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Theory of art

Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 68ill. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 253 x 179 x 16. Weight in Grams: 500.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816645398
ISBN
9780816645398
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Paperback. Editor(s): Wamberg, Jacob. Num Pages: 297 pages, 80 b/w & 10 colour illus. BIC Classification: ABA; HRQX2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 148 x 24. Weight in Grams: 636.
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
297
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9788763502672
ISBN
9788763502672
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.86
€ 40.41

Paperback. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 172 x 246 x 17. Weight in Grams: 424.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
284
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745649160
ISBN
9780745649160
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.49

Paperback. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 246 x 165 x 11. Weight in Grams: 352.
Publisher
Monash University Publishing Australia
Number of pages
184
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780980361605
ISBN
9780980361605
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 25.68

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

Hardcover. A comprehensive overview of the sociology of art and an authoritative work of scholarship by a leading expert in the field. The book synthesizes the various theoretical models of art sociology, and provides empirical examples as well as stimulating exemplars of sociological work on the arts. Num Pages: 392 pages, 11. BIC Classification: ABA; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 728.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
392
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631230397
ISBN
9780631230397
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.77

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.92

Paperback. Presents work by a generation of scholars responding directly to the author's idea of the 'travelling concept'. This work makes a contribution to the territorial conflicts between visual culture, art history and cultural studies. Editor(s): Pollock, Griselda. Num Pages: 288 pages, 45 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 574.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845115234
ISBN
9781845115234
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.93

Hardback. Includes 90 documents, short essays, letters, statements and lectures, written by Rothko. This book includes annotation and a chronology of the artist's life and work. It presents a compilation of both published and unpublished writings from 1934-69, telling the importance of writing for an artist who many believed had renounced the written word. Editor(s): Lopez-Remiro, Miguel. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; AGB; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 231 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300114409
ISBN
9780300114409
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.99

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
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.37

Hardcover. Art used to be an engagement between artist and materials. But in our media world art has changed, its very materials have changed and have become technologized. This change reflects a broader social shift. Speed and politics have been transformed in the twenty-first century to speed and mass culture. This work puts art at the centre of politics. Translator(s): Rose, Julie. Num Pages: 128 pages, index. BIC Classification: ABA; HPCF7; JHBA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 143 x 15. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Berg Publishers
Number of pages
128
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845206116
ISBN
9781845206116
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.07
€ 50.22

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

€ 59.10
€ 54.12

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
€ 22.52

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

€ 89.72

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

€ 112.40
€ 108.53

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

€ 35.99
€ 28.82

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

€ 33.99
€ 24.92

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

€ 37.99
€ 31.78

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. .
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816696987
ISBN
9780816696987
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

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

€ 72.45

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

€ 46.99
€ 39.21

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
€ 30.69

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

€ 262.65
€ 178.03

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

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