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Theory of art

Hardcover. Sweet Dreams is a testament to the creative processes and self- conscious heterogeneity of art today as well as a revolutionary effort to solicit collaboration that will encourage the production of imaginative thought and contribute to contemporary life. Num Pages: 264 pages, 16 colour pl 32halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJ; ABA; ACXJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 620.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226165042
ISBN
9780226165042
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.25

Hardcover. Why do we need new art? How free is the artist in making? And why is the artist, and particularly the poet, a figure of freedom in Western culture? This book explores and celebrates the freedom of artists who, working under finite conditions, make considered choices and shape surprising consequences. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 203 x 152 x 23. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226773865
ISBN
9780226773865
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.87

Hardcover. Triangles abounded in the intellectual culture of early modern Europe - the Christian Trinity was often mapped as a triangle, for instance, and perspective, a characteristic artistic technique, is based on a triangular theory of vision. This book takes us on a hunt for the triangle's embedded significance. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 colour plates, 86 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 703.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226989396
ISBN
9780226989396
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.70

Hardcover. Eminent contributors celebrate the distinguished career of art and film theorist Rudolf Arnheim Editor(s): Kleinman, K.; Duzer, L.Van. Num Pages: 160 pages, 23ill. BIC Classification: ABA; AGB; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 830.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472108596
ISBN
9780472108596
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.90

Paperback. Beginning with the assertion that earth is the elemental place that grants an abode to humans and to other living things, in "Senses of Landscape "the philosopher John Sallis turns to landscapes, and in particular to their representation in painting, to present a powerful synthetic work. " Series: Comparative and Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810131095
ISBN
9780810131095
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.18

Hardcover. 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 23. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813927602
ISBN
9780813927602
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.70

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

€ 45.82

Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; APF; DSB; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226346489
ISBN
9780226346489
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 121.97

Hardcover. Series: Series in Continental Thought. Num Pages: 178 pages, 1col.ill. BIC Classification: ABA; HPCF3; JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Number of pages
178
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821409084
ISBN
9780821409084
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.21

Hardback. Critics of the 1980s feared that market hype and self-promotion threatened the integrity of art. While the controversies of the time have subsided many still view art of the 1980s as a stylistic battlefield. Pearlman reassesses this significant episode in modern art. Num Pages: 248 pages, 26 colour plates, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226651453
ISBN
9780226651453
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.77

Hardback. Draws on neuroscience and psychology to understand the way we both perceive and conceive of art, including its resistance to verbal exposition. This book probes the distinction between accepting a tradition and defying it through innovation, which leads to a consideration of the notion of artistic genius. Num Pages: 528 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; ACB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 44. Weight in Grams: 853.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226736099
ISBN
9780226736099
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.84

Hardback. Num Pages: 504 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJP; ABA; ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 259 x 178 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1179.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226774510
ISBN
9780226774510
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.98

Paperback. Editor(s): Hakutani, Dr Yoshinobu. Num Pages: 336 pages, 56 photographs, 25 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; ABA; AV; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3734 x 23. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252073984
ISBN
9780252073984
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.94

Paperback. Reflects on the early nineteenth-century doctrine of 'art for art's sake'. Attacked by Proudhon and Nietzsche, but defended by Theophile Gautier and E M Forster, it influenced movements as diverse as futurism and Dada. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 176 x 119 x 8. Weight in Grams: 126.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC United States
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
SKU
V9780984201006
ISBN
9780984201006
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.21

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

€ 61.64

Paperback. Num Pages: 326 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
SKU
V9781439911785
ISBN
9781439911785
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.54

Hardcover. Collects essays by philosophers responding to John Sallis's Transfigurements: On the True Sense of Art as well as his other works on the philosophy of art, including Force of Imagination and Logic of Imagination. Each of the chapters engages Sallis's work on both ancient and new senses of aesthetics as a beginning that is always beginning again. Editor(s): Jones, David; Wirth, Jason M.; Schwartz, Michael. Series: Comparative and Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 240 pages, 6 images in gallery. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ABA; HPCF3; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 825.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810131590
ISBN
9780810131590
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.59

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

€ 193.87

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

€ 51.96

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861898135
ISBN
9781861898135
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.01

Hardcover. Includes dialogues with theorists, curators, activists, and fellow artists - such as Lisa Wolford Wylam, Tim Miller, Felipe Ehrenberg, Orlando Britoo Jinorio, Silvana Straw, and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer that explore the terrain between art and theory. Editor(s): Levin, Laura. Series: SB - Enactments. Num Pages: 452 pages, 34 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; AFKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 227 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1194.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Seagull Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906497507
ISBN
9781906497507
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.45

Paperback. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 212 x 27. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Diaphanes AG Switzerland
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
SKU
V9783037342176
ISBN
9783037342176
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.73

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

€ 30.99
€ 28.26

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