Theory of art
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Theory of art
Hardcover. An exploration of the origins of "monkey art" which sets out to show how this activity takes place at the crossroads between modern art and evolutionary thought. Translator(s): Beamish, Caroline. Num Pages: 208 pages, 15 colour and 52 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AFC; PSAJ; PSVP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861890030
- ISBN
- 9781861890030
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.89
€ 25.89
paperback. Discusses 'colour in art', its inception, the progress made, and its influences on art. Num Pages: 448 pages, 3 x 8pp colour sections. BIC Classification: ABA; PDX; PDZ; PHJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 136 x 29. Weight in Grams: 348. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTS0036690
- ISBN
- 9780099507130
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 21.99€ 15.00
€ 21.99
€ 15.00
Paperback. One of the classic books on the theory of craftsmanship and design. Num Pages: 144 pages, 51. BIC Classification: ABA; AFT; TDPF; WKDW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 280 x 11. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- A&C Black
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780713689310
- ISBN
- 9780713689310
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.79
€ 26.99
€ 19.79
paperback. By closely following Goethe's explanations of the color phenomena, the reader may become so divorced from the wavelength theory--Goethe never even mentions it--that he may begin to think about color theory relatively unhampered by prejudice, ancient or modern. Translator(s): Eastlake, C.L. Num Pages: 486 pages, 13. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 528. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1970
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0038382
- ISBN
- 9780262570213
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
hardcover. Despite its foundational role in the history of philosophy, Plato's famous argument that art does not have access to truth or knowledge is now rarely examined, in part because recent philosophers have assumed that Plato's challenge was resolved long ago. In this title, the author argues that Plato has in fact never been satisfactorily answered. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPCA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTS0038199
- ISBN
- 9780226040028
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 364 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691635637
- ISBN
- 9780691635637
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 178.97
€ 178.97
Hardcover. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 211 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Publisher
- Univ Of Minnesota Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781517900052
- ISBN
- 9781517900052
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.35
€ 110.35
Paperback. Based on the assumption that art is subject to psychology, accessible to understanding, and needed for any comprehensive survey of mental functioning, this book offers psychological findings range from experiments in the perception of shape or observations on the art work of children to broad deliberations on nature of images or of inspiration. Num Pages: 380 pages, 1 color illustration, 3 b/w photographs, 34 line illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; JMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 380
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520266018
- ISBN
- 9780520266018
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.43
€ 50.43
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
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
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€ 23.07
€ 26.99
€ 23.07
Paperback. Comprises eighteen essays on topics ranging from "Contemporary Art and the Plight of Its Public" and the "flat-bed picture plane" to reflections on Picasso, Rauschenberg, Rodin, de Kooning, Pollock, Guston, and Jasper Johns. Num Pages: 448 pages, 295 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 260 x 184 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1036.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226771854
- ISBN
- 9780226771854
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 79.18
€ 79.18
Hardback. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 226 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781633219533
- ISBN
- 9781633219533
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 257.56€ 173.31
€ 257.56
€ 173.31
Paperback. Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPCF; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474260244
- ISBN
- 9781474260244
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.23
€ 35.99
€ 30.23
Paperback. Offers a subtle, yet uncompromising analysis of the iconic photographs of torture from the prison at Abu Ghraib. Num Pages: 128 pages, 50 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AJ; JFFE; JPVH; JPVN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861896469
- ISBN
- 9781861896469
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.18
€ 26.18
Paperback. A study of metamorphosis through the medium or art and sculpture. Num Pages: 160 pages, Colour images throughout. BIC Classification: ABA; HRQC5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 298 x 14. Weight in Grams: 836.
- Publisher
- Temple Lodge Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906999933
- ISBN
- 9781906999933
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.20
€ 45.99
€ 38.20
Hardcover. In this wide-ranging book, renowned philosopher and cultural theorist Peter Sloterdijk examines art in all its rich and varied forms: from music to architecture, light to movement, and design to typography. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745699868
- ISBN
- 9780745699868
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.45
€ 71.45
Paperback. Rhetorically charged debates over theory have divided humanities scholars for decades. Rodowick steps back from arguments pro and con to assess why theory has become such a deeply contested concept. Far from lobbying for a return to the high theory of the 1980s, he calls for dialogue on an ethically inflected philosophy of the humanities." Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; AC; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 229 x 26. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674088153
- ISBN
- 9780674088153
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.01
€ 46.01
Paperback. Introduces the traditional houses, barns, watermills and chapels of the Lake District and the surrounding hills and valleys that make up the county of Cumbria. This title explains how the building types have developed over the centuries. Series: Vernacular Buildings Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, 82 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKENM; ABA; AMG; AMK; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 190 x 15. Weight in Grams: 712.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300170597
- ISBN
- 9780300170597
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.67
€ 41.67
Paperback. In this title, Belting examines how art is made, viewed, and interpreted today. Arguing that contemporary art has burst out of the frame that art history had built for it, Belting calls for an entirely new approach to thinking and writing about art. Translator(s): Saltzwedel, Caroline; Cohen, Mitch. Num Pages: 248 pages, 48 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJ; ABA; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226041858
- ISBN
- 9780226041858
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.78
€ 44.78
Hardback. Examines the tensions between the aims of military technology and modernist aesthetics in relation to perception Num Pages: 248 pages, 23 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; JW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748639885
- ISBN
- 9780748639885
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.02€ 110.47
€ 116.02
€ 110.47
Hardback. Black is Beautiful identifies and explores the most significant philosophical issues that emerge from the aesthetic dimensions of black life, providing a long-overdue synthesis and the first extended philosophical treatment of this crucial subject. Series: Foundations of the Philosophy of the Arts. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405150620
- ISBN
- 9781405150620
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.60
€ 109.60
Paperback. Series: Bloomsbury Revelations. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474265096
- ISBN
- 9781474265096
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.22
€ 25.99
€ 22.22
Hardback. Addresses a genuine gap in word and image studies. It offers fresh conceptual frameworks in which to think about the relationship between visual and verbal practices, with American works and artefacts positioned within the context of the American philosophical tradition. Editor(s): Gander, Catherine; Garland, Sarah. Num Pages: 240 pages, 30 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ABA; AC; HBTB; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 258 x 17. Weight in Grams: 656.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784991500
- ISBN
- 9781784991500
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.79
€ 162.79
Hardcover. Focuses on the painterly pre-occupation with bathing, whether at the beach, in lakes and rivers, in public swimming pools, or in bathtubs. This book brings to bear a lifetime of looking at, teaching, talking about, wrestling with, loving, and hating art to reveal and complicate the lived and felt - the visceral - experience of art. Series: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. Num Pages: 300 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AFC; AGH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 187 x 176 x 24. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674021167
- ISBN
- 9780674021167
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.73
€ 79.73