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Art & Architecture

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. Uses the bra to gauge the social history of women and to understand the business history of fashion. This book illuminate the effect the brassiere has had on women's lives - their style, health, and economic opportunity. It also contains examples from advertising, movies, and other areas of popular culture. Num Pages: 264 pages, 51 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AK; GT; HBTB; JFCK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 461.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812218350
ISBN
9780812218350
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.35

Paperback. If, as many argue, movies and television have become Western culture's premier storytelling media, so too have they become, for most members of society, the primary source of encounters with the natural world - particularly wild animals. This work traces the genealogy of the nature film, from its origins as the "animal locomotion" studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: APF; WNC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812217285
ISBN
9780812217285
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 35.75

Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: APFB; BGFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 176 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 132.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811217354
ISBN
9780811217354
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.44

Paperback. The book shows how pictorial art conveys aesthetic transcendence--a felt, though symbolic experience of going beyond our finite limitations that sometimes involves a sense of communing with God Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN; HRLB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804798464
ISBN
9780804798464
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.72

Paperback. Contains an English translation of Les Peintures concretes de Kandinsky by Alexandre Kojeve. Num Pages: 280 pages, figures, colour plates. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXD1; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 256 x 219 x 23. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804784849
ISBN
9780804784849
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 35.64

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804781367
ISBN
9780804781367
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 35.59

Paperback. This book argues that recognition of the corporate studio's role as author of Hollywood motion pictures enables original interpretations of Hollywood films and provides a deeper understanding of their cultural, political, and commercial objectives. Series: Post - 45. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; APFA; KNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 182 x 24. Weight in Grams: 820.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804778633
ISBN
9780804778633
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 42.10

Paperback. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804773010
ISBN
9780804773010
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.97

Paperback. A history of the modern sequential comic form from the late nineteenth century through today, focusing on the unique ways in which it tells stories and interacts with readers. Series: Post - 45. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AKLC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 252 x 180 x 15. Weight in Grams: 502.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804771474
ISBN
9780804771474
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.14

Hardback. Heidegger Among the Sculptors is a provocative illustrated examination of Heidegger's sculptural writings that shows how they rethink the relationship between bodies and space and the place of art in our lives. Num Pages: 144 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: AFKB; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 458. Weight in Grams: 299.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804770224
ISBN
9780804770224
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.27

Paperback. This book investigates the discursive practices of philosophy and theater/performance on the basis of actual encounters between representatives of these two fields. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 248 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804763509
ISBN
9780804763509
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.69

Paperback. The book makes available for the first time in English-and for the first time in its entirety in any language-an important yet little known interview that Jacques Derrida granted on the question of photography and its relation to such key deconstructive concepts as copy, archive, and signature. Translator(s): Fort, Jeff. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: AJG; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 178 x 114 x 9. Weight in Grams: 102.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804760973
ISBN
9780804760973
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.56

Hardback. Taking advantage of the partial opening of secret police archives in Russia and Romania, Police Aesthetics explores the intersections between culture and policing in Soviet times. Num Pages: 264 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; APF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804760805
ISBN
9780804760805
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 125.02

Paperback. Vernacular Modernism advocates a rethinking of the importance of the vernacular as part of the modernist discourse of place, from art to literature, from architectural to social practice. Editor(s): Umbach, Maiken; Huppauf, Bernd. Num Pages: 280 pages, 38 illustrations. BIC Classification: AM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804753432
ISBN
9780804753432
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.63

Paperback. The Education of the Eye examines the origins of visual culture in eighteenth-century Britain, setting out to reclaim visual culture for the democracy of the eye and to explain how aesthetic contemplation may, once more, be open to all who have eyes to look. Num Pages: 296 pages, 63 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; ACQ; AFC; AM; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804748001
ISBN
9780804748001
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.47

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804743273
ISBN
9780804743273
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.47

Paperback. Adorno is one of this century's most influential thinkers in the areas of social theory, philosophy, aesthetics, and music. Throughout the essays in this book, all of which concern musical matters, he displays an astonishing range of cultural reference, demonstrating that music is invariably social, political, even ethical. Translator(s): Livingstone, Rodney. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804735582
ISBN
9780804735582
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.97

Paperback. A study of the nineteenth century response in the intersections of dance, literature and medicine, to the connections between illness, madness, poetry and performance with a view to illuminating French literature and culture in the nineteenth century, dance history and feminist performance theory and modern medicine. In the WRITING SCIENCE series. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 half-tones. BIC Classification: ASD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804735247
ISBN
9780804735247
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 35.64

Paperback. This is a pioneering attempt to rearticulate the relationship between music and the problem of mimesis, of presentation and re-presentation. Four "scenes" compose this book, all four of them responses to Wagner: two by French poets (Baudelaire and Mallarme), two by German philosophers (Heidegger and Adorno). Translator(s): McCarren, Felicia. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: AVA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 12. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804723855
ISBN
9780804723855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.45

Paperback. A guide to posing, lighting, and sensitively capturing portraits of same-sex couples that equips semi-pro and professional wedding photographers to enter the new LGBT wedding photography market. It features easy-to-implement poses that can be applied to any couple (and wedding party), no matter their orientation, to create lasting memories. Num Pages: 224 pages, full colour throughout, 120 photographs. BIC Classification: AJG; UDP; WJW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 235 x 16. Weight in Grams: 784.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Amphoto Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804185233
ISBN
9780804185233
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 20.35

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