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Theory of art

Paperback. This is a collection of twenty-two essays by an eminent philosopher, critic, and theorist that appeared between 1971 and 1992. The book interrogates the theory and practice of representation as it is carried out by both linguistic and graphic signs, and thus the complex relation between language and image, between perception and conception. Translator(s): Porter, Catherine. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 464 pages, 38 half-tones. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 620.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
439
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804741514
ISBN
9780804741514
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.45

Paperback. Num Pages: 398 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 179 x 254 x 28. Weight in Grams: 986.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226380193
ISBN
9780226380193
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.64

Paperback. The third in the unique series of anthologies which aims to collect important key writings by and on the most significant artists in contemporary culture. The definitive resource of Warhol in his own words, and in the words of others. Editor(s): Williams, Gilda. Series: On&By. Num Pages: 240 pages, 0. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ1; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 145. .
Publisher
Whitechapel Gallery United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780854882458
ISBN
9780854882458
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.57

Paperback. The eminent critic, historian, and former member of the Art & Language collective Terry Smith explores the artistic, philosophical, political, and geographical dimensions of conceptual art and conceptualism while offering a theory of contemporary art. Editor(s): Bailey, Robert. Num Pages: 168 pages, 50 illustrations, incl. 8 in color. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 10. Weight in Grams: 281.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822361312
ISBN
9780822361312
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.20

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

€ 59.16
€ 50.42

Hardcover. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN; JFCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226076652
ISBN
9780226076652
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.65
€ 78.49

Paperback. The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture, dominating the look of its art and commodities as well as our ways of speaking about the ambivalent feelings these objects often inspire. In this study Ngai offers an aesthetic theory for the hypercommodified, mass-mediated, performance-driven world of late capitalism. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; GTE; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674088122
ISBN
9780674088122
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.53

Paperback. Num Pages: 382 pages, 800 color illus. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ; AFKP; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 269 x 231 x 33. Weight in Grams: 2110.
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
updated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262528214
ISBN
9780262528214
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 36.40

Hardcover. Outsider art is work produced outside the mainstream of modern art by self-taught visionaries, spiritualists, eccentrics, recluses, psychiatric patients, criminals and others beyond the perceived margins of society. This book sets out to challenge many of the received ideas in the field. Num Pages: 176 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 45 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 208 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861895219
ISBN
9781861895219
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.69

Paperback. Essays that seek to redefine the status of theory in modernist critical discourse Series: October Books. Num Pages: 357 pages, 87. BIC Classification: ABA; AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 177 x 16. Weight in Grams: 556.
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd United States
Number of pages
357
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262521802
ISBN
9780262521802
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.88
€ 49.23

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 118 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; ABA; ACK; ACND; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 280 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1210.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271020914
ISBN
9780271020914
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.10
€ 50.33

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
277
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801486500
ISBN
9780801486500
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 35.94

Paperback. Editor(s): Ramadan, Khaled D. Num Pages: 240 pages, 7 colour & 1 b/w illus. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772899671
ISBN
9788772899671
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.28

Paperback. Erwin Panofsky's Perspective as Symbolic Form is one of the great works of modern intellectual history, the legendary text that has dominated all art historical and philosophical discussions on the topic of perspective in this century. Translator(s): Wood, Christopher S. Num Pages: 198 pages, 63. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 364.
Publisher
Zone Books
Number of pages
198
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780942299533
ISBN
9780942299533
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.98

Paperback. BIC Classification: ABA; AGZ; FXZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Watson-Guptill
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781607749462
ISBN
9781607749462
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.59

Paperback. Num Pages: 56 pages, 18 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; JNA; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 5. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications United States
Number of pages
56
Condition
New
SKU
V9780892362967
ISBN
9780892362967
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.99

Hardback. A biography of Peter Selz that traces the journey of this Jewish-German immigrant from Hitler's Munich to the United States and on to an important career as a pioneer historian of modern art. It illuminates key historical and cultural events of the twentieth-century, describing Selz's extraordinary career. Num Pages: 321 pages, 27 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
321
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520269354
ISBN
9780520269354
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 21.43

hardcover. Phantom Communities reconsiders the status of the simulacrum-sometimes defined as a copy of a copy, but more rigorously defined as a copy that subverts the legitimacy and authority of its model-in light of recent debates in literature, art, philosophy, and cultural studies. Num Pages: 268 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; ABA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804730716
ISBN
9780804730716
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.45

Paperback. Phantom Communities reconsiders the status of the simulacrum-sometimes defined as a copy of a copy, but more rigorously defined as a copy that subverts the legitimacy and authority of its model-in light of recent debates in literature, art, philosophy, and cultural studies. Num Pages: 268 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; ABA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804733366
ISBN
9780804733366
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.75

Paperback. Fresh attention to contemporary black British art, exploring its political power through phenomenological attention to art and embodied experience, the senses and perception, affectivity and the emotions. Series: Value: Art: Politics. Num Pages: 272 pages, 45, 45 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; ABA; ACX; AF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781384176
ISBN
9781781384176
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.47

paperback. Leading philosophers and art theorists engage with the philosophical puzzles raised by conceptual art: What kind of art is conceptual art? What follows from the fact that conceptual art does not aim to have aesthetic value? What knowledge or understanding can we gain from conceptual art? How ought we to appreciate conceptual art? Editor(s): Goldie, Peter; Schellekens, Elisabeth. Num Pages: 308 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ5; HPM; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780199568253
ISBN
9780199568253
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.12

Hardcover. Theory--an embattled discourse for decades--faces a new challenge from those who want to model the methods of all scholarly disciplines on the sciences. What is urgently needed, says D. N. Rodowick, is a revitalized concept of theory that can assess the limits of scientific explanation and defend the unique character of humanistic understanding. Num Pages: 330 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 165 x 27. Weight in Grams: 642.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674416673
ISBN
9780674416673
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 44.93

Paperback. This anthology offers contemporary readers a comprehensive resource of pertinent articles and information spanning the history of photographic theory. Num Pages: 476 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; AJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 192 x 242 x 24. Weight in Grams: 812.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405198639
ISBN
9781405198639
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 46.42

Hardback. Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231168182
ISBN
9780231168182
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

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