Popular Culture

In 1916, as World War I raged around them, a group of bohemians gathered at a small cabaret in Zurich, Switzerland. After decorating the walls with art by Picasso and other avant-garde artists, they embarked on a series of extravagant performances. Three...

A noted comics artist himself, Santiago Garcia follows the history of the graphic novel from early nineteenth-century European sequential art, through the development of newspaper strips in the United States, to the development of the twentieth-century...

The Eighties were about big ideas writ large - new money, new style, gender fluidity, gay pride, attritional politics, the 'special relationship', nuclear fear, AIDS, cocaine, ecstasy, tabloid royalty, the rise of urban pop, and ultimately geopolitical...

We Started a Nightclub: The Birth of the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge as Told by Those Who Lived It is the story of the beginnings of the club that was the launching pad for countless talented performers, musicians, and artists-many at the earliest stages of...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506721927Author Michael Dante DiMartinoFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

This publication is the first to focus solely on the abstract strategies and processes contained in Gerhard Richter's body of work. In the early 1960s, the artist began to call painting into question, an exploration that continues to occupy him to this...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506733159Author Peter BergtingFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Focusing on Amy Winehouse, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, and Lana del Rey, Nathalie Weidhase conceptualises the female dandy as a figure that simultaneously embodies and ruptures postfeminist notions of femininity, such as maintaining a physique that conforms to...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906958305Author Charlotte RodgersFormat PaperbackPage Count 155Imprint Mandrake of OxfordPublisher Mandrake of OxfordWeight(grams) 226g

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496086341Author Michael John EldridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Mass Culture and Everyday Life is a collection of lively work from the small but seminal journal Tabloid. The book offers a clarification of the study of mass culture as it transforms daily life, providing a detailed survey of a wide range of the mass...

With no formal training, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960 1988) succeeded in developing a new and expressive style to become one of the most influential artists in the postmodern revival of figurative during the 1980s. In a series of notebooks from the early...

God and the Angel is the first illustrated book on the 1948 Old Vic Tour of Australia and New Zealand, led by Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh.Written from an Australian perspective and utilising never-before published photos from the National...

A collection of timely new scholarship, Repair: Sustainable Design Futures investigates repair as a contemporary expression of empowerment, agency, and resistance to our unmaking of the world and the environment. