Theory of art
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Theory of art
Paperback. Relating to the current interest in the historiography of art history, this illuminating study offers a valuable contribution to the discussion surrounding its principles and values. Num Pages: 528 pages, 150 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACNH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 173 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1278.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789089641786
- ISBN
- 9789089641786
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€ 88.96
€ 88.96
Hardback. A biography of Peter Selz that traces the journey of this Jewish-German immigrant from Hitler's Munich to the United States and on to an important career as a pioneer historian of modern art. It illuminates key historical and cultural events of the twentieth-century, describing Selz's extraordinary career. Num Pages: 321 pages, 27 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 321
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520269354
- ISBN
- 9780520269354
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€ 27.99€ 21.55
€ 27.99
€ 21.55
Paperback. The theory and practice of imitation has long been central to the construction of art and yet imitation is still frequently confused with copying. Theorizing Imitation in the Visual Arts challenges this prejudice by revealing the ubiquity of the practice across cultures and geographical borders. Series: Art History Special Issues. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 276 x 210. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781119004035
- ISBN
- 9781119004035
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Condition: New
€ 33.21
€ 33.21
hardcover. The book shows how pictorial art conveys aesthetic transcendence--a felt, though symbolic experience of going beyond our finite limitations that sometimes involves a sense of communing with God Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN; HRLB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 238 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804795739
- ISBN
- 9780804795739
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Condition: New
€ 107.64
€ 107.64
Hardcover. Reinterprets key phases and figures in 20th-century art, focusing on the way artists and critics negotiate philosophically significant ideas. The text aims to illuminate a language of 20th century art that cuts across boundaries set out by such conventional notions as avant-garde and postmodernism. Num Pages: 260 pages, 50 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 740.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Edition
- 1ST
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300072419
- ISBN
- 9780300072419
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Condition: New
€ 50.22€ 39.95
€ 50.22
€ 39.95
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Sternberg Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783943365955
- ISBN
- 9783943365955
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.74
€ 17.99
€ 17.74
Paperback. Editor(s): Barker, Paul. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Publisher
- Five Leaves Publications
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905512072
- ISBN
- 9781905512072
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.36
€ 13.99
€ 13.36
Paperback. Editor(s): O'Neill, Paul; Wilson, Mick; Steeds, Lucy. Num Pages: 352 pages, 100 figures. BIC Classification: ABA; AGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 267 x 178. .
- Publisher
- MIT Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780262529105
- ISBN
- 9780262529105
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.25
€ 37.99
€ 33.25
Paperback. The Awakening Artist invites artists to discover their relationship to the greatest source of creativity the world has ever known. Num Pages: 268 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 268
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780996455
- ISBN
- 9781780996455
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.41
€ 20.99
€ 19.41
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, b&w. BIC Classification: ABA; VSP; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- Shambhala
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781570620782
- ISBN
- 9781570620782
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 20.89
€ 31.99
€ 20.89
Paperback. Num Pages: 364 pages, 42 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; ABQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 179 x 254 x 13. Weight in Grams: 446.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 364
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816641314
- ISBN
- 9780816641314
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.17
€ 26.99
€ 25.17
Paperback. The reader is invited to view Islamic art as no more and no less than ordinary art, neither better nor worse than anything else that counts as art. It follows that there are no special techniques required in Islamic aesthetics as compared with any other form of aesthetics. Series: The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1QFM; ABA; ACBP; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 161 x 13. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748617357
- ISBN
- 9780748617357
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.10
€ 38.99
€ 35.10
Paperback. Series: Conversation Series. Num Pages: 120 pages, 30 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 210 x 15. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Buchhandlung Walther Konig GmbH & Co. KG. Abt. Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783865604989
- ISBN
- 9783865604989
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.42
€ 27.99
€ 23.42
Paperback. Editor(s): Garrard, Mary. Num Pages: 528 pages, 290 photos, index. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 846.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Westview Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780064302074
- ISBN
- 9780064302074
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Condition: New
€ 81.21
€ 81.21
Paperback. Challenges art history from a feminist perspective. Following their "Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany" (1982) and "The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History" (1992), this volume identifies female agency as a central theme of feminist scholarship. It also features essays on artists and issues from the Renaissance onwards. Editor(s): Broude, Norma; Garrard, Mary D. Num Pages: 486 pages, 157 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ8. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 185 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1116.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 486
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520242524
- ISBN
- 9780520242524
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Condition: New
€ 54.35€ 43.58
€ 54.35
€ 43.58
Paperback. Philosophy of Art is a textbook for undergraduate students interested in the topic of philosophical aesthetics, introducing the techniques of analytic philosophy in addition to a selection of the major topics in this area. Series: Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415159647
- ISBN
- 9780415159647
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Condition: New
€ 61.21
€ 61.21
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784992767
- ISBN
- 9781784992767
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 38.56
€ 40.99
€ 38.56
hardcover. This is an analysis of art as a social and perceptual system by one of Germany's leading social theorist of the late 20th century. It is intended to represent an intellectual step in discussions of art and an important advance in systems theory. Translator(s): Knodt, Eva M. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 755.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804739061
- ISBN
- 9780804739061
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Condition: New
€ 158.42
€ 158.42
Hardback. This book examines the writings of Lawrence Alloway (1926-1990), one of the most influential and widely-respected art writers of the post-War years. It provides a close and critical reading of his writings, and sets his work in the cultural and political context of the London and New York art worlds of the 1950s to the early 1980s. Series: Value: Art: Politics. Num Pages: 510 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, 18 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 9. Weight in Grams: 982.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 510
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846316456
- ISBN
- 9781846316456
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Condition: New
€ 205.31
€ 205.31
Paperback. With help of carefully chosen illustrations and photographs, from Cezanne and Van Gogh to Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol and the Osmond family, Nigel Warburton brings a philosopher's eye to art in a refreshingly jargon-free style. Num Pages: 160 pages, 12 colour photographs, 7 b&w photographs, index. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 11. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415174909
- ISBN
- 9780415174909
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 31.84
€ 31.99
€ 31.84
Hardcover. Editor(s): Sala, Nicoletta. Num Pages: 178 pages, colour & b/w illus. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 257 x 181 x 16. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 178
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781600212321
- ISBN
- 9781600212321
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Condition: New
€ 204.41€ 138.53
€ 204.41
€ 138.53
Hardcover. Editor(s): Santiago, Nicole L. Num Pages: 127 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ABA; ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Nova Science Pub Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781634820066
- ISBN
- 9781634820066
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Condition: New
€ 193.77€ 145.07
€ 193.77
€ 145.07
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 109 x 10. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- Sternberg Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933128429
- ISBN
- 9781933128429
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Condition: New
€ 21.36
€ 21.36
Paperback. An account of the changing attitudes to the way art is presented in the modern museum of art. It examines the relationship between the artist, the public and the curator, taking the reader into the artist's studio, and then on an international tour of museums, galleries and installations. Series: Walter Neurath Memorial Lectures. Num Pages: 64 pages, 55 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AC; GM; WTHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 211 x 6. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson Ltd
- Number of pages
- 64
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780500282168
- ISBN
- 9780500282168
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.91
€ 10.99
€ 9.91