abrams prentice hall inc (59 résultats)

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. Very good condition. Minimal edgewear. Clean and tight. No writing or marking. Not Ex-Library.

Cloth. Etat : Good. Good clothbound copy, top and bottom of spine frayed also tips of corners, 1361 pp. Text edition, third printing 1961.

Paperback. Etat : Good. Lower right corner of front cover has a slight crease. Front end page is embossed otherwise contents are clean and tight. Good. NOT A FORMER LIBRARY BOOK.

Etat : Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Paperback. Etat : Near Fine. 1st. 176 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Profusely illustrated. *** "Offering a critical perspective-rather than a traditional survey, this provocative text explores the art of the last twenty years-the latter 1970s, the 1980s, and the first half of the 1990s-in both a thematic and chronological fashion. Using an engaging and approachable style-and an abundance of color illustrations, it takes a long look at dominant tendencies in contemporary art in the United States, Western and Eastern Europe, and Russia-and provides a series of challenging view points on the most advanced art forms, themes, and issues." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Introduction: Tradition and Avant-Garde; 1. Alternatives to Modernism: the 1970s; A new women's art; Performance art; The trials of conceptualism; The spectre of affirmative painting; 2. Painting and Politics: 1976-90; The return of the figure and of "expression"; Expressionism contexted; Something called "post-modernism"; Painting and "the feminine"; 3. Stolen Forms: 1976-90; Photography and gender; objects and the market; Painting and appropriation; 4. Art within the Museum: the later 1980s; Culture itself as subject; Installation as decay; The curator's part; The power of the photograph; A kind of publicity; 5. Narrating Identity: the early 1990s; The body and AIDS; West-coast post-modernism; Installations and the declasse; Narrating the body; The discourse of race; 6. Coda: Future Prospects. Size: 8vo.

Soft Cover. Etat : Very Good. Color illustrations (illustrateur). First Edition thus. 159pp [marker stripe on bottom page edges; light edge and corner wear] Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good+. 349 pages. ".a compact yet comprehensive introduction" to art, including familiar examples of Renaissance artwork, as well as comic strips. Art techniques are described as well. B/w illustrations and photos on almost every page. Some light scuffing and wear to cover.; 7 3/8 x 10 3/8".

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. 2nd Edition. Fine paper copy second edition, 410 pp, text throughout, illus. in B/W and 4/C.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st. Cloth, 211 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear, age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. *** "An informal and accessible, yet highly sophisticated and informative, chronicle traces the development of the field of art history from its beginnings, explaining modern theories of the discipline and giving order and perspective to a sometimes complex field." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Ancient theory; Medieval theory: Christianity, the human, the divine; Renaissance (1300-1600); Nature, the ideal, and rules in seventeenth-century theory; Winckelmann and art history; Empiricism; Immanuel Kant; Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831); Alois Riegl (1858-1905); Heinrich Wolfflin (1864-1945); Visual supremacy: connoisseurship, style, formalism; Sociological and Marxist perspectives; Feminism; Deconstruction; From word to image: semiotics and art history; Psychoanalysis and art history; Culture and art history. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Etat : Fine. 1st. 272 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. First paperback edition. *** "This lavishly illustrated, historically grounded book draws together key traditions from West, Central, Eastern and Southern Africa to present an informative and captivating survey of the most important royal arts in sub-Saharan Africa kingdoms from 1500 to the present day. Exploring the diverse ways that African rulers have employed art and architecture to define individual and state identity, it provides an overview of the major themes in royal African art and discusses what these arts reveal about the nature of kingship. Examines political, social, religious and historical concerns, and embraces issues that have root in a wide variety of disciplines, including art history, anthropology, philosophy and folklore. Offers original and provocative visual analyses, and discusses a broad range of topics, including palace architecture, women of the court, enthronement ceremonies, royal burials, and the importance of art in diplomacy and war. Introduces the central issue of divine kingship and themes of ambiguity in royal power identity. For art historians." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Introduction: Paradoxes of Rule. 1. The Benin Kingdom: Politics, Religion and Natural Order. 2. Yoruba and Dahomey: Divine Authority and the Arts of Royal History. 3. The Asante Kingdom: The Golden Ages of Ghana. 4. Cameroon Grasslands: Royal Art Patronage in Contexts of Change. 5. Kongo and Kuba: The Art of Rulership Display. Conclusion: The Continuing Vitality of Africa's Courtly Arts. Size: 8vo.

