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Hardback. Offers commentary and an illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent ranging from the ancient images of Pharaohs created by unknown hands to the works of the great European masters such as Bosch, Rembrandt, Rubens, and Hogarth to stunning creations by contemporary black artists. Editor(s): Bindman, David; Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. Num Pages: 416 pages, 345 color illustrations, 50 halftones, 5 maps. BIC Classification: AC; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 260 x 291 x 31. Weight in Grams: 2224.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- New Edition
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674052710
- ISBN
- 9780674052710
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.66
€ 106.66
Hardcover. An account of the painter Claude Monet, one of the key founders of the Impressionist movement and arguably the most influential painter of modern times. It tells the story of his life, the historical context of society at the time, and his relationships with Renoir, Sisley and Manet. Num Pages: 256 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: ACVT; AGB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 306 x 237 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Anness Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780754819530
- ISBN
- 9780754819530
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.66
€ 23.99
€ 17.66
Hardback. In design history, globalization is deeply intertwined with a long-held bias towards Western, industrialized nations. By reassessing the role of regional and national design histories and challenging the claim that nation states are obsolete in identity construction, Designing Worlds reflects on new national narratives from around the world. Editor(s): Fallan, Kjetil; Lees-Maffei, Grace. Series: Making Sense of History. Num Pages: 302 pages, 72 illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; AK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 237 x 21. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785331558
- ISBN
- 9781785331558
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.99
€ 135.99
Hardcover. Num Pages: 188 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 1KB; ACXJ; AGH; JFCA; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 178. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Publisher
- Cernunnos France
- Edition
- Bilingual Edition: English & Spanish ed.
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9782374950419
- ISBN
- 9782374950419
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.52
€ 24.99
€ 18.52
Paperback. Chronicles the Minimal art movement of the 1960s. Num Pages: 284 pages, 59 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Edition
- First Paperback Edition, 1993
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295972367
- ISBN
- 9780295972367
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.66
€ 32.99
€ 29.66
Hardcover. Editor(s): Barilleaux, Rene Paul. Num Pages: 168 pages, 57 colour/11 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; AFC; AGB; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 305 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1252.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Mississippi Museum of Art United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781887422116
- ISBN
- 9781887422116
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.60
€ 40.99
€ 31.60
Paperback. From essays like "Extended Notes from Sight Point Road" to Serra's extended commentary on the "Tilted Arc" fiasco, the pieces in this volume comprise a document of one artist's engagement with the practical, philosophical and political problems of art. Num Pages: 288 pages, 32 halftones. BIC Classification: ACX; AFK; AGB; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226748801
- ISBN
- 9780226748801
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 34.41
€ 44.99
€ 34.41
Hardback. In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores the multiple and overlapping meanings of performance, showing how it can convey everything from artistic, economic, and sexual performance, to providing ways of understanding how race, gender, identity, and power are performed. Num Pages: 240 pages, 74 illustrations. BIC Classification: ACBS; AN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5193 x 3564 x 18. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822359548
- ISBN
- 9780822359548
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.11
€ 111.11
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; ACBP; WFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 254 x 16. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Weatherhill
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780834804425
- ISBN
- 9780834804425
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 27.85
€ 42.99
€ 27.85
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
€ 54.99
€ 54.99
Paperback. What does it mean to be in the studio? What is the space of the studio in the artist's practice? How do studios help artists envision their agency and, beyond that, their own lives? This title locates the studio both spatially and conceptually - at the center of an art world that careens across institutions, markets, and disciplines. Editor(s): Jacob, Mary Jane; Grabner, Michelle. Num Pages: 328 pages, 67 halftones. BIC Classification: ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 179 x 26. Weight in Grams: 842.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226389615
- ISBN
- 9780226389615
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 32.45
€ 41.99
€ 32.45
Hardcover. An edited collection examining the construction of popular culture in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Editor(s): Connell, Philip; Leask, Nigel. Num Pages: 332 pages, 12 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; ACV; DSBD; DSBF; JFCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 61.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521880121
- ISBN
- 9780521880121
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.95
€ 116.95
