Theory of art
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Theory of art
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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€ 15.99€ 12.75
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Paperback. Offers a way of understanding what art is and why human beings create it. This book asserts that humans create things in order to work out ideas. It draws on examples from several societies to argue that the art-making impulse is primarily cognitive and only secondarily aesthetic. It is intended for those who creates or thinks about works of art. Num Pages: 264 pages, 145 b&w illus. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 278 x 15. Weight in Grams: 874.
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292706910
- ISBN
- 9780292706910
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€ 38.99€ 35.23
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Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Independent Curators International (ICI)
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780916365868
- ISBN
- 9780916365868
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€ 20.99€ 20.40
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Paperback. Thinking about Art explores some of the greatest works of art and architecture in the world through the prism of themes, instead of chronology, to offer intriguing juxtapositions of art and history. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 280 x 17. Weight in Grams: 876.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118904978
- ISBN
- 9781118904978
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 36.94
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Paperback. Essays examine nine intriguing objects made eloquent when matter and meaning converge. Editor(s): Daston, Lorraine J. Num Pages: 447 pages, 9 color illus., 82 b&w illus. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 34. Weight in Grams: 712.
- Publisher
- Zone Books United States
- Number of pages
- 447
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781890951443
- ISBN
- 9781890951443
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€ 30.99€ 22.20
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€ 22.20
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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812222852
- ISBN
- 9780812222852
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.91
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Paperback. Editor(s): Burger, Peter. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 11. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Edition
- First edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816610686
- ISBN
- 9780816610686
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Condition: New
€ 25.68
€ 25.68
paperback. By closely following Goethe's explanations of the color phenomena, the reader may become so divorced from the wavelength theory--Goethe never even mentions it--that he may begin to think about color theory relatively unhampered by prejudice, ancient or modern. Translator(s): Eastlake, C.L. Num Pages: 486 pages, 13. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Number of pages
- 486
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1970
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780262570213
- ISBN
- 9780262570213
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Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 30.95
€ 47.99
€ 30.95
Paperback. An updated edition of the hugely successful original anthology that captures the essence and the edge of the contemporary art scene. Editor(s): Kocur, Zoya; Leung, Simon. Num Pages: 552 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 190 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1106.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 552
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444338577
- ISBN
- 9781444338577
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Condition: New
€ 63.36
€ 63.36
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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€ 40.99€ 29.06
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Paperback. The theory and practice of imitation has long been central to the construction of art and yet imitation is still frequently confused with copying. Theorizing Imitation in the Visual Arts challenges this prejudice by revealing the ubiquity of the practice across cultures and geographical borders. Series: Art History Special Issues. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 276 x 210. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781119004035
- ISBN
- 9781119004035
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Condition: New
€ 33.29
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Paperback. Barasch expertly guides the reader from the interwoven traditions of antiquity, through the aesthetic values of the Middle Ages, to the branching out of art history, art criticism, abstract aesthetics in the late Renaissance. Num Pages: 436 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACK; ACND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 436
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415926256
- ISBN
- 9780415926256
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Condition: New
€ 49.78
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Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 328
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719087479
- ISBN
- 9780719087479
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.85
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Paperback. Num Pages: 28 pages, 20 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148. .
- Publisher
- University of Hertfordshire Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781898543893
- ISBN
- 9781898543893
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Condition: New
€ 8.28
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Hardback. Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16 color and 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; HRLK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 27. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231178181
- ISBN
- 9780231178181
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.37
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Paperback. Translator(s): Goshgarian, G. M.; Goshgarian, Gary J. Num Pages: 256 pages, 119. BIC Classification: ABA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801482724
- ISBN
- 9780801482724
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Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 39.56
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Paperback. Explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the troubling social and political implications of this are. Translator(s): Underwood, J. A. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 128 pages, No illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 112 x 8. Weight in Grams: 82.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 128
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141036199
- ISBN
- 9780141036199
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€ 10.99€ 9.42
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Paperback. Iconoclastic study of the meanings of art in which the author designs a new set of categories for the artistic process and views artists and their work from a unique point of view. Translator(s): Gilbert, Stuart. Series: Bollingen Series (General). Num Pages: 664 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 169 x 216 x 33. Weight in Grams: 852.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 661
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691018218
- ISBN
- 9780691018218
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Condition: New
€ 53.48€ 42.14
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Paperback. Early in this century, Futurist and Dada artists developed brilliantly innovative uses of typography that blurred the boundaries between visual art and literature. In this text, Johanna Drucker shows how later art criticism has distorted our understanding of such works. Num Pages: 306 pages, 41 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; ABA; ACX; AKD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226165028
- ISBN
- 9780226165028
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.70
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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.
- Format
- 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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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.02
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Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674903463
- ISBN
- 9780674903463
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 31.78
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Hardback. In this wide-ranging volume's twelve compact essays, scholars from across the disciplines trace Gesamtkunstwerk-the ideal of the "total work of art"-from its foundations in the early nineteenth century to its manifold articulations and reimaginings in the twentieth century and beyond. Editor(s): Imhoof, David; Menninger, Margaret Eleanor; Steinhoff, Anthony J. Series: Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association. Num Pages: 300 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1D; ABA; ACV; ACX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785331848
- ISBN
- 9781785331848
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Condition: New
€ 155.63
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Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 742 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 742
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691641881
- ISBN
- 9780691641881
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Condition: New
€ 356.50
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Hardcover. Covering various aspects of the visual arts, this book includes more than 1,000 images of art. It is suitable for the art enthusiasts. Num Pages: 624 pages, 1063 illustrations, 865 in colour. BIC Classification: 3D; 3F; 3H; 3J; ABA; AC; AF; AP. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 285 x 38. Weight in Grams: 2040.
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780500239438
- ISBN
- 9780500239438
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 40.82
€ 52.99
€ 40.82