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History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -

Results 1873 - 1896 of 1960

History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 220 color + b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; 3JJ; ACX; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 299 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1225.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
Bilingual
SKU
V9780300225563
ISBN
9780300225563
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.24

Paperback. Alberto Giacometti's attenuated figures of the human form are among the most significant artistic images of the 20th century. Both a critical study of Giacometti's life and work, and an investigation of their affective power, this book asks what encounters with Giacometti's pieces can tell us about the history of our own time. Num Pages: 304 pages, 90 b/w integrated. BIC Classification: ACXD; AFC; AFKB; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 244 x 189 x 21. Weight in Grams: 550.
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780767871
ISBN
9781780767871
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.64

Hardback. Through a selection of thirty works created in a twenty-year time span (1972-92), including canvases from Italian private collections, this volume offers a perspective on the expressive outcomes that marked Alberto Burri's practice after the 1950s and 1960s, at a time in which he had already gained international critical acclaim. Editor(s): Cora, Bruno. Num Pages: 148 pages, 400 illustrations, 200 in colour. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 309 x 246 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1218.
Publisher
Skira
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
First American Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9788857220031
ISBN
9788857220031
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.16
€ 54.53

Multiple copy pack. Num Pages: 104 pages, 70 color illus. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 258 x 319 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1110.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Box Pck Ha
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300218404
ISBN
9780300218404
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.97
€ 63.58

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
€ 39.00

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 33.75

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Booth-Clibborn Editions United Kingdom
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
164
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861543189
ISBN
9781861543189
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.30

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

€ 260.29
€ 213.58

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

€ 59.16
€ 54.36

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

€ 20.99
€ 17.70

Paperback. .
Publisher
Tate Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849762687
ISBN
9781849762687
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.72

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.93

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

€ 150.11

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
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.71

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.41

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

€ 118.53
€ 89.80

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
€ 29.06

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.86

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
€ 26.91

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

€ 103.20

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

€ 138.69

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

€ 54.57

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

€ 65.19
€ 50.63

Paperback. Looks at the works and lives of artists from the eighteenth century to the present, including work in traditional media as well as in installation art, mixed media, and digital/computer art. This book reveals the legacy of work by African American artists, whose art is included in the permanent collections of national and international museums. Num Pages: 359 pages, 125 color illustrations, 201 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACQ; ACV; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 279 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1192.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
359
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Revised & Expanded
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520239357
ISBN
9780520239357
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 36.34

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