Theory of art
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Theory of art
Paperback. Presents the development and aesthetic theories of the symbolist movement in art and literature. This book traces symbolism and its roots from artist to artist and critic to critic from the 1860s to the early twentieth century. Num Pages: 396 pages, 50 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACV; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 396
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520077683
- ISBN
- 9780520077683
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.68
€ 38.99
€ 28.68
Paperback. In this classic meditation on the problem of style in art history, Henri Focillon describes how art forms change over time. Translator(s): Kubler, George. Num Pages: 192 pages, 24. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Zone Books United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780942299571
- ISBN
- 9780942299571
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.27
€ 25.99
€ 21.27
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Autonomedia
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584351597
- ISBN
- 9781584351597
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.13
€ 13.13
Paperback. Series: Dover Art Instruction. Num Pages: 104 pages, 148 illustrations, 9 in colour. BIC Classification: ABA; WFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 278 x 206 x 8. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc. New York
- Number of pages
- 104
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1976
- Edition
- Reproduction of 1967 edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486233581
- ISBN
- 9780486233581
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.64
€ 16.99
€ 12.64
Paperback. This book offers an overview and critique of the conventions surrounding artistic creativity and intellectual endeavor which began with the decline of feudalism in the church. Num Pages: 336 pages, 7 half-tones. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804728430
- ISBN
- 9780804728430
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 28.08
€ 30.99
€ 28.08
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 71 halftone illustations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 17. Weight in Grams: 337. Good copy with some shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1974
- SKU
- KAK0003387
- ISBN
- 9780571096589
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
Paperback. Explains the persistence of certain principles and aspirations throughout the history of art. This title provides a basis for the appreciation of paintings, sculpture and art-objects of all periods by defining the elements that went into their making. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Main - Faber Modern Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571329755
- ISBN
- 9780571329755
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.26
€ 14.99
€ 11.26
Paperback. A classic work that offers the reader an ideal overview of the ideas that marked out Read as a seminal and hugely influetial figure in the cultural life of the twentieth century. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 133 x 197 x 13. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415289931
- ISBN
- 9780415289931
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.13
€ 18.13
Paperback. Series: Princeton Science Library. Num Pages: 176 pages, 72 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN; PBM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691173252
- ISBN
- 9780691173252
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.82
€ 19.99
€ 15.82
Paperback. Editor(s): Robinson, Hilary. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; 3JM; ABA; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 174 x 245 x 29. Weight in Grams: 816.
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118360590
- ISBN
- 9781118360590
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.59
€ 64.59
Hardcover. Editor(s): Robinson, Hilary. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 175 x 30. Weight in Grams: 974.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118360606
- ISBN
- 9781118360606
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.51
€ 135.51
Paperback. In this study an art theorist explores a conception underlying the history of art. His basic idea is that the rigour of linear perspective cannot encompass all of visual experience and that it could be said to generate an oppositional factor with which it interacts dialectically: the cloud. Translator(s): Lloyd, Janet. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804734400
- ISBN
- 9780804734400
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.32
€ 38.99
€ 35.32
Paperback. The Art of Understanding Art reveals to students and other readers new and meaningful ways of developing personal ideas and opinions about art and how to express them with confidence. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, colour plates. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 191 x 247 x 13. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470658345
- ISBN
- 9780470658345
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.90
€ 52.90
Paperback. Editor(s): Wilson, Andrew; Bickers, Patricia. Num Pages: 588 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 144 x 28. Weight in Grams: 746.
- Publisher
- Ridinghouse, Art Monthly
- Number of pages
- 588
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2nd Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905464562
- ISBN
- 9781905464562
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.85
€ 27.85
hardcover. The aim of this book is to provide an account of modernist painting--from Pollock to Ryman--that follows on from the aesthetic theory of Theodor W. Adorno. It offers a materialist account of modernism with detailed discussions of modern aesthetics from Kant to Arthur Danto, Stanley Cavell, and Adorno. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 416 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX; AFC; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804748940
- ISBN
- 9780804748940
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.73
€ 156.73
Paperback. The aim of this book is to provide an account of modernist painting--from Pollock to Ryman--that follows on from the aesthetic theory of Theodor W. Adorno. It offers a materialist account of modernism with detailed discussions of modern aesthetics from Kant to Arthur Danto, Stanley Cavell, and Adorno. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 416 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX; AFF; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804748957
- ISBN
- 9780804748957
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.67
€ 38.99
€ 35.67
Hardback. Featuring examples of paintings and sculptures and complementary examples of physical concepts, this contemplative work helps us see art and physics as artists and physicists do. Num Pages: 160 pages, 52, 28 colour plates, 9 colour illustrations, 14 black & white line drawings, 1 black & w. BIC Classification: ABA; PH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 185 x 228 x 16. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801888663
- ISBN
- 9780801888663
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.81
€ 34.99
€ 29.81
Paperback. Editor(s): Wamberg, Jacob. Num Pages: 297 pages, 80 b/w & 10 colour illus. BIC Classification: ABA; HRQX2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 148 x 24. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 297
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763502672
- ISBN
- 9788763502672
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.09€ 39.57
€ 50.09
€ 39.57
Paperback. Series: SAIC - Chicago Social Practice History. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 150 x 10. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780982879887
- ISBN
- 9780982879887
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.95
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Hardback. A collection of essays on art and politics. It shows how the author's ideas can be used to analyse contemporary trends in both art and politics, including the events surrounding 9/11, war in the contemporary consensual age, and the ethical turn of aesthetics and politics. Translator(s): Corcoran, Steven. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN; HPS; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 207 x 137 x 23. Weight in Grams: 366. On Politics and Aesthetics. 208 pages. A collection of essays on art and politics. It shows how the author's ideas can be used to analyse contemporary trends in both art and politics, including the events surrounding 9/11, war in the contemporary consensual age, and the ethical turn of aesthetics and politics. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN; HPS; JPA. Dimension: 207 x 137 x 23. Weight: 366. Translator(s): Corcoran, Steven.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847064455
- ISBN
- 9781847064455
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 36.61
€ 51.99
€ 36.61
Paperback. Editor(s): Rockhill, Gabriel. Translator(s): Rockhill, Gabriel. Series: Bloomsbury Revelations. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 9. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780935355
- ISBN
- 9781780935355
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.11
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Paperback. * Jacques Ranciere is a leading French philosopher, particularly well known for his work in aesthetics and political philosophy * In this concise and brilliant text, Ranciere presents a thoughtful analysis of the way in which artworks and films represent historical events and those who were involved. Translator(s): Rose, Julie. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; JF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 189 x 126 x 9. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Publisher
- Polity
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745679570
- ISBN
- 9780745679570
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.52
€ 15.52
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Verso Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2019
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781683088
- ISBN
- 9781781683088
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.22
€ 17.99
€ 16.22
Paperback. The foremost philosopher of art argues for a new politics of looking. Num Pages: 144 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 143 x 11. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Verso Books United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844677610
- ISBN
- 9781844677610
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.09
€ 19.09