Softcover. Condition: near fine. Slight rubbing at corners; binding tight. Octavo; 184 pp. Cover illustration: Pinturicchio, St. Catherine Debates the Scholars of Alexandria, Borgia Apartment, Vatican. Copiously illustrated with color plates, b/w photos, drawn building plans. Chapter headings include: Patronage and Popes: Saints or Sinners?; Urbanism: Rotting Cadavers and the New Jerusalem; Churches: Harmony of the Spheres and Construction Chaos; Palaces: Magnificence and Mayhem; Altarpieces: Spirit and Matter; Chapel Decoration: Space, Time, and Eternity; Halls of State: Arts of Power; 1600 and Beyond. Binding sound; clean text; no markings. *** From the jacket notes: "The city of Rome as we know it is largely the creation of the Renaissance, rebuilt from a neglected medieval town under the patronage of the popes and clergy on the one hand and the Roman nobility on the other. Between them they commissioned extraordinary works of art and architecture, and the city was restructured in one of the greatest urban development projects in history. Streets, piazzas, boulevards, and vistas were built, creating a new Rome in the image of an ideal heavenly and secular city. Rome itself became a work of art.".

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 3rd. Cloth, 744 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Good+. A clean, unmarked copy. Back hinge starting. Dust jacket with light shelfwear. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. *** An authoritative survey of modern art. Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. Cloth, 606 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. A large-format coffee-table book. Profusely illustrated. *** CONTENTS: PART ONE: THE ANCIENT WORLD. Architecture before Greece, by Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman; Greece, by Marvin Trachtenberg; Rome, by Marvin Trachtenberg. PART TWO: THE MIDDLE AGES. Early Christian and Byzantine architecture, by Marvin Trachtenberg; Pre-Romanesque and Romanesque architecture, by Marvin Trachtenberg; Islam and the west, by Marvin Trachtenberg; Gothic architecture, by Marvin Trachtenberg. PART THREE: THE RENAISSANCE AND THE BAROQUE. The Renaissance/ Isabelle Hyman; The Baroque/ Isabelle Hyman. PART FOUR: THE MODERN WORLD. The eighteenth century, by Marvin Trachtenberg; The nineteenth century, by Marvin Trachtenberg; Modern architecture, by Marvin Trachtenberg; Second modernism (post-modernism), by Marvin Trachtenberg. Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st. Cloth, 439 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with an open tear/front cover, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. *** An authoritative textbook on Baroque art. Profusely illustrated with 487 illustrations, including 63 in full colour. *** CONTENTS: Italy in the 17th century; France in the 17th century; Spain in the 17th century; Flemish painting in the 17th century; Dutch painting in the 17th century; Northern European architecture in the 17th and 18th centuries; France in the 18th century; Italy in the 18th century; English painting in the 18th century; Germany and Austria in the 17th and 18th centuries. Size: 4to.

Paperback. Etat : Near Fine. 560 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear. *** Proponent of the auteur theory of film, emphasizing the artistry of the director. *** "This exploration of world cinema focuses on the interrelations of the film medium at every level - from craft, artistry, and textual citation to financing, distribution and exhibition." - Publisher. Size: 4to.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. Book, Cover and text clean and unmarked, cover slightly yellowed with age, binding tight and square No publication date stated,

Hardcover. Etat : Used Good. Etat de la jaquette : Jacket with Mylar.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. maroon cloth binding with gilt stamped title on front panel and spine cover, binding tight and square, text with some pencil notations and marginalia, PO name blackened out on ffep 1959 edition.

Hardcover without jacket. Condition: VG. Cover has mild shelf wear head and tail of spine; spine slightly faded; corners rubbed. Octavo; 536 pp. Blue cloth binding; silver lettering front cover and spine. Illustrated with hundreds of glossy b/w plates, and numerous plans of individual buildings and towns. This is a pictorial survey of architecture, from antiquity to modern times. It was conceived as a companion for H. W. Janson's Key Monuments of the History of Art but it has become an important reference work on its own. Its section headings are I. The Ancient World; II. Asia and America; III. The Middle Ages; IV. The Renaissance; V. The Modern World. Each section has a list of the illustrations therein, individually identified and with bibliographical references. Text also includes Index of Persons and Places, and List of Abbreviated Sources. Binding is sound; clean text, no markings. This is an invaluable reference for anyone learning the history of architecture.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. First Edition. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, and Harry N. Abrams, New York, (1985). 11.75 x 8.75 in. 560pp, Index, Bibliography, Timetable. Maroon cloth, gold letters. Book in fine condition, dj fair only (tears, chips, tape-repairs). 682 illustrations including 85 color plates and 3 maps. ISBN 0136235964; 11.75 x 8.75 inches; 560 pages.

