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History of art / art & design styles
Paperback. Offers an interpretive history of Mexican art and architecture from the Spanish Conquest to the early decades of the 21st century. The author shows how artists in Mexico participated in local and international developments, and highlights the important role played by Mexicans in the art world of the last five centuries. Series: World of Art. Num Pages: 432 pages, 275 illustrations, 248 in colour. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; ACB; AM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 912.
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780500204061
- ISBN
- 9780500204061
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.86
€ 19.99
€ 15.86
Hardcover. Painting and sculpture have inspired great poetry, but so also have photography, calligraphy, tapestry and folk art. This title includes poems that celebrate Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa", Monet's "Waterlilies" and Grant Wood's "American Gothic"; well-known poems such as Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and Auden's "Musee de Beaux-Arts". Editor(s): Fragos, Emily. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 111 x 19. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841597935
- ISBN
- 9781841597935
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
paperback. A summary of mediaeval aesthetic ideas, by Italian novelist and playwright Umberto Eco. Juxtaposing theology and science, poetry and mysticism, Eco explores the relationship that existed between the aesthetic theories and the artistic experience and practice of mediaeval culture. Translator(s): Bredin, Hugh. Series: Yale Nota Bene. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 3F; 3H; ABA; ACK; ACN; HBG; HBLC; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 25. Weight in Grams: 124.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780300093049
- ISBN
- 9780300093049
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 12.32
€ 19.99
€ 12.32
Hardback. Focuses on artwork produced from the 1950s to the 1970s, when Mao Zedong was in leadership. This book argues that important contributions were made during this period that require fuller consideration in Chinese art history, especially with relevance to the contemporary world. Editor(s): Shengtian, Zheng. Series: Asia Society. Num Pages: 280 pages, 50 black & white illustrations + 150 colour images. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; ACBP; ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 305 x 229 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1919.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300140644
- ISBN
- 9780300140644
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.18€ 67.69
€ 83.18
€ 67.69
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; ACG; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 19. Weight in Grams: 914.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801494017
- ISBN
- 9780801494017
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.09
€ 37.99
€ 34.09
Hardcover. Provides an overview of the development of a national identity in Romanian art, architecture, and design at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. This work draws on materials, which highlight the international significance of Romanian artists. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 1DVWR; ACV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 29. Weight in Grams: 998.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- East European Monographs United States
- Edition
- First Edition (US) First Printing
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880335829
- ISBN
- 9780880335829
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.08
€ 67.08
Hardcover. Investigating the uneasy relationship between aesthetics and political history, this book traces a genealogy of modernism in colonial and postcolonial India. Series: International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art. Num Pages: 288 pages, 48 bw integrated, 32 colour in 2x8pp plates. BIC Classification: 1FKA; ACXD2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Sew
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784531096
- ISBN
- 9781784531096
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 173.66
€ 173.66
Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, over 100 photographs, full-colour silkscreened edges. BIC Classification: ACX; AKTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 294 x 339 x 26. Weight in Grams: 2174.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Chronicle Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781452138695
- ISBN
- 9781452138695
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.06€ 79.04
€ 80.06
€ 79.04
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- James Clarke & Co Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780718830595
- ISBN
- 9780718830595
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.43
€ 44.43
Hardback. Provides a deeply researched account of contemporary Asian art movements, focusing on the work of a select group of internationally renowned and politically engaged artists. Series Editor(s): Jones, Amelia; Meskimmon, Marsha. Series: Rethinking Art's Histories. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations, black & white|Illustrations, colour. BIC Classification: 1F; AC; HBJF; HBTB; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 259 x 18. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719090646
- ISBN
- 9780719090646
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.34
€ 139.34
paperback. Examines the history and psychology of pictorial representation in light of present-day theories of visual perception information and learning. Searching for a rational explanation of the changing styles of art, this title reexamines many ideas on the imitation of nature and the function of tradition. Series: A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts. Num Pages: 512 pages, 320 illus. BIC Classification: ABA; AC; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised
- SKU
- V9780691070001
- ISBN
- 9780691070001
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.82
€ 68.82
Paperback. A varied selection of content, including excerpts, new translations, interviews with curators and artists, and art criticism. The Reader is contextualised under key themes and ideas that underpin the notion of a global art history that spans from the 1400s to present day. Editor(s): Newall, Diana. Series: Art and its Global Histories. Num Pages: 336 pages, 17 black & white illustrations, 4 graphs. BIC Classification: ABA; AC; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781526119926
- ISBN
- 9781526119926
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.96
€ 26.99
€ 26.96
Paperback. Art & Language Uncompleted. The Philippe Meaille Collection provides a detailed and revealing view of one of the most complex aesthetic identities of the second half of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 264 pages, 287 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 288 x 19. Weight in Grams: 936.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Matador (Orca)
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788492505524
- ISBN
- 9788492505524
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 44.47
€ 52.99
€ 44.47
Presents the guiding theme that is the importance of preserving the tension between that which may be unified and that which is disorganized, random, and miscellaneous. This book examines this theme in literature, artistic performance, economics, statecraft, and human rights. Editor(s): Coleman, Martin A. Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 336 pages, 7 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AC; HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 25. .
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823257225
- ISBN
- 9780823257225
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 98.06
€ 98.06
Paperback. Contains 27 essays and reviews defining the contours of late modernism in the visual arts. Ranging from brief reviews to extended essays, the writings establish a set of basic terms for understanding key issues in high modernism. An extended introductory essay by the author clarifies his views. Num Pages: 352 pages, 16 colour plates, 75 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; AC; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226263199
- ISBN
- 9780226263199
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 37.26
€ 47.99
€ 37.26
Paperback. Talks about the work of 20th-century artists, from Hans Bellmer through to Nobuyoshi Araki, from Robert Mapplethorpe to Annie Sprinkle, and from Hermann Nitsch to Paul McCarthy. Here, the author argues that some works, regardless of their 'high art' context, remain deeply problematic, whilst others are both groundbreaking and liberating. Series: Art and Series. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845112356
- ISBN
- 9781845112356
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.97
€ 37.97
Hardback. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 240 pages, 50 color + 50 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; ACK; RGV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 288 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1272.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300220339
- ISBN
- 9780300220339
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.30€ 55.08
€ 71.30
€ 55.08
Paperback. Covering the period from the late 1940s to 1990s , Walker provides a detailed survey of the most prominent cases of art that has scandalised. Num Pages: 288 pages, 51 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 3JJP; ACX; JFC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 140 x 214 x 19. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745313542
- ISBN
- 9780745313542
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.51
€ 37.99
€ 29.51
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780304704248
- ISBN
- 9780304704248
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.27
€ 68.27
Paperback. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: AC; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780819166784
- ISBN
- 9780819166784
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.03
€ 64.03