Art & Architecture
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Art & Architecture
Hardcover. Massimo Ossi delves into the most significant aspect of Monteverdi's career: the development of a new compositional style he called the "seconda prattica" or "second manner". Num Pages: 280 pages, 2 halftones, 24 tables, 30 musical examples. BIC Classification: AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226638836
- ISBN
- 9780226638836
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.36€ 79.61
€ 93.36
€ 79.61
Hardback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 181 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AJB; AJC; HBLA1; HDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 263 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1274.
- Publisher
- Steidl Publishers
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783958291799
- ISBN
- 9783958291799
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 35.88
€ 42.99
€ 35.88
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 274 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFA; DSK; JFFK; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 16. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691637174
- ISBN
- 9780691637174
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.18
€ 148.18
Paperback. Focuses on six contemporary Native Americn artists - James Luna, Gerald Clarke, Dana Claxton, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Larry Tee Harbor Jackson McNeil, and Will Wilson. This volume is accompanied DVD that presents James Luna's in-your-face performance works that question stereotypes about Native Americans. Editor(s): Nottage, James H. Num Pages: 120 pages, 79 color illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 216 x 10. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295987811
- ISBN
- 9780295987811
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.43
€ 29.43
Paperback. Accessible, theoretical readings of popular African American women film icons Num Pages: 320 pages, 16 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780252076190
- ISBN
- 9780252076190
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.37
€ 29.99
€ 27.37
Paperback. When eight-year-old Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (1590-1662) entered one of the preeminent convents in Bologna in 1598, she had no idea what cloistered life had in store for her. This title retells the story of Vizzana and the nuns of Santa Cristina to elucidate the role that music played in the lives of these cloistered women. Num Pages: 280 pages, 32 halftones, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JD; AV; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408. Nuns, Music, and Defiance in Seventeenth-century Italy. 280 pages, 32 halftones, 3 line drawings. When eight-year-old Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (1590-1662) entered one of the preeminent convents in Bologna in 1598, she had no idea what cloistered life had in store for her. This title retells the story of Vizzana and the nuns of Santa Cristina to elucidate the role that music played in the lives of these cloistered women. Cateogry: (UF) Further/Higher Education. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JD; AV; HBJD; HBLH. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226535197
- ISBN
- 9780226535197
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 30.01
€ 36.99
€ 30.01
Hardcover. Gives an account of how opera comes to the stage. This work reveals the problems, and occasionally the scandals, that attend the production of some of our favorite operas. It also traces the social history of nineteenth-century Italian theaters in order to explain the nature of the musical scores from which performers have long worked. Num Pages: 704 pages, 92 musical examples. BIC Classification: 1DST; AVGC9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 186 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1068.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 704
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226304823
- ISBN
- 9780226304823
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.35€ 44.70
€ 51.35
€ 44.70
Paperback. Gives an account of how opera comes to the stage. This work reveals the problems, and occasionally the scandals, that attend the production of some of our favorite operas. It also traces the social history of nineteenth-century Italian theaters in order to explain the nature of the musical scores from which performers have long worked. Num Pages: 698 pages, 92 musical examples. BIC Classification: 1DST; AVGC9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 37. Weight in Grams: 938.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 698
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226304878
- ISBN
- 9780226304878
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.29
€ 27.99
€ 23.29
Paperback. As scientific discoveries and technological advances radically modernized Europe around the turn of the twentieth century, artists of all types began questioning what it means to be human in an increasingly mechanistic world. This book offers a study of this important 'film' genre of the cinema that preceded the Great War of 1914-1918. Num Pages: 368 pages, 125 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 179 x 19. Weight in Grams: 871.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Edition
- Pap/DVD
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292717114
- ISBN
- 9780292717114
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.71
€ 36.99
€ 33.71
Paperback. Num Pages: 48 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: AGHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 307 x 6. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- SQP Inc
