Art & Architecture: general issues
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Art & Architecture: general issues
paperback. A summary of mediaeval aesthetic ideas, by Italian novelist and playwright Umberto Eco. Juxtaposing theology and science, poetry and mysticism, Eco explores the relationship that existed between the aesthetic theories and the artistic experience and practice of mediaeval culture. Translator(s): Bredin, Hugh. Series: Yale Nota Bene. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 3F; 3H; ABA; ACK; ACN; HBG; HBLC; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 194 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300093049
- ISBN
- 9780300093049
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.19
€ 14.99
€ 14.19
Paperback. Shortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and committed the largest art heist in history. They stole a dozen masterpieces. The theft has become one of the nation's extraordinary mysteries. Art detective Harold Smith worked the theft for years. This work explores his unfinished leads. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JJPR; ABK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 203 x 17. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780061451843
- ISBN
- 9780061451843
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.01
€ 17.01
Paperback. A study of early 20th-century literary and artistic culture. The text focuses on the turbulent later years of the 1920s and 1930s, tracking the dissolution of modernism in the interwar years. Num Pages: 280 pages, 13 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; AB; ACX; APFA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520216488
- ISBN
- 9780520216488
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.29
€ 50.29
Paperback. Americans agree about government arts funding in the way the women in the old joke agree about the food at the wedding: it's terrible - and such small portions. This book argues why the US way of funding the arts results not in the terrible and the small but in Good and Plenty - and how it could result in even more and better. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ABQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 146 x 15. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691146263
- ISBN
- 9780691146263
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.96
€ 33.96
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
€ 172.21
€ 172.21
hardcover. Despite its foundational role in the history of philosophy, Plato's famous argument that art does not have access to truth or knowledge is now rarely examined, in part because recent philosophers have assumed that Plato's challenge was resolved long ago. In this title, the author argues that Plato has in fact never been satisfactorily answered. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPCA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTS0038199
- ISBN
- 9780226040028
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
Paperback. Presents a fresh look at an ancient question, bringing it into contemporary relief. This volume offers a comprehensive account of Plato's influence through nearly the whole history of Western aesthetics. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AB; HPC; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226272634
- ISBN
- 9780226272634
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.02
€ 51.02
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The New Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781595589415
- ISBN
- 9781595589415
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.95
€ 23.95
Paperback. Part of the acclaimed series of anthologies which document major themes and ideas in contemporary art. Series: Documents of Contemporary Art. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 153 x 210 x 25. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Publisher
- Whitechapel Gallery
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780854882526
- ISBN
- 9780854882526
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.29
€ 21.99
€ 17.29
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Rizzoli International Publications United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847836673
- ISBN
- 9780847836673
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.76€ 50.42
€ 52.76
€ 50.42
Paperback. Editor(s): Derieux, Florence. Num Pages: 248 pages, 60 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Publisher
- JRP Ringier Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783905829099
- ISBN
- 9783905829099
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.13
€ 18.99
€ 17.13
Paperback. Originally published in Dutch as Eigenzinnig kunstzinnig. Meinema, 2009. Num Pages: 168 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, 6 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; JMAJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 164 x 8. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415610285
- ISBN
- 9780415610285
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.23
€ 55.23
Paperback. It has long been considered a mark of naivete to ask of a work of art: What does it say? By critically examining the exhibition of art in contemporary American museums, this book identifies how art showings are elaborate works of theater that reveal underlying political, social, and economic agendas. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: AB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822311232
- ISBN
- 9780822311232
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.70
€ 45.70
Hardback. Myers, of prostitution in Restif de la Bretonne by Rori Bloom, of ruins in Lazzaro Spallanzani by Sabrina Ferri, of Arthur Murphy's female characters by Barbara Mackey King, and of recent film adaptations of the century's masterworks by Karen Gevirtz. Editor(s): Erwin, Timothy; Burnham, Michelle. Num Pages: 300 pages, 24, 24 figures. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; AB; DSBD; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421413761
- ISBN
- 9781421413761
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.51
€ 51.51
hardcover. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; AMA; JHMC; JNA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415786546
- ISBN
- 9780415786546
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 180.98
€ 180.98
Paperback. Takes a fresh approach to the study of four related disciplines: anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture. This title argues that these four disciplines are concerned with exploring, interpreting and describing the worlds we inhabit and the ways we perceive them. Num Pages: 176 pages, 33 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AB; AM; HDA; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 246 x 176 x 8. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415567237
- ISBN
- 9780415567237
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.23
€ 54.23
Paperback. This book offers a comprehensive discussion of the diverse representations of the connections and differences in the way generations of artists and audiences have approached and used the tragedy. In the final section is an in-depth study of James Cameron's blockbuster film "Titanic". Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AB; APFA; DSB; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Publisher
- I. B. Tauris
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781850434320
- ISBN
- 9781850434320
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.23
€ 34.99
€ 29.23
Hardcover. This text looks at the United States-Mexico border in fiction, film and song. Borderlands have long served as backgrounds for depicting social instability. They are readily used as backdrops for films, novels, ballads, and tales in which characters shift easily from one culture to another. Num Pages: 312 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; AB; APF; AVQ; FA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Texas Christian University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875652573
- ISBN
- 9780875652573
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 28.66
€ 30.99
€ 28.66
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.14
€ 8.14
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; AB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691614151
- ISBN
- 9780691614151
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.46
€ 72.46
Hardback. The major paintings of iconic American artist Andrew Wyeth (1917 2009) presented together in an accessible volume. Num Pages: 112 pages, 60 Colour Photographs. BIC Classification: AB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 178. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Publisher
- Rizzoli International Publications
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847859085
- ISBN
- 9780847859085
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.11
€ 21.99
€ 16.11
Paperback. Editor(s): Olivri, Thomas. Num Pages: 416 pages, 1. BIC Classification: AB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 257 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1786.
- Publisher
- Cernunnos
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9782374950112
- ISBN
- 9782374950112
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 39.40
€ 40.99
€ 39.40
Paperback. Aesthetic judgment is extended beyond art and nature into the everyday in The Extraordinary in the Ordinary. Num Pages: 275 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551114781
- ISBN
- 9781551114781
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.95
€ 54.99
€ 39.95
Paperback. Now available in a new edition, this attractive, entertaining and bestselling book on 50 of the greatest artists the world has ever seen is a course in art history for readers of all ages. Series: 50's Series. Num Pages: 176 pages, 200 colour. BIC Classification: 3H; 3J; ABA; ACB; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 246 x 17. Weight in Grams: 598.
- Publisher
- Prestel
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783791381695
- ISBN
- 9783791381695
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.52
€ 19.99
€ 18.52