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Theory of art

This book analyzes contemporary visual art produced in the context of conflict and trauma from a range of countries, including Colombia, Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Australia. It focuses on what makes visual language unique, arguing that the "affective'"quality of art contributes to a new understanding of the experience of trauma and loss. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 231 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804750745
ISBN
9780804750745
Condition: New

€ 108.92

Paperback. This book analyzes contemporary visual art produced in the context of conflict and trauma from a range of countries, including Colombia, Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Australia. It focuses on what makes visual language unique, arguing that the "affective" quality of art contributes to an understanding of the experience of trauma and loss. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 151 x 12. Weight in Grams: 281.
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804751711
ISBN
9780804751711
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.68

Paperback. Visual Culture: The Reader provides an invaluable resource of over 30 key statements from a wide range of disciplines. Although underpinned by a focus on contemporary cultural theory, this Reader puts the study of visual culture and the rhetoric of the image at centre stage. Editor(s): Evans, Jessica; Hall, Stuart. Series: Published in Association with the Open University. Num Pages: 512 pages, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; CFG; JFD; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 169 x 35. Weight in Grams: 876.
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761962489
ISBN
9780761962489
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.32

Paperback. An introduction to design theory and terminology in a visually appealing and accessible format. It culminates with a section on formal analysis, aimed at teaching readers how to express their observations in formal writing and critical discourse. It is suitable for design educator, student, or professional, native or non-native English speaker. Num Pages: 178 pages, 210. BIC Classification: ABA; AK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 178 x 14. Weight in Grams: 455.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
178
Condition
New
SKU
V9781621532446
ISBN
9781621532446
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 19.87

Paperback. What does it mean to say that some of the best Chinese contemporary art is made in America, by Americans? This book challenges the artificial and narrowly conceived definitions of Chinese art, revealing the great diversity of Chinese art and showing just how complex and uncertain the labels 'contemporary', 'Chinese', and 'American' have become. Editor(s): Silbergeld, Jerome; Ching, Dora C. Y. Series: Publications of the Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 color illus. 172 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; 3JM; ABA; ACBP; ACXJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 167 x 21. Weight in Grams: 728.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691148601
ISBN
9780691148601
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Paperback. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 132 x 9. Weight in Grams: 114.
Publisher
Sternberg Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9783956790874
ISBN
9783956790874
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.00

Paperback. Punctuation offers playful interpretations of punctuation in relation to aesthetics, performance, and experimental art. Num Pages: 240 pages, 23 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822342359
ISBN
9780822342359
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 26.63

Paperback. Things American examines the relationship between American museums and cultural democracy in the first part of the twentieth century by looking at the role museums like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the institutions it inspired played in Progressive Era social and cultural reform. Series: The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America. Num Pages: 312 pages, 35 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ABA; GM; HBJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812222852
ISBN
9780812222852
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Paperback. Series: Beginnings. Num Pages: 272 pages, 15 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 360.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719067891
ISBN
9780719067891
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.75

Hardcover. A provocative look at the contemporary art scene by one of the country's leading art critics. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ABA; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 222.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Basic Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9780465055203
ISBN
9780465055203
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 29.36

Paperback. Includes interlocking essays that uncover art as an active force in the world - neither elitist or remote, present to those who want it, affecting even those who don't. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; ABA; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 156.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099590019
ISBN
9780099590019
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. The last twenty years or so have seen a surge of interest in the philosophy of music. However there is comparatively little philosophical literature devoted specifically to songs, singing and vocal music in general. Series: Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. Num Pages: 132 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 175 x 6. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118524671
ISBN
9781118524671
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.07

Hardback. Rejecting not only the identification of the aesthetic with the work of art, but also the Kantian association of the aesthetic with subjectively universal judgment, the author's analysis of aesthetic relations opens up a space for a theory of art that is free of historicism and capable of engaging with noncanonical and non-Western arts. Translator(s): Roberts, Daffyd. Series: The French List. Num Pages: 372 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
436
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857420428
ISBN
9780857420428
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.48

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Edition
3rd Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823225415
ISBN
9780823225415
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.73

Paperback. This analysis of art and its modes of existence by a contemporary French philosopher begins with an essay that introduces the principal concern sustained in the four succeeding ones. Translator(s): Kamuf, Peggy. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 136 pages, 3 half-tones. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 137 x 9. Weight in Grams: 190.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804727815
ISBN
9780804727815
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Cutting-edge theorist Jean Baudrillard on the complicitous dance of art, politics, economics, and media; includes "War Porn," on Abu Ghraib as a new genre of reality TV. Editor(s): Lotringer, Sylvere. Translator(s): Hodges, Ames. Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
Autonomedia United States
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584350286
ISBN
9781584350286
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 15.62

Paperback. Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts. Num Pages: 200 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231140973
ISBN
9780231140973
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.68

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. .
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816696987
ISBN
9780816696987
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 90 color plates. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 197 x 28. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Diaphanes AG Switzerland
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9783037349465
ISBN
9783037349465
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 24.66

Hardback. Gathering seven established art educators-educator artists, this book addresses art education from the philosophical position of Deleuze and Guattari and raises questions as to where the future of art and its education might be heading if the focus on art was to be repositioned along Deleuze and Guattari s philosophy of immanence. Editor(s): Jagodzinski, Jan. Series: Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation. Num Pages: 327 pages, 5 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; JNU; YQA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 556.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137481269
ISBN
9781137481269
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 183.53

Paperback. This book offers a unique perspective of art and its education in designer capitalism. It will contribute to the debate as to possibilities art and design hold for the future. It also questions the broad technologization of art that is taking place. Series: Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation. Num Pages: 267 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; JNA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
267
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230618800
ISBN
9780230618800
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 39.01

Hardback. Now, for the first time, a philosopher undertakes a systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic issues to which cultural appropriation gives rise. Series: New Directions in Aesthetics. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405176569
ISBN
9781405176569
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.11

Hardcover. This book uses the contradictions, fractures and coincidences of a twentieth-century rural landscape to explore new methods of writing place beyond 'new nature writing'. In doing so it opens up new ways of reading modernist artists and writers such as Vanessa Bell, Mary Butts and Paul Nash. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 208 pages, 25 figures. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWT; 2AB; ABA; AJB; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137287076
ISBN
9781137287076
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.50

Hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages, 73 color illus., 15 b&w illus. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ8; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 165 x 22. .
Publisher
The MIT Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262035521
ISBN
9780262035521
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 30.55

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