Theory of art
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Theory of art
Paperback. In this classic meditation on the problem of style in art history, Henri Focillon describes how art forms change over time. Translator(s): Kubler, George. Num Pages: 192 pages, 24. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Zone Books United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780942299571
- ISBN
- 9780942299571
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.15
€ 24.99
€ 21.15
Paperback. Explores the fundamental concepts we use in our innocent thoughts and conversations about art, as well as in the sophisticated art theory. This book progresses from pure philosophy to applied philosophy and ranges from the metaphysics of color to the Renaissance perspective, and more. It is useful for philosophers, art historians, and students. Num Pages: 300 pages, 8 colour plates, 97 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 180 x 18. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226365534
- ISBN
- 9780226365534
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.77
€ 64.77
Paperback. Translator(s): Goshgarian, G. M.; Goshgarian, Gary J. Num Pages: 256 pages, 119. BIC Classification: ABA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801482724
- ISBN
- 9780801482724
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.75
€ 53.75
Paperback. Num Pages: 330 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJPG; ABA; ACX; AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138253452
- ISBN
- 9781138253452
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.26
€ 73.26
Hardcover. Challenges assumptions regarding "radical" and "experimental" performance that have long dominated thinking about the avant-garde. The essays bring to light vanguard performances rarely discussed: those that support totalitarian regimes, promote conservative values, or have been effectively snapped up by right-wing regimes they sought to oppose. Editor(s): Jannarone, Kimberly. Num Pages: 344 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACB; JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472119677
- ISBN
- 9780472119677
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.59
€ 97.59
Paperback. Bringing together essays on activist and community-based art from the pages of "Afterimage" - one of the most influential journals in the media and visual arts fields, this title demonstrates that activist art, far from being antithetical to the true meaning of the aesthetic, can be its most legitimate expression. Editor(s): Kester, Grant H. Num Pages: 328 pages, 40 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX; JFC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822320951
- ISBN
- 9780822320951
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.06
€ 46.06
Paperback. This analysis of art and its modes of existence by a contemporary French philosopher begins with an essay that introduces the principal concern sustained in the four succeeding ones. Translator(s): Kamuf, Peggy. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 136 pages, 3 half-tones. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 137 x 9. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804727815
- ISBN
- 9780804727815
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.64
€ 39.64
Hardcover. A provocative look at the contemporary art scene by one of the country's leading art critics. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ABA; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780465055203
- ISBN
- 9780465055203
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 28.24
€ 43.99
€ 28.24
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
€ 56.11
€ 56.11
Paperback. Num Pages: 360 pages, 58 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 13. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- First edition
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816646531
- ISBN
- 9780816646531
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.04
€ 40.04
Paperback. Imagining a new self equal to the new art of modernism; primordial and futuristic fictions of origin in the work of Gauguin, Picasso, F. T. Marinetti, Max Ernst, and others. Series: October Books. Num Pages: 464 pages, 121 b&w illus., 15 color plates. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 182 x 25. Weight in Grams: 946.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- MIT Press Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780262562812
- ISBN
- 9780262562812
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.34
€ 30.99
€ 22.34
Hardcover. Documents commissioned art for display on the Central Line between 2011 and 2012 which included Michael Landy's Acts of Kindness Anna Barham, Alice Channer and Bob and Roberta Smith's art on communication and exchange in the tube and the artworks produced by Hackney youth as part of A Lock is A Gate. Editor(s): Bonham-Carter, Charlotte; Coysh, Louise; Dillon, Tamsin. Num Pages: 88 pages, 80 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; ABA; ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 237 x 12. Weight in Grams: 354. Art on the Underground. 88 pages, 80 illustrations. Editor(s): Bonham-Carter, Charlotte; Coysh, Louise; Dillon, Tamsin. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; ABA; ACXJ. Dimension: 171 x 237 x 12. Weight: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Black Dog Publishing
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907317903
- ISBN
- 9781907317903
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.99
€ 17.99
€ 13.99
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.56
€ 35.56
Paperback. This book is a revealing exploration of the lives of 21 famous writers, philosophers, musicians and painters including George Orwell, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Andy Warhol and many others, in light of the recognized criteria for diagnosis of high-functioning autism and Asperger's Syndrome (AS). Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: ABA; MJNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843103349
- ISBN
- 9781843103349
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.81
€ 33.81
Paperback. The theory and practice of imitation has long been central to the construction of art and yet imitation is still frequently confused with copying. Theorizing Imitation in the Visual Arts challenges this prejudice by revealing the ubiquity of the practice across cultures and geographical borders. Series: Art History Special Issues. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 276 x 210. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781119004035
- ISBN
- 9781119004035
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.95
€ 39.95
Paperback. A generous selection of forthright essays on art and artists. Hughes tackles the lives and works of over 80 artists, from the old masters to our contemporaries, exploring their achievement (or lack of it) and how they altered the history of art for better or worse. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860468599
- ISBN
- 9781860468599
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.33
€ 21.99
€ 17.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 28. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 302. Poststructuralism, Cultural Politics and Art History. 208 pages, 27 b&w illustrations, 1 drawing. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: ABA. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 14. Weight: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801481536
- ISBN
- 9780801481536
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.37
€ 46.37
Paperback. When the "Mona Lisa" was stolen from the Louvre in 1911, thousands of people flocked to see where it had once been on display. What could have drawn these crowds to an empty space? Taking the intriguing story of the "Mona Lisa's" two year disappearance as his starting point, the author explores the psychology of looking at visual art. Num Pages: 224 pages, 10 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; JMAF; JMRP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 13. Weight in Grams: 222. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Darian Leader
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0001874
- ISBN
- 9780571212637
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Getty Trust Publications United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780892362745
- ISBN
- 9780892362745
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.73
€ 32.73
Paperback. The relationship of visual perception to color expression in art is presented here in clear detail. Photographs of representative paintings, explanatory line drawings, and abstract, geometric color plates supplement the text. Num Pages: 85 pages, 17 color & 11 b/w photos. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 196 x 8. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780887400643
- ISBN
- 9780887400643
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 13.88
€ 18.99
€ 13.88