Theory of Art
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Ornament and Order: Graffiti, Street Art and the Parergon
Rafael SchacterCurrent price €147.59Original price €163.99Over the last forty years, graffiti and street-art have become a global phenomenon within the visual arts. Whilst they have increasingly been taken...
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Architectural and Urban Reflections after Deleuze and Guattari
Rowman & Littlefield InternationalCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99The post humanist movement which currently traverses various disciplines in the arts and humanities, as well as the role that the thought of Deleuz...
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Das subversive Bild: Festschrift für Jürgen Müller
De GruyterCurrent price €94.75Original price €102.99The ability of pictures to undermine aesthetic standards and call artistic conventions into question is central to the research projects of the art...
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Transnational Belonging and Female Agency in the Arts
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €102.59Original price €113.99Transnational Belonging and Female Agency in the Arts interrogates the politics of space expressed via womxns artistic practices, which prioritise ...
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Herder''s Naturalist Aesthetics
Rachel ZuckertCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99In this book, Rachel Zuckert provides the first overarching account of Johann Gottfried Herder's complex aesthetic theory. She guides the reader th...
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Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism: Writing Images
Professor Brad PragerCurrent price €33.99Original price €39.99Crosses disciplinary boundaries to explore German Romantic writing about visual experience and the interplay of text and image in Romantic epistemo...
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Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today
Claire BishopCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99The ways we encounter contemporary art and performance is changing. Installations brim with archival documents. Dances stretch for weeks. Performan...
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Irina Nakhova: Museum on the Edge
Rutgers University PressCurrent price €51.51Original price €55.99Throughout her extensive career, Russian conceptual artist Irina Nakhova has frequently pushed the limits of what constitutes art and how we experi...
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Shakespeare and the Visual Imagination
Stuart SillarsCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99Shakespeare's knowledge of the practices of visual art, its fundamental concepts and the surrounding debates is clear from his earliest works. This...
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Rainbow Inspirations in Art: Exploring Color as a Metaphor in Poetry, Visual Art & Music
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The Curatorial In Parallax (what Museums Do 1)
National Museum of Contemporary Art KoreaCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99Current price €35.09Original price €38.99Save 10% -
Ways of Looking at Art: 50 Cards to Shift Your Perspective
Martin JacksonCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50CLEVER AND CONTEMPORARY ILLUSTRATIONS - 50 witty illustrations by Baltimore-based illustrator, designer and educator George WylesolTHE PERFECT GIFT...
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Hans Haacke und Pierre Huyghe: Non-Human Living Sculptures seit den 1960er-Jahren
Ursula StröbeleCurrent price €79.11Original price €85.99Since the 1960s, artists have questioned the traditional idea of opposition between art and nature. They have incorporated animals and plants as co...
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Painting as an Art
Richard WollheimCurrent price €48.75Original price €52.99One of the twentieth centurys most influential texts on philosophical aestheticsPainting as an Art is acclaimed philosopher Richard Wollheims encom...
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The Mediation of Ornament
Oleg GrabarCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99How ornamentation enables a direct and immediate encounter between viewers and art objectsBased on universal motifs, ornamentation occurs in many a...
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Bild-Raum-Wissenschaft: Studies on Spatially Embedded Art
De GruyterCurrent price €69.34Original price €72.99As space conditions perception, the analysis of relationships between image and space is highly significant. The current popularity of immersive sp...
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The Octopus: On Diversities, Art Production, Educational Models, and Curatorial Trajectories
De GruyterCurrent price €44.15Original price €47.99Diversity in artistic research This book presents the results of the Octopus Programme, an innovative fellowship in the field of artistic researc...
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Concerning the Spiritualand the Concretein Kandinskys Art
Lisa FlormanCurrent price €35.87Original price €38.99This book examines the art and writings of Wassily Kandinsky, who is widely regarded as one of the first artists to produce non-representational pa...
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Stone Masters: Power Encounters in Mainland Southeast Asia
NUS PressCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99A new analytical perspective on stones and stone masters across Southeast Asia that extends and deepens the recent literature on animism. Stones an...
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Global Objects: Toward a Connected Art History
Edward S. CookeCurrent price €36.79Original price €39.99A bold reorientation of art history that bridges the divide between fine art and material culture through an examination of objects and their usesA...
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United in Love: Essays on Justice, Art, and Liturgy
Jonathan C. RutledgeCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50Nicholas Wolterstorff's distinguished career in philosophical theology continues to bear fruit, and here he shares his insight on the concepts of j...
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Origins, Imitation, Conventions: Representation in the Visual Arts
James S. AckermanCurrent price €55.19Original price €59.99Current price €55.19Original price €59.99Save 8% -
Elements of Art: Ten Ways to Decode the Masterpieces
Susie HodgeCurrent price €18.39Original price €19.99The Elements of Art deconstructs great works of art into manageable components so that you can better understand and appreciate them.Knowing how to...