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- V9780865622487
- ISBN
- 9780865622487
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.37
€ 17.99
€ 13.37
Hardback. Rather than simply tracing the rise of Modernism in the 19th century, this book reconstitutes the period's cultural milieu through a series of case studies written with an eye to overarching forces at play. It surveys the field as a whole and discusses the relationships between the various media in the context of an overall "visual economy". Num Pages: 224 pages, 10 colour images + 95 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; ACV; AFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 269 x 201 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1154.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300177275
- ISBN
- 9780300177275
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.43€ 44.06
€ 55.43
€ 44.06
Hardback. Distinctive and extraordinary porcelains from the potteries of Limoges, France, are examined and illustrated in over 1000 beautiful color photographs. These items range from nineteenth century cake plates and tea cups to contemporary boxes. A bibliography, index, and values are included. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1320 color photos. BIC Classification: AFPC; WC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 289 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1478.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764312601
- ISBN
- 9780764312601
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 32.10
€ 48.99
€ 32.10
Paperback. Set in "a world before Elvis, in a Liverpool before the Beatles", Terence Davies' film "Distant Voices, Still Lives" is an elegiac and intensely autobiographical meditation on a post-war working-class childhood. This study of the film is both a personal response, as a Liverpudlian and as a poet, and an exploration of Davies' unique visual style. Series: BFI Film Classics. Num Pages: 96 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 141 x 7. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844571390
- ISBN
- 9781844571390
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.13
€ 17.99
€ 14.13
Paperback. Argues that Schubert envisioned many songs as components of cyclical arrangements that were never published as such. By studying Schubert's original manuscripts, Kramer recovers some of these "distant cycles" and accounts for idiosyncrasies in the songs which other analyses have failed to explain. Num Pages: 246 pages, 3 halftones, 80 musical examples, 4 tables. BIC Classification: AVGC4; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 173 x 243 x 16. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226452357
- ISBN
- 9780226452357
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 40.72
€ 51.99
€ 40.72
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Merz Belgium
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789490693978
- ISBN
- 9789490693978
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.64
€ 38.99
€ 33.64
paperback. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; DSBD; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349450800
- ISBN
- 9781349450800
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.51€ 47.11
€ 52.51
€ 47.11
Hardcover. As theatres expanded in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the distance between actor and audience became a telling metaphor for the distance emerging between writers and readers. Nuss explores the ways in which theatre helped authors imagine connecting with a new mass audience. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; AN; DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137291400
- ISBN
- 9781137291400
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.51€ 47.13
€ 52.51
€ 47.13
Paperback. An account of dissidence in Hafiz Asad s Syria, describing how intellectuals tried to navigate between charges of complicity with the state and treason against it. Num Pages: 208 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBS; AB; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822340355
- ISBN
- 9780822340355
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.00€ 25.44
€ 28.00
€ 25.44
Hardback. A collection of essays on art and politics. It shows how the author's ideas can be used to analyse contemporary trends in both art and politics, including the events surrounding 9/11, war in the contemporary consensual age, and the ethical turn of aesthetics and politics. Translator(s): Corcoran, Steven. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN; HPS; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 207 x 137 x 23. Weight in Grams: 366. On Politics and Aesthetics. 208 pages. A collection of essays on art and politics. It shows how the author's ideas can be used to analyse contemporary trends in both art and politics, including the events surrounding 9/11, war in the contemporary consensual age, and the ethical turn of aesthetics and politics. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN; HPS; JPA. Dimension: 207 x 137 x 23. Weight: 366. Translator(s): Corcoran, Steven.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847064455
- ISBN
- 9781847064455
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.78
€ 69.78
Hardcover. Disruptive Feminisms provides a revolutionary new approach to feminism as a disruptive force. By examining various films and filmmakers who are not so obviously read as feminist or Marxist, Gwendolyn Foster showcases their ability to disrupt and effectively challenge everything from class and racism, as well as sexism, ageism, and homophobia. Num Pages: 114 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 116
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137597670
- ISBN
- 9781137597670
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50