Theory of art
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Theory of art
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
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.52
€ 38.99
€ 28.52
Paperback. Kay Jamison draws on her work as a psychiatrist and researcher in mood disorders to explore connections between manic-depressive illness and artistic activity. She applies what is known about the illness to the lives and works of artists including Byron, Van Gogh, Schumann and Woolf. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations facsim., genealogy, port. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; JMAL; MBP; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 139 x 213 x 24. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780684831831
- ISBN
- 9780684831831
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
€ 15.99
€ 11.88
paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AG; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 13. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780816647491
- ISBN
- 9780816647491
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.56
€ 31.99
€ 28.56
Paperback. Scale, or the relative dimension of an object, has long been one of the most crucial elements in the creation, circulation, and reception of art. Often mistaken as size, scale is the impetus behind the profoundly visceral ways in which we perceive and interpret works of art. Editor(s): Kee, Joan; Lugli, Emanuele. Series: Art History Special Issues. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 276 x 210. .
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781119142508
- ISBN
- 9781119142508
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Condition: New
€ 32.65
€ 32.65
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
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Condition: New
€ 18.13
€ 18.13
Paperback. This text, first published in France in 1977, presents cultural critic Louis Marin's theories about the aims of painting in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. It explores a number of notions implied by theories of painting and offers insight into the aims and effects of visual representaion. Translator(s): Hjort, Mette. Num Pages: 224 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; ABA; ACN; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226505350
- ISBN
- 9780226505350
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.30
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Paperback. Explores the artistic practices that employ evocation - the calling forth of past emotions, desires, frustrations, and memories - as a mode of connecting past and present. Featuring the work of artists working in a variety of media, this book challenges the conventional approach to history whereby the past is kept at a distance as historical fact. Editor(s): Fassi, Luigi; Gallun, Lucy; Schillinger, Jakob. Series: Whitney Museum of American Art. Num Pages: 120 pages, 40 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACB; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300159028
- ISBN
- 9780300159028
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.29
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Paperback. Offers a way of understanding what art is and why human beings create it. This book asserts that humans create things in order to work out ideas. It draws on examples from several societies to argue that the art-making impulse is primarily cognitive and only secondarily aesthetic. It is intended for those who creates or thinks about works of art. Num Pages: 264 pages, 145 b&w illus. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 278 x 15. Weight in Grams: 874.
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292706910
- ISBN
- 9780292706910
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.59
€ 41.99
€ 37.59
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Independent Curators International (ICI)
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780916365868
- ISBN
- 9780916365868
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.16
€ 20.99
€ 20.16
Paperback. Thinking about Art explores some of the greatest works of art and architecture in the world through the prism of themes, instead of chronology, to offer intriguing juxtapositions of art and history. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 280 x 17. Weight in Grams: 876.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118904978
- ISBN
- 9781118904978
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Condition: New
€ 37.46
€ 37.46
Paperback. Essays examine nine intriguing objects made eloquent when matter and meaning converge. Editor(s): Daston, Lorraine J. Num Pages: 447 pages, 9 color illus., 82 b&w illus. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 34. Weight in Grams: 712.
- Publisher
- Zone Books United States
- Number of pages
- 447
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781890951443
- ISBN
- 9781890951443
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.01
€ 26.99
€ 20.01
Paperback. Things American examines the relationship between American museums and cultural democracy in the first part of the twentieth century by looking at the role museums like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the institutions it inspired played in Progressive Era social and cultural reform. Series: The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America. Num Pages: 312 pages, 35 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ABA; GM; HBJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812222852
- ISBN
- 9780812222852
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.40
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Paperback. Editor(s): Burger, Peter. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 11. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Edition
- First edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816610686
- ISBN
- 9780816610686
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.59
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Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 742 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1257.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 742
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691614229
- ISBN
- 9780691614229
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Condition: New
€ 146.66
€ 146.66
Paperback. An updated edition of the hugely successful original anthology that captures the essence and the edge of the contemporary art scene. Editor(s): Kocur, Zoya; Leung, Simon. Num Pages: 552 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 190 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1106.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 552
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444338577
- ISBN
- 9781444338577
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Condition: New
€ 62.08
€ 62.08
Paperback. Concentrating on canonical critical texts and images, the book examines modern art through a rhetoric of representation rather than through formalist criticism or the history of the avant-garde. Series: Interpretations in Art S. Num Pages: 224 pages, 18 illus. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 164 x 13. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231080835
- ISBN
- 9780231080835
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.50
€ 38.99
€ 28.50
Paperback. The theory and practice of imitation has long been central to the construction of art and yet imitation is still frequently confused with copying. Theorizing Imitation in the Visual Arts challenges this prejudice by revealing the ubiquity of the practice across cultures and geographical borders. Series: Art History Special Issues. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 276 x 210. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781119004035
- ISBN
- 9781119004035
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Condition: New
€ 32.65
€ 32.65
Paperback. Barasch expertly guides the reader from the interwoven traditions of antiquity, through the aesthetic values of the Middle Ages, to the branching out of art history, art criticism, abstract aesthetics in the late Renaissance. Num Pages: 436 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACK; ACND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 436
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415926256
- ISBN
- 9780415926256
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Condition: New
€ 48.48
€ 48.48
Paperback. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 132 x 9. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Publisher
- Sternberg Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783956790874
- ISBN
- 9783956790874
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.11
€ 21.11
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 328
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719087479
- ISBN
- 9780719087479
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.05
€ 25.05
Paperback. Num Pages: 28 pages, 20 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148. .
- Publisher
- University of Hertfordshire Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781898543893
- ISBN
- 9781898543893
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Condition: New
€ 8.06
€ 8.06
Hardback. Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16 color and 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; HRLK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 27. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231178181
- ISBN
- 9780231178181
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Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.73
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Paperback. Translator(s): Goshgarian, G. M.; Goshgarian, Gary J. Num Pages: 256 pages, 119. BIC Classification: ABA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801482724
- ISBN
- 9780801482724
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Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 44.13
€ 48.99
€ 44.13
Paperback. Explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the troubling social and political implications of this are. Translator(s): Underwood, J. A. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 128 pages, No illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 112 x 8. Weight in Grams: 82.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 128
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141036199
- ISBN
- 9780141036199
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.28
€ 10.99
€ 9.28