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Architecture books onlineIntroducing… our broad range of books on Architecture, Photography, Art Forms, Film TV & Radio, Dance and Performing Arts, Music and History of Art. In our Film TV & Radio section, we have many other sub-genres such as Books That Inspired Movies including Gone Girl, The Enigma, Fifty Shades of Grey and Foxcatcher. Our Music section includes biographies and sheet music of famous musicians past and present, international and Irish – Elvis, Taylor Swift, David Bowie, Bob Geldof, Ed Sheeran, One Direction, Bono and many more.

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Paperback. The first ethnography of the vibrant Aboriginal media community in Vancouver, Sovereign Screens uncovers the social forces shaping that community, including community media organisations and avant-garde art centres, as well as the national spaces of cultural policy and media institutions. Num Pages: 296 pages, 23 photographs, 1 map, 1 appendix, 1 index. BIC Classification: 1KBC; APFA; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803296961
ISBN
9780803296961
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.42

Paperback. Collects letters and essays that are published during the 1850s and 1860s. This title highlights the notorious 1850 article "Judaism in Music". It includes prose pieces such as "On the Performing of Tannhauser"; "On Musical Criticism"; and, "Music of the Future". It offers suggestions for the reform of opera houses in Vienna, Paris, and Zurich. Translator(s): Ellis, William Ashton. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC; JFC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 145 x 216 x 28. Weight in Grams: 634.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803297661
ISBN
9780803297661
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.01

Paperback. A pioneering interdisciplinary scholar examines the roles of images in the construction of stereotypes of the Jew's body in 20th-century art and literature. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: AB; DSBH; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 15. Weight in Grams: 315.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press California
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804732628
ISBN
9780804732628
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.75

Hardback. This lavishly illustrated reading of the structure and meaning of portraiture asks what happens when portraits are interpreted as imitations or likenesses not only of individuals but also of their acts of posing. Includes 84 illustrations, 40 in color. Num Pages: 656 pages, 44 half-tones 40 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1DDN; ACND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 6452 x 4776 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
656
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804733236
ISBN
9780804733236
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 234.76

Hardback. Painting, according to Jean-Luc Marion, is a topic of central concern for philosophy, particularly phenomenology. These four studies carefully consider the history of painting - from classical to contemporary - as a fund for phenomenological reflection on the conditions of (in)visibility. Translator(s): Smith, James K. A. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: AC; AFC; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 14. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804733915
ISBN
9780804733915
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.67

Paperback. In words that are as clean and precise as his haunting, starkly beautiful photographs (71 duotones, 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches), the author vividly recreates the life and times of the Western Homestead Era. Num Pages: 200 pages, 71 half-tones 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 6782 x 13. Weight in Grams: 689.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804738873
ISBN
9780804738873
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.56
€ 48.38

Hardback. This biographical dictionary of some 3,000 photographers (and workers in related trades), active in a vast area of North America before 1866, is based on extensive research and enhanced by some 250 illustrations, most of which are published here for the first time. Num Pages: 768 pages, 250 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJB; GBCB; HBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 7112 x 5487 x 47. Weight in Grams: 2395.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
768
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804740579
ISBN
9780804740579
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 205.35

Hardback. The work of nearly every photographer of consequence since the nineteenth century is captured in this collection of photographs of California farmworkers, raising moral questions about the exploitation and colonization of an entire class of people. Num Pages: 360 pages, 249 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; AJCP; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 6452 x 5817 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1379.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780804740920
ISBN
9780804740920
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.62

Paperback. Six Stories is a radically new look at the intersection of science and art through "failed" images. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 320 pages, 17 figures, 71 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 265 x 190 x 20. Weight in Grams: 648.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804741484
ISBN
9780804741484
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 41.92

Paperback. Incorporating the results of recent research, this is a new edition of a book that received the American Musicological Society's Otto Kinkeldey Award for the best musicological book in English published in 1982-83. Num Pages: 400 pages, 85 illustrations. BIC Classification: AVRG; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 4522 x 24. Weight in Grams: 744.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804745499
ISBN
9780804745499
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.54

Hardback. This work tells the tale of the prolific architect, inventor, farmer, writer and engineer, Gaetano Ciocca, whose career took him from the battlefronts of World War I to Stalin's Russia, Mussolini's Italy, FDR's America and finally to postwar liberal-democratic Italy. Num Pages: 312 pages, 42 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJ; AMB; BG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804748773
ISBN
9780804748773
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.74

