Art & Architecture
Introducing… 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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Art & Architecture
Hardback. This book uses a literary lens to examine the diverse practices, lore, and texts of opera-going in imperial Russia. Num Pages: 312 pages, 23 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; 3JH; AVGC9; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804732475
- ISBN
- 9780804732475
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.06
€ 93.06
Hardback. This book studies 18th-century Yangchow paintings as artistic products shaped by collective social and cultural experiences, and by constant exchanges between the artists and their audience. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; ACV; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804732529
- ISBN
- 9780804732529
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.51
€ 98.51
Hardback. 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 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804732611
- ISBN
- 9780804732611
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.22
€ 157.22
Hardback. Piero della Francesca's "Madonna del Parto", a celebrated fifteenth-century Tuscan fresco in which the Virgin gestures to her partially open dress and her pregnant womb, is unusual in its iconography. This book uses Piero's enigmatic painting to narrate our archaic memories. Translator(s): Goodman, John. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 136 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804734417
- ISBN
- 9780804734417
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.98
€ 112.98
Hardback. Adorno is one of this century's most influential thinkers in the areas of social theory, philosophy, aesthetics, and music. Throughout the essays in this book, all of which concern musical matters, he displays an astonishing range of cultural reference, demonstrating that music is invariably social, political, even ethical. Translator(s): Livingstone, Rodney. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 565.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804735575
- ISBN
- 9780804735575
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.10
€ 120.10
Hardback. Bringing to light the tradition of physical comedy in the French cabaret, cafe-concert, and early French film comedy, this book answers the perplexing question, Why do the French love Jerry Lewis? Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APB; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804738934
- ISBN
- 9780804738934
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.48
€ 136.48
Hardback. This work explores Gilles Deleuze's contribution to film theory. According to Deleuze, we have come to live in a new universe that could be described as metacinematic. His conception of images implies a new kind of camera consciousness, one that determines our perceptions and sense of selves. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804740272
- ISBN
- 9780804740272
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.08
€ 147.08
Hardback. This book explores the implications for today's critical concerns of the work of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), one of the most powerful and influential thinkers of the 20th century. Editor(s): Richter, Gerhard. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JJ; ABA; DSB; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804741255
- ISBN
- 9780804741255
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 180.50
€ 180.50
Hardback. Since its publication in 1936, Walter Benjamin's "Artwork" essay has become a canonical text about the status and place of the fine arts in modern mass culture. The essays gathered here offer a rich, wide-ranging critique of Benjamin's position. Editor(s): Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich; Marrinan, Michael. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804744355
- ISBN
- 9780804744355
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.31
€ 158.31
Hardback. Redefining art as a transformative "forcework," The Force of Art offers a new theory of the artwork, in which art's force is explained as a contestation of power in its modern technological manifestations. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804750103
- ISBN
- 9780804750103
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.78
€ 124.78
Hardback. "Law on the Screen" advances understanding of connections between law and film, analyzing them as narrative forms, examining film for its jurisprudential content - that is, its ways of critiquing the present legal world and imagining an alternative one - and expanding studies of the representation of law in film to include questions of reception. Editor(s): Sarat, Austin; Douglas, Lawrence; Umphrey, Martha. Series: The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: APF; JFD; LA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804751629
- ISBN
- 9780804751629
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.93
€ 86.93
Hardback. Focusing on intermediality, The Material Image situates film within questions of representation familiar from painting and theatrical practices. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804754309
- ISBN
- 9780804754309
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.92
€ 135.92
Hardback. This book explores the movement from a world of sacraments to the "sacramental," in which the impulses once met by sacred ritual are displaced onto wider cultural forms, a poetics that becomes the province of mystery. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: AB; HRCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804756679
- ISBN
- 9780804756679
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.69
€ 108.69
Hardback. 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 534. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804757355
- ISBN
- 9780804757355
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.59
€ 114.59
Hardback. These phenomenological studies on the philosophy of the image review contemporary image theory while defending the fundamental insight that images alone make the artificial presence of things possible. Translator(s): Schott, Nils F. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 168 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; HPCF3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804759403
- ISBN
- 9780804759403
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.66
€ 113.66
Hardback. This interdisciplinary collection of essays on idolatry, including both historical and theoretical contributions, shows that the concept of idolatry is helpful for all who study the ways that people interact with and conceive of the things around them. Editor(s): Ellenbogen, Josh; Tugendhaft, Aaron. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804760423
- ISBN
- 9780804760423
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.08
€ 70.08
Hardback. 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. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804762151
- ISBN
- 9780804762151
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.64
€ 114.64
Hardback. This lucidly written book looks at the interpretative audacity of five major "overreaders"-Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, Slavoj Zizek and Stanley Cavell-and asks what is at stake and what is to be gained by their approaches to literature and film. Num Pages: 240 pages, ill. BIC Classification: APF; DSBH; HPCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804763066
- ISBN
- 9780804763066
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.02
€ 114.02
Hardback. In his new collection of essays, Giorgio Agamben addresses the most urgent themes of his recent research. Translator(s): Kishik, David; Pedatella, Stefan. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 144 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: AJC; HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 407. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804769495
- ISBN
- 9780804769495
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.49
€ 91.49
Hardback. The Neuro-Image investigates cinema's survival in the digital age through neuroscientific and philosophical understandings of the brain, our conception of the future, and the affective intensity of contemporary screen culture. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804781350
- ISBN
- 9780804781350
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.49
€ 158.49