Theory of art
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Theory of art
Paperback. "The texts by John McHale that comprise this volume were first published in a variety of different publications." Editor(s): Kitnick, Alex. Num Pages: 296 pages, 22 illus., b&w. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 118 x 21. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- GSAPP Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781883584702
- ISBN
- 9781883584702
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.47
€ 21.99
€ 17.47
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Getty Trust Publications United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780892362745
- ISBN
- 9780892362745
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.33
€ 25.99
€ 19.33
Hardcover. It is often assumed that reading about the lives of artists enhances our understanding of their work. This book contains a collection of essays, by a number of respected art historians that attempt to address this relationship by looking at the life and works of such artists as Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Van Gogh, Cezanne, and Leonardo da Vinci. Editor(s): Salas, Charles G. Num Pages: 200 pages, 31 colour & 44 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AGB; AVH; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 267 x 190 x 20. Weight in Grams: 848.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Getty Research Institute
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780892368235
- ISBN
- 9780892368235
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Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 37.23
€ 51.99
€ 37.23
Paperback. An inspiring collection of drawings and articles exploring the sketchbooks and artistic practices of 50 talented character artists. Editor(s): 3DTotal Publishing. Series: Sketching from the Imagination. Num Pages: 320 pages, Color and B&W illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AFF; AGH; AGHF; AGZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 216. Weight in Grams: 985.
- Publisher
- 3DTotal Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909414396
- ISBN
- 9781909414396
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.27
€ 24.99
€ 21.27
Hardback. The Art of Comics is the first-ever collection of essays published in English devoted to the philosophical topics raised by comics and graphic novels. Series: New Directions in Aesthetics. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AKLC; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 472.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444334647
- ISBN
- 9781444334647
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Condition: New
€ 94.67
€ 94.67
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, 26 bw illus. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ; JFCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 10. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857851826
- ISBN
- 9780857851826
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.32
€ 40.99
€ 33.32
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Wooden Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904263708
- ISBN
- 9781904263708
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Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 9.14
€ 9.99
€ 9.14
Paperback. Num Pages: 382 pages, 800 color illus. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ; AFKP; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 269 x 231 x 33. Weight in Grams: 2110.
- Publisher
- MIT Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- updated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780262528214
- ISBN
- 9780262528214
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Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 47.07
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€ 47.07
Paperback. A distinguished group of art historians reflect on the work of Michael Baxandall, in terms of its importance for their own formation, its location in the development of a new art history, and its influence on the broader languages and theories of contemporary cultural theory. Editor(s): Rifkin, Adrian. Series: Art History Special Issues. Num Pages: 168 pages, 0. BIC Classification: ABA; AC; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 172 x 8. Weight in Grams: 258.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631211914
- ISBN
- 9780631211914
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Condition: New
€ 31.34
€ 31.34
Paperback. Cavarero refutes a long-standing set of assumptions in moral philosophy by contesting the classical figure of the homo erectus or 'upright man, ' and by proposing a feminist, altruistic, open model of the subject-one inclined toward others. Translator(s): Sitze, Adam; Minervini, Amanda. Series: Square One. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781503600409
- ISBN
- 9781503600409
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.14
€ 27.99
€ 26.14
Hardback. Cavarero refutes a long-standing set of assumptions in moral philosophy by contesting the classical figure of the homo erectus or 'upright man, ' and by proposing a feminist, altruistic, open model of the subject-one inclined toward others. Translator(s): Sitze, Adam; Minervini, Amanda. Series: Square One. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804792189
- ISBN
- 9780804792189
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.21
€ 81.21
Paperback. BIC Classification: ABA; AFF; AGZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 567.
