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Theory of art

Paperback. Explores the construction of identities in the psychical space between perception and consciousness, drawing upon psychoanalytic theories to describe the constitution and maintenance of 'self' and 'us' - in imaginary spatial and temporal relations to 'other' and 'them' - through the all-important relay of images. Num Pages: 329 pages, 6 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: ABA; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
329
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520202993
ISBN
9780520202993
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.56

Paperback. Cavarero refutes a long-standing set of assumptions in moral philosophy by contesting the classical figure of the homo erectus or 'upright man, ' and by proposing a feminist, altruistic, open model of the subject-one inclined toward others. Translator(s): Sitze, Adam; Minervini, Amanda. Series: Square One. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 268.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781503600409
ISBN
9781503600409
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.56

Hardback. Cavarero refutes a long-standing set of assumptions in moral philosophy by contesting the classical figure of the homo erectus or 'upright man, ' and by proposing a feminist, altruistic, open model of the subject-one inclined toward others. Translator(s): Sitze, Adam; Minervini, Amanda. Series: Square One. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804792189
ISBN
9780804792189
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.82

Paperback. Part of the acclaimed series of anthologies which document major themes and ideas in contemporary art. Editor(s): Cook, Sarah. Series: Documents of Contemporary Art. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; AG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 210 x 25. Weight in Grams: 562.
Publisher
Whitechapel Gallery
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780854882489
ISBN
9780854882489
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.74

Paperback. Concerned with the complex and sophisticated relationship between economics, social context, and aesthetics as represented in the contested space of the art gallery, this book raises the question of how artists must construe their work in relation to the gallery space and system. Num Pages: 113 pages, 28 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: ABA; GM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 207 x 12. Weight in Grams: 410. The Ideology of the Gallery Space. 113 pages, 24 b&w illustrations. Concerned with the complex and sophisticated relationship between economics, social context, and aesthetics as represented in the contested space of the art gallery, this book raises the question of how artists must construe their work in relation to the gallery space and system. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: ABA; GM. Dimension: 202 x 207 x 12. Weight: 418.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
113
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
Expanded Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520220409
ISBN
9780520220409
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.76

Hardback. Num Pages: 216 pages, 20 b&w. BIC Classification: ABA; AFKN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 243 x 24. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231174503
ISBN
9780231174503
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.17
€ 73.24

Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages, 20 b&w. BIC Classification: ABA; AFKN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 556.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231174510
ISBN
9780231174510
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 26.99

Paperback. The 50th anniversary edition of a classic text, featuring an expanded selection of color studies Num Pages: 192 pages, 64 colour illustrations + 16 line drawings. BIC Classification: ABA; AGZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 506.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Anniversary
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300179354
ISBN
9780300179354
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99

This work examines the interpretation and products of intentional human behaviour, focusing primarily on issues in art, law, and everyday speech. The centerpiece of the book is the examination of two large scale views about the nature of interpretation: historicism and constructivism. Series: New Directions in Aesthetics. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: ABA; CFA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405101745
ISBN
9781405101745
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 142.87

Paperback. This work examines the interpretation and products of intentional human behaviour, focusing primarily on issues in art, law, and everyday speech. The centerpiece of the book is the examination of two large scale views about the nature of interpretation: historicism and constructivism. Series: New Directions in Aesthetics. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: ABA; CFA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405101752
ISBN
9781405101752
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.25

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.
Format
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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 28.96

Hardback. Can painting transform philosophy? This title looks at Neapolitan art around 1700 through the eyes of the philosopher Giambattista Vico. It presents the masterpieces of late Baroque painting in early eighteenth-century Naples from an entirely new perspective. Series: Essays in the Arts. Num Pages: 160 pages, 31 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; ABA; ACQ; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 470.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691138848
ISBN
9780691138848
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Paperback. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138018471
ISBN
9781138018471
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 73.22

Paperback. The reader is invited to view Islamic art as no more and no less than ordinary art, neither better nor worse than anything else that counts as art. It follows that there are no special techniques required in Islamic aesthetics as compared with any other form of aesthetics. Series: The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1QFM; ABA; ACBP; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 161 x 13. Weight in Grams: 352.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748617357
ISBN
9780748617357
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 34.28

Paperback. Originally published between 1968 and 2009, this collection of 25 pieces includes six interviews translated into English for the first time and a new transcription of a Q&A session with Baudrillard following a lecture he gave in London in 1994, The guiding theme of the collection is Baudrillard's engagement with culture. Editor(s): Smith, Richard G.; Clarke, David B. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPCF; HPN; HPS; JFC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474417785
ISBN
9781474417785
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 29.90

Hardcover. Modern English translations of several of the most important essays of Winckelmann, one of the fathers of art history and archaeology and a strong influence on Goethe and Schiller and Weimar Classicism. Translator(s): Carter, David R. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 282 pages, 10, 10 black & white illustrations, 10 black and white. BIC Classification: ABA; ACB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135209
ISBN
9781571135209
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.26

Paperback. This work, originally published in 1994, reshapes the direction of landscape studies by considering landscape not simply as an object to be seen or a text to be read, but as an instrument of cultural force, a central tool in the creation of national and social identity. Editor(s): Mitchell, W. J. T. Num Pages: 384 pages, 90 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; AGN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 588.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226532059
ISBN
9780226532059
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.84

Paperback. "Languages of Art". Num Pages: 291 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 332.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Number of pages
290
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1976
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780915144341
ISBN
9780915144341
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.42

Paperback. Series: Phoenix Books. Num Pages: 186 pages, 2 colour plates, 42 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
186
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226791548
ISBN
9780226791548
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.54

Paperback. Presents a study and appraisal of paintings, drawings and prints. This book shows how you can develop visual, analytical and historical skills in learning to look at and understand an image by analyzing how it works, what its pictorial elements are and how they relate to each other. It contains images by such artists as Rembrandt and Tacita Dean. Num Pages: 304 pages, 83 black & white halftones, 30 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AFC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 490.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415435185
ISBN
9780415435185
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.47

Paperback. A selection of Leonardo da Vinci's writings on painting. Martin Kemp and Margaret Walker have edited material not only from his so-called "Treatise on Painting" but also from his surviving manuscripts and from other primary sources. Translator(s): Kemp, Mr Martin; Walker, Margaret. Series: Yale Nota Bene. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACND; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 268.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300090956
ISBN
9780300090956
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.82

Paperback. A classic study of the profound effect of color in the places we inhabit, our homes, offices, factories, hospitals and schools. The author shares his findings and the practical applications toward healthier and more creative environments. This revised edition includes a chapter on the changing environment caused by the computer. Num Pages: 128 pages, 16 color plates, 42 line drawings. BIC Classification: ABA; AK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 280 x 217 x 9. Weight in Grams: 538.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing
Edition
2 Rev Sub
Condition
New
SKU
V9780887401312
ISBN
9780887401312
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 21.47

Paperback. An introduction to design theory and terminology in a visually appealing and accessible format. It culminates with a section on formal analysis, aimed at teaching readers how to express their observations in formal writing and critical discourse. It is suitable for design educator, student, or professional, native or non-native English speaker. Num Pages: 178 pages, 210. BIC Classification: ABA; AK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 178 x 14. Weight in Grams: 455.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
178
Condition
New
SKU
V9781621532446
ISBN
9781621532446
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 19.87

Paperback. Series: SAIC - Chicago Social Practice History. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 150 x 10. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
School of the Art Institute of Chicago United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780982879887
ISBN
9780982879887
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.49

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