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Art & Architecture: general issues

Paperback. Originally published between 1968 and 2009, this collection of 25 pieces includes six interviews translated into English for the first time and a new transcription of a Q&A session with Baudrillard following a lecture he gave in London in 1994, The guiding theme of the collection is Baudrillard's engagement with culture. Editor(s): Smith, Richard G.; Clarke, David B. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPCF; HPN; HPS; JFC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474417785
ISBN
9781474417785
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.90

Hardback. Arguing that cultural reform is a key aspect of political reform, Richard Kraus shows here that China's economic transformation has dramatically liberated the production and consumption of culture. In this original and provocative study, Kraus offers a political analysis of Chinese culture that includes all genres of art. Series: State & Society in East Asia. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; AB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742527195
ISBN
9780742527195
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 185.58

Paperback. This work explores the ways in which Nazi Germany used art and media to portray their country as a champion of Kultur and civilisation. Revealing how multiple domains of cultural activity served to conceptually de-humanize Jews, this work shows how the seeds of the Holocaust were sown Editor(s): Etlin, Richard A. Num Pages: 368 pages, 62 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; AB; GTB; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 165 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226220871
ISBN
9780226220871
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 36.34

Paperback. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415834551
ISBN
9780415834551
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.72

Paperback. Num Pages: 180 pages, 13 colour illus. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 137 x 13. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837616859
ISBN
9783837616859
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 21.39

Hardback. This book explores the movement from a world of sacraments to the "sacramental," in which the impulses once met by sacred ritual are displaced onto wider cultural forms, a poetics that becomes the province of mystery. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: AB; HRCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804756679
ISBN
9780804756679
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.32

Hardback. Editor(s): Meyer, Regina G. Num Pages: 182 pages, b/w photos, tables & charts. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AB; ASZP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
182
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612098258
ISBN
9781612098258
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.91
€ 90.52

Hardcover. Triangles abounded in the intellectual culture of early modern Europe - the Christian Trinity was often mapped as a triangle, for instance, and perspective, a characteristic artistic technique, is based on a triangular theory of vision. This book takes us on a hunt for the triangle's embedded significance. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 colour plates, 86 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 703.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226989396
ISBN
9780226989396
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.02

Paperback. In 1540 Antonio Lafreri migrated to Rome and began publishing maps and other printed images that depicted major monuments and antiquities in Rome. This volume places these prints in their historical context and examines their publishing history. It traces their journey from the creator and publishers to pilgrims, collectors, and, dealers. Editor(s): Zorach, Rebecca. Num Pages: 176 pages, 100 halftones. BIC Classification: AB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 205 x 279 x 15. Weight in Grams: 872.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780943056371
ISBN
9780943056371
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.41

Hardback. An overview of Russian history, literature, arts and the lives of many Russians who chose exile after the revolutions and civil war 0f 1917-1921. A brief historical outline introduces each topic which is then followed by a listing of contributors within the Russian diaspora. Num Pages: 288 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; AB; GBC; HBJD; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810837867
ISBN
9780810837867
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.91

Paperback. Explores peoples attachment to their countries, and the planets role in forming ones identity, as well as the paths and consequences of human migrations. This book also discusses subjects ranging from Tuvaluans forced to leave their Pacific island, to a human cannonball who catapults himself over the US-Mexico border. Num Pages: 176 pages, 15 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 176 x 113 x 16. Weight in Grams: 144.
Publisher
Actes Sud France
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
NS Around the World. ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9782742789047
ISBN
9782742789047
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.79

Paperback. An international scholarly journal dedicated to providing critical perspectives on art and visual culture. It addresses the complex cultural realities that emerge when different worldviews meet, and the challenge this poses to Eurocentrism and ethnocentric aesthetic criteria. Editor(s): Araeen, Rasheed; Sardar, Ziauddin. Num Pages: 116 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: AB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 189 x 4. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
116
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415441179
ISBN
9780415441179
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.67

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810131125
ISBN
9780810131125
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.71

