Theory of art
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Theory of art
Paperback. A collection of essays that explores concrete poetry and the metaphors of Dante, photography and the meaning of music. It deals with color composition, forgeries, and the problems of perspective, on art in education and therapy, on the style of artists' late works, and the reading of maps. Num Pages: 348 pages, 61ill. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 484. 348 pages, 61ill. A collection of essays that explores concrete poetry and the metaphors of Dante, photography and the meaning of music. It deals with color composition, forgeries, and the problems of perspective, on art in education and therapy, on the style of artists' late works, and the reading of maps. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: ABA. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 20. Weight: 484.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520055544
- ISBN
- 9780520055544
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€ 36.99€ 26.73
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Paperback. Body art or eyesore, tattoos provide fertile ground for philosophical discussion Whether seen as a celebration of individuality or as a conversation piece, tattoos raise intriguing philosophical questions, from aesthetics to feminism, from semiotics to the philosophy of the person. Editor(s): Arp, Robert. Series: Philosophy for Everyone. Num Pages: 294 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; HP; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 464.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470672068
- ISBN
- 9780470672068
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€ 27.04
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Paperback. The Art of Understanding Art reveals to students and other readers new and meaningful ways of developing personal ideas and opinions about art and how to express them with confidence. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, colour plates. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 191 x 247 x 13. Weight in Grams: 658.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470658345
- ISBN
- 9780470658345
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€ 53.51
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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.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300163353
- ISBN
- 9780300163353
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€ 53.48€ 42.00
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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. The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts were begun in 1952 at the National Gallery of Art in order to bring the best in contemporary scholarship to the public. This illustrated documentary volume tells the story of the genesis of the lectureship, featuring essays by a variety of scholars. Editor(s): Cropper, Elizabeth. Num Pages: 255 pages, 63 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AC; AF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 275 x 205 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1164.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300099614
- ISBN
- 9780300099614
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€ 33.99€ 24.74
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Paperback. How do we do justice to art when we treat it as a worldwide phenomenon with a long history? In this study, academics, curators, bibliographers and representatives of international organizations explain the ways they deal with the conflict between the need to compress and the desire to express. Editor(s): Onians, John. Series: Clark Studies in the Visual Arts. Num Pages: 268 pages, 40 b/w illus. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 181 x 246 x 22. Weight in Grams: 722.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300097900
- ISBN
- 9780300097900
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€ 23.99€ 18.28
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Hardcover. Reinterprets key phases and figures in 20th-century art, focusing on the way artists and critics negotiate philosophically significant ideas. The text aims to illuminate a language of 20th century art that cuts across boundaries set out by such conventional notions as avant-garde and postmodernism. Num Pages: 260 pages, 50 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 740.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Edition
- 1ST
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300072419
- ISBN
- 9780300072419
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€ 50.51€ 39.85
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Hardback. A companion volume to "Symmetries of Culture", this book applies the method of symmetry analysis to actual case studies from cultures around the world. It explores how cultural information is embedded in the symmetrical structure of pattern. It is intended as a reference for anthropologists, archaeologists, art historians, and mathematicians. Editor(s): Washburn, Dorothy K. Num Pages: 392 pages, 204 illus., 19 in color. BIC Classification: ABA; ACBK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 262 x 188 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1414.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295983660
- ISBN
- 9780295983660
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€ 70.95
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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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253006493
- ISBN
- 9780253006493
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€ 30.99€ 27.59
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Paperback. A provocative triptych of black queer desire, articulated through aesthetic works and experiences Series: The New Black Studies Series. Num Pages: 216 pages, 29 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ABA; APF; JFCA; JFSK2; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252077876
- ISBN
- 9780252077876
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€ 27.99€ 26.21
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Paperback. Series: The Wellek Library Lectures. Num Pages: 104 pages, 38 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 167 x 204 x 9. Weight in Grams: 176.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 104
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231152792
- ISBN
- 9780231152792
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€ 30.99€ 22.22
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Paperback. Series: New Directions in Critical Theory. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 258.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231152013
- ISBN
- 9780231152013
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€ 37.99€ 27.61
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Paperback. Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts. Num Pages: 200 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231140973
- ISBN
- 9780231140973
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€ 37.99€ 27.43
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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. 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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€ 18.99€ 16.34
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Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 164 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226774473
- ISBN
- 9780226774473
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€ 43.99€ 33.29
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Paperback. Surveys a wide range of cultural controversies, from the Mapplethorpe affair to Salman Rushdie's death sentence. This book seeks to show that the fear and outrage these events inspired were the result of dangerous misunderstandings about the relationship between art and life. Num Pages: 258 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 165 x 15. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226772240
- ISBN
- 9780226772240
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€ 32.99€ 25.76
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Paperback. Shapiro explores the whole range of Foucault's writing on visual art, including the theory of visual resistance. He also examines the significance of Nietzsche's understanding of visual dimensions in the theatre and opera, Num Pages: 424 pages, 34 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 712.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226750477
- ISBN
- 9780226750477
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€ 47.99€ 37.06
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Hardcover. Develops a framework for thinking about art through innovative readings of some of the most important philosophical writing on the subject by Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger. This title exposes fresh layers in their texts and theories while also marking their limits. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 60 x 90 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226734224
- ISBN
- 9780226734224
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Condition: New
€ 95.07€ 78.49
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€ 78.49