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Art & Architecture: general issues

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.81

Paperback. Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art. Num Pages: 80 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 8. Weight in Grams: 126.
Edition
Revised
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486234113
ISBN
9780486234113
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.92

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 1. BIC Classification: AB; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 202 x 10. Weight in Grams: 313.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Seven Stories Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781583226773
ISBN
9781583226773
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.34

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

€ 94.27
€ 78.69

Paperback. Explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the troubling social and political implications of this are. Translator(s): Underwood, J. A. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 128 pages, No illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 112 x 8. Weight in Grams: 82.
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
9780141036199
ISBN
9780141036199
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 8.96

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
€ 26.76

Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 79 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 448.
Publisher
University of Chicago Press Journals
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226532158
ISBN
9780226532158
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.16

Paperback. Num Pages: 408 pages, 16 colour plates, 84 halftones, 10 line drawings. BIC Classification: AB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 654.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226532486
ISBN
9780226532486
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.52

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.00
€ 29.59

Paperback. In this companion volume to "Iconology", the author investigates pictures - the concrete, representational objects in which images appear. Focusing on popular and television coverage of the Gulf War, he examines the capacity of visual images to awaken/stifle public debate, emotion and violence. Num Pages: 462 pages, 79 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; APFA; APT; GTE; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 718.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226532325
ISBN
9780226532325
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.42

Paperback. Installation art has become mainstream in artistic practices. However, acquiring and displaying such artworks implies that curators and conservators are challenged to deal with obsolete technologies, ephemeral materials and other issues concerning care and management of these artworks. By analysing three in-depth case studies, the author sheds new Num Pages: 226 pages, 35 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ABC; AFKN; GM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 16. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press Netherlands
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9789089644596
ISBN
9789089644596
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.12

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
McSweeney's Publishing United States
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
SKU
V9781936365951
ISBN
9781936365951
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.90

Paperback. A monthly magazine where length is no object. Presented in recycled acid-free heavy stock paper, it features long articles, interviews, and book reviews, as well as poems, comics, and a two-page vertically-oriented Schema spread, more or less unreproduceable on the web. Editor(s): Vida, Vendela; Julavits, Heidi; Leland, Andrew. Num Pages: 80 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: AB; GBCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 216 x 7. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
McSweeney´s Publishing
Number of pages
50
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781938073441
ISBN
9781938073441
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 7.87

Paperback. Editor(s): Vida, Vendela; Julavits, Heidi; Waclawiak, Karolina; Leland, Andrew. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AB; GBCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 216. .
Publisher
McSweeney´s Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781940450629
ISBN
9781940450629
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.46

Hardcover. A comprehensive overview of the sociology of art and an authoritative work of scholarship by a leading expert in the field. The book synthesizes the various theoretical models of art sociology, and provides empirical examples as well as stimulating exemplars of sociological work on the arts. Num Pages: 392 pages, 11. BIC Classification: ABA; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 728.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
392
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631230397
ISBN
9780631230397
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.11

Hardback. Includes bibliographical references and index. Num Pages: 328 pages, 24 color and 53 b&w photos, 1 map, 1 figure. BIC Classification: AB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 324 x 27. Weight in Grams: 808.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9781477307755
ISBN
9781477307755
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.14

Paperback. Explores the construction of identities in the psychical space between perception and consciousness, drawing upon psychoanalytic theories to describe the constitution and maintenance of 'self' and 'us' - in imaginary spatial and temporal relations to 'other' and 'them' - through the all-important relay of images. Num Pages: 329 pages, 6 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: ABA; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
329
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520202993
ISBN
9780520202993
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.26

Paperback. Intends to introduce readers to the best and most interesting work in the world of art, culture, and thought - whether that means literature, painting, wrestling, philosophy, or cooking. Editor(s): Vida, Vendela; Julavits, Heidi; Leland, Andrew. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: AB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 217 x 6. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
McSweeney's Publishing United States
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
SKU
V9781936365944
ISBN
9781936365944
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.51

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
McSweeney's Publishing United States
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
SKU
V9781936365937
ISBN
9781936365937
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.51

Paperback. Images and texts document the legendary Department of Media Study at SUNY Buffalo when it set the world standard; a history of the program and examples of work by "Buffalo heads" James Blue, Tony Conrad, Hollis Frampton, Gerald O'Grady, Paul Sharits, Steina, Woody Vasulka, and Peter Weibel. Editor(s): Vasulka, Woody; Weibel, Peter. Num Pages: 840 pages, 900 color illus. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 290 x 53. Weight in Grams: 3482.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Number of pages
840
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262720502
ISBN
9780262720502
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.81
€ 54.12

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