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Architecture books onlineIntroducing… 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. An analysis of the ideologies and artistic conventions of American movies includes examinations of films such as Casablanca, Taxi Driver, and The Godfather. Num Pages: 424 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691101743
ISBN
9780691101743
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.48
€ 42.15

Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 142 x 28. Weight in Grams: 548.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691102085
ISBN
9780691102085
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.48
€ 42.00

Paperback. Analyzes white fantasies of interracial desire in the history of popular American film. With readings of films like D W Griffith's 1915, "The Birth of a Nation" and of key forgotten films and censorship documents, this book argues that dominant fantasies of miscegenation have had a profound impact on the form and content of American cinema. Num Pages: 400 pages, 142 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APFA; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 571.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691113050
ISBN
9780691113050
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.48
€ 42.28

Paperback. Celebrating the flowering of female portraiture, mainly in Florence, beginning in the latter half of the fifteenth century, this is an illustrated volume of paintings, sculpture, medals, and drawings. It includes the finest portraits of women by Filippo Lippi, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Antonio Pollaiuolo, Botticelli, Verrocchio, and Leonardo da Vinci. Editor(s): Brown, David Alan. Num Pages: 240 pages, 97 color illus., 76 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; ACND; AFC; AGHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 328 x 14. Weight in Grams: 1526.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691114569
ISBN
9780691114569
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.36
€ 50.63

Hardback. Richard Wagner continues to be the most controversial artist in history, a perpetually troubling figure in our cultural consciousness. This book presents an overall picture of his musical dramas from the standpoint of literary and theatrical history. It also examines Wagner in relation to political figures including King Ludwig II and Bismarck. Translator(s): Ellis, Daphne. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; AVGC5; AVGC9; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691114972
ISBN
9780691114972
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.13
€ 67.89

Hardback. When Georgia O'Keeffe first visited New Mexico in 1917, she was instantly drawn to the stark beauty of its unusual architectural and landscape forms. This book analyzes the artist's famous depictions of these Southwestern landscapes. It accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Num Pages: 144 pages, 66 color I plates. 10 halftones. BIC Classification: ACX; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 275 x 15. Weight in Grams: 996.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
3rd
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691116594
ISBN
9780691116594
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.41

Paperback. Brings together several Leos Janacek scholars to look closely at a range of issues surrounding his life and work. This book features essays accompanied by translated writings by the composer himself. It includes essays on Naturalism, opera direction, and Tristan and Isolde and four impressionistic chronicles of the 'speech melodies' of daily life. Editor(s): Beckerman, Michael. Series: Bard Music Festival. Num Pages: 320 pages, 11 halftones. 5 line illus. 4 tables. BIC Classification: AVGC5; AVGC6; AVGC9; AVH; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691116761
ISBN
9780691116761
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.48
€ 42.00

Hardback. Offers an illustrated compendium of the menagerie of imaginary animals that humans have conjured up over the ages. This book take us on a journey through five thousand years of art, examining the symbolic meanings of such creatures and what they say about the unconscious life of the human mind. Num Pages: 200 pages, 186 color plates. BIC Classification: AGN; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 299 x 235 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691116891
ISBN
9780691116891
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.18
€ 63.58

Hardback. Num Pages: 144 pages, 16 line illus. BIC Classification: AMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 371.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691117331
ISBN
9780691117331
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.13
€ 68.28

Hardback. Published to accompany a major exhibition originating at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, this volume illuminates Picasso's radical reformulation of human physiognomy. Containing eighty-two color illustrations and sixty-eight duotones, this catalogue explores the Fernande portraits and related works as a single oeuvre. Num Pages: 192 pages, 82 color plates. 68 duotones. BIC Classification: ACXD5; AFC; AGB; AGHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 267 x 216 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1285.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691117416
ISBN
9780691117416
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.81
€ 61.86

