Theory of art
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Theory of art
Paperback. Explores the fundamental concepts we use in our innocent thoughts and conversations about art, as well as in the sophisticated art theory. This book progresses from pure philosophy to applied philosophy and ranges from the metaphysics of color to the Renaissance perspective, and more. It is useful for philosophers, art historians, and students. Num Pages: 300 pages, 8 colour plates, 97 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 180 x 18. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226365534
- ISBN
- 9780226365534
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Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 40.03
€ 50.99
€ 40.03
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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Zone Books United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780942299571
- ISBN
- 9780942299571
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 19.16
€ 24.99
€ 19.16
Paperback. This text explains the ways artists use references and allusions to create meaning. It presents the historical, theoretical and practical aspects of the iconographical indexing system developed by Henri van de Waal. It emphasizes the history of iconography, personification, allegory and sources. Translator(s): Man, Patricia De. Series: Documenting the Image. Num Pages: 172 pages, 61 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9782881246012
- ISBN
- 9782881246012
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Condition: New
€ 57.62
€ 57.62
Hardback. The sixteen essays in this collection explore the surface as a site where complex forces meet, thorugh a wide range of subjects including avante garde fashion, the faking of antiques, postmodern architecture and design, and film costume. The book provides insights into the whole lifecycle of objects, not just their condition when new. Editor(s): Adamson, Glenn; Kelley, Victoria. Series: Studies in Design. Num Pages: 256 pages, 32 black & white halftones, 39 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 170 x 20. Weight in Grams: 626.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719087516
- ISBN
- 9780719087516
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Condition: New
€ 166.15
€ 166.15
Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 3H; 3J; ABA; AC; HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 11. Weight in Grams: 312.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816628971
- ISBN
- 9780816628971
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.95
€ 31.99
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Paperback. Addresses questions such as: Why do we find ourselves returning to certain pictures time and again? What is it we are looking for? And how does our understanding of an image change over time? Num Pages: 192 pages, 17 b&w illustrations + 33 colour images. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 203 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 574.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780300137583
- ISBN
- 9780300137583
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 22.48
€ 35.99
€ 22.48
Paperback. Editor(s): Manzotti, Riccardo. Num Pages: 250 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 402.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Imprint Academic
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845402389
- ISBN
- 9781845402389
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Condition: New
€ 24.80
€ 24.80
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
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€ 33.24
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 35. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226325583
- ISBN
- 9780226325583
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 20.63
€ 24.99
€ 20.63
Paperback. The author shows how museum culture offers a unique vantage point on the 19th and 20th centuries' preoccupation with history and subjectivity, and demonstrates how the constitution of the aesthetic provides insight into the realms of technology, industrial culture, architecture, and ethics. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 344 pages, illustrations facsimiles, port. BIC Classification: ABA; GM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804736046
- ISBN
- 9780804736046
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.10
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Paperback. "Languages of Art". Num Pages: 291 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1976
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780915144341
- ISBN
- 9780915144341
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 19.95
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Paperback. Designed for readers with no or little prior knowledge of the subject, this concise anthology brings together key texts in aesthetics and the philosophy of art. Designed for readers with no or little prior knowledge of the subject. Presents two contrasting pieces on each of six topics. Series: Reading Philosophy. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 22. Weight in Grams: 629.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405118088
- ISBN
- 9781405118088
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 39.68
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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
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€ 87.53€ 82.68
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hardcover. Presents groundbreaking research and thinking on our interactions with artworks, literature, poetry, music, movies, performances, architecture and design. Editor(s): Tinio, Pablo P. L.; Smith, Jeffrey K. Series: Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology. Num Pages: 664 pages, 41 b/w illus. 6 tables. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 174 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1398.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781107026285
- ISBN
- 9781107026285
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Condition: New
€ 217.17
€ 217.17
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.
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- 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€ 33.56
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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.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226040028
- ISBN
- 9780226040028
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.96€ 76.87
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Paperback. Gathers a unique group of contributors from the worlds of sociology, musicology, literature, and communications - many of them practicing artists in their own right - to discuss how artists from jazz musicians to painters work: how they coordinate their efforts, how they think, how they start, and, of course, how they finish their productions. Editor(s): Becker, Howard Saul; Faulkner, Robert R.; Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. Num Pages: 248 pages, 23 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226040851
- ISBN
- 9780226040851
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 30.83
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Paperback. Num Pages: 204 pages, 32ill. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJ; ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 167 x 13. Weight in Grams: 348.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226117904
- ISBN
- 9780226117904
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.22
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Paperback. Early in this century, Futurist and Dada artists developed brilliantly innovative uses of typography that blurred the boundaries between visual art and literature. In this text, Johanna Drucker shows how later art criticism has distorted our understanding of such works. Num Pages: 306 pages, 41 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; ABA; ACX; AKD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226165028
- ISBN
- 9780226165028
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.91
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Paperback. Clement Greenberg (1909-94), champion of abstract expressionism and modernism has been esteemed by many as the greatest art critic of the second half of the twentieth century, and possibly the greatest art critic of all time. This title assesses Greenberg's writings, and features the approaches to the man and his work. Translator(s): Holmes, Brian. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 215 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- First English Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226175164
- ISBN
- 9780226175164
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 24.30
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€ 24.30