Art & Architecture
Introducing… our broad range of books on Architecture, Photography, Art Forms, Film TV & Radio, Dance and Performing Arts, Music and History of Art. In our Film TV & Radio section, we have many other sub-genres such as Books That Inspired Movies including Gone Girl, The Enigma, Fifty Shades of Grey and Foxcatcher. Our Music section includes biographies and sheet music of famous musicians past and present, international and Irish – Elvis, Taylor Swift, David Bowie, Bob Geldof, Ed Sheeran, One Direction, Bono and many more.
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Paperback. Seeks to characterize the radical shifts in taste that transformed American film in the jazz age. This book documents the films and film genres that were considered old-fashioned, as well as those dubbed innovative, and looks closely at the works of filmmakers such as Erich von Stroheim, Charlie Chaplin, Ernst Lubitsch, and Monta Bell. Num Pages: 374 pages, 40 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 374
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520254572
- ISBN
- 9780520254572
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
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Hardback. Argues that Brecht's simultaneous work on opera and Lehrstuck in the 1920s generated the concept of audience experience that would come to define epic theater, and that his revisions to the theory of Gestus in the mid-1930s are reminiscent of nineteenth-century opera performance practices of mimesis. Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music. Num Pages: 304 pages, 2 tables, 18 music examples. BIC Classification: AVGC9. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520254824
- ISBN
- 9780520254824
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Condition: New
€ 84.37€ 64.45
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Paperback. Identifying music as a vital site of cultural debate, this book captures the dynamic, contested nature of musical life in the United States. It examines an array of genres - including art music, jazz, popular song, ragtime, and Hawaiian music - and well-known musicians, such as Charles Ives, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and Irving Berlin. Num Pages: 312 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 3 tables, 20 music examples. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; AV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520254879
- ISBN
- 9780520254879
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.28
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Paperback. Metal and punk enjoyed a charged, intimate relationship that informed both genres in terms of sound, image, and discourse. This book traces this connection back to the early 1970s, when metal first asserted its identity and punk arose independently. Num Pages: 398 pages, 21 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVGT; AVGU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 398
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520257177
- ISBN
- 9780520257177
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
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Hardback. Examines a pivotal period in the history of Europe and the near East. Spanning the ancient and medieval worlds, this title investigates the ideal of sacred kingship that emerged in the late Roman and Persian empires. It brings to life the courts of two global powers that affected the cultures of medieval Europe, Byzantium, Islam and South Asia. Series Editor(s): Brown, Peter. Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage. Num Pages: 456 pages, 45 black-and-white photographs and 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAP; 1QDAR; ACG; ACK; HBJD; HBJF1; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 165 x 40. Weight in Grams: 906.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520257276
- ISBN
- 9780520257276
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.37€ 64.45
€ 84.37
€ 64.45
Hardback. In the voluminous scholarship that's been written on Paul Cezanne, little has been said about the 24 portraits in oil that Cezanne made of his wife, Hortense Fiquet Cezanne, over an extended twenty-year period. This title focuses on these paintings as a group and looks at the differences that render many of them unrecognizable as the same person. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 color illustrations and 65 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; ACV; AGB; AGHF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 259 x 214 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1252.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition /First Printing
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520257450
- ISBN
- 9780520257450
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Condition: New
€ 84.37€ 64.67
€ 84.37
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Hardback. From his dazzling conducting debut in 1943 until his death in 1990, Leonard Bernstein's star blazed brilliantly. This biography examines Bernstein's career against the backdrop of cold war America - blacklisting by the State Department in 1950 and voluntary exile from the New York Philharmonic in 1951 for fear that he might be blacklisted. Num Pages: 296 pages, 9 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: AVH; BGF; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520257641
- ISBN
- 9780520257641
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.99
€ 52.99
€ 37.99
Paperback. Explores classical music's nature of subjectivity, the conquest of time and mortality, the harmonization of humanity and technology, the cultivation of attention, and the liberation of human energy. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 209 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520258037
- ISBN
- 9780520258037
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 23.01
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Paperback. Includes articles, which provide a window onto the New York art scene just as it was casting off provincialism in favor of a more international outlook. Editor(s): Wojtowicz, Robert. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 68.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520258082
- ISBN
- 9780520258082
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 23.01
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Hardback. Traditional Chinese collectors, like present-day scholars of Chinese painting, have favored the 'literati' paintings of the Chinese male elite, disparaging vernacular works, often intended as decorations or produced to mark a special occasion. This book deals with the field of Chinese pictorial art history. Num Pages: 280 pages, 122 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JD; 3JF; ACQ; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 257 x 216 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1430. Vernacular Painting in High Qing China. 280 pages, col. Illustrations. Traditional Chinese collectors, like present-day scholars of Chinese painting, have favored the 'literati' paintings of the Chinese male elite, disparaging vernacular works, often intended as decorations or produced to mark a special occasion. This book deals with the field of Chinese pictorial art history. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JD; 3JF; ACQ; AFC. Dimension: 257 x 216 x 31. Weight: 1438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520258570
- ISBN
- 9780520258570
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.37€ 64.81
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Hardback. A study of the Western that covers its history from the early silent era to recent spins on the genre in films such as "No Country for Old Men", "There Will Be Blood", "True Grit", and "Cowboys & Aliens". It also examines various forms of genre-revival and genre-revisionism that have recurred over the years. Num Pages: 344 pages, 53 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520258662
- ISBN
- 9780520258662
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.50
