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Hardback. When Constructivism emerged shortly after the Russian Revolution, its central principles concerned structure and efficiency in the work of art and the nature and properties of materials. In this book, the author examines the origins of these principles and their extraordinary consequences for the rest of modern art. Num Pages: 240 pages, 45 colour images + 97 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 263 x 203 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1230.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300195774
- ISBN
- 9780300195774
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.77€ 51.34
€ 64.77
€ 51.34
Paperback. "Though it seems contradictory to write words of praise for a book that deeply interrogates the marketability of praiseful language (in the guise of art criticism), Gavin Butta s collection deserves them. Framed by Butta s astute introduction, these performative essays pulse with vitality. Editor(s): Butt, Gavin. Series: New Interventions in Art History. Num Pages: 232 pages, 2. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631232841
- ISBN
- 9780631232841
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.34
€ 55.34
Hardcover. It has become apparent that criticism has fallen on hard times. This book explores contemporary approaches which have sought to renew criticism's energies in the wake of a 'theatrical turn' in visual arts practice, and the emergence of a 'performative' arts writing over the decade or so. Editor(s): Butt, Gavin. Series: New Interventions in Art History. Num Pages: 232 pages, 2. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 167 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631232834
- ISBN
- 9780631232834
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.70
€ 140.70
Hardcover. Focuses on the little known Magical Realist painter Marta Hegemann (1894-1970), re-inserting her into the histories of avant-garde modernism Num Pages: 240 pages, 16 colour illustrations, 58 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 176 x 239 x 21. Weight in Grams: 842.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719090073
- ISBN
- 9780719090073
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.70
€ 104.70
Hardback. Examines the intersections between Regionalist and Modernist paintings, photography, and film during the Great Depression, a period when the two approaches to art making were perhaps at their zenith. Num Pages: 125 pages, 25 black & white illustrations + 100 colour images. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; ACXD; AGK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Edition
- First Edition (US) First Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300135862
- ISBN
- 9780300135862
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.25
€ 36.99
€ 27.25
Hardback. "Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, The Yale Center for British Art." Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 256 pages, 26 b&w illustrations, 16 colour images. BIC Classification: 1DBK; ACQ; ACV; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 20. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300107340
- ISBN
- 9780300107340
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.77
€ 52.99
€ 37.77
Paperback. Series: Princeton Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Updated edition with a New Foreword
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691163895
- ISBN
- 9780691163895
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 18.04
€ 23.99
€ 18.04
Paperback. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 312 pages, 27 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; APF; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231176934
- ISBN
- 9780231176934
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Hardback. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 312 pages, 27 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; APF; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231176927
- ISBN
- 9780231176927
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.77€ 90.75
€ 117.77
€ 90.75
Paperback. In closely-read case studies, we encounter artworks by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Ana Mendieta, Louise Bourgeois, Alina Szapocznikow, Anna Maria Maiolino, Vera Frenkel, Sarah Kofman and Chantal Akerman to explore trauma and bereavement, fatal illness, Holocaust experience, migration, exile and the encounter with political horror and atrocity. Series: Rethinking Art's Histories. Num Pages: 384 pages, 91 black & white halftones, 16 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; JFFK; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 898.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719087981
- ISBN
- 9780719087981
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.82
€ 32.99
€ 31.82
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 69 black & white illustrations, 20 colour plates. BIC Classification: ACX; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 22. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816676033
- ISBN
- 9780816676033
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.52
€ 32.99
€ 29.52
Hardcover. Dating from the 1960s, this book includes works that represent a total of thirty-eight European and American artists, whose work is beautifully reproduced here. Num Pages: 128 pages, 81 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 760.
- Publisher
- Museum of Modern Art United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780870700903
- ISBN
- 9780870700903
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.99
€ 33.99
€ 28.99
hardcover. The aim of this book is to provide an account of modernist painting--from Pollock to Ryman--that follows on from the aesthetic theory of Theodor W. Adorno. It offers a materialist account of modernism with detailed discussions of modern aesthetics from Kant to Arthur Danto, Stanley Cavell, and Adorno. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 416 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX; AFC; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804748940
- ISBN
- 9780804748940
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.58
€ 150.58
Paperback. The aim of this book is to provide an account of modernist painting--from Pollock to Ryman--that follows on from the aesthetic theory of Theodor W. Adorno. It offers a materialist account of modernism with detailed discussions of modern aesthetics from Kant to Arthur Danto, Stanley Cavell, and Adorno. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 416 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX; AFF; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804748957
- ISBN
- 9780804748957
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.36
€ 36.99
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Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Tate Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849762687
- ISBN
- 9781849762687
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.59
€ 40.99
€ 28.59
Paperback. Series: Afterall. Num Pages: 96 pages, 16 color illus. BIC Classification: ACXJ8; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 282 x 10. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Publisher
- Afterall Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846381713
- ISBN
- 9781846381713
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 18.60
€ 21.99
€ 18.60
Hardback. Editor(s): Pola, Francesca. Num Pages: 240 pages, 188 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; AFC; AFKB; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 289 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1658.
- Publisher
- Skira
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788857220833
- ISBN
- 9788857220833
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.89€ 54.92
€ 58.89
€ 54.92
Hardback. Num Pages: 832 pages. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFC; AFKB; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 567.
- Publisher
- Skira Italy
- Number of pages
- 832
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788857227740
- ISBN
- 9788857227740
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 259.10€ 217.44
€ 259.10
€ 217.44
Paperback. Editor(s): Bovier, Lionel; Schnetz, Salome. Num Pages: 248 pages, 60 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 165 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454. Fairytale: A Reader. 248 pages, 60 b&w illustrations. Editor(s): Bovier, Lionel; Schnetz, Salome. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB. Dimension: 230 x 165 x 15. Weight: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- JRP Ringier Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783037642108
- ISBN
- 9783037642108
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.75
€ 24.99
€ 21.75
Paperback. Manifestos and immodest proposals from China's most famous artist and activist, culled from his popular blog, shut down by Chinese authorities in 2009. Editor(s): Ambrozy, Lee. Translator(s): Ambrozy, Lee. Series: Writing Art. Num Pages: 336 pages, 58 b&w illus. BIC Classification: ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 181 x 19. Weight in Grams: 840.
- Publisher
- MIT Press Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780262015219
- ISBN
- 9780262015219
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Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 34.12
€ 47.99
€ 34.12
Paperback. Editor(s): Meile, Urs. Num Pages: 212 pages, 200 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 221 x 19. Weight in Grams: 926. Works 2004 - 2007. 212 pages, 200 colour illustrations. Editor(s): Meile, Urs. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB. Dimension: 287 x 221 x 19. Weight: 926.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- Publisher
- JRP Ringier
- Number of pages
- 212
- SKU
- V9783905829273
- ISBN
- 9783905829273
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.82
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Hardback. Westerners have a strong impression that Islam does not allow religious imagery. Elias corrects this view. Unearthing shades of meaning in Islamic thought throughout history, he argues that Islamic perspectives on representation and perception should be sought in diverse areas such as optics, alchemy, dreaming, vehicle decoration, Sufi metaphysics. Num Pages: 432 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: AC; AGR; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 166 x 33. Weight in Grams: 810.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Sew
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674058064
- ISBN
- 9780674058064
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.39
€ 47.99
€ 40.39
Hardback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- David Zwirner United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781941701126
- ISBN
- 9781941701126
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 39.40
€ 46.99
€ 39.40
Paperback. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 239 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1788.
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 332
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780500970348
- ISBN
- 9780500970348
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 32.14
€ 36.99
€ 32.14