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History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -

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History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -

hardcover. Part of a series that aims to place buildings within their historical context, this text considers Gropius' Dessau Bauhaus, Le Coubusier's Unite de Habitation and Kahn's Salk Institute. It includes specially produced technical drawings that explain how the buildings were detailed and put together. Series: Architecture 3s S. Num Pages: 182 pages, 45 colour & 180 b&w illustrations, 60 line drawings, chronologies, lists, bibliographies. BIC Classification: ACX; AMB; AMG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 302 x 307 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1690. Clean copy showing light shelf wear. Corners bumped but remains a very good copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
PHAIDON PRESS
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0024248
ISBN
9780714838687
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

paperback. Editor(s): Brennacher, Julia; Tabor, Jurgen; Nievers, Lena. Num Pages: 160 pages, colour. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 270 x 190. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Verlag für moderne Kunst Germany
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9783903131279
ISBN
9783903131279
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.31

hardcover. An artistic reflection on modern heroes and modes of distinction, to accompany the international exhibition of the same name in Chemnitz, Germany, from November 2015 to February 2016. Num Pages: 200 pages, 191 colour. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFKG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 259 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1020.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt Germany
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9783897904583
ISBN
9783897904583
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.19
€ 58.14

hardcover. Editor(s): Adler, Dan; Johnstone, Lesley; Munder, Heike; Steinbrugge, Bettina. Num Pages: 256 pages, 200 colour. BIC Classification: 1KBC; ACXJ; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 275 x 208. Weight in Grams: 1170.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
JRP | Ringier Switzerland
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9783037644744
ISBN
9783037644744
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 41.36

Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages, 80 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 160 x 10. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
JRP Ringier Switzerland
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9783037640951
ISBN
9783037640951
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.97

Examines the establishment of abstraction in the art of Colorado during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book focuses on the history of abstraction in Colorado. It contains essays that document the artistic development and vision of more than fifty contemporary artists who are creating abstract paintings and sculptures. Num Pages: 320 pages, 250 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1KBBWC; ACX; AFC; AFKB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 273 x 292 x 33. Weight in Grams: 2300.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fresco Fine Art Publications United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934491126
ISBN
9781934491126
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 98.30

Hardcover. Despite the explosion of interest in the "global 1968," the arts in this period - both popular and avant-garde forms - have too often been neglected. This interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars in history, cultural studies, musicology and other areas to explore the symbiosis of the sonic and the visual in the counterculture of the 1960s. Editor(s): Brown, Timothy Scott; Lison, Andrew E. Num Pages: 304 pages, 17 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; ACXJ; AVGP; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 598.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137375223
ISBN
9781137375223
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.51

Paperback. This anthology seeks to revolutionize the way the Harlem Renaissance is viewed. It seeks to redress the emphasis on male writers, offering a balanced collection of writers - men and women, gay and straight, famiiar and obscure. It includes poetry, short stories, drama, essays, music and art. Editor(s): Patton, Venetria K.; Honey, Maureen. Num Pages: 544 pages, 30 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 2ABM; ACX; AVGC6; DNF; DQ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 259 x 184 x 57. Weight in Grams: 1182.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813529301
ISBN
9780813529301
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 43.19

Hardcover. This collection brings together important new scholarship focused on J. Edgar Hoover's FBI and its institutional presence in shaping and directing American print, film, and art culture. Editor(s): Culleton, Claire A.; Leick, Karen. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ACX; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230601352
ISBN
9780230601352
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.13

Hardcover. In this collection of essays, a range of scholars from different disciplines look through the prism of technology at the much-debated notion of cultural memory, analysing how the past is shaped or unsettled by cultural texts including visual art, literature, cinema, photographs and souvenirs. Editor(s): Plate, Liedeke; Smelik, Anneke. Num Pages: 253 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AB; ACX; APFA; DNF; JFCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230575677
ISBN
9780230575677
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.92

Hardcover. An anthology of essays exploring the relationship between film and art, within and across the domains of theory and practice, from the late nineteenth century to the present. Editor(s): Dalle Vacche, Angela. Num Pages: 358 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ACX; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 142 x 25. Weight in Grams: 548.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230272927
ISBN
9780230272927
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.60

Hardcover. A Poiret dress, a Catholic shrine in France, Thomas Wallis's Hoover Factory building, an Edna Manley sculpture, the poetry of Bei Dao, the internal combustion engine- what makes such artifacts modernist? Disciplining Modernism explores the different ways disciplines conceive modernism and modernity, undisciplining modernist studies in the process. Editor(s): Caughie, Pamela L. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ACXD2; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230235083
ISBN
9780230235083
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.40

Hardcover. Modernist debates about waste - both aesthetic and economic - often express biases against gender and sexual errancy. The Poetics of Waste looks at writers and artists who resist this ideology and respond by developing an excessive poetics. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ACXJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 221 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137402783
ISBN
9781137402783
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.58

Hardcover. In Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship: Unconscious Performers, Bree Hadley examines the performance practices of disabled artists in the US, UK, Europe and Australasia who re-engage, re-enact and re-envisage the stereotyping they are subject to in the very public spaces and places where this stereotyping typically plays out. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFKP; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137396075
ISBN
9781137396075
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.66

Hardcover. This book traces the history of 'girls' aesthetics,' where adult Japanese women create art works about 'girls' that resist motherhood, from the modern to the contemporary period and their manifestation in Japanese women's theatrical and dance performance and visual arts including manga, film, and installation arts. Series: Contemporary Performance Interactions. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; ACX; AN; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137372970
ISBN
9781137372970
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.02

Hardcover. This book demonstrates that numerous prominent artists in every period of the modern era were expressing spiritual interests when they created celebrated works of art. This magisterial overview insightfully reveals the centrality of an often denied and misunderstood element in the cultural history of modern art. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ACV; ACX; HRLK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137350039
ISBN
9781137350039
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.52

Hardcover. Hitchcock and Contemporary Art introduces readers to the fascinating and diverse range of artistic practices devoted to Alfred Hitchcock's films. His works have the capacity to activate sophisticated engagements with Hitchcock's films and cinema more generally, tackling issues of time and space, memory and history, and sound and image. Num Pages: 216 pages, 17 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; APFA; APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230392151
ISBN
9780230392151
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.36

Hardback. Engaging some of the most canonical and thought-provoking anime, manga, and science fiction films, Tokyo Cyberpunk offers insightful analysis of Japanese visual culture. Stephen Brown draws new conclusions about the cultural flow of art, as well as important technological issues of the day. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; ACXD; AKLC; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 565.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
263
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230103597
ISBN
9780230103597
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.51

hardcover. Showcases the author' images of Charlottesville, Virginia - many of them multipanel compositions featuring the University of Virginia and its environs - accompanied by an essay and interview by his wife, the writer Ann Beattie. This book gives us a view of Charlottesville, of place and artistic production. Num Pages: 112 pages, 160 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 241 x 14. Weight in Grams: 794.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813925035
ISBN
9780813925035
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 43.65

paperback. In 2000, the University of Virginia Art Museum mounted an exhibition called "Hindsight/Fore-site: Art for the New Millennium", in which 24 artists created works inspired by Thomas Jefferson's legacy. This text contains essays which explore the art-historical significance of the exhibition. Editor(s): Hartz, Jill. Num Pages: 110 pages, 60 colour and 20 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACX; GM; HBT; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
110
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780813921839
ISBN
9780813921839
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.94

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