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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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

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. 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

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
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.30

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

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

€ 48.99
€ 41.36

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

€ 63.08
€ 58.14

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. 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

hardcover. Art at the Service of War is the story of how artists as diverse as modernist Paul Nash, the revolutionary Vorticist Wyndham Lewis, and young Canadians such as A.Y. Jackson came to paint Canada's war. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; ACXD; AFC; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 261 x 182 x 17. Weight in Grams: 600.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Edition
Back in Print
SKU
V9781442647923
ISBN
9781442647923
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.06

"The Dignity of Every Human Being" studies the vibrant New Brunswick artistic community which challenged "the tyranny of the Group of Seven" with socially-engaged realism in the 1930s and 40s. Series: Canadian Social History Series. Num Pages: 368 pages, 36. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; ACXD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 149 x 29. Weight in Grams: 584.
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442645608
ISBN
9781442645608
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.25

hardcover. This edition of E.J. Pratt's letters is the final volume in the Collected Works series. The letters take us into his "workshop," illuminating the research behind his distinctive documentary long poems and the social nature of his creative production. Editor(s): Popham, Elizabeth A.; Pitt, David G. Series: Collected Works of E.J.Pratt. Num Pages: 792 pages, 11. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; 3JJ; ACX; BJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1190.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
792
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442650237
ISBN
9781442650237
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 143.32

paperback. Illustrator(s): Pong, Elodie. BIC Classification: ACXJ5; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 259 x 190 x 20. Weight in Grams: 794.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
PATRICK FREY Switzerland
Condition
New
SKU
V9783906803012
ISBN
9783906803012
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 38.42

Hardcover. Since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and recognition of the Holocaust as a watershed event, the capacity of art to represent this event adequately has been questioned. Contributors provide case studies that include a artists from North America, Europe and Israel, and examine some of the dominant themes of their work. Editor(s): Feinstein, Stephen C. Series: Religion, Theology and the Holocaust. Num Pages: 328 pages, 69 photographs, bibliography, notes, index. BIC Classification: ACX; AG; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 671.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd)
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815630838
ISBN
9780815630838
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.37

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