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Art & Architecture: general issues

Paperback. Assembling an archive of images and texts since the eighteenth century, this book offers history of the 'wanted' poster, examining its uses, patterns of circulation, and formal development as an iconic print genre. It covers a wide range of images: runaway slave notices, private detective posters, FBI posters, and artists' approximations. Series: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture. Num Pages: 192 pages, 26 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AB; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813928562
ISBN
9780813928562
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.34

Hardcover. Throughout his long and remarkable lifetime, David E Finley (1890-1977) made brilliant contributions to the cultural life of this country. This book aims to revitalize Finley's legacy, presenting the story of his life and incorporating excerpts from private journals. It is of interest to scholars and students of history and art. Num Pages: 400 pages, approx. 33 colour illustrations & 88 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AB; BG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1057.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9780891333982
ISBN
9780891333982
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.97

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABQ; JFC; JFFP; JFSG; JFSV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 217 x 22. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Edition
25th Revised edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813570976
ISBN
9780813570976
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.72

Paperback. Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557536044
ISBN
9781557536044
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.75

Paperback. Num Pages: 186 pages. BIC Classification: AB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 132 x 210 x 14. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Barricade Books Inc United States
Number of pages
186
Condition
New
SKU
V9781569801468
ISBN
9781569801468
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.84

Hardback. This volume incudes chapters on the reconstruction of Jefferson' Fine Arts Library, Desiderata List, Jefferson's efforts to furnish the University's with a library in the fine arts, and an appended list of books that have survived from the original Jeffersonian collection in the fine arts.

BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 3JF; AB; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1134.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813902821
ISBN
9780813902821
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.80

Hardback. Representations of Joan of Arc have been used in the United States for the past 200 years, appearing in advertising, cartoons, popular song, art, criticism and propaganda. "Visions of the Maid" examines three pivotal films on the heroine as well as a broad array of popular culture references. Series: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture. Num Pages: 304 pages, 34 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AB; APFA; GTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813920757
ISBN
9780813920757
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.51

Hardback. Assembling an archive of images and texts since the eighteenth century, this book offers history of the 'wanted' poster, examining its uses, patterns of circulation, and formal development as an iconic print genre. It covers a wide range of images: runaway slave notices, private detective posters, FBI posters, and artists' approximations. Series: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture. Num Pages: 192 pages, 26 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AB; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813928555
ISBN
9780813928555
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.44

Hardback. Taking up the challenge of redefining modernity from a Caribbean perspective instead of assuming that the North Atlantic view of modernity is universal, this book shows how the Caribbean's contributions to the modern world not only provide an accurate account of the past but also have the potential to change the way in which we imagine the future. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 13 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; AB; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813928579
ISBN
9780813928579
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.05

Hardback. Exploring the interface between cultural politics of Black Power and the Black Arts movements and the production of postwar African American popular culture, this book shows how the reliance of Black politics on an oppositional image of African Americans was the formative moment in the construction of authentic blackness as a cultural identity. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AB; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813928593
ISBN
9780813928593
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.34

Paperback. The first comprehensive introduction to Marxist approaches to art history. 'The best in the field.' Esther Leslie Editor(s): Hemingway, Andrew. Series: Marxism and Culture. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 photographs. BIC Classification: ABC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745323299
ISBN
9780745323299
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.66

Hardcover. Series: Ferguson's Careers in Focus. Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AB; VSC. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 159 x 247 x 18. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Ferguson Publishing Company
Edition
2nd ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816072835
ISBN
9780816072835
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.88

Hardback. A discussion of the main issues that beset modern time and philosophy by locating these same issues in artworks and describing closely what they reveal. This volume is divided between contemporary and prehistoric art in order to reveal the presumptions of "Western" culture. Series: Contributions to Phenomenology. Num Pages: 512 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 896.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792337744
ISBN
9780792337744
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 247.46

Hardback. How do science, producing knowledge and technology, and art, producing revelations and sensations, confront each other? This book addresses this question by considering Albert Einstein and Rene Magritte. It presents the meeting between Einstein and Magritte as an experiment. It provides their attitudes, and encloses perspectives and insights. Editor(s): Aerts, Diederik; Mathijs, Ernest; Mosselman, Bert. Series: Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Science, Nature, Art, Human Action and Society. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1290.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792357582
ISBN
9780792357582
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.18

Hardback. What is art? This perennial question is forcefully thrown open by the electronic expansion of its field and proliferation of arts. This book addresses this question with philosophical underpinnings. Editor(s): Kronegger, Marlies. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 490 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 873.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
490
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792360087
ISBN
9780792360087
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 247.11

Hardback. Suggests that the true sense of fine arts, enchantment, needs to be revived. This book states that in the conceptualised, commercialised, artificial approach to fine arts, we forgot its authentic experiential sense, and that it lies at the imaginative heart of all arts, there to be retrieved by the creative recipient as the very 'truth of it all'. Editor(s): Kronegger, Marlies; Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 336 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 638.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792361831
ISBN
9780792361831
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 191.18

Hardback. This argument in favour of subsidizing the arts offers a distinctly political rationale for government support: engaging the arts helps develop the intellectual faculties of judgement. For those who oppose subsidy, it maps arts subsidy onto the larger landscape of political liberalism. Series: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 459.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792362920
ISBN
9780792362920
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 125.49

hardcover. Encounters with the Gypsy female flamenco dancer throughout history Num Pages: 300 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: AB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 260 x 189 x 25. Weight in Grams: 812.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Wesleyan United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780819573537
ISBN
9780819573537
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 41.68

Paperback. Art in Education Series: Landscapes: The Arts, Aesthetics and Education. Num Pages: 215 pages, 45 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AB; JNA; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
Number of pages
215
Condition
New
SKU
V9781402010859
ISBN
9781402010859
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 124.87

Paperback. With contributions by both artists and scholars, Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography is a unique examination of visual autobiography's involvement in the global cultural politics of health, disability, and the body. Editor(s): Brophy, Sarah; Hladki, Janice. Series: Cultural Spaces. Num Pages: 320 pages, 17. BIC Classification: AB; APFA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442616097
ISBN
9781442616097
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.62

Hardcover. Num Pages: 430 pages, 17 colour plates, 79 b&w photos. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 35. Weight in Grams: 866.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Baylor University Press United States
Number of pages
430
Condition
New
SKU
V9781932792416
ISBN
9781932792416
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.74

Hardback. Series: Phaenomenologica. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: AB; HPCF3; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 721.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Springer United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319210643
ISBN
9783319210643
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.68

paperback. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: AB; DSB; GBCR; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Deutscher Universitätsverlag United Kingdom
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993
Condition
New
SKU
V9783322987082
ISBN
9783322987082
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 79.01

Paperback / so. Series: Beitreage Zur Altertumskunde. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: AB; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Vieweg+Teubner Verlag United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9783519076841
ISBN
9783519076841
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.18

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