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Playing at Home: The House in Contemporary Art
Gill PerryCurrent price €23.91Original price €25.99'There's no place like home'; 'safe as houses'; 'home is where the heart is': ideas of the house and home are rich in cultural cliches and contradi...
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Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution
Benjamin H. BrattonCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50Current price €14.88Original price €17.50Save 15% -
Between Art Practice and Psychoanalysis Mid-Twentieth Century: Anton Ehrenzweig in Context
Beth WilliamsonCurrent price €137.07Original price €148.99The work of mid-twentieth century art theorist Anton Ehrenzweig is explored in this original and timely study. An analysis of the dynamic and invig...
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The Architecture of Nothingness: An Explanation of the Objective Basis of Beauty in Architecture and the Arts
Frank LyonsCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***It is a common enough assumption that good buildings make us feel good just as poor ones ca...
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Queer
David J. GetsyCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Part of the acclaimed ''Documents of Contemporary Art'' series of anthologies. There has never been an anthology of artists'' writings li...
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Epiphanies, Individuation, and Human Flourishing: Essays on Nature, Beauty, and Art
Frances GrayCurrent price €123.27Original price €133.99Within this book, Gray argues that moments of profound existential importance are given to us in the presence of Art, and that such moments are imp...
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Temporary Monuments: Art, Land, and America''s Racial Enterprise
Rebecca ZorachCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99How art played a central role in the design of Americas racial enterpriseand how contemporary artists resist it. Art has long played a key role i...
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Temporary Monuments: Art, Land, and America''s Racial Enterprise
Rebecca ZorachCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99How art played a central role in the design of Americas racial enterpriseand how contemporary artists resist it. Art has long played a key role i...
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Dissolve into Comprehension: Writings and Interviews, 1964-2004
Jack BurnhamCurrent price €30.39Original price €31.99Current price €30.39Original price €31.99Save 5% -
The Fold: From Your Body to the Cosmos
Laura U. MarksCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99In The Fold, Laura U. Marks offers a practical philosophy and aesthetic theory for living in an infinitely connected cosmos. Drawing on the theorie...
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CONVERSATIONS, VOL.3
Rémi CoignetCurrent price €27.08Original price €28.50Conversations is a book of interviews with contemporary photographers, conducted by Rémi Coignet, photo book critic. Since 2014, when the first vo...
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Deleuze, Guattari and the Art of Multiplicity
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €96.71Original price €103.99This collection of essays from a range of philosophers and art practitioners offers tools through which we can action change across art and philoso...
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Disziplinierung der Pflanzen: Bildvorlagen zwischen Ästhetik und Zweck
Judith Elisabeth WeissCurrent price €27.99Original price €34.99In the second half of the nineteenth century, plants gained great popularity as providers of ideas for artistic form. Collections of designs whose ...
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Culture and Values: A Survey of the Humanities, Volume I
John J. ReichCurrent price €83.69Original price €92.99CULTURE AND VALUES: A SURVEY OF THE HUMANITIES, Ninth Edition, takes you on a tour of some of the world's most interesting and significant examples...
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Wassily KandinskyCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50A seminal text in the history of modern art, from one of the most famous artists of the twentieth centuryArt is the language that speaks to the sou...
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American Pop Art in France: Politics of the Transatlantic Image
Liam ConsidineCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99Pop art was essential to the Americanization of global art in the 1960s, yet it engendered resistance and adaptation abroad in equal measure, espec...
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EDU:TRANSVERSAL No. 02/2024: Educational Turn / Bildungsoffensive
De GruyterCurrent price €29.43Original price €31.99New interdisciplinary research in education Given the current demands on schools and the challenges they face in an increasingly complex and vola...
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Swamps and the New Imagination: On the Future of Cohabitation in Art, Architecture, and Philosophy
Sternberg PressCurrent price €41.79Original price €43.99Current price €41.79Original price €43.99Save 5% -
Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History
Lynn GamwellCurrent price €62.69Original price €65.99This is a cultural history of mathematics and art, from antiquity to the present. Mathematicians and artists have long been on a quest to understan...
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Live Visuals: History, Theory, Practice
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €53.51Original price €61.50This volume surveys the key histories, theories and practice of artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, architects and technologists that have w...
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Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation
Danah HenriksenCurrent price €78.19Original price €84.99Explaining Creativity is an accessible introduction to the latest scientific research on creativity. The book summarizes and integrates a broad ran...
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The Multimedia Works of Contemporary Latin American Women Writers and Artists
Boydell & Brewer LtdCurrent price €98.09Original price €108.99In contemporary Latin America, an emerging crosscurrent of pioneering female writers and artists with an interest in transgressing traditional boun...
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Surpassing Modernity: Ambivalence in Art, Politics and Society
Andrew McNamaraCurrent price €30.23Original price €32.50For the past thirty to forty years, cultural analysis has focused on developing terms to explain the surpassing of modernity. Discussion is strande...
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