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Paperback. Bringing together essays on activist and community-based art from the pages of "Afterimage" - one of the most influential journals in the media and visual arts fields, this title demonstrates that activist art, far from being antithetical to the true meaning of the aesthetic, can be its most legitimate expression. Editor(s): Kester, Grant H. Num Pages: 328 pages, 40 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX; JFC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 554.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822320951
ISBN
9780822320951
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.06

Publisher
United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822349723
ISBN
9780822349723
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 160.46

Hardback. Num Pages: 187 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXD; AGB; TBY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 258 x 182 x 18. Weight in Grams: 538.
Edition
UK ed.
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
187
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781619428508
ISBN
9781619428508
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 232.17
€ 155.19

Hardback. Editor(s): Murphy, Kevin D. Num Pages: 144 pages, colour illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AC; AFTB; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 251 x 289 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1039.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780892727667
ISBN
9780892727667
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 33.33

Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages, col. ill. BIC Classification: ACBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 862.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780824834630
ISBN
9780824834630
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.82

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Open Book Publishers
Number of pages
511
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906924164
ISBN
9781906924164
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 46.02

Paperback. Plains Indian Rock Art is the ultimate guide to the art form. It covers the natural and archaeological history of the northwestern Plains; explains rock art forms, techniques, styles, terminology, and dating; and offers interpretations of images and compositions. Series: Samuel and Althea Stroum Books. Num Pages: 692 pages, Over 300 illustrations, 50 in colour; 16 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACBK; ACC; ACG; HBJK; HBLC; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 178 x 19. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
692
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295980942
ISBN
9780295980942
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 30.58

Hardcover. Num Pages: 128 pages, 90 colour, 2 b&w. BIC Classification: 1FB; AC; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 246 x 15. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Verlag für moderne Kunst
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9783903131057
ISBN
9783903131057
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.36

Paperback. This 2005 study traces the development of Surrealist theory of visual art and its reception. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXD7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 170 x 23. Weight in Grams: 676. Theory and Reception. 416 pages, Illustrations. This 2005 study traces the development of Surrealist theory of visual art and its reception. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: ACXD7. Dimension: 240 x 170 x 23. Weight: 676.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107403345
ISBN
9781107403345
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.71

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 24 colour/80 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXD9; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 252 x 179 x 22. Weight in Grams: 814.
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271036465
ISBN
9780271036465
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 79.10

Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 24 colour/80 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXD9; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 953.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271036472
ISBN
9780271036472
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 48.68

Paperback. Explores key themes in the making of Renaissance painting, sculpture, architecture and prints: the use of specific techniques and materials, theory and practice, change and continuity in artistic procedures, and conventions and values. This book also reconsiders the importance of mathematical perspective. Editor(s): Woods, Kim W. Series: Open University: Renaissance Art Reconsidered. Num Pages: 352 pages, 200 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACND; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 285 x 214 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1210.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Edition
1st ed
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300121896
ISBN
9780300121896
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.17

Hardcover. Challenges assumptions regarding "radical" and "experimental" performance that have long dominated thinking about the avant-garde. The essays bring to light vanguard performances rarely discussed: those that support totalitarian regimes, promote conservative values, or have been effectively snapped up by right-wing regimes they sought to oppose. Editor(s): Jannarone, Kimberly. Num Pages: 344 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACB; JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 825.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472119677
ISBN
9780472119677
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.20

Paperback. "The Dignity of Every Human Being" studies the vibrant New Brunswick artistic community which challenged "the tyranny of the Group of Seven" with socially-engaged realism in the 1930s and 40s. Series: Canadian Social History Series. Num Pages: 368 pages, 36. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; ACXD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 141 x 26. Weight in Grams: 472.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442613898
ISBN
9781442613898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.87

"The Dignity of Every Human Being" studies the vibrant New Brunswick artistic community which challenged "the tyranny of the Group of Seven" with socially-engaged realism in the 1930s and 40s. Series: Canadian Social History Series. Num Pages: 368 pages, 36. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; ACXD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 149 x 29. Weight in Grams: 584.
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442645608
ISBN
9781442645608
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 105.96

Hardback. What is abstract art good for? What's the use - for us as individuals, or for any society - of pictures of nothing, of paintings and sculptures or prints or drawings that do not seem to show anything except themselves? This book presents an account of abstract art. Series: The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts. Num Pages: 320 pages, 132 color plates. 129 halftones. 3 b&w illus. BIC Classification: ACXD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 246 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1496.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691126784
ISBN
9780691126784
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.81
€ 60.76

Paperback. An argument against reductive accounts of the nineteenth-century sculptor Mary Edmonia Lewis s work as the product of her identity as an African American and Native American woman. Num Pages: 344 pages, 51 illustrations, incl. 18 in color. BIC Classification: ACV; AFKB; AGB; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822342663
ISBN
9780822342663
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.93

Hardback. Explores why astronomy captivated Joseph Cornell, and considers hundreds of his works - found-footage films, three-dimensional space-object boxes, enigmatic collages, and cosmic ephemera - that contain references to astronomical phenomena. Num Pages: 336 pages, 60 color illus. 81 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACX; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 260 x 210 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1578.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691134987
ISBN
9780691134987
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.24

Hardback. An intimate study of the friendship and creative dialogue between two artists, offering an in-depth understanding of their work and the upheavals of 1960s New York Num Pages: 200 pages, 33 color + 46 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJPK; ACXJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 190 x 237 x 22. Weight in Grams: 810.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300211566
ISBN
9780300211566
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.77

Hardback. Editor(s): Coelewij, Leontine; Reus, Magali. Num Pages: 144 pages, 140 colour. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 205. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Publisher
JRP Ringier
Number of pages
Ringier
SKU
V9783037644829
ISBN
9783037644829
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.75

Hardcover. This beautiful volume focuses on a five-year period in Elizabeth Peyton s evolving career to suggest not only a visual chronicle of an age, its heroes, heroines, and interests, but also of an individual s life that of Peyton herself. Num Pages: 272 pages, 165 Colour Photographs. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 300 x 244. Weight in Grams: 567.
Publisher
Rizzoli
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847858552
ISBN
9780847858552
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.90

Paperback. Num Pages: 118 pages. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 302 x 14. Weight in Grams: 632.
Publisher
Hatje Cantz
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9783775741484
ISBN
9783775741484
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.63

Paperback. Examines the last century of Scandinavian design to reveal how the region's design culture is very different from popular assumption. Editor(s): Fallan, Kjetil. Num Pages: 322 pages, 51 bw illus. BIC Classification: 1DN; ACX; AK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 167 x 16. Weight in Grams: 560.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847889119
ISBN
9781847889119
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.13

Hardback. In design history, globalization is deeply intertwined with a long-held bias towards Western, industrialized nations. By reassessing the role of regional and national design histories and challenging the claim that nation states are obsolete in identity construction, Designing Worlds reflects on new national narratives from around the world. Editor(s): Fallan, Kjetil; Lees-Maffei, Grace. Series: Making Sense of History. Num Pages: 302 pages, 72 illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; AK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 237 x 21. Weight in Grams: 564.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785331558
ISBN
9781785331558
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.89

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