Theory of art
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Theory of art
Paperback. This is a history of one of the central organizing principles in all schools and periods of art. It traces the evolution of the conception and the depiction of space in European and American painting and the ways in which this evolution reflects ideological changes in society over 2000 years. Num Pages: 272 pages, 42 illustrations, index. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; ABA; AC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd)
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815625087
- ISBN
- 9780815625087
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.39
€ 29.39
Paperback. The Aesthetic Mind breaks new ground in bringing together empirical sciences and philosophy to enhance our understanding of art and the aesthetic. An eminent international team of experts explores the roles of emotion, imagination, empathy, and beauty in this realm of human experience, discussing visual and literary art, music, and dance. Editor(s): Schellekens, Elisabeth; Goldie, Peter. Num Pages: 470 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: ABA; HP; HPN; JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 233 x 25. Weight in Grams: 710.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198705925
- ISBN
- 9780198705925
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.00
€ 73.00
Hardback. Proceedings of the XXIXth International Congress of the History of Art, Amsterdam, 1-7 September 1996 Editor(s): Reinink, A. W. (Utrecht University, The Netherlands); Stumpel, Jeroen. Num Pages: 1114 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 210 x 61. Weight in Grams: 2977.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 1114
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792342137
- ISBN
- 9780792342137
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 607.81
€ 607.81
hardcover. First book to examine how the theories of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing have affected individual artists and their works. Editor(s): Lippert, Sarah. Series: International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art. Num Pages: 304 pages, 30 integrated bw. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784533458
- ISBN
- 9781784533458
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 39.99€ 9.39
€ 39.99
€ 9.39
paperback. Explores the emergence of the theme of migration as a dominant subject in the world of art, as well as the ways in which the mobilities of our globalized world have radically reshaped art's conditions of production, reception, and display. Editor(s): Mathur, Saloni. Series: Clark Studies in the Visual Arts. Num Pages: 256 pages, 75 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 177 x 18. Weight in Grams: 642.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780300134148
- ISBN
- 9780300134148
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 6.23
€ 29.99
€ 6.23
paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 2ill. BIC Classification: ABA; HRC; HRKN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 135 x 9. Weight in Grams: 166. Good copy with some shelf wear and aging. Some scoring internally, to text and title page. Remains good reading copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc New York
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KMK0024890
- ISBN
- 9780486203782
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Editor(s): Arnold, Dana; Sofaer Derevenski, Joanna. Num Pages: 224 pages, 49 black & white halftones, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: ABA; AMA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415511551
- ISBN
- 9780415511551
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Condition: New
€ 30.37
€ 30.37
Paperback. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 212 x 27. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Diaphanes AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783037342176
- ISBN
- 9783037342176
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.62
€ 45.62
Hardcover. Includes dialogues with theorists, curators, activists, and fellow artists - such as Lisa Wolford Wylam, Tim Miller, Felipe Ehrenberg, Orlando Britoo Jinorio, Silvana Straw, and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer that explore the terrain between art and theory. Editor(s): Levin, Laura. Series: SB - Enactments. Num Pages: 452 pages, 34 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; AFKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 227 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1194.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Seagull Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906497507
- ISBN
- 9781906497507
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.54
€ 51.54
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861898135
- ISBN
- 9781861898135
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Condition: New
€ 46.00
€ 46.00
BLANCHE LAZZELL: THE LIFE AND WORK OF AN AMERICAN MODERNIST
Bridges, Robert C., Olson, Kristina M., Snyde...
