Theory of art
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Theory of art
Hardback. * Explores important concepts and perspectives in the anthropology of art. * Includes nine groundbreaking case studies by an internationally renowned group of art historians and art theorists. * Covers a wide range of periods, including Bronze-Age China, Classical Greece, Rome, and Mayan, as well as the modern Western world. Editor(s): Osborne, Robin; Tanner, Jeremy. Series: New Interventions in Art History. Num Pages: 240 pages, 35 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 249 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405135375
- ISBN
- 9781405135375
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.32
€ 120.32
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AGB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 266 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Power Publications Australia
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780909952389
- ISBN
- 9780909952389
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 79.74
€ 79.74
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 60 b/w illus. BIC Classification: ABA; AJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 150. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837629545
- ISBN
- 9783837629545
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.93
€ 45.99
€ 32.93
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- James Clarke & Co Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780718893224
- ISBN
- 9780718893224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.92
€ 41.92
Paperback. The Awakening Artist invites artists to discover their relationship to the greatest source of creativity the world has ever known. Num Pages: 268 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 268
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780996455
- ISBN
- 9781780996455
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.42
€ 20.99
€ 19.42
Paperback. The second revised edition of this book integrates text and pictures more clearly, illustrations have been added to include more colour diagrams and examples of similar work done by students in recent years. The revisions were made by the author's widow, a lecturer in art. Num Pages: 128 pages, 100. BIC Classification: ABA; AK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 170 x 11. Weight in Grams: 368. The Dynamics of Visual Form. 128 pages, 100. The second revised edition of this book integrates text and pictures more clearly, illustrations have been added to include more colour diagrams and examples of similar work done by students in recent years. The revisions were made by the author's widow, a lecturer in art. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: ABA; AK. Dimension: 239 x 170 x 11. Weight: 360.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 2 Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780713683660
- ISBN
- 9780713683660
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.02
€ 35.02
Hardcover. Focuses on the painterly pre-occupation with bathing, whether at the beach, in lakes and rivers, in public swimming pools, or in bathtubs. This book brings to bear a lifetime of looking at, teaching, talking about, wrestling with, loving, and hating art to reveal and complicate the lived and felt - the visceral - experience of art. Series: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. Num Pages: 300 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AFC; AGH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 187 x 176 x 24. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674021167
- ISBN
- 9780674021167
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.42€ 54.88
€ 59.42
€ 54.88
Paperback. What do we mean when we call a work of art beautiful? How do perceptions of beauty change with the passage of time? This title explores these questions, showing the vital relationship between our changing notions of beauty and specific works of art. It charts the story of western art, from eighteenth-century Germany to the late 20th century. Series: Oxford History of Art. Num Pages: 224 pages, numerous colour and halftone illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 168 x 13. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780192801609
- ISBN
- 9780192801609
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 23.37
€ 31.99
€ 23.37
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.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253006493
- ISBN
- 9780253006493
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
Hardback. 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: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 749.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253006424
- ISBN
- 9780253006424
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.25
€ 87.25
Paperback. From Botticelli to birdsong, Mozart, and the Turner Prize, Roger Scruton explores what it means for something to be beautiful. This thought-provoking introduction to the philosophy of beauty draws conclusions that some may find controversial, but, as Scruton shows, help us to find greater sense of meaning in the beautiful objects around us. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 208 pages, Approximately 20 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 113 x 11. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199229758
- ISBN
- 9780199229758
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.86
€ 13.99
€ 10.86
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. .
