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Theory of art

Paperback. An updated edition of the hugely successful original anthology that captures the essence and the edge of the contemporary art scene. Editor(s): Kocur, Zoya; Leung, Simon. Num Pages: 552 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 190 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1106.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
552
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444338577
ISBN
9781444338577
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.85

Paperback. Essays that seek to redefine the status of theory in modernist critical discourse Series: October Books. Num Pages: 357 pages, 87. BIC Classification: ABA; AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 177 x 16. Weight in Grams: 556.
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd United States
Number of pages
357
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262521802
ISBN
9780262521802
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.00
€ 49.42

Paperback. During the 1990s a particular focus of discussions on American culture has been the role of visual arts in public life. In this volume, five cultural critics and two contemporary artists set out to show the ways in which this debate has profoundly reshaped the view of American culture. Editor(s): Yenawine, Philip; Weems, Marianne; Wallis, Brian. Num Pages: 320 pages, 125 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPR; ABA; ABQ; AC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 252 x 183 x 18. Weight in Grams: 762.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780814793510
ISBN
9780814793510
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

Paperback. In the Guangdong province in southeastern China lies Dafen, a village that houses thousands of workers who paint Van Goghs, Da Vincis, and Warhols. The author shows how Dafen's workers force us to reexamine our expectations about the cultural function of creativity and imitation, and the role of Chinese workers in redefining global art. Num Pages: 384 pages, 27 colour plates, 45 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; ABA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 255 x 178 x 17. Weight in Grams: 734.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226024899
ISBN
9780226024899
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 34.59

Hardcover. Reveals the ways in which the work of bio artists offers new meanings for our lives in the wake of scientific discovery, as well as new frameworks for describing them. This book covers key areas in which biotechnology has had an impact on world, including ecology, biomedicine, designer genomes and evolutionary theory. Num Pages: 256 pages, 300 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; TCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 263 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1366.
Publisher
Thames and Hudson Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780500239322
ISBN
9780500239322
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.93

Paperback. .
Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566631778
ISBN
9781566631778
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.93

Paperback. Surveys a wide range of cultural controversies, from the Mapplethorpe affair to Salman Rushdie's death sentence. This book seeks to show that the fear and outrage these events inspired were the result of dangerous misunderstandings about the relationship between art and life. Num Pages: 258 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 165 x 15. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226772240
ISBN
9780226772240
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.94

Paperback. Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art. Num Pages: 80 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 8. Weight in Grams: 126.
Edition
Revised
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486234113
ISBN
9780486234113
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.39

Hardback. Bertolt Brecht once worried that our sympathy for the victims of a social problem can make the problem's "beauty and attraction" invisible. The author explores the effort to overcome this difficulty through a study of several contemporary artist-photographers whose work speaks to questions of political economy. Num Pages: 240 pages, 8 colour plates, 28 halftones, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ; AJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 210 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226210261
ISBN
9780226210261
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.89
€ 79.17

Paperback. Explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the troubling social and political implications of this are. Translator(s): Underwood, J. A. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 128 pages, No illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 112 x 8. Weight in Grams: 82.
Edition
01st Edition
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
128
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141036199
ISBN
9780141036199
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.42

Paperback. Examines art and censorship in the current political climate. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; AN; JFCA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 8. Weight in Grams: 245.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745326474
ISBN
9780745326474
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 26.79

Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 79 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 448.
Publisher
University of Chicago Press Journals
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226532158
ISBN
9780226532158
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.33

Paperback. This work, originally published in 1994, reshapes the direction of landscape studies by considering landscape not simply as an object to be seen or a text to be read, but as an instrument of cultural force, a central tool in the creation of national and social identity. Editor(s): Mitchell, W. J. T. Num Pages: 384 pages, 90 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; AGN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 588.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226532059
ISBN
9780226532059
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.83

Paperback. In this companion volume to "Iconology", the author investigates pictures - the concrete, representational objects in which images appear. Focusing on popular and television coverage of the Gulf War, he examines the capacity of visual images to awaken/stifle public debate, emotion and violence. Num Pages: 462 pages, 79 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; APFA; APT; GTE; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 718.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226532325
ISBN
9780226532325
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.61

Paperback. Shows how the transformation of textual into visual culture (from the linearity of history into the two-dimensionality of magic) and of industrial into post-industrial society (from work into leisure) went hand in hand, and how photography allows us to read and interpret these changes with particular clarity. Translator(s): Chalmers, Martin. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; AJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 121 x 9. Weight in Grams: 122.
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861890764
ISBN
9781861890764
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.59

Hardcover. A comprehensive overview of the sociology of art and an authoritative work of scholarship by a leading expert in the field. The book synthesizes the various theoretical models of art sociology, and provides empirical examples as well as stimulating exemplars of sociological work on the arts. Num Pages: 392 pages, 11. BIC Classification: ABA; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 728.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
392
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631230397
ISBN
9780631230397
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.43

Paperback. An account of how Spanish painters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries dealt with mystic visions in their art, and of how they attempted to 'represent the unrepresentable' that aims to establish a theory of visionary imagery in Western art in general, and one for the Spanish Counter-Reformation in particular. Series: Essays in Art & Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, 102 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JB; 3JD; ABA; ACN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 360.
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780948462757
ISBN
9780948462757
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.27

Paperback. Explores the construction of identities in the psychical space between perception and consciousness, drawing upon psychoanalytic theories to describe the constitution and maintenance of 'self' and 'us' - in imaginary spatial and temporal relations to 'other' and 'them' - through the all-important relay of images. Num Pages: 329 pages, 6 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: ABA; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
329
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520202993
ISBN
9780520202993
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.39

Paperback. Images and texts document the legendary Department of Media Study at SUNY Buffalo when it set the world standard; a history of the program and examples of work by "Buffalo heads" James Blue, Tony Conrad, Hollis Frampton, Gerald O'Grady, Paul Sharits, Steina, Woody Vasulka, and Peter Weibel. Editor(s): Vasulka, Woody; Weibel, Peter. Num Pages: 840 pages, 900 color illus. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 290 x 53. Weight in Grams: 3482.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Number of pages
840
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262720502
ISBN
9780262720502
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.24
€ 53.91

Paperback. .
Publisher
Rudolf Steiner Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780880104975
ISBN
9780880104975
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.97

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