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History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -

Hardcover. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: AB; ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226333151
ISBN
9780226333151
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 26.71

Paperback. Erin Hogan hit the road in her Volkswagen Jetta and headed west from Chicago in search of the monuments of American land art. Her journey took her through the states of Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. It also took her through the states of anxiety, drunkenness, and heat exhaustion. This title presents a chronicle of this journey. Series: Culture Trails. Num Pages: 190 pages, 26 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACX; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 10. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226348469
ISBN
9780226348469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.39

Hardcover. The years before World War I were a time of profound social and political ferment in Europe that deeply affected the art world. In this title, the author argues that anarchist aesthetics and a related politics of form played crucial roles in the development of modern art, only to be suppressed soon after the war and then forgotten. Num Pages: 304 pages, 32 colour plates, 99 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; ACXD; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 288 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1378.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226471389
ISBN
9780226471389
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.16
€ 50.37

Paperback. Series: Negro American Biographies & Autobiographies. Num Pages: 278 pages, 16 pp photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACX; AGB; BG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 23. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226510064
ISBN
9780226510064
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.41

Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages, xviii, 324 p., 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; ABA; ACV; ACX; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
0002-
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226555843
ISBN
9780226555843
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 30.97

Hardcover. Throughout human history, people have imagined inanimate objects to have intelligence, language, and even souls. This book examines ideas about simulated movement and inorganic life during and after the turn of the twentieth century - a period of great technical innovation whose effects continue to reverberate today. Num Pages: 440 pages, 10 colour plates, 164 halftones. BIC Classification: ACX; AM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 259 x 189 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1288.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226645681
ISBN
9780226645681
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.65
€ 78.49

Paperback. This examination of the flourishing of Futurist aesthetics in European art and literature of the twentieth century, offers considerations of futurist work from Russia to Italy. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: ACXD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 230 x 14. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226657387
ISBN
9780226657387
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.52

Hardcover. Combines an inventive reading of Jean-Luc Nancy with queer theoretical concerns to argue that while scenes of intimacy are spaces of sharing, they are also spaces of separation. The author shows that this tension informs our efforts to coexist ethically and politically, an experience of sharing and separation that informs any decision. Num Pages: 264 pages, 6 colour plates, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: ACXJ; DSB; HPN; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226717777
ISBN
9780226717777
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 42.71

Hardback. Uncovers the story of how modernism and network television converged and intertwined in their mutual ascent during the decades of the cold war. This title shows how TV was instrumental in introducing the public to the different trends in art and design. Num Pages: 384 pages, 52 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACX; APT; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226769684
ISBN
9780226769684
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.76

Paperback. An exploration of the possibilities of representation after modernism, this study charts the logic and continuity of Mark Tansey's painting by considering the philosophical ideas behind his art. The book examines how Tansey uses structuralist and poststructuralist thought to create paintings. Num Pages: 136 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 210.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226791296
ISBN
9780226791296
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 24.88

Hardcover. Today, the moving image is ubiquitous in global contemporary art. This book tells the story of the postwar expanded cinema. It travels back to the 1950s and 1960s when the rise of television caused movie theaters to lose their monopoly over the moving image, leading cinema to be installed directly alongside other forms of modern art. Num Pages: 288 pages, 100 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJP; ACXJ; AFKV; APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 70 x 100 x 23. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226842981
ISBN
9780226842981
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.38
€ 82.83

Hardcover. Num Pages: 368 pages, 125 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJF; 3JJG; ACX; AFC; AGB; BG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 261 x 181 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1018.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226893587
ISBN
9780226893587
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.65
€ 78.49

Paperback. Concentrating on canonical critical texts and images, the book examines modern art through a rhetoric of representation rather than through formalist criticism or the history of the avant-garde. Series: Interpretations in Art S. Num Pages: 224 pages, 18 illus. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 164 x 13. Weight in Grams: 317.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231080835
ISBN
9780231080835
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Paperback. Argues that aesthetic considerations no longer play a central role in the experience and critique of art. Instead art addresses us in our humanity, as men and women who seek meaning in the "unnatural wonders" of art, a meaning that philosophy and religion are unable to provide. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 151 x 23. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231141154
ISBN
9780231141154
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.32

Hardback. Series: Modernist Latitudes. Num Pages: 272 pages, 60 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 167 x 211 x 35. Weight in Grams: 624.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231153027
ISBN
9780231153027
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.24
€ 42.31

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Edition
2nd
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253213884
ISBN
9780253213884
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.07

Hardcover. Chronicles the artistic career of William Schickel. This book includes Schickel's contributions to the built environment in several communities, and his paintings. Num Pages: 240 pages, 259 colour images. BIC Classification: ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 305 x 229 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1588.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268044176
ISBN
9780268044176
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.00

Paperback. From its inception in the 1960s to its present form, contemporary Mexican American or Chicano art has developed as an art of identity, asserting the uniqueness of Chicanos and their dual Mexican and US American cultural backgrounds. This book provides an overview of work created from the 1960s to the present. Num Pages: 288 pages, 61 b&w photos, 14 color photos in section. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACXJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292721173
ISBN
9780292721173
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.19

Paperback. Surveying the major antiwar artists, art collectives,and iconic works, as well as offering an original typology of antiwar engagement, this is the first comprehensive history of American artistic protest against the Vietnam War Num Pages: 252 pages, 73 b&w and 18 color illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACXJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292748309
ISBN
9780292748309
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.69

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Edition
n
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295981529
ISBN
9780295981529
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.12

Paperback. Presents an examination of the life and work of Mine Okubo (1912-2001), a Nisei artist, writer, and social activist who repeatedly defied conventional role expectations for women and for Japanese Americans over her seventy-year career. Editor(s): Robinson, Greg; Creef, Elena Tajima. Num Pages: 224 pages, 48 illustrations, 8 in colour. BIC Classification: ACX; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 251 x 175 x 13. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Edition
First Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295987743
ISBN
9780295987743
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.58

Paperback. A history of a past phenomenon - racial art - which has ramifications for the present Series: McLellan Endowed Series. Num Pages: 264 pages, 59 illus., 12 in color. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACXD; AFC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Edition
Original
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295991450
ISBN
9780295991450
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.57

Paperback. Considers paintings that show the pivotal stages in Johnson's career as a modernist painter of post-impressionist and expressionist works reminiscent of Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Soutine Editor(s): Gionis, Teresa G. Series: Jacob Lawrence Series on American Artists. Num Pages: 75 color illus. BIC Classification: ACXD; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 203 x 10. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295991481
ISBN
9780295991481
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 27.71

Hardcover. This is the first volume in the series "Studies in British Art" and examines the development of the London art world - its institutions and individual artists - over the past two centuries in an attempt to explain the marginal position of British modern art. Editor(s): Allen, Brian. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 240 pages, 49 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; ACV; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 24. Weight in Grams: 940.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Paul Mellon Centre BA
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300063806
ISBN
9780300063806
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.37

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