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Paperback. Examines the role of sound and audio in the development of media theory and practice, including technologies and performance art events, with particular emphasis on sound, embodiment, art, and technological interactions. This book takes an historical approach, focusing on technologies that became available in the mid-twentieth century-electronics. Num Pages: 262 pages, 8 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: AB; AV; JFD; TTA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 368. Immersion and Embodiment in the Arts and Culture. 262 pages, illustrations. Examines the role of sound and audio in the development of media theory and practice, including technologies and performance art events, with particular emphasis on sound, embodiment, art, and technological interactions. This book takes an historical approach, focusing on technologies that became available in the mid-twentieth century-electronics. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: AB; AV; JFD; TTA. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 18. Weight: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520258990
- ISBN
- 9780520258990
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
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Hardback. A comprehensive, English-language study of early twentieth-century Japanese modern art. It constructs a critical theory of artistic modernism in Japan between 1900 and 1930 by analyzing the work of Yorozu Tetsugoro, whose paintings she casts as a polemic response to Japan's late-nineteenth-century encounter with European art. Series: The Phillips Book Prize Series. Num Pages: 328 pages, 16 color illustrations and 99 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; ACBP; ACX; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 260 x 189 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1034.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520259522
- ISBN
- 9780520259522
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.37€ 64.67
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Paperback. Anna Halprin pioneered what became known as 'postmodern dance', creating work that was key to unlocking the door to experimentation in theater, music, Happenings, and performance art. This biography examines Halprin's life in the context of American culture - in particular popular culture and the West Coast as a center of artistic experimentation. Num Pages: 464 pages, 60 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: ASDT; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 31. Weight in Grams: 656.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520260054
- ISBN
- 9780520260054
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.35
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Paperback. Broadway star Ethel Merman's voice was a mesmerizing force and her vitality was legendary. This detailed biography tells the story of how the stenographer from Queens, New York, became the queen of the Broadway musical in its golden age. Num Pages: 560 pages, 50 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: AVGM; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 143 x 35. Weight in Grams: 732.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520260221
- ISBN
- 9780520260221
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
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Hardback. Feminist historians of science and philosophy have shown that during the Italian Renaissance, the profound shift in the concept of nature - from an organic worldview to the scientific - was assisted by the gender metaphor that defined nature as female. This book proposes that the larger shift was both anticipated and mediated by the visual arts. Num Pages: 448 pages, 16 color photographs and 241 black-and-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; ACND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 284 x 225 x 39. Weight in Grams: 2302.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520261525
- ISBN
- 9780520261525
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.37€ 68.82
€ 84.37
€ 68.82
Hardback. Focuses on the life and public sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), one of the early twentieth century's few African American women artists. This title argues that Fuller's efforts to represent black identity in art provide a window on the Progressive Era and its heated debates about race, national identity, and culture. Num Pages: 208 pages, 8 color illustrations and 63 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: ACXD; AFKB; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 184 x 262 x 19. Weight in Grams: 816.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520262126
- ISBN
- 9780520262126
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.37€ 64.67
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Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520262836
- ISBN
- 9780520262836
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.47
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Hardback. Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W Adorno - affiliated through friendship, professional ties, and argument - developed an astute philosophical critique of modernity in which technological media played a key role. This book explores their reflections on cinema and photography from the Weimar period up to the 1960s. Editor(s): Dimendberg, Edward. Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520265592
- ISBN
- 9780520265592
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.87€ 57.69
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Paperback. Proposes that we reconsider the work of the Farm Security Administration and its most beloved photographers in light of various forms of trauma in the 1930s. This title offers ways to understand this body of work by exploring a more variable idea of documentary photography than what the New Dealers proposed. Series: Defining Moments in American Photography. Num Pages: 121 pages, 28 duotones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 204 x 8. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 121
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520265660
- ISBN
- 9780520265660
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
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Paperback. This essay is an attempt to reconcile the disturbing contradiction between the striving for order in nature and in man and the principle of entropy implicit in the second law of thermodynamics - between the tendency toward greater organization and the general trend of the material universe toward death and disorder. Num Pages: 72 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 3 line illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 138 x 6. Weight in Grams: 108. An Essay on Disorder and Order. 72 pages, Illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: ABA. Dimension: 210 x 137 x 5. Weight: 108.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 40th Anniversary Edition
- Number of pages
- 72
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520266001
- ISBN
- 9780520266001
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.42
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Paperback. When, in 1907, Alfred Stieglitz took a simple picture of passengers on a ship bound for Europe, he could not have known that "The Steerage", as it was soon called, would become a modernist icon and, from today's vantage, arguably the most famous photograph made by an American photographer. This title reassesses this important picture. Series: Defining Moments in American Photography. Num Pages: 152 pages, 28 duotones. Iocolor to handle pre-press. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 208 x 8. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520266230
- ISBN
- 9780520266230
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.35
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Hardback. Offers a visual perspective on westward expansion through a survey of the major Indian images painted by Euro-American artists before and after the American Revolution. Num Pages: 176 pages, 18 b/w photographs and 55 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AC; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520266315
- ISBN
- 9780520266315
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.37€ 64.45
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Hardback. Though best known for her 1930s documentary images of New York City, this book examines a broad range of Berenice Abbott's work - including portraits from the 1920s, little known and uncompleted projects from the 1930s, and experimental science photography from the 1950s. Series: The Phillips Book Prize Series. Num Pages: 264 pages, 80 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJB; AJCR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 255 x 186 x 22. Weight in Grams: 824.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520266759
- ISBN
- 9780520266759
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.37€ 64.45
€ 84.37
€ 64.45