political history, this book traces a genealogy of modernism in colonial and postcolonial India. Series: International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art. Num Pages: 288 pages, 48 bw integrated, 32 colour in 2x8pp plates. BIC Classification: 1FKA; ACXD2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Sew
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784531096
- ISBN
- 9781784531096
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.97€ 123.95
€ 138.97
€ 123.95
Paperback. Talks about the work of 20th-century artists, from Hans Bellmer through to Nobuyoshi Araki, from Robert Mapplethorpe to Annie Sprinkle, and from Hermann Nitsch to Paul McCarthy. Here, the author argues that some works, regardless of their 'high art' context, remain deeply problematic, whilst others are both groundbreaking and liberating. Series: Art and Series. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845112356
- ISBN
- 9781845112356
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.09
€ 37.09
Paperback. Covering the period from the late 1940s to 1990s , Walker provides a detailed survey of the most prominent cases of art that has scandalised. Num Pages: 288 pages, 51 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 3JJP; ACX; JFC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 140 x 214 x 19. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745313542
- ISBN
- 9780745313542
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.16
€ 36.99
€ 29.16
Paperback. This book explores the position of art and artists under a number of different political regimes of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, traveling around the world to consider how art and politics have interacted and influenced each other in different conditions. Num Pages: 168 pages, 25 black and white; 3 full color. BIC Classification: ACX; JPF; JPVN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 264 x 18. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press Netherlands
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- Number of pages
- 168
- SKU
- V9789462981782
- ISBN
- 9789462981782
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.98
€ 31.99
€ 30.98
paperback. An illustrated survey of more than 200 artists whose works address the political, often using radical approaches and techniques to communicate their ideas. It provides a closely woven argument about the contribution of specific artworks and projects to different aspects of political and social engagement. Num Pages: 240 pages, 419 illustrations, 389 in colour. BIC Classification: 3JM; ACXJ; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 281 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1094.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780500291474
- ISBN
- 9780500291474
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 14.93
€ 29.99
€ 14.93
Paperback. This is a study of artist/activists and their participation in social movements in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, in Mexico City, Oaxaca, and California. McCaughan places the three movements within their own local histories, cultures, and conditions, but also links them to the 1968 rebellions that were going on across the world. Num Pages: 232 pages, 42 illustratons. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; ACX; JFC; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822351825
- ISBN
- 9780822351825
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.87
€ 30.99
€ 27.87
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 83 b&w photos, 8 colour photos. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; ACXJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 182 x 255 x 24. Weight in Grams: 790.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816650026
- ISBN
- 9780816650026
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.33
€ 34.99
€ 31.33
Paperback. Art at the Service of War is the story of how artists as diverse as modernist Paul Nash, the revolutionary Vorticist Wyndham Lewis, and young Canadians such as A.Y. Jackson came to paint Canada's war. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; ACXD; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 253 x 12. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442616042
- ISBN
- 9781442616042
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.77
€ 40.99
€ 36.77