Paperback. Frames the classic debates on objects and aims to generate fresh ones by reshaping the ways in which the object can be taught and studies, from a variety of disciplines and fields. This title elucidates objects in many of their diverse roles, dynamics and capacities. It comprises of numerous academic fields. Editor(s): Guins, Raiford; Candlin, Fiona. Series: In Sight: Visual Culture. Num Pages: 576 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AB; JFCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 243 x 175 x 31. Weight in Grams: 988.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
576
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415452304
ISBN
9780415452304
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.73

Hardback. The Visible God examines the semiotics of wealth, in its various representations, in select works from the ancient Greco-Roman comic tradition represented by Aristophanes and Plautus and from the tradition's inheritors in two later periods through Lucian and Shakespeare. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: AB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761812524
ISBN
9780761812524
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.97

Paperback. In The Literate Eye, Rachel Teukolsky analyzes the vivid archive of Victorian art writing to reveal the key role played by nineteenth-century authors in the rise of modernist aesthetics. Num Pages: 336 pages, 54 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; ABA; DSBF; DSBH; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 554.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199739233
ISBN
9780199739233
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.87

Paperback. Assembling an archive of images and texts since the eighteenth century, this book offers history of the 'wanted' poster, examining its uses, patterns of circulation, and formal development as an iconic print genre. It covers a wide range of images: runaway slave notices, private detective posters, FBI posters, and artists' approximations. Series: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture. Num Pages: 192 pages, 26 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AB; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813928562
ISBN
9780813928562
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.18

Paperback. Editor(s): Buller, Rachel Epp. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; ACV; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 293 x 2. Weight in Grams: 576.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138274440
ISBN
9781138274440
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.50

Hardcover. Since 1986, the Burning Man Festival has evolved from founder Larry Harvey's personal healing ritual into a cultural movement where ceremony, religion, visual art, and performance converge on an epic scale. This work explores the spectrum of performance and ritual practices within Black Rock City from the everyday to wild spectacle. Series: SB - Enactments. Num Pages: 364 pages, 70 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBWN; AB; ASZP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 163 x 38. Weight in Grams: 850.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Seagull Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906497255
ISBN
9781906497255
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.21

Paperback. Editor(s): Churner, Rachel. Series: October Files. Num Pages: 264 pages, 39 b&w illus. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ8; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 16. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262527934
ISBN
9780262527934
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 18.05

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

€ 32.99
€ 23.87

Paperback. Editor(s): Manzotti, Riccardo. Num Pages: 250 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Imprint Academic
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845402389
ISBN
9781845402389
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.80

Paperback. As a philosophical approach, phenomenology is concerned with structure in how phenomena are experienced. This title uses phenomenological insights to explain the significance of style in modern art, most notably in Impressionism, Expressionism, Cezanne and Cubism, Duchampian conceptualism and abstract art. Num Pages: 208 pages, 5 colour illustrations, 25 bw illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX; HPCF3; HPN. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 536. Exploding Deleuze, Illuminating Style. 208 pages, 5 colour illustrations, 25 bw illustrations. As a philosophical approach, phenomenology is concerned with structure in how phenomena are experienced. This title uses phenomenological insights to explain the significance of style in modern art, most notably in Impressionism, Expressionism, Cezanne and Cubism, Duchampian conceptualism and abstract art. Cateogry: (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX; HPCF3; HPN. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 16. Weight: 536.
Publisher
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781441142580
ISBN
9781441142580
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 46.25

Paperback. Some eighty years after the Reformation, the brief span of the Anglican Counter-Reformation in the 1620s and 1630s saw a revival of the arts in the Church. With the rise of a 'High Church' movement, the arts of religion flourished once again. This work offers an overview of the achievements of Laudian culture. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JD; AB; HRCC2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 368. The Arts of the Anglican Counter-Reformation. 248 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. Some eighty years after the Reformation, the brief span of the Anglican Counter-Reformation in the 1620s and 1630s saw a revival of the arts in the Church. With the rise of a 'High Church' movement, the arts of religion flourished once again. This work offers an overview of the achievements of Laudian culture. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JD; AB; HRCC2. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 15. Weight: 382.
Publisher
BOYE6
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843833758
ISBN
9781843833758
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 28.11

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