Theory of art
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Theory of art
hardcover. In this study, Alan Paskow situates the phenomenological approach to the experience of painting. Num Pages: 272 pages, 8 colour illus. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 583.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521828338
- ISBN
- 9780521828338
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€ 97.59
€ 97.59
Hardcover. Despite its foundational role in the history of philosophy, Plato's famous argument that art does not have access to truth or knowledge is now rarely examined, in part because recent philosophers have assumed that Plato's challenge was resolved long ago. In this title, the author argues that Plato has in fact never been satisfactorily answered. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPCA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226040028
- ISBN
- 9780226040028
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€ 94.53€ 78.11
€ 94.53
€ 78.11
Paperback. Num Pages: 204 pages, 32ill. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJ; ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 167 x 13. Weight in Grams: 348.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226117904
- ISBN
- 9780226117904
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€ 32.99€ 25.65
€ 32.99
€ 25.65
Paperback. This revision of avant-garde history traces a direct line back from John Cage, pop and conceptual art to the work of Whitman, Emerson, Ruskin, Carlyle and Wordsworth, showing how the art of everyday objects, often thought to be a contemporary phenomenon, actually began as far back as 1800. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; ABA; AVA; DSBF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 149 x 15. Weight in Grams: 375.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226472539
- ISBN
- 9780226472539
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€ 35.99€ 28.64
€ 35.99
€ 28.64
Hardcover. Develops a framework for thinking about art through innovative readings of some of the most important philosophical writing on the subject by Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger. This title exposes fresh layers in their texts and theories while also marking their limits. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 60 x 90 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226734224
- ISBN
- 9780226734224
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Condition: New
€ 94.53€ 78.69
€ 94.53
€ 78.69
Paperback. Concentrating on canonical critical texts and images, the book examines modern art through a rhetoric of representation rather than through formalist criticism or the history of the avant-garde. Series: Interpretations in Art S. Num Pages: 224 pages, 18 illus. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 164 x 13. Weight in Grams: 317.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231080835
- ISBN
- 9780231080835
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.12
€ 40.99
€ 29.12
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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231140973
- ISBN
- 9780231140973
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.32
€ 37.99
€ 27.32
Paperback. Series: New Directions in Critical Theory. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 258.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231152013
- ISBN
- 9780231152013
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€ 37.99€ 27.17
€ 37.99
€ 27.17
Paperback. Series: The Wellek Library Lectures. Num Pages: 104 pages, 38 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 167 x 204 x 9. Weight in Grams: 176.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 104
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231152792
- ISBN
- 9780231152792
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€ 26.00€ 22.15
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€ 22.15
Paperback. A provocative triptych of black queer desire, articulated through aesthetic works and experiences Series: The New Black Studies Series. Num Pages: 216 pages, 29 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ABA; APF; JFCA; JFSK2; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252077876
- ISBN
- 9780252077876
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€ 27.99€ 26.28
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€ 26.28
Paperback. Explores the history of bodily beautification Editor(s): Brand, Peg Zeglin. Num Pages: 448 pages, 16 color illus., 64 b&w illus. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 224 x 28. Weight in Grams: 620.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253006493
- ISBN
- 9780253006493
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.37
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€ 27.37
Hardback. A companion volume to "Symmetries of Culture", this book applies the method of symmetry analysis to actual case studies from cultures around the world. It explores how cultural information is embedded in the symmetrical structure of pattern. It is intended as a reference for anthropologists, archaeologists, art historians, and mathematicians. Editor(s): Washburn, Dorothy K. Num Pages: 392 pages, 204 illus., 19 in color. BIC Classification: ABA; ACBK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 262 x 188 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1414.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295983660
- ISBN
- 9780295983660
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€ 70.99
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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.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Edition
- 1ST
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300072419
- ISBN
- 9780300072419
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€ 50.22€ 39.95
€ 50.22
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Paperback. Explores the artistic practices that employ evocation - the calling forth of past emotions, desires, frustrations, and memories - as a mode of connecting past and present. Featuring the work of artists working in a variety of media, this book challenges the conventional approach to history whereby the past is kept at a distance as historical fact. Editor(s): Fassi, Luigi; Gallun, Lucy; Schillinger, Jakob. Series: Whitney Museum of American Art. Num Pages: 120 pages, 40 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACB; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 232.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300159028
- ISBN
- 9780300159028
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€ 12.99€ 12.66
€ 12.99
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Hardback. Explores how art, design, and performance registered the changes in the Edwardian period (1901-1910) and helped to precipitate them. Acknowledging familiar divisions between the neo-Baroque magnificence of central London and the slums of the East End, this title discusses the middlebrow culture that characterizes the anonymous edge of the city. Editor(s): O'Neill, Morna; Hatt, Michael. Series: Yale Center for British Art. Num Pages: 336 pages, 90 black-&-white illustrations + colour images. BIC Classification: 3JJC; ABA; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1092.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300163353
- ISBN
- 9780300163353
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Condition: New
€ 53.17€ 42.50
€ 53.17
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Paperback. A collection of essays that explores concrete poetry and the metaphors of Dante, photography and the meaning of music. It deals with color composition, forgeries, and the problems of perspective, on art in education and therapy, on the style of artists' late works, and the reading of maps. Num Pages: 348 pages, 61ill. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 484. 348 pages, 61ill. A collection of essays that explores concrete poetry and the metaphors of Dante, photography and the meaning of music. It deals with color composition, forgeries, and the problems of perspective, on art in education and therapy, on the style of artists' late works, and the reading of maps. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: ABA. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 20. Weight: 484.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520055544
- ISBN
- 9780520055544
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.35
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Paperback. Presents the development and aesthetic theories of the symbolist movement in art and literature. This book traces symbolism and its roots from artist to artist and critic to critic from the 1860s to the early twentieth century. Num Pages: 396 pages, 50 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACV; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 396
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520077683
- ISBN
- 9780520077683
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.12
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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
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Paperback. This essay is an attempt to reconcile the disturbing contradiction between the striving for order in nature and in man and the principle of entropy implicit in the second law of thermodynamics - between the tendency toward greater organization and the general trend of the material universe toward death and disorder. Num Pages: 72 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 3 line illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 138 x 6. Weight in Grams: 108. An Essay on Disorder and Order. 72 pages, Illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: ABA. Dimension: 210 x 137 x 5. Weight: 108.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 40th Anniversary Edition
- Number of pages
- 72
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520266001
- ISBN
- 9780520266001
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.48
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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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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.55
€ 27.99
€ 21.55