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Theory of art

Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 428.
Publisher
Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903155929
ISBN
9781903155929
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.20

Hardback. Explores how art, design, and performance registered the changes in the Edwardian period (1901-1910) and helped to precipitate them. Acknowledging familiar divisions between the neo-Baroque magnificence of central London and the slums of the East End, this title discusses the middlebrow culture that characterizes the anonymous edge of the city. Editor(s): O'Neill, Morna; Hatt, Michael. Series: Yale Center for British Art. Num Pages: 336 pages, 90 black-&-white illustrations + colour images. BIC Classification: 3JJC; ABA; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1092.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300163353
ISBN
9780300163353
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.08

Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 102 figures. BIC Classification: ABA; AK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 392.
Publisher
The MIT Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
second edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262526708
ISBN
9780262526708
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 28.83

Paperback. Editor(s): O'Neill, Paul; Wilson, Mick; Steeds, Lucy. Num Pages: 352 pages, 100 figures. BIC Classification: ABA; AGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 267 x 178. .
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262529105
ISBN
9780262529105
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.04

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrated in colour and b&w. BIC Classification: ABA; GM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 334. The Evolution of the Museum Concept from the French Revolution to the Present Day. 192 pages, illustrated in colour and b&w. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: ABA; GM. Dimension: 214 x 153 x 13. Weight: 334.
Publisher
Ridinghouse
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
3rd Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905464203
ISBN
9781905464203
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.27

Paperback. A history of the postwar avant-garde in America. The book integrates diverse moments in American culture, such as bebop jazz, gestalt therapy, beat poetry, Jungian psychology and Zen Buddhism and argues that all of these movements have a unifying theme: spontaneous improvization. Num Pages: 356 pages, 8 colour plates, 30 halftones, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; ABA; ACX; HBJK; HBLW3; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226041902
ISBN
9780226041902
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.04

Paperback. This anthology brings together material from 38 well-known writers, artists and scientists who attempt to describe the process by which original ideas come to them. Editor(s): Ghiselin, Brewster. Num Pages: 259 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Edition
F First Paperback Edition Used
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520054530
ISBN
9780520054530
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.77

Paperback. Cutting-edge theorist Jean Baudrillard on the complicitous dance of art, politics, economics, and media; includes "War Porn," on Abu Ghraib as a new genre of reality TV. Editor(s): Lotringer, Sylvere. Translator(s): Hodges, Ames. Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
Autonomedia United States
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584350286
ISBN
9781584350286
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.66

Paperback. Editor(s): Lang, Berel. Num Pages: 320 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488.
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801494390
ISBN
9780801494390
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.67

Paperback. The Clever Object presents a multidisciplinary exploration of the ways objects materialise, embody, or negotiate various forms of intelligence, revealing the use of the idea of "the clever object" as an analytic tool of art-historical interpretation. Editor(s): Hunter, Matthew C.; Lucchini, Francesco. Series: Art History Special Issues. Num Pages: 218 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 209 x 14. Weight in Grams: 808.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118710760
ISBN
9781118710760
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.25

Paperback. A study of the iconic Brillo box through the theories of design, aesthetics, and art Num Pages: 144 pages, 34 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ABA; AK; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 203 x 203 x 12. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Dartmouth
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584657019
ISBN
9781584657019
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 22.02

Hardback. This book exposes our long-lasting obsession with trees, as metaphors for organising and representing hierarchical information and provide a broad visual framework for the various types of executions, many dating back hundreds of years. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 262 x 201 x 22. Weight in Grams: 930.
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781616892180
ISBN
9781616892180
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.28

Hardback. In The Book of Circles, his companion volume to the popular Book of Trees, Manuel Lima takes us on a lively tour through millenia of information design. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; ACB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 275. .
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781616895280
ISBN
9781616895280
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.09

Paperback. A journey into the headspaces and workplaces of some of Britain's most unique artists, from the co-author of the critically acclaimed 'Holloway'. Num Pages: 534 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 32. Weight in Grams: 590.
Publisher
The Friday Project Limited
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008105211
ISBN
9780008105211
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.59

Hardback. Bertolt Brecht once worried that our sympathy for the victims of a social problem can make the problem's "beauty and attraction" invisible. The author explores the effort to overcome this difficulty through a study of several contemporary artist-photographers whose work speaks to questions of political economy. Num Pages: 240 pages, 8 colour plates, 28 halftones, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ; AJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 210 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226210261
ISBN
9780226210261
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 121.95

Paperback. Analyzing the rise of art in the 18th century, this treatise demonstrates how painting, sculpture and literature were not regarded as valuable art forms before the emergence of a new bourgeois culture. The author reveals how Romantic poets and philosophers invented "art" as we know it today. Series: The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms S. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: 3JF; ABA; ACV; HPN; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 317.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231106016
ISBN
9780231106016
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.43

Paperback. Translator(s): Monges, L.D.; Moore, V. Num Pages: 116 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; DN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 134 x 203 x 9. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publisher
Anthroposophic Press Inc United States
Number of pages
116
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780880101547
ISBN
9780880101547
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.48

Paperback. Learning in and through the arts can develop complex and subtle aspects of the mind, argues Elliot Eisner in this book. Offering an array of examples, he describes different approaches to the teaching of the arts and shows how these refine forms of thinking that are valuable in dealing with our daily life. Num Pages: 288 pages, 38 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300105117
ISBN
9780300105117
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.79

Paperback. Num Pages: 334 pages, ilustrations (some color). BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 172 x 29. Weight in Grams: 944.
Publisher
Sternberg Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9783943365306
ISBN
9783943365306
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.89

Paperback. The classic work of art criticism, in a beautiful new edition Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 298. 288 pages, illustrations. A work of art criticism that contains advice, critical comment and inspiration to a student of the arts. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: ABA. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 20. Weight: 294.
Publisher
Basic Books
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780465002634
ISBN
9780465002634
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 18.65

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