- Publisher
- Watson-Guptill Publications
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780307987181
- ISBN
- 9780307987181
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 20.17
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Paperback. Two authorities on popular culture reveal the ways in which art can enhance mood and enrich lives - now available in paperback Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; MMJ; MQTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Publisher
- Phaidon Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714872780
- ISBN
- 9780714872780
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.63
€ 19.99
€ 14.63
hardcover. In this study, Alan Paskow situates the phenomenological approach to the experience of painting. Num Pages: 272 pages, 8 colour illus. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 583.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521828338
- ISBN
- 9780521828338
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.87
€ 90.87
Paperback. Exploring the political forces that shaped Impressionism, this work proposes that at the heart of the modern is a "guilty secret" - the need of the dominant, mainly bourgeois, classes in Paris to expunge from historical memory the haunting nightmare of the Commune and its socialist ideology. Series: Princeton Series in Nineteenth-Century Art, Culture & Society. Num Pages: 256 pages, 162 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; ACVT; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 191 x 254 x 13. Weight in Grams: 524.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691015552
- ISBN
- 9780691015552
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Condition: New
€ 60.89€ 47.40
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Hardcover. What is depiction? A new answer is given to this venerable question by providing a syncretistic theory of depiction that tries to combine the merits of the previous theories on the matter while dropping their defects. Thus, not only perceptual, but also both conventional and causal factors contribute in making something a picture of something else. Num Pages: 284 pages, 67. BIC Classification: ABA; HPM; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137263285
- ISBN
- 9781137263285
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Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Paperback. Presented in a debate format, this collection presents a range of short introductions to each of the discussions which include: sentimentality, appreciation, interpretation, understanding, objectivity, nature, food, and, horror. It includes sections on pornography and erotica and societies without art. Editor(s): Neill, Alex; Ridley, Aaron. Series: Arguing About Philosophy. Num Pages: 504 pages, 2 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 175 x 39. Weight in Grams: 828.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 504
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415424516
- ISBN
- 9780415424516
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Condition: New
€ 61.95
€ 61.95
Paperback. A collection of 100 manifestos from the last 100 years is cacophony of voices from such diverse movements as Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Destructivism, and Stuckism, taking in along the way film, architecture, fashion, and cookery. It gathers together an international array of artists of every stripe, including Kandinsky, Gilbert and George. Editor(s): Danchev, Alex. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141191799
- ISBN
- 9780141191799
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.13
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Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 40 integrated bw. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 144 x 214 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780763361
- ISBN
- 9781780763361
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Condition: New
€ 44.15
€ 44.15
Paperback. Completed just before Alfred Gell's death in January 1997, this book embodies the characteristics for which he was admired. The book aims to challenge the basis of the way art has been viewed in the human sciences. It presents a fundamental theory for an anthropology of art. Num Pages: 296 pages, numerous black and white halftones and line drawings. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198280149
- ISBN
- 9780198280149
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Condition: New
€ 157.91
€ 157.91
Paperback. Focuses on the author's sustained inquiry into the paradoxical relationship of art to life and into the nature of meaning itself. Editor(s): Kelley, Jeff. Num Pages: 297 pages, 17 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ABA; AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 438. 297 pages, 17 b&w photos. Editor(s): Kelley, Jeff. Focuses on the author's sustained inquiry into the paradoxical relationship of art to life and into the nature of meaning itself. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; ABA; AC. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 16. Weight: 424.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 297
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 2Rev Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520240797
- ISBN
- 9780520240797
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.76
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paperback. Including over 100 illustrations from mainstream film to independent film, video art, performance and the visual arts, this book explores how technology has affected artist's abilities and forms to express themselves. It makes a companion to studies of contemporary art history, and media and cultural studies in the post-1960 period. Num Pages: 280 pages, 101 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415345224
- ISBN
- 9780415345224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 42.38
€ 42.99
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Paperback. This new edition of Coomaraswamy's classic book, considered his most important work on the philosophy of art, includes all of the revisions Coomaraswamy had wanted to add to the original edition. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Publisher
- World Wisdom Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933316345
- ISBN
- 9781933316345
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.37
€ 26.99
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Paperback. Questions how we analyse works of art after the performative turn and shows how the interplay of performativity (textual action), space and topography, and the converging of genres and art forms is essential in modern drama, theatre, prose fiction, poetry and film. This book fosters a concern for the development of congenial theory. Num Pages: 439 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 142 x 27. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Aarhus University Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 439
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788779344600
- ISBN
- 9788779344600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 44.38
€ 52.99
€ 44.38