Theory of art
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Theory of art
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
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.77
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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
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.39
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Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Birkhäuser Architecture
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783764324728
- ISBN
- 9783764324728
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€ 114.93
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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
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.14
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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: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1976
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780915144341
- ISBN
- 9780915144341
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 22.92
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Hardcover. Late style and its Discontents interrogates the critical cliche of 'late style' , questioning whether Titian, Beethoven, Goethe and others can usefully be assimilated to one another, as though their particular social and historical circumstances had been transcended by a singular existential predicament. Editor(s): Smiles, Sam; McMullan, Gordon. Num Pages: 250 pages, Numerous black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198704621
- ISBN
- 9780198704621
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Condition: New
€ 143.66
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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.
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- 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
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.15
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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
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Condition: New
€ 36.99
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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
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.46
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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
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 21.01
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Paperback. This volume is a collection of public writings and insights of the German post-structuralist, Friedrich A. Kittler. It merges the discourse of literature, war and technology into a unified theme. His research results in a vision of the future in which the distinction between mediums is erased. Editor(s): Johnston, John. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; DNF; HPCF; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 169 x 12. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789057010613
- ISBN
- 9789057010613
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Condition: New
€ 52.04
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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
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.22
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Paperback. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ5; ACXJ8. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 112 x 41. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141976631
- ISBN
- 9780141976631
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.86
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Paperback. Series: Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture. Num Pages: 308 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; JFC; JFFK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Gordon and Breach United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789057011122
- ISBN
- 9789057011122
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€ 55.32
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Paperback. The relationship between writers and artists has long been a collaborative one. Plato used the word ekphrasis to describe what happens when a writer writes creatively, as opposed to critically, about art. This title responds to works of art held in the permanent collection of Seattle's Frye Art Museum or exhibited there. Editor(s): Brown, Rebecca; Knecht, Mary Jane. Series: The Jacob Lawrence Series on American Artists. Num Pages: 104 pages, 14 color illus. BIC Classification: ABA; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 6797 x 4531 x 10. Weight in Grams: 477.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 104
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295988825
- ISBN
- 9780295988825
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€ 30.99€ 26.68
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Paperback. Supports and deepens the existing interfaces between art, science, and technology; and transgressing traditional principles and styles of research. This book suggests a transdisciplinary network that prefers to avoid traditional dualisms like nature and culture, subjects and objects as well as man and machine. Editor(s): Lischka, Christoph; Sick, Andrea. Num Pages: 194 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; GTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 224 x 15. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783899426465
- ISBN
- 9783899426465
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 27.95
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Paperback. This text examines and critiques the norms, assumptions, historical conditions and institutions that have framed the development and uses of art theory. It looks at the work of major figures in the avant-garde movement, such as John Cage, Jean-Francois Lyotard and Andy Warhol. Num Pages: 370 pages, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX; AVGC6; HPCF; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 24. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 370
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226328928
- ISBN
- 9780226328928
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Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 40.29
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Hardback. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509500093
- ISBN
- 9781509500093
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 39.04
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Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Sternberg Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783956790003
- ISBN
- 9783956790003
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.82
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Hardback. Marc Chagall (1887-1985) traversed a long route from a boy in the Jewish Pale of Settlement, to a commissar of art in revolutionary Russia, to the position of a world-famous French artist. This book presents a comprehensive collection of Chagall's public statements on art and culture. Series: Contraversions: Jews & other differences. Num Pages: 240 pages, illus. BIC Classification: ABA; AGB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804748308
- ISBN
- 9780804748308
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Condition: New
€ 119.39
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Paperback. Marc Chagall (1887-1985) traversed a long route from a boy in the Jewish Pale of Settlement, to a commissar of art in revolutionary Russia, to the position of a world-famous French artist. This book presents a comprehensive collection of Chagall's public statements on art and culture. Series: Contraversions: Jews & Other Differences. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AGB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 227 x 13. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Special ed.
- SKU
- V9780804748315
- ISBN
- 9780804748315
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.95
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Cornell, Lauren; Halter, Ed. Series: Critical Anthologies in Art and Culture. Num Pages: 528 pages, 32 color illus., 99 b&w illus. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ; UBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 171 x 36. .
- Publisher
- MIT Press Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780262029261
- ISBN
- 9780262029261
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Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 43.93
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Paperback. A stunning visual game that helps readers enjoy, appreciate, and identify great works of art. Num Pages: 176 pages, 250 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; ABA; GM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 191 x 14. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393328387
- ISBN
- 9780393328387
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.21
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Paperback. Editor(s): De Boer-Schultz, Sarah; Van Rossum-Willems, Marlous; Szita, Jane; McNamara, Carmel. Series: Masterclass. Num Pages: 328 pages, 900 color photos. BIC Classification: ABA; AKTA; JNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Publisher
- Frame Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789077174999
- ISBN
- 9789077174999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.27
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€ 28.27