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Theory of art

Hardback. The Art of Comics is the first-ever collection of essays published in English devoted to the philosophical topics raised by comics and graphic novels. Series: New Directions in Aesthetics. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AKLC; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444334647
ISBN
9781444334647
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.76

Paperback. Creative Writing and Art History considers the ways in which the writing of art history intersects with creative writing. Essays range from the analysis of historical examples of art historical writing that have a creative element to examinations of contemporary modes of creative writing about art. Editor(s): Grant, Andrew; Grant, Catherine; Rubin, Patricia. Series: Art History Special Issues. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 273 x 211 x 14. Weight in Grams: 716.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444350395
ISBN
9781444350395
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.07

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
€ 22.15

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
209
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903900055
ISBN
9781903900055
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.16

Paperback. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 222 x 11. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Bard Graduate Center, Exhibitions Department
Condition
New
SKU
V9781941792049
ISBN
9781941792049
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.16

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Birkhauser
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9783034600927
ISBN
9783034600927
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 28.68

Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 136 x 53. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Diaphanes AG
Condition
New
SKU
V9783037342091
ISBN
9783037342091
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 24.60

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

€ 94.89
€ 79.17

Hardcover. In the digital age, photography confronts its future under the competing signs of ubiquity and obsolescence. By examining the medium as articulated in literature, film, and the graphic novel, this book demonstrates how photography secures identity for figures with an unstable sense of self. Num Pages: 232 pages, 48 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; AJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 12. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226242033
ISBN
9780226242033
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 32.58

Hardback. 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: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 749.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253006424
ISBN
9780253006424
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.69

Paperback. Exploring the political forces that shaped Impressionism, this work proposes that at the heart of the modern is a "guilty secret" - the need of the dominant, mainly bourgeois, classes in Paris to expunge from historical memory the haunting nightmare of the Commune and its socialist ideology. Series: Princeton Series in Nineteenth-Century Art, Culture & Society. Num Pages: 256 pages, 162 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; ACVT; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 191 x 254 x 13. Weight in Grams: 524.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780691015552
ISBN
9780691015552
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.24
€ 51.02

Paperback. Examines art and censorship in the current political climate. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; AN; JFCA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 8. Weight in Grams: 245.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745326474
ISBN
9780745326474
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 26.79

Hardback. A ground-breaking rethink of the radical Situationist art movement drawn from a life's worth of research. Series: Marxism and Culture. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780745335278
ISBN
9780745335278
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 100.82
€ 84.13

Paperback. This book offers an overview and critique of the conventions surrounding artistic creativity and intellectual endeavor which began with the decline of feudalism in the church. Num Pages: 336 pages, 7 half-tones. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804728430
ISBN
9780804728430
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.57

Paperback. Phantom Communities reconsiders the status of the simulacrum-sometimes defined as a copy of a copy, but more rigorously defined as a copy that subverts the legitimacy and authority of its model-in light of recent debates in literature, art, philosophy, and cultural studies. Num Pages: 268 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; ABA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804733366
ISBN
9780804733366
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.66

Paperback. The aim of this book is to provide an account of modernist painting--from Pollock to Ryman--that follows on from the aesthetic theory of Theodor W. Adorno. It offers a materialist account of modernism with detailed discussions of modern aesthetics from Kant to Arthur Danto, Stanley Cavell, and Adorno. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 416 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX; AFF; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804748957
ISBN
9780804748957
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.01

Paperback. These phenomenological studies on the philosophy of the image review contemporary image theory while defending the fundamental insight that images alone make the artificial presence of things possible. Translator(s): Schott, Nils F. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 168 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; HPCF3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 330. Weight in Grams: 249.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804759410
ISBN
9780804759410
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.20

Paperback. This interdisciplinary collection of essays on idolatry, including both historical and theoretical contributions, shows that the concept of idolatry is helpful for all who study the ways that people interact with and conceive of the things around them. Editor(s): Ellenbogen, Josh; Tugendhaft, Aaron. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; HRAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804760430
ISBN
9780804760430
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.40

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

€ 103.50

hardcover. The book shows how pictorial art conveys aesthetic transcendence--a felt, though symbolic experience of going beyond our finite limitations that sometimes involves a sense of communing with God Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN; HRLB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 238 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804795739
ISBN
9780804795739
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.57

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