Hard. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Second Edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Abrams - Prentice-Hall, 1972. Large, thick 4to., 9 1/2" x 12", 680pp., over 1100 ilustrations. Very good, clean, binding strong in splash stained dust jacket.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Cloth, 616 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket with light edgewear. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. *** Standard, monumental textbook surveying American painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, and photography. Profusely illustrated with 752 black-and-white and colour illustrations. *** CONTENTS: 1: The Colonial period; Early colonial architecture; Early colonial painting and sculpture; Eighteenth-century colonial architecture; Eighteenth-century colonial painting and sculpture; 2: The early republic; Neoclassic architecture; Painting: icons for a new nation; Emergence of an American sculpture; 3: The Jacksonian era; Architecture: eclecticism at mid-century; Painting for the public; Images in marble and bronze; 4: Civil War to 1900 Reconstruction and expansion; Architecture: the battle of styles; Painting: the gilded age; Sculpture: mostly monumental; Photography: the birth of a new art; 5: Turn of the century to World War I; Pioneers of modern architecture; Painting: the opening skirmishes; Photography: document or art medium?; 6: Between world wars; Architecture, American style, 1920-45; Painting: advances and retreats; Photography: developments of the depression; 7: The postwar decades: painting steals the show; Postwar architecture, 1945-60; Abstract expressionism: the heroic generation; Sculpture in transition: 1900 to the present; Photography since World War II; 8: The arts since 1960; Contemporary architecture and planning since 1960; Painting since 1960: from pop art to minimalism; The dematerialized object. Size: 4to.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Used Large Soft-cover in Near Fine condition. No edition or publishing date included. 318 pp. Cover has some dirt, a tear to the top of the rear fold and the bottom of the spine is scuffed. Interior pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. Ships from Canada.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Prentice-Hall ISBN 0130466239. Forty-nine esssays plus short biography. Fresh covers, sound binding, clean pages and end-papers. Contains many black and white illustrations. No dust-jacket. Previous owner's name, Kerry Downes, in pencil at the front. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2kg. ISBN: 0810911531. ISBN/EAN: 9780810911536. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 19022021163. All our books are sent by tracked mail. This book is heavier than 1kg, and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Glen Loates (illustrateur). 1st Edition. This book is clean, bright & unmarked. Like new. There is a "Review Plate" glued to the front end paper along with a stamped date of Aug 30 1984. States: "First Edition, 1984". The dust jacket has a 9 cm closed tear on the bottom, back edge of the spine, otherwise clean, bright & unmarked. This book weighs over 1 kilo so extra postage may be required.

HARDCOVER. Etat : Very Good+. Hardcover edition. 576pp. Quarto in red cloth. B&W and color photos. Boards crisp and unworn, spine shaken; interior crisp and clean.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Second.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. First Edition. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in Imperial octavo hardcover format, blue cloth over boards, silver lettering to front cover and spine, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Twenty-eight chapters spanning prehistorica and primitive architecture to the 20th-century, and augmented with 144 bright and sharp illustrations, printed on high-gloss paper. As complete and exhaustive a survey of architecture as was possible to that point, with chapters devoted to: The Ancient World (Prehistoric through Byzantine); Asia & America (Islamic through pre-Columbus); The Middle Ages (Early Medieval through Late Gothic); The Renaissance (Early Renaissance through 18th Century Europe & New World); and The Modern World (19th & 20th Century). [10], 11-536 pp. and replete with notes, bibliography and index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 4th Edition. Large format hardcover, slate gray cloth lettered in gold on spine, in publisher's bright pictorial dust-jacket. 696 pages. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with 846 images, including 135 plates in full color and fold out triptych map of Rome front end-papers. Fourth edition, revised (1994). No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, like new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. A large heavy book, Priority and International orders will require additional postage.