Art & Architecture: general issues
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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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 64.81
€ 54.12