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
€ 34.08

Hardback. Disintegration in Frames explores the relationship between aesthetics and ideology in the Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav cinema, with emphasis on issues of nationalism, internationalism, and interethnic relations. Num Pages: 216 pages, 40 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVWY; 3JJPR; APFA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 18. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804753685
ISBN
9780804753685
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.51

Paperback. Examines the heated cultural politics in Arab world, and tells how art-making has become an unexpectedly central part of that. It offers an analysis of the battles between artists, curators, and audiences over cultural authenticity, cultural policy, public art in a changing urban Egypt, and the global marketing of Egyptian art. Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures. Num Pages: 416 pages, 48 illustrations (16 colour). BIC Classification: 1HBE; AB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804754774
ISBN
9780804754774
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.89

Paperback. This book is about the heroic, ambivalent concept of the self within modernity as outlined in philosophy and exemplified in the filmic genres of the Western and crime and science fiction movies. Translator(s): Kirkby, Sarah L. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; JFCA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 407. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804757362
ISBN
9780804757362
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.42

Hardback. A study of the lives and artistic production of artists of Asian Ancestry active in the United States before 1970. It recovers the impressive artistic production of numerous Asian Americans, and offers informed interpretations of a long-neglected art history. Editor(s): Chang, Gordon H.; Johnson, Mark; Karlstrom, Paul J. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 576 pages, 435 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACV; ACX; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 7112 x 5487 x 48. Weight in Grams: 2835.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804757515
ISBN
9780804757515
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.62

Paperback. A study of the lives and artistic production of artists of Asian Ancestry active in the United States before 1970. It recovers the impressive artistic production of numerous Asian Americans, and offers informed interpretations of a long-neglected art history. Editor(s): Chang, Gordon H.; Johnson, Mark; Karlstrom, Paul J. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 576 pages, 435 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACV; ACX; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 7112 x 5487 x 40. Weight in Grams: 2549.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804757522
ISBN
9780804757522
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 42.27

Hardback. Two systems of timekeeping were in concurrent use in Venice between 1582 and 1797. This work defines the many ways in which time was discussed, resolving a long-standing fuzziness imposed on studies of personnel, institutions, and cultural dynamics by dating conflicts. Series: The Calendar of Venetian Opera. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; AVGC9; AVGM; PGZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 789. Weight in Grams: 830.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804757652
ISBN
9780804757652
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.14

Paperback. This study offers fresh readings of milestones in twentieth-century Chinese fiction, film, and drama and argues that they have questioned the faith in historical progress and in the viability of a sphere of free debate. Num Pages: 288 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; AN; APFA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804758499
ISBN
9780804758499
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.53

Hardback. Housing Problems provides fresh readings of major writers, Goethe, Walpole, Freud, Heidegger, Poe, H.D., and Oppen, by bringing together the fields of literature, philosophy and architecture. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 216 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: AM; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 449.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804758543
ISBN
9780804758543
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.84

Paperback. Housing Problems provides fresh readings of major writers, Goethe, Walpole, Freud, Heidegger, Poe, H.D., and Oppen, by bringing together the fields of literature, philosophy and architecture. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 216 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: AM; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 407. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804758550
ISBN
9780804758550
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.41

Hardback. Watson investigates the responses of of key twentieth-century philosophers to the work of artist Paul Klee and reveals how the art and philosophy mutually illuminate each other through these encounters. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 figure, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXD1; ACXD5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804761253
ISBN
9780804761253
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.62

Paperback. Romantic Paris is a survey of Parisian art and culture during the first half of the nineteenth century, when the experiments of Romantic artists and writers directly challenged the norms of tradition and when dramatic changes in the habits and spaces of everyday life shaped the social foundations of an urban modernity. Num Pages: 488 pages, 165 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; ACV; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6452 x 5817 x 712. Weight in Grams: 1293.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804761512
ISBN
9780804761512
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.81

Paperback. In Your Face concentrates on the basic Renaissance concern with self-fashioning by examining the behavior of some notorious Italian artists and writers, including Michelangelo and Benvenuto Cellini, who upset the decorum of their time on a grand scale. Num Pages: 272 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JB; ACND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804762168
ISBN
9780804762168
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.25

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