The Arts: General Issues
"The Aesthetics of Risk"Soccas Symposium
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"Soccas Symposia" series; SoCCAS Symposium Vol III. The Aesthetics of Risk is based on the third SoCCAS symposium which took place at the Getty Center with the collaboration of the Getty Research Institute, in April 2006.The event convened a lively and informed group of international scholars, artists and curators who discussed different ways that visual cultural production in the modern and recent periods has engaged with notions of risk in several registers of practice and experience bodily, social, aesthetic. This book also features several wider discussions of the legal and political formation of the discourse of risk, including Uncertain Times: With 16 b&w illustrations. Paperback, 416 pages. Size: 240 x 170 mm. Weight: 800g.
Author: Welchman, John C.
ISBN: 3905770555
Publisher: Jrp Ringier
Date: 2008 (Switzerland)
Readership: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly The Arts: General Issues
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"Sacred Spring"God and the Birth of Modernism in Fin De Siecle Vienna
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God and the birth of modernism in Fin de Siecle Vienna. Hardback, 312 pages. Size: 227 x 152 mm. Weight: 643g.
Author: Whalen, Robert Weldon
ISBN: 0802832164
Publisher: William B Eerdmans Publishing Co
Date: 2007 (United States)
Readership: Undergraduate The Arts: General Issues
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"Anthony Van Dyck"Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel
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"Getty Museum Studies on Art" series; With 17 colour & 37 duotone illustrations, 1 colour foldout. Paperback, 94 pages. Size: 235 x 192 mm. Weight: 318g.
Author: White, Christopher
ISBN: 0892363428
Publisher: Getty Trust Publications
Date: 1996 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) The Arts: General Issues
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"Arts and Letters"
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A unique and insightful contemplation of the leading figures of modern art and literature. New ed. Paperback, 376 pages. Size: 228 x 152 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: White, Edmund
ISBN: 1573442488
Publisher: Cleis Press
Date: 2006 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) The Arts: General Issues
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"On the Atlantic Edge Reprint"A Geopoetics Project
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"Highliner Series" series; Follows the high line of world culture as viewed by its director, Prof Kenneth White. Consisting mainly of relatively short books, this series aims at the opening up of a new space, critical and creative, in writing and thought. Paperback, 118 pages. Size: 198 x 128 mm. Weight: 131g.
Author: White, Kenneth
ISBN: 1905207085
Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) The Arts: General Issues
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"Mediterranean Design"
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Reveals the vibrant color, outdoor-living emphasis, and diverse cultural influences that have influenced architecture and design worldwide. This work describes the romantic and worldly appeal of a style that finds its heritage in the diverse lands of Morocco, Spain, Greece, Turkey, France and Croatia. With 200 colour photos. Hardback, 184 pages. Size: 255 x 215 mm. Weight: 788g.
Author: Whiteside, Mary
ISBN: 1586857967
Publisher: Gibbs M. Smith Inc
Date: 2006 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) The Arts: General Issues
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"My Life in Flux, and Vice Versa"
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This is an endlessly stimulating memoir, by a figure who was involved in some of the most astounding art of the post-war era, and a fresh, spontaneous account of the ideals and happenings that first burst into view in the 1960s. With 400 illustrations, 17 in colour. Hardback, 496 pages. Size: 240 x 179 mm. Weight: 1656g.
Author: Williams, Emmett
ISBN: 0500973989
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Date: 1992 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) The Arts: General Issues
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"The Tate Guide to Modern Art Terms"
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Intended for college students and museum visitors, this volume defines terms, whether theme, movement, medium or practice, and complements the entries by over a hundred illustrations. With 100 black & white illustrations. Paperback, 320 pages. Size: 216 x 138 mm. Weight: 370g.
Author: Wilson, Simon Lack, Jessica
ISBN: 1854377507
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) The Arts: General Issues
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"The Odd One In"On Comedy
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"Short Circuits" series; Zizek, Slavoj (ed.) Considers how philosophy and psychoanalysis can help us understand the movement and the logic involved in the practice of comedy, and how comedy can help philosophy and psychoanalysis recognize some of the crucial mechanisms and vicissitudes of what is called humanity. With illustrations. Paperback, 240 pages. Size: 203 x 138 mm. Weight: 289g.
Author: Zupancic, Alenka
ISBN: 0262740311
Publisher: Mit Press Ltd
Date: 2008 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational The Arts: General Issues
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"Picturing the City"Urban Vision and the Ashcan School
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"Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Books (Hardcover)" series; Looks at the group of urban realists known as the Ashcan School, and at the booming cultures of vision and representation in early twentieth-century New York. This book offers insights into the development of modern cities and modern art in America. It focuses attention on the materiality and design process of pictures. With 12 colour illustrations, 148 b/w photographs. Hardback, 418 pages. Size: 267 x 190 mm. Weight: 788g.
Author: Zurier, Rebecca
ISBN: 0520220188
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
Date: 2006 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational The Arts: General Issues
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"The Cambridge Companion to Ballet"
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"Cambridge Companions to Music" series; A collection of essays by international writers on the evolution of ballet. With 50 halftones. Paperback, 394 pages. Size: 250 x 175 mm. Weight: 831g.
Author: (Kant, Marion, ed.)
ISBN: 0521539862
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Ballet
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"Margot Fonteyn"The Royal Ballet's Prima Ballerina Asoluta
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This is one of the first of a series of books featuring a unique collection of images from the Royal Opera House archives. With ill.. Paperback, 164 pages. Size: 260 x 226 mm. Weight: 674g.
Author: (Franchi, Cristina, ed.)
ISBN: 1840024607
Publisher: Oberon Books Ltd
Date: 2004 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Ballet
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"Nijinsky, Pavlova, Duncan"Three Lives in Dance
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With illustrations. New ed. Paperback, 288 pages. Size: 230 x 190 mm. Weight: 500g.
Author: (Magriel, Paul, ed.)
ISBN: 0306800357
Publisher: The Perseus Books Group
Date: 1977 (Usa)
Readership: General Ballet
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"No Way Home"A Cuban Dancer's Story
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The rags-to-riches story of one of the world's greatest dancers, from his difficult childhood, living in poverty in the backstreets of Cuba, to his astronomical rise to international stardom. Hardback, 336 pages. Size: 240 x 159 mm. Weight: 627g.
Author: Acosta, Carlos
ISBN: 0007250770
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
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"No Way Home"A Cuban Dancer's Story
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The rags-to-riches story of one of the world's greatest dancers, from his difficult beginnings living in poverty in the backstreets of Cuba to his astronomical rise to international stardom. With illustrations (some col.), ports. (some col.). Paperback, 336 pages. Size: 197 x 130 mm. Weight: 253g.
Author: Acosta, Carlos
ISBN: 0007250789
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Ballet
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