Theory of art
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Theory of art
Paperback. This text, first published in France in 1977, presents cultural critic Louis Marin's theories about the aims of painting in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. It explores a number of notions implied by theories of painting and offers insight into the aims and effects of visual representaion. Translator(s): Hjort, Mette. Num Pages: 224 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; ABA; ACN; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226505350
- ISBN
- 9780226505350
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.92
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€ 25.92
Paperback. Essays examine nine intriguing objects made eloquent when matter and meaning converge. Editor(s): Daston, Lorraine J. Num Pages: 447 pages, 9 color illus., 82 b&w illus. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 34. Weight in Grams: 712.
- Publisher
- Zone Books United States
- Number of pages
- 447
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781890951443
- ISBN
- 9781890951443
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.20
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Paperback. Following an analysis of the theories and poetics that traversed the historical avant-gardes and the neo-avant-gardes of the twentieth century, the author explains the principal artistic phenomena that starting in 1980, marked the period defined as post-modern, which was characterised by performance and a system of economic-financial art. Num Pages: 224 pages, 150 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 213 x 17. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- Skira Italy
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788857214085
- ISBN
- 9788857214085
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.89
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Paperback. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; DSB; HBA; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 275 x 230 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1497.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Cengage Learning, Inc United States
- Edition
- 9th Edition
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781337102667
- ISBN
- 9781337102667
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Condition: New
€ 304.18
€ 304.18
Paperback. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; DSB; HBA; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 275 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1361.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Cengage Learning, Inc United States
- Edition
- 9th Edition
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781305958104
- ISBN
- 9781305958104
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 306.86
€ 306.86
Paperback. Editor(s): Wells, Liz. BIC Classification: ABA; AJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 174. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2019
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415749206
- ISBN
- 9780415749206
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.63
€ 48.63
Hardcover. To speak about the relationship between reality and art is like wanting to solve an equation with two unknowns. This title intends to explore the universal laws of art and track down the imprint they have left on reality in the work of art. Num Pages: 559 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 247 x 182 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1712.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Aarhus University Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 559
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772888606
- ISBN
- 9788772888606
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 40.85
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€ 40.85
Hardcover. In the digital age, photography confronts its future under the competing signs of ubiquity and obsolescence. By examining the medium as articulated in literature, film, and the graphic novel, this book demonstrates how photography secures identity for figures with an unstable sense of self. Num Pages: 232 pages, 48 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; AJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 12. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226242033
- ISBN
- 9780226242033
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 32.34
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Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Whitechapel Art Gallery
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780854881826
- ISBN
- 9780854881826
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.45
€ 23.99
€ 20.45
Paperback. Contains an English translation of Les Peintures concretes de Kandinsky by Alexandre Kojeve. Num Pages: 280 pages, figures, colour plates. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXD1; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 256 x 219 x 23. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804784849
- ISBN
- 9780804784849
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.91
€ 37.99
€ 33.91
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Wooden Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904263883
- ISBN
- 9781904263883
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Condition: New
€ 9.28
€ 9.28
Hardcover. A Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art offers an introductory overview of the art, artists, and artistic movements of this exuberant period in European art, and the social, economic, philosophical, and political debates that helped shape them. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118475577
- ISBN
- 9781118475577
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Condition: New
€ 104.79
€ 104.79
Paperback. A Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art offers an introductory overview of the art, artists, and artistic movements of this exuberant period in European art, and the social, economic, philosophical, and political debates that helped shape them. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; ABA; ACQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 15. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118475515
- ISBN
- 9781118475515
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Condition: New
€ 48.30
€ 48.30
Hardcover. Focuses on the painterly pre-occupation with bathing, whether at the beach, in lakes and rivers, in public swimming pools, or in bathtubs. This book brings to bear a lifetime of looking at, teaching, talking about, wrestling with, loving, and hating art to reveal and complicate the lived and felt - the visceral - experience of art. Series: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. Num Pages: 300 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AFC; AGH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 187 x 176 x 24. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674021167
- ISBN
- 9780674021167
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Condition: New
€ 59.37€ 54.12
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Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 210 x 17. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Publisher
- Harbour Books (East) Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905128242
- ISBN
- 9781905128242
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.07
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Paperback. A selection of Leonardo da Vinci's writings on painting. Martin Kemp and Margaret Walker have edited material not only from his so-called "Treatise on Painting" but also from his surviving manuscripts and from other primary sources. Translator(s): Kemp, Mr Martin; Walker, Margaret. Series: Yale Nota Bene. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACND; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300090956
- ISBN
- 9780300090956
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.60
€ 25.99
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Paperback. Translator(s): De Sanctis, Sarah. Num Pages: 134 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ; AGN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Publisher
- Lantern Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590564899
- ISBN
- 9781590564899
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 22.50
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Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 144 x 14. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- Imperfect Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780981484655
- ISBN
- 9780981484655
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.42
€ 20.99
€ 18.42
Hardback. Why do painters sometimes wish they were poets - and why do poets sometimes wish they were painters? What happens when Rembrandt spells out Hebrew in the sky or Poussin spells out Latin on a tombstone? What happens when Virgil, Ovid, or Shakespeare suspend their plots to describe a fictitious painting? This title answers these questions. Series: Essays in the Arts. Num Pages: 208 pages, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 240 x 17. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691141831
- ISBN
- 9780691141831
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.24
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Paperback. Fresh attention to contemporary black British art, exploring its political power through phenomenological attention to art and embodied experience, the senses and perception, affectivity and the emotions. Series: Value: Art: Politics. Num Pages: 272 pages, 45, 45 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; ABA; ACX; AF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781384176
- ISBN
- 9781781384176
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.47
€ 30.99
€ 27.47