Paperback. With this widely acclaimed work, Fried revised the way in which eighteenth-century French painting and criticism were viewed and understood."A reinterpretation supported by immense learning and by a series of brilliantly perceptive readings of paintings and criticism alike. . . . An exhilarating book."--John Barrell, "London Review of Books" Num Pages: 268 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: ACV; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 181 x 17. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226262130
- ISBN
- 9780226262130
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.67
€ 37.99
€ 29.67
paperback. Larry Shiner challenges our conventional understanding of art and asks us to reconsider its history entirely, arguing that the category of fine art is a modern invention. Num Pages: 352 pages, 87 halftones, 3 line drawings, 5 tables. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226753430
- ISBN
- 9780226753430
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.67
€ 36.99
€ 28.67
Paperback. The poems and performance art of Hugo Ball and his contemporaries were the beginnings of Dada. This work includes Ball's diaries, the original Dada manifesto and a critical introduction. Translator(s): Raimes, Ann. Series: Documents of Twentieth-Century Art. Num Pages: 324 pages, 14 b&w photographs, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; ACXD7; BG; BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520204409
- ISBN
- 9780520204409
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.63
€ 36.99
€ 26.63
Hardback. During the 1960s and 1970s, a loosely affiliated group of Los Angeles artists embraced light as their primary medium. This title explores and documents the unique traits of the work produced in Southern California during the 1960s and 1970s and traces its influence on different generations of international artists. Editor(s): Clark, Robin Lee. Num Pages: 240 pages, 100 color illustrations, 75 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACXJ; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 247 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1014.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First edition.
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520270602
- ISBN
- 9780520270602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 36.07
€ 50.99
€ 36.07
Hardcover. Ink landscape painting is a distinctive feature of the Northern Song, and Song painters created some of the most celebrated artworks in Chinese history. Foong Ping shows how landmark works of this era came to be identified first as potent symbols of imperial authority and later as objects by which exiled scholars expressed disaffection and dissent. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACBP; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 265 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1002.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674417151
- ISBN
- 9780674417151
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.41€ 72.01
€ 79.41
€ 72.01
Paperback. Examining how monuments preserve memory, these essays demonstrate how phenomena as diverse as ancient drum towers in China and ritual whale killings in the Pacific Northwest serve to represent and negotiate time. Editor(s): Nelson, Robert S.; Olin, Margaret. Num Pages: 360 pages, 83 halftones. BIC Classification: AC; AM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226571584
- ISBN
- 9780226571584
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 33.51
€ 42.99
€ 33.51
Hardback. From the very early yin/yang cosmology to later developments of Daoist and Confucian philosophies and ethics, Chinese animals gained new meanings related to their historical contexts. This book explores these new findings, using the colourful animal images and their evolving symbolic meanings to gain insight into aspects of Chinese art. Num Pages: 256 pages, 200 color illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; ACBP; AFC; AGN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 292 x 248 x 30. Weight in Grams: 2020.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300141528
- ISBN
- 9780300141528
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.24€ 53.35
€ 65.24
€ 53.35
Hardback. A fascinating look at LeWitt's deceptively simple geometric sculptures, which epitomize the artist's aim "to recreate art" by starting "from square one" Editor(s): Baume, Nicholas. Num Pages: 226 pages, 150 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ5; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 260 x 308 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1588.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300178616
- ISBN
- 9780300178616
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.81
€ 52.99
€ 37.81
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
€ 65.24€ 51.02
€ 65.24
€ 51.02
Paperback. A distinguished group of art historians reflect on the work of Michael Baxandall, in terms of its importance for their own formation, its location in the development of a new art history, and its influence on the broader languages and theories of contemporary cultural theory. Editor(s): Rifkin, Adrian. Series: Art History Special Issues. Num Pages: 168 pages, 0. BIC Classification: ABA; AC; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 172 x 8. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631211914
- ISBN
- 9780631211914
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.05
€ 32.05
Hardback. Num Pages: 207 pages, 500+ images. BIC Classification: AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 311 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1750.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764322921
- ISBN
- 9780764322921
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.55€ 39.45
€ 54.55
€ 39.45
Paperback. Num Pages: 207 pages, hundreds of color posters. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB; AKLP; AVGP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 302 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1158. 207 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB; AKLP; AVGP. Dimension: 302 x 223 x 19. Weight: 1162.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764325311
- ISBN
- 9780764325311
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 31.98
€ 37.99
€ 31.98