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Theory of art

Paperback. Includes essays that explore the question of how ethical ideas guiding the design process - a concern for the environment or for social justice - relate to the beauty of our buildings, cities, and artworks. This book presents a range of viewpoints and does not ignore the perils of an easy association of ethics and aesthetics. Editor(s): Iliescu, Sanda. Num Pages: 320 pages, 102 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AMA; HPN; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 203 x 178 x 18. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813927725
ISBN
9780813927725
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.94

Paperback. Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557536044
ISBN
9781557536044
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.15

Hardback. This book advances the argument that the arts, from film and literature to painting and comics, offer qualitatively different readings of terror and trauma that endeavor to resist the exploitation and perpetuation of violence. Editor(s): Hyvarinen, Matti; Muszynski, Lisa. Num Pages: 265 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 465.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
265
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230606715
ISBN
9780230606715
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.04

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. A discussion of the main issues that beset modern time and philosophy by locating these same issues in artworks and describing closely what they reveal. This volume is divided between contemporary and prehistoric art in order to reveal the presumptions of "Western" culture. Series: Contributions to Phenomenology. Num Pages: 512 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 896.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792337744
ISBN
9780792337744
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 259.47

Hardback. Suggests that the true sense of fine arts, enchantment, needs to be revived. This book states that in the conceptualised, commercialised, artificial approach to fine arts, we forgot its authentic experiential sense, and that it lies at the imaginative heart of all arts, there to be retrieved by the creative recipient as the very 'truth of it all'. Editor(s): Kronegger, Marlies; Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 336 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 638.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792361831
ISBN
9780792361831
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 200.42

Hardcover. What is depiction? A new answer is given to this venerable question by providing a syncretistic theory of depiction that tries to combine the merits of the previous theories on the matter while dropping their defects. Thus, not only perceptual, but also both conventional and causal factors contribute in making something a picture of something else. Num Pages: 284 pages, 67. BIC Classification: ABA; HPM; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137263285
ISBN
9781137263285
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.11

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

Paperback. This book offers a series of critical commentaries on, and forced encounters between, different thinkers. At stake in this philosophical and psychoanalytical enquiry is the drawing of a series of diagrams of the finite/infinite relation, and the mapping out of the contours for a speculative and pragmatic production of subjectivity. Num Pages: 315 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; HPCF; HPN; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
315
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137430281
ISBN
9781137430281
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.65

Hardcover. This title offers a Marxist take on a selection of artistic and cultural achievements from the rap music of Tupac Shakur to the painting of Van Gogh, from HBO's Breaking Bad to Balzac's Cousin Bette, from the magical realm of Harry Potter to the apocalyptic landscape of The Walking Dead, from The Hunger Games to Game of Thrones. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; JFC; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137526601
ISBN
9781137526601
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.68

Hardback. Editor(s): Ade, Wernmei Yong; Ching, Lim Lee. Num Pages: 165 pages, 12 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMS; ABA; AC; JHB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Number of pages
165
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137576286
ISBN
9781137576286
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.84

Hardcover. Scruton's Aesthetics is a comprehensive critical evaluation of one of the major aestheticians of our age. The lead essay by Scruton is followed by fourteen essays by international commentators plus Scruton's reply. All discuss matters of enduring importance. Editor(s): Hamilton, Andy; Zangwill, Nick. Num Pages: 338 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 136 x 24. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230251687
ISBN
9780230251687
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.41

Hardcover. A study of controversy in the arts, and the extent to which such controversies are socially rather than just aesthetically conditioned. The collection pays special attention to the vested interests and the social dynamics involved, including class, religion, culture, and - above all - power. Editor(s): Howells, Richard; Ritivoi, Andreea Deciu; Schachter, Judith. Num Pages: 347 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 25. Weight in Grams: 546.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230353978
ISBN
9780230353978
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.71

Hardcover. Ten leading commentators explore the interfaces between art and aesthetics in dialogue with a philosophical text (Theodor Adorno's draft introduction to Aesthetic Theory), a piece of literary writing (Franz Kafka's A Report to an Academy), and a major contemporary painting (Gerhard Richter's Betty, 1988). Editor(s): Regier, Alexander; De Bolla, Peter; Uhlig, Stefan H. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; HPN; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230549197
ISBN
9780230549197
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

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.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
510
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846316456
ISBN
9781846316456
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 205.31

Hardcover. Num Pages: 430 pages, 17 colour plates, 79 b&w photos. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 35. Weight in Grams: 866.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Baylor University Press United States
Number of pages
430
Condition
New
SKU
V9781932792416
ISBN
9781932792416
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.68

paperback. During the decades of his world fame, Tolstoy wrote this series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion. He considered and rejected the idea that art reveals and reinvents through beauty, although he perceived the question of art to be a religious one. Translator(s): Pevear, Richard; Volokhonsky, Larissa. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; ABA; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 180.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140446425
ISBN
9780140446425
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. Editor(s): Arnold, Dana; Sofaer Derevenski, Joanna. Num Pages: 224 pages, 49 black & white halftones, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: ABA; AMA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415511551
ISBN
9780415511551
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.56

paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 2ill. BIC Classification: ABA; HRC; HRKN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 135 x 9. Weight in Grams: 166. Good copy with some shelf wear and aging. Some scoring internally, to text and title page. Remains good reading copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc New York
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KMK0024890
ISBN
9780486203782
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 5.12

paperback. Explores the emergence of the theme of migration as a dominant subject in the world of art, as well as the ways in which the mobilities of our globalized world have radically reshaped art's conditions of production, reception, and display. Editor(s): Mathur, Saloni. Series: Clark Studies in the Visual Arts. Num Pages: 256 pages, 75 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 177 x 18. Weight in Grams: 642.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780300134148
ISBN
9780300134148
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 6.49

hardcover. First book to examine how the theories of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing have affected individual artists and their works. Editor(s): Lippert, Sarah. Series: International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art. Num Pages: 304 pages, 30 integrated bw. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Condition
New
SKU
9781784533458
ISBN
9781784533458
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.99
€ 9.66

Hardback. Proceedings of the XXIXth International Congress of the History of Art, Amsterdam, 1-7 September 1996 Editor(s): Reinink, A. W. (Utrecht University, The Netherlands); Stumpel, Jeroen. Num Pages: 1114 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 210 x 61. Weight in Grams: 2977.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
1114
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792342137
ISBN
9780792342137
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 652.35

Paperback. The Aesthetic Mind breaks new ground in bringing together empirical sciences and philosophy to enhance our understanding of art and the aesthetic. An eminent international team of experts explores the roles of emotion, imagination, empathy, and beauty in this realm of human experience, discussing visual and literary art, music, and dance. Editor(s): Schellekens, Elisabeth; Goldie, Peter. Num Pages: 470 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: ABA; HP; HPN; JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 233 x 25. Weight in Grams: 710.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198705925
ISBN
9780198705925
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 78.53

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415578004
ISBN
9780415578004
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 96.28

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