Art & Architecture: general issues
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Art & Architecture: general issues
Paperback. Tracing Architecture looks at the impact that knowledge of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman and British architecture had on aesthetic attitudes and architectural design. It explores the changing relationship between text and image in an era before the introduction of mass mechanical reproduction. Editor(s): Arnold, Dana; Bending, Stephen. Series: Art History Special Issues. Num Pages: 160 pages, 0. BIC Classification: ABA; AMA; HBA; HBG; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 175 x 245 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405105354
- ISBN
- 9781405105354
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Condition: New
€ 31.96
€ 31.96
Paperback. Translator(s): Gussen, Sebastian. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Diaphanes AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783037348857
- ISBN
- 9783037348857
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 24.42
€ 30.99
€ 24.42
Paperback. Shows how the transformation of textual into visual culture (from the linearity of history into the two-dimensionality of magic) and of industrial into post-industrial society (from work into leisure) went hand in hand, and how photography allows us to read and interpret these changes with particular clarity. Translator(s): Chalmers, Martin. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; AJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 121 x 9. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861890764
- ISBN
- 9781861890764
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.52
€ 23.99
€ 20.52
Paperback. Based on the assumption that art is subject to psychology, accessible to understanding, and needed for any comprehensive survey of mental functioning, this book offers psychological findings range from experiments in the perception of shape or observations on the art work of children to broad deliberations on nature of images or of inspiration. Num Pages: 380 pages, 1 color illustration, 3 b/w photographs, 34 line illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; JMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 380
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520266018
- ISBN
- 9780520266018
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.24
€ 40.99
€ 29.24
Paperback. 'Toward a Geography of Art' offers essays that examine the intricacies of accounting for the geographical dimension of art history during the early modern period in Europe, Latin America and Asia. Num Pages: 488 pages, illustrations, bibliographical references , index. BIC Classification: AB; JFC; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 27. Weight in Grams: 758.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226133126
- ISBN
- 9780226133126
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 33.29
€ 42.99
€ 33.29
Paperback. Kay Jamison draws on her work as a psychiatrist and researcher in mood disorders to explore connections between manic-depressive illness and artistic activity. She applies what is known about the illness to the lives and works of artists including Byron, Van Gogh, Schumann and Woolf. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations facsim., genealogy, port. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; JMAL; MBP; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 139 x 213 x 24. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780684831831
- ISBN
- 9780684831831
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Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.30
€ 16.99
€ 12.30
Paperback. Covers topics as varied as: the concept of totalitarianism and totalitarian art, totalitarian exhibitions, monuments and architecture, forerunners of totalitarian art in romanticism and heroic realism, and diverse receptions of totalitarian art in democratic cultures. Editor(s): Rasmussen, Mikkel Bolt; Wamberg, Jacob. Num Pages: 359 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: AB; ACX; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 173 x 28. Weight in Grams: 932.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Aarhus University Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 359
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788779345607
- ISBN
- 9788779345607
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Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 50.23
€ 51.99
€ 50.23
Paperback. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: AB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 217 x 6. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- Cune Press,US United States
- Number of pages
- 72
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781614570936
- ISBN
- 9781614570936
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 23.63
€ 34.99
€ 23.63
Paperback. A collection of hard-hitting, highly readable essays. Num Pages: 304 pages, 165 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: AB; AC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 172 x 19. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Publisher
- Phaidon Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714827919
- ISBN
- 9780714827919
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Condition: New
€ 28.70
€ 28.70
paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AG; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 13. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780816647491
- ISBN
- 9780816647491
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.53
€ 30.99
€ 27.53
Paperback. Deleita tu corazon y anima tu espiritu mientras coloreas inspiradoras ilustraciones acompanadas por palabras tomadas del inolvidable y querido himno 'Todas las criaturas de nuestro Dios y Rey'. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: AB; WFA. Dimension: 254 x 254. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Vida US
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780829767865
- ISBN
- 9780829767865
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.68
€ 14.99
€ 14.68
Paperback. Scale, or the relative dimension of an object, has long been one of the most crucial elements in the creation, circulation, and reception of art. Often mistaken as size, scale is the impetus behind the profoundly visceral ways in which we perceive and interpret works of art. Editor(s): Kee, Joan; Lugli, Emanuele. Series: Art History Special Issues. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 276 x 210. .
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781119142508
- ISBN
- 9781119142508
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Condition: New
€ 33.29
€ 33.29
Paperback. A classic work that offers the reader an ideal overview of the ideas that marked out Read as a seminal and hugely influetial figure in the cultural life of the twentieth century. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 133 x 197 x 13. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415289931
- ISBN
- 9780415289931
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.53
€ 17.99
€ 17.53
Paperback. This text, first published in France in 1977, presents cultural critic Louis Marin's theories about the aims of painting in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. It explores a number of notions implied by theories of painting and offers insight into the aims and effects of visual representaion. Translator(s): Hjort, Mette. Num Pages: 224 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; ABA; ACN; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226505350
- ISBN
- 9780226505350
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.92
€ 32.99
€ 25.92
Paperback. Explores the artistic practices that employ evocation - the calling forth of past emotions, desires, frustrations, and memories - as a mode of connecting past and present. Featuring the work of artists working in a variety of media, this book challenges the conventional approach to history whereby the past is kept at a distance as historical fact. Editor(s): Fassi, Luigi; Gallun, Lucy; Schillinger, Jakob. Series: Whitney Museum of American Art. Num Pages: 120 pages, 40 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACB; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300159028
- ISBN
- 9780300159028
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.72
€ 15.99
€ 12.72
Hardback. Annan's history serves as the organizing principle for this book, which considers both the breadth of his body of work as well as the multiple formats in which his photographs appeared and circulated. Featured here are seven examplesincluding private albums and commercial booksthat focus on subjects as varied as the city's streets and closes. Num Pages: 180 pages, 177 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- Getty Trust Publications
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781606065235
- ISBN
- 9781606065235
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Condition: New
€ 53.40€ 42.44
€ 53.40
€ 42.44
Paperback. An international scholarly journal dedicated to providing critical perspectives on art and visual culture. It addresses the complex cultural realities that emerge when different worldviews meet, and the challenge this poses to Eurocentrism and ethnocentric aesthetic criteria. Editor(s): Araeen, Rasheed; Sardar, Ziauddin. Num Pages: 116 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: AB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 189 x 4. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 116
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415441179
- ISBN
- 9780415441179
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Condition: New
€ 72.62
€ 72.62
Paperback. Offers a way of understanding what art is and why human beings create it. This book asserts that humans create things in order to work out ideas. It draws on examples from several societies to argue that the art-making impulse is primarily cognitive and only secondarily aesthetic. It is intended for those who creates or thinks about works of art. Num Pages: 264 pages, 145 b&w illus. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 278 x 15. Weight in Grams: 874.
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292706910
- ISBN
- 9780292706910
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.23
€ 38.99
€ 35.23
Paperback. Thinking about Art explores some of the greatest works of art and architecture in the world through the prism of themes, instead of chronology, to offer intriguing juxtapositions of art and history. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 280 x 17. Weight in Grams: 876.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118904978
- ISBN
- 9781118904978
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 36.94
€ 37.99
€ 36.94
Paperback. Essays examine nine intriguing objects made eloquent when matter and meaning converge. Editor(s): Daston, Lorraine J. Num Pages: 447 pages, 9 color illus., 82 b&w illus. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 34. Weight in Grams: 712.
- Publisher
- Zone Books United States
- Number of pages
- 447
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781890951443
- ISBN
- 9781890951443
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.20
€ 30.99
€ 22.20
Paperback. Things American examines the relationship between American museums and cultural democracy in the first part of the twentieth century by looking at the role museums like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the institutions it inspired played in Progressive Era social and cultural reform. Series: The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America. Num Pages: 312 pages, 35 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ABA; GM; HBJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812222852
- ISBN
- 9780812222852
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.91
€ 37.99
€ 33.91
Paperback. Editor(s): Burger, Peter. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 11. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Edition
- First edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816610686
- ISBN
- 9780816610686
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.68
€ 25.68
paperback. By closely following Goethe's explanations of the color phenomena, the reader may become so divorced from the wavelength theory--Goethe never even mentions it--that he may begin to think about color theory relatively unhampered by prejudice, ancient or modern. Translator(s): Eastlake, C.L. Num Pages: 486 pages, 13. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Number of pages
- 486
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1970
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780262570213
- ISBN
- 9780262570213
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Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 30.95
€ 47.99
€ 30.95
Paperback. An updated edition of the hugely successful original anthology that captures the essence and the edge of the contemporary art scene. Editor(s): Kocur, Zoya; Leung, Simon. Num Pages: 552 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 190 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1106.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 552
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444338577
- ISBN
- 9781444338577
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.36
€ 63.36