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Theory of art
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
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1KLCM; ABA; HPN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719056789
- ISBN
- 9780719056789
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.55
€ 150.55
Hardcover. Editor(s): Poland, Valentina. Num Pages: 165 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781631173028
- ISBN
- 9781631173028
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 299.54€ 202.16
€ 299.54
€ 202.16
Hardback. Bringing together a renowned international group of contributors, this book explores the problems in the study of vision and cognition: to make sense of the sensations we experience when we see something, we must configure many moments into a synchronous image. Num Pages: 528 pages, 30 colour plates, 85 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 164 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Diaphanes AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9783037345221
- ISBN
- 9783037345221
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.38
€ 80.38
Paperback. Video Art Theory: A Comparative Approach demonstrates how video art functions on the basis of a comparative media approach, providing a crucial understanding of video as a medium in contemporary art and of the visual mediations we encounter in daily life. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; AS; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118475461
- ISBN
- 9781118475461
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.24
€ 48.24
paperback. Editor(s): Zielinski, Siegfried; Furlus, Eckhard. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 43. Weight in Grams: 930. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034780
- ISBN
- 9783865608871
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.91
€ 5.91
Paperback. Editor(s): Zielinski, Siegfried; Furlus, Eckhard; Custance, Gloria. Num Pages: 478 pages, 88 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 853.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Buchhandlung Walther Konig GmbH & Co. KG. Abt. Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 478
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783865603661
- ISBN
- 9783865603661
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 90.77€ 78.71
€ 90.77
€ 78.71
Hardcover. Challenges assumptions regarding "radical" and "experimental" performance that have long dominated thinking about the avant-garde. The essays bring to light vanguard performances rarely discussed: those that support totalitarian regimes, promote conservative values, or have been effectively snapped up by right-wing regimes they sought to oppose. Editor(s): Jannarone, Kimberly. Num Pages: 344 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACB; JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472119677
- ISBN
- 9780472119677
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.86
€ 79.86
Paperback. In the Guangdong province in southeastern China lies Dafen, a village that houses thousands of workers who paint Van Goghs, Da Vincis, and Warhols. The author shows how Dafen's workers force us to reexamine our expectations about the cultural function of creativity and imitation, and the role of Chinese workers in redefining global art. Num Pages: 384 pages, 27 colour plates, 45 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; ABA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 255 x 178 x 17. Weight in Grams: 734.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226024899
- ISBN
- 9780226024899
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.16
€ 55.16
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
€ 85.77
Hardcover. The transvisuality project deals with how the visual today transcends acts of seeing and being seen, and in fact co-creates the world in new dimensions and organisations of meaning: the result is transvisuality. Editor(s): Kristensen, Tore; Michelsen, Anders; Wiegand, Frauke. Num Pages: 261 pages, 30 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846318917
- ISBN
- 9781846318917
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 176.16
€ 176.16
Paperback. The importance of the late 18th century in the genesis of modern art emerges in these four essays on various aspects of the art and architecture of a neglected period. Num Pages: 344 pages, 215 illus. BIC Classification: ABA; ACV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1970
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691003023
- ISBN
- 9780691003023
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 113.48
€ 113.48
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.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226734224
- ISBN
- 9780226734224
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.11
€ 122.11
Paperback. Editor(s): Petersen, Nils Holger; Christffersen, Svein Aage. Num Pages: 138 pages, b/w & colour photos. BIC Classification: 1DND; 2ACSD; ABA; ACB; ACG; HPN; HRAB; HRCC1; HRCC2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 138
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763504959
- ISBN
- 9788763504959
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.19
€ 30.99
€ 22.19
Paperback. Introduces the traditional houses, barns, watermills and chapels of the Lake District and the surrounding hills and valleys that make up the county of Cumbria. This title explains how the building types have developed over the centuries. Series: Vernacular Buildings Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, 82 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKENM; ABA; AMG; AMK; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 190 x 15. Weight in Grams: 712.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300170597
- ISBN
- 9780300170597
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.56
€ 42.56
Paperback. Tracing Architecture looks at the impact that knowledge of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman and British architecture had on aesthetic attitudes and architectural design. It explores the changing relationship between text and image in an era before the introduction of mass mechanical reproduction. Editor(s): Arnold, Dana; Bending, Stephen. Series: Art History Special Issues. Num Pages: 160 pages, 0. BIC Classification: ABA; AMA; HBA; HBG; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 175 x 245 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405105354
- ISBN
- 9781405105354
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.06
€ 39.06
Paperback. Translator(s): Gussen, Sebastian. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Diaphanes AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783037348857
- ISBN
- 9783037348857
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 24.39
€ 30.99
€ 24.39
paperback. Shows how the transformation of textual into visual culture (from the linearity of history into the two-dimensionality of magic) and of industrial into post-industrial society (from work into leisure) went hand in hand, and how photography allows us to read and interpret these changes with particular clarity. Translator(s): Chalmers, Martin. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; AJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 121 x 9. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861890764
- ISBN
- 9781861890764
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.61
€ 23.99
€ 20.61
Paperback. Based on the assumption that art is subject to psychology, accessible to understanding, and needed for any comprehensive survey of mental functioning, this book offers psychological findings range from experiments in the perception of shape or observations on the art work of children to broad deliberations on nature of images or of inspiration. Num Pages: 380 pages, 1 color illustration, 3 b/w photographs, 34 line illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; JMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 380
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520266018
- ISBN
- 9780520266018
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.43
€ 50.43
Paperback. Kay Jamison draws on her work as a psychiatrist and researcher in mood disorders to explore connections between manic-depressive illness and artistic activity. She applies what is known about the illness to the lives and works of artists including Byron, Van Gogh, Schumann and Woolf. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations facsim., genealogy, port. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; JMAL; MBP; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 139 x 213 x 24. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780684831831
- ISBN
- 9780684831831
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.24
€ 16.99
€ 12.24
paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AG; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 13. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780816647491
- ISBN
- 9780816647491
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.86
€ 37.86
Paperback. Scale, or the relative dimension of an object, has long been one of the most crucial elements in the creation, circulation, and reception of art. Often mistaken as size, scale is the impetus behind the profoundly visceral ways in which we perceive and interpret works of art. Editor(s): Kee, Joan; Lugli, Emanuele. Series: Art History Special Issues. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 276 x 210. .
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781119142508
- ISBN
- 9781119142508
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.33
€ 33.33
Paperback. A classic work that offers the reader an ideal overview of the ideas that marked out Read as a seminal and hugely influetial figure in the cultural life of the twentieth century. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 133 x 197 x 13. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415289931
- ISBN
- 9780415289931
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.46
€ 17.99
€ 17.46
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.08
€ 41.08