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816696987
- ISBN
- 9780816696987
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 839.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226423456
- ISBN
- 9780226423456
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 35.66
€ 45.99
€ 35.66
Paperback. Series: Beginnings. Num Pages: 272 pages, 15 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719067891
- ISBN
- 9780719067891
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.75
€ 23.75
Hardback. Thijs Lijster considers the thought of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno on such key topics as the relationship between art and historical experience, between avant-garde art and mass culture, and between the intellectual and the public. Num Pages: 400 pages, 0 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789462981409
- ISBN
- 9789462981409
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.69
€ 161.69
Paperback. Immanence is a theory of divine presence, in which the divine is found in the material world, not outside of it. This collection brings the major 20th century French philosopher Henri Bergson's work on immanence together with fresh ideas in art theory and the practice of immanent art as found in painting, photography and film. Editor(s): Mullarkey, John; De Mille, Charlotte. Num Pages: 288 pages, 23 b&w illustrations 7 b&w line art. BIC Classification: ABA; AFC; AJ; APF; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474404730
- ISBN
- 9781474404730
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 35.47
€ 40.99
€ 35.47
Hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages, 73 color illus., 15 b&w illus. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ8; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 165 x 22. .
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780262035521
- ISBN
- 9780262035521
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 30.55
€ 43.99
€ 30.55
Paperback. Uses the writing of Freud, Lacan, the Surrealists, and Roland Barthes to elaborate a theory of art beyond the pleasure principle. Lacan was in close contact with the Surrealists and, early in his career, exchanged ideas with Dali. This book offers a reading of Dali's "paranoiac-critical" tour de force, "The Tragic Myth of Millet's Angelus". Num Pages: 272 pages, 24 colour/12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 203 x 15. Weight in Grams: 762.
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- illustrated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271029719
- ISBN
- 9780271029719
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.09€ 44.21
€ 51.09
€ 44.21
Paperback. A guide to one of the most riveting periods of contemporary culture. It explores the relations among the discourses of contemporary art, sexuality, and power. Editor(s): Bryson, Scott; Kruger, Barbara; Tillman, Lynne; Weinstock, Jane. Num Pages: 386 pages, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ABA; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 644. Representation, Power and Culture. 386 pages, b&w illustrations. Editor(s): Bryson, Scott; Kruger, Barbara; Tillman, Lynne; Weinstock, Jane. A guide to one of the most riveting periods of contemporary culture. It explores the relations among the discourses of contemporary art, sexuality, and power. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ABA; DNF. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 25. Weight: 678.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 386
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520077409
- ISBN
- 9780520077409
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 30.31
€ 41.99
€ 30.31
Hardback. Rejecting not only the identification of the aesthetic with the work of art, but also the Kantian association of the aesthetic with subjectively universal judgment, the author's analysis of aesthetic relations opens up a space for a theory of art that is free of historicism and capable of engaging with noncanonical and non-Western arts. Translator(s): Roberts, Daffyd. Series: The French List. Num Pages: 372 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 436
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857420428
- ISBN
- 9780857420428
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.48
€ 35.99
€ 28.48
Hardcover. A collection of essays on art by Pavel Florensky (1882 1937), Russian philosopher, priest, linguist, scientist, mathematician and art historian. It includes a biographical introduction and an examination of Florensky's contribution as an art historian. Translator(s): Salmond, Wendy R. Num Pages: 320 pages, 91 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861891303
- ISBN
- 9781861891303
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 37.79
€ 38.99
€ 37.79
Hardcover. Reveals the ways in which the work of bio artists offers new meanings for our lives in the wake of scientific discovery, as well as new frameworks for describing them. This book covers key areas in which biotechnology has had an impact on world, including ecology, biomedicine, designer genomes and evolutionary theory. Num Pages: 256 pages, 300 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; TCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 263 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1366.
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780500239322
- ISBN
- 9780500239322
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.04
€ 40.99
€ 29.04
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
€ 28.56
Paperback. Exquisite, image-filled ruminations on efforts to capture fleeting moments and to comprehend the incomprehensible Num Pages: 216 pages, 113 illustrations, including 18 in colour. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380. The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jetee, Sans Soleil, and Hiroshima Mon Amour. 216 pages, 113 illustrations, including 18 in colour. Exquisite, image-filled ruminations on efforts to capture fleeting moments and to comprehend the incomprehensible. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: ABA. Dimension: 218 x 139 x 16. Weight: 380.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822352716
- ISBN
- 9780822352716
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.68
€ 30.99
€ 27.68