Theory of art
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Theory of art
Paperback. Presents a study and appraisal of paintings, drawings and prints. This book shows how you can develop visual, analytical and historical skills in learning to look at and understand an image by analyzing how it works, what its pictorial elements are and how they relate to each other. It contains images by such artists as Rembrandt and Tacita Dean. Num Pages: 304 pages, 83 black & white halftones, 30 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AFC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415435185
- ISBN
- 9780415435185
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Condition: New
€ 36.22
€ 36.22
Paperback. An examination of the major optically oriented examples of artistic theory and practice, from Brunelleschi's invention of perspective and its exploitation by Leonardo and Duerer to the beginnings of photography. It discusses colour theory and shows the interaction between art and science. Num Pages: 383 pages, 549 b&w illustrations, 16 colour plates, select bibliography, index. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 282 x 254 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1806.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 383
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300052411
- ISBN
- 9780300052411
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Condition: New
€ 56.51€ 44.43
€ 56.51
€ 44.43
Paperback. Analyzing the rise of art in the 18th century, this treatise demonstrates how painting, sculpture and literature were not regarded as valuable art forms before the emergence of a new bourgeois culture. The author reveals how Romantic poets and philosophers invented "art" as we know it today. Series: The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms S. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: 3JF; ABA; ACV; HPN; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231106016
- ISBN
- 9780231106016
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.47
€ 38.99
€ 28.47
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Sternberg Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781934105818
- ISBN
- 9781934105818
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Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.40
€ 16.99
€ 15.40
The Orchestration of the Arts - A Creative Symbiosis of Existential Po...
Marlies . Ed(S): Kronegger
Hardback. What is art? This perennial question is forcefully thrown open by the electronic expansion of its field and proliferation of arts. This book addresses this question with philosophical underpinnings. Editor(s): Kronegger, Marlies. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 490 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 873.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 490
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792360087
- ISBN
- 9780792360087
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 248.78
€ 248.78
Hardback. Includes 90 documents, short essays, letters, statements and lectures, written by Rothko. This book includes annotation and a chronology of the artist's life and work. It presents a compilation of both published and unpublished writings from 1934-69, telling the importance of writing for an artist who many believed had renounced the written word. Editor(s): Lopez-Remiro, Miguel. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; AGB; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 231 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300114409
- ISBN
- 9780300114409
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 26.40
€ 37.99
€ 26.40
Book. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 218 x 14. Weight in Grams: 686.
- Publisher
- Hal Leonard Corporation
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Pap/Com
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781423452089
- ISBN
- 9781423452089
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.12
€ 26.99
€ 25.12
paperback. A revolutionary account of abstraction in the visual arts since the decline of the formalist paradigms. Num Pages: 187 pages, Illustrations (black and white, and colour). BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 10. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107693982
- ISBN
- 9781107693982
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 39.41
€ 41.99
€ 39.41
Paperback. Addresses art history's complex relationships with fiction, poetry, and creative writing. Inspired by a 2010 conference, this volume examines art historians' viewing practices and modes of writing. Editor(s): Ledbury, Mark. Series: Clark Studies in the Visual Arts. Num Pages: 256 pages, 90 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 177 x 19. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300191929
- ISBN
- 9780300191929
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.61
€ 21.99
€ 17.61
Paperback. This book argues that the extraordinary force of the image in contemporary life-the contemporary imaginary-can be traced back to the Byzantine iconoclastic controversy of the eighth and ninth centuries. Translator(s): Franses, Rico. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804741019
- ISBN
- 9780804741019
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.24
€ 36.99
€ 33.24
Paperback. Uses the writing of Freud, Lacan, the Surrealists, and Roland Barthes to elaborate a theory of art beyond the pleasure principle. Lacan was in close contact with the Surrealists and, early in his career, exchanged ideas with Dali. This book offers a reading of Dali's "paranoiac-critical" tour de force, "The Tragic Myth of Millet's Angelus". Num Pages: 272 pages, 24 colour/12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 203 x 15. Weight in Grams: 762.
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- illustrated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271029719
- ISBN
- 9780271029719
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Condition: New
€ 50.04€ 43.07
€ 50.04
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Paperback. The Second edition of The Creative Mind has been updated to include recent developments in artificial intelligence, with a new preface, introduction and conclusion by the author. Num Pages: 360 pages, references, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: ABA; HPM; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 28. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 344
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415314534
- ISBN
- 9780415314534
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Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 49.74
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Paperback. Margaret Boden presents a series of essays in which she explores the nature of creativity in a wide range of art forms. Creativity is the generation of novel, surprising, and valuable ideas. Boden identifies three forms of creativity (combinational, exploratory, and transformational) each eliciting a different form of surprise. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPM; HPN; JMR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199659395
- ISBN
- 9780199659395
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Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 44.31
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Hardback. This book exposes our long-lasting obsession with trees, as metaphors for organising and representing hierarchical information and provide a broad visual framework for the various types of executions, many dating back hundreds of years. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 262 x 201 x 22. Weight in Grams: 930.
- Publisher
- Princeton Architectural Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781616892180
- ISBN
- 9781616892180
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.42
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Hardback. In The Book of Circles, his companion volume to the popular Book of Trees, Manuel Lima takes us on a lively tour through millenia of information design. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; ACB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 275. .
- Publisher
- Princeton Architectural Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781616895280
- ISBN
- 9781616895280
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 24.86
€ 35.99
€ 24.86
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472529404
- ISBN
- 9781472529404
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.09
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Hardback. Can painting transform philosophy? This title looks at Neapolitan art around 1700 through the eyes of the philosopher Giambattista Vico. It presents the masterpieces of late Baroque painting in early eighteenth-century Naples from an entirely new perspective. Series: Essays in the Arts. Num Pages: 160 pages, 31 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; ABA; ACQ; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691138848
- ISBN
- 9780691138848
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€ 36.99€ 27.01
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Hardcover. A fresh new voice in art and cultural criticism takes on the day's most pressing questions about representations of violence in art. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 182 x 26. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393072150
- ISBN
- 9780393072150
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.11
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Paperback. "A vibrant and engaged work from a writer and thinker who is worthy of our attention."-Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393343144
- ISBN
- 9780393343144
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.13
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Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Black Dog Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910433225
- ISBN
- 9781910433225
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.42
€ 33.99
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Hardback. Num Pages: 576 pages, 444 color illus. 102 line illus. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 316 x 256 x 46. Weight in Grams: 3102.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691165288
- ISBN
- 9780691165288
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Condition: New
€ 58.25€ 49.49
€ 58.25
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Paperback. Explores the artistic practices that employ evocation - the calling forth of past emotions, desires, frustrations, and memories - as a mode of connecting past and present. Featuring the work of artists working in a variety of media, this book challenges the conventional approach to history whereby the past is kept at a distance as historical fact. Editor(s): Fassi, Luigi; Gallun, Lucy; Schillinger, Jakob. Series: Whitney Museum of American Art. Num Pages: 120 pages, 40 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACB; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300159028
- ISBN
- 9780300159028
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.52
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Paperback. This work documents the network of ideas that has been labelled conceptual art. Including texts by and taped discussions among and with the artists involved, the book is arranged as an annotated chronology. Num Pages: 280 pages, 104. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; 3JJPL; ABA; ACXJ4; ACXJ5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 178 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520210134
- ISBN
- 9780520210134
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.85
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Paperback. Num Pages: 305 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJC; ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136. .
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843510697
- ISBN
- 9781843510697
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.17
€ 19.99
€ 18.17