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Theory of art

Paperback. Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. But, there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. This is a book on art in various languages. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages, Integrated illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 181 x 113 x 14. Weight in Grams: 136.
Edition
01st Edition
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
176
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141035796
ISBN
9780141035796
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 144 x 14. Weight in Grams: 196.
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
Imperfect Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780981484655
ISBN
9780981484655
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.86

Paperback. Visual Time offers a rare consideration of the idea of time in art history. Num Pages: 224 pages, 29 illustrations, including 8 in colour. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 158 x 12. Weight in Grams: 424.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822353690
ISBN
9780822353690
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.87

Paperback. Editor(s): Paton, Roy; Neilson, Irene. Num Pages: 402 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; UYQV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
402
Condition
New
SKU
V9781852330828
ISBN
9781852330828
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.53

Paperback. Visual Culture: The Reader provides an invaluable resource of over 30 key statements from a wide range of disciplines. Although underpinned by a focus on contemporary cultural theory, this Reader puts the study of visual culture and the rhetoric of the image at centre stage. Editor(s): Evans, Jessica; Hall, Stuart. Series: Published in Association with the Open University. Num Pages: 512 pages, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; CFG; JFD; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 169 x 35. Weight in Grams: 876.
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761962489
ISBN
9780761962489
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.83

hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1KLCM; ABA; HPN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719056789
ISBN
9780719056789
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 153.07

Paperback. Explores colour through time, using never-before-seen infographics and other visuals. Num Pages: 276 pages, 300 colour. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 209 x 23. Weight in Grams: 878.
Publisher
ORO Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781939621351
ISBN
9781939621351
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 23.28

Hardcover. Editor(s): Poland, Valentina. Num Pages: 165 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781631173028
ISBN
9781631173028
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 293.25
€ 197.99

Paperback. This book offers a unique perspective of art and its education in designer capitalism. It will contribute to the debate as to possibilities art and design hold for the future. It also questions the broad technologization of art that is taking place. Series: Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation. Num Pages: 267 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; JNA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
267
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230618800
ISBN
9780230618800
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 37.53

Paperback. An account of how Spanish painters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries dealt with mystic visions in their art, and of how they attempted to 'represent the unrepresentable' that aims to establish a theory of visionary imagery in Western art in general, and one for the Spanish Counter-Reformation in particular. Series: Essays in Art & Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, 102 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JB; 3JD; ABA; ACN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 360.
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780948462757
ISBN
9780948462757
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.77

Hardback. Bringing together a renowned international group of contributors, this book explores the problems in the study of vision and cognition: to make sense of the sensations we experience when we see something, we must configure many moments into a synchronous image. Num Pages: 528 pages, 30 colour plates, 85 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 164 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1572.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Diaphanes AG Switzerland
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9783037345221
ISBN
9783037345221
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.81
€ 48.25

Hardcover. Video Art Theory: A Comparative Approach demonstrates how video art functions on the basis of a comparative media approach, providing a crucial understanding of video as a medium in contemporary art and of the visual mediations we encounter in daily life. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; AS; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 55. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118475447
ISBN
9781118475447
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.72

Paperback. Video Art Theory: A Comparative Approach demonstrates how video art functions on the basis of a comparative media approach, providing a crucial understanding of video as a medium in contemporary art and of the visual mediations we encounter in daily life. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; AS; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 292.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118475461
ISBN
9781118475461
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.37

paperback. Editor(s): Zielinski, Siegfried; Furlus, Eckhard. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 43. Weight in Grams: 930.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Buchhandlung Walther Konig GmbH & Co. KG. Abt. Verlag Germany
Condition
New
SKU
V9783865608871
ISBN
9783865608871
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.35
€ 63.71

Paperback. Editor(s): Zielinski, Siegfried; Furlus, Eckhard; Custance, Gloria. Num Pages: 478 pages, 88 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 853.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Buchhandlung Walther Konig GmbH & Co. KG. Abt. Verlag Germany
Number of pages
478
Condition
New
SKU
V9783865603661
ISBN
9783865603661
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 90.62
€ 78.62

Paperback. In the Guangdong province in southeastern China lies Dafen, a village that houses thousands of workers who paint Van Goghs, Da Vincis, and Warhols. The author shows how Dafen's workers force us to reexamine our expectations about the cultural function of creativity and imitation, and the role of Chinese workers in redefining global art. Num Pages: 384 pages, 27 colour plates, 45 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; ABA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 255 x 178 x 17. Weight in Grams: 734.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226024899
ISBN
9780226024899
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 33.60

Hardcover. Explores the ways in which the 'stuff' of visuality-an image like a photograph, an incident on TV, a cinematic oeuvre- are intertwined in a range of cultural practices, transformed and transgressed by them in transvisuality. Editor(s): Kristensen, Tore; Michelsen, Anders; Wiegand, Frauke. Num Pages: 272 pages, 26 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 20. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781381786
ISBN
9781781381786
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 137.71

Hardcover. The transvisuality project deals with how the visual today transcends acts of seeing and being seen, and in fact co-creates the world in new dimensions and organisations of meaning: the result is transvisuality. Editor(s): Kristensen, Tore; Michelsen, Anders; Wiegand, Frauke. Num Pages: 261 pages, 30 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846318917
ISBN
9781846318917
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 137.71

Paperback. The importance of the late 18th century in the genesis of modern art emerges in these four essays on various aspects of the art and architecture of a neglected period.

Num Pages: 344 pages, 215 illus. BIC Classification: ABA; ACV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1970
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691003023
ISBN
9780691003023
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 75.34
€ 58.06

Hardcover. Develops a framework for thinking about art through innovative readings of some of the most important philosophical writing on the subject by Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger. This title exposes fresh layers in their texts and theories while also marking their limits. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 60 x 90 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226734224
ISBN
9780226734224
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.73
€ 76.88

Paperback. Editor(s): Petersen, Nils Holger; Christffersen, Svein Aage. Num Pages: 138 pages, b/w & colour photos. BIC Classification: 1DND; 2ACSD; ABA; ACB; ACG; HPN; HRAB; HRCC1; HRCC2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
138
Condition
New
SKU
V9788763504959
ISBN
9788763504959
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 21.79

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

€ 32.99
€ 23.87

Paperback. Tracing Architecture looks at the impact that knowledge of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman and British architecture had on aesthetic attitudes and architectural design. It explores the changing relationship between text and image in an era before the introduction of mass mechanical reproduction. Editor(s): Arnold, Dana; Bending, Stephen. Series: Art History Special Issues. Num Pages: 160 pages, 0. BIC Classification: ABA; AMA; HBA; HBG; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 175 x 245 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405105354
ISBN
9781405105354
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 30.69

Paperback. Translator(s): Gussen, Sebastian. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Diaphanes AG Switzerland
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9783037348857
ISBN
9783037348857
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 23.95

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