Hardcover. Blanche Lazzell went from Maidsville, West Virginia, to the leading edge of twentieth-century American art. Blanche Lazzell is a significant contribution to the history of twentieth-century American art. Known primarily as a printmaker, Lazzell's full life and career are presented here, accompanied by colour reproductions of her work. Num Pages: 338 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 37. Weight in Grams: 2622.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- West Virginia University Press
- Edition
- y First edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780937058848
- ISBN
- 9780937058848
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.22
€ 104.22
Hardcover. Num Pages: 430 pages, 17 colour plates, 79 b&w photos. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 35. Weight in Grams: 866.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Baylor University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 430
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781932792416
- ISBN
- 9781932792416
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.02
€ 62.02
Hardback. This book examines the writings of Lawrence Alloway (1926-1990), one of the most influential and widely-respected art writers of the post-War years. It provides a close and critical reading of his writings, and sets his work in the cultural and political context of the London and New York art worlds of the 1950s to the early 1980s. Series: Value: Art: Politics. Num Pages: 510 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, 18 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 9. Weight in Grams: 982.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 510
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846316456
- ISBN
- 9781846316456
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 188.13
€ 188.13
Hardcover. Collects essays by philosophers responding to John Sallis's Transfigurements: On the True Sense of Art as well as his other works on the philosophy of art, including Force of Imagination and Logic of Imagination. Each of the chapters engages Sallis's work on both ancient and new senses of aesthetics as a beginning that is always beginning again. Editor(s): Jones, David; Wirth, Jason M.; Schwartz, Michael. Series: Comparative and Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 240 pages, 6 images in gallery. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ABA; HPCF3; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810131590
- ISBN
- 9780810131590
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.20
€ 135.20
Paperback. Num Pages: 326 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439911785
- ISBN
- 9781439911785
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.72
€ 38.72
Paperback. Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557536044
- ISBN
- 9781557536044
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.89
€ 59.89
Paperback. Reflects on the early nineteenth-century doctrine of 'art for art's sake'. Attacked by Proudhon and Nietzsche, but defended by Theophile Gautier and E M Forster, it influenced movements as diverse as futurism and Dada. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 176 x 119 x 8. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC United States
- Number of pages
- 104
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780984201006
- ISBN
- 9780984201006
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.99
€ 13.99
€ 12.99
Paperback. Editor(s): Hakutani, Dr Yoshinobu. Num Pages: 336 pages, 56 photographs, 25 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; ABA; AV; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3734 x 23. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252073984
- ISBN
- 9780252073984
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.20
€ 32.20
Hardback. Num Pages: 504 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJP; ABA; ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 259 x 178 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1179.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 504
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226774510
- ISBN
- 9780226774510
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.74
€ 132.74
Hardback. Draws on neuroscience and psychology to understand the way we both perceive and conceive of art, including its resistance to verbal exposition. This book probes the distinction between accepting a tradition and defying it through innovation, which leads to a consideration of the notion of artistic genius. Num Pages: 528 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; ACB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 44. Weight in Grams: 853.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226736099
- ISBN
- 9780226736099
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.49
€ 51.49
Hardback. Critics of the 1980s feared that market hype and self-promotion threatened the integrity of art. While the controversies of the time have subsided many still view art of the 1980s as a stylistic battlefield. Pearlman reassesses this significant episode in modern art. Num Pages: 248 pages, 26 colour plates, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 2
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226651453
- ISBN
- 9780226651453
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.40
€ 83.40
Hardcover. Series: Series in Continental Thought. Num Pages: 178 pages, 1col.ill. BIC Classification: ABA; HPCF3; JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press
- Number of pages
- 178
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821409084
- ISBN
- 9780821409084
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.82
€ 96.82
Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; APF; DSB; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226346489
- ISBN
- 9780226346489
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.89
€ 118.89
Paperback. Includes essays that explore the question of how ethical ideas guiding the design process - a concern for the environment or for social justice - relate to the beauty of our buildings, cities, and artworks. This book presents a range of viewpoints and does not ignore the perils of an easy association of ethics and aesthetics. Editor(s): Iliescu, Sanda. Num Pages: 320 pages, 102 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AMA; HPN; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 203 x 178 x 18. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813927725
- ISBN
- 9780813927725
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.43
€ 44.43