Hardback. Grover-Friedlander argues that filmed operas such as Zeffirelli's Otello and Friedrich's Falstaff show the impossibility of a direct transformation of the operatic into the cinematic. Series: Princeton Studies in Opera. Num Pages: 216 pages, 10 line illus. 24 halftones. BIC Classification: APF; AVGC9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 165 x 240 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691120089
ISBN
9780691120089
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.14

Paperback. Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975) has a reputation as one of the leading composers of the twentieth century. This work expands the traditional purview of Shostakovich's world, exploring the composer's creativity and art in terms of the expectations - historical, cultural, and political - that forged them. Editor(s): Fay, Laurel E. Series: Bard Music Festival. Num Pages: 432 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: AVGC6; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 657.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691120690
ISBN
9780691120690
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.73

Hardback. Explores the relationship between jazz and literature, looking at jazz musicians and the themes literature has garnered from them by appropriating the style, tones, and innovations of jazz, and demonstrating that the poetics of jazz has both been assimilated into, and affected, the development of twentieth-century American literature. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; AVGJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691123578
ISBN
9780691123578
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.36
€ 50.98

Paperback. Chronicles the life of one of the most remarkable musical minds of the American experience, the great nineteenth-century New Orleans-born composer and pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk. This book recounts Gottschalk's experiences as he traveled and performed throughout the last decade of his life. Editor(s): Behrend, Jeanne. Num Pages: 504 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC5; AVH; AVRG; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 154 x 31. Weight in Grams: 668.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
490
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691127163
ISBN
9780691127163
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.12

Paperback. Isamu Noguchi was one of the most prolific yet enigmatic figures in the history of twentieth-century American art. This book features his biography. It draws on Noguchi's letters, his reminiscences, and interviews with his friends and colleagues to cast light on his youth, his creativity, and his relationships. Translator(s): Duus, Peter. Num Pages: 440 pages, 36 halftones. BIC Classification: ACX; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 604.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691127828
ISBN
9780691127828
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.59

paperback. In his roles as keyboard virtuoso, conductor, and master teacher, Franz Liszt reinvented the concert experience, advanced an agenda for symphonic and dramatic music, and transmitted the foundations of modern pianism. Placing emphasis on historical contexts, this book aims to advance our understanding of the composer with fresh perspectives. Editor(s): Gibbs, Christopher H.; Gooley, Dana. Series: The Bard Music Festival. Num Pages: 608 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 234 x 37. Weight in Grams: 870.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
608
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691129020
ISBN
9780691129020
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.72

Hardback. A polemic against America's architectural eclecticism, commercial skyscrapers, and misguided urban planning. It moves from a general statement of the conditions of modern culture to applications in the fields of architecture and urbanism at broadening scales. Num Pages: 208 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: AM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 260 x 210 x 21. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691129372
ISBN
9780691129372
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.82

Hardback. Modernism in architecture and urban design has failed the American city. This work includes the articles and essays which reflect the author's ideas on subjects ranging from the livable city and public housing to building design, public memorials, and the uses of public space. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACXD2; AM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691129570
ISBN
9780691129570
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.49

Paperback. Brings together some of the leading writers and scholars on urban America to offer perspectives on how to sustain prosperous, livable cities in fast-evolving economy. Drawing on the research in the social sciences, this book explores optimal ways to manage the modern city and proposes solutions to some of the most pressing urban problems. Editor(s): Inman, Robert P. Num Pages: 432 pages, 53 line illus. 36 tables. BIC Classification: AMVD; JFSG; KCU; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 571.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691131054
ISBN
9780691131054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.48
€ 42.23

Hardback. On a June morning in 1870, seventy-five Chinese immigrants stepped off a train in New England. They threaded their way through a hostile mob and then their new employer lined them up and had them photographed. This work seeks to understand the social forces that brought this photograph into being, and the events it subsequently spawned. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1 color illus. 136 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JH; AJCR; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 178 x 24. Weight in Grams: 971.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
illustrated edition
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691133256
ISBN
9780691133256
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.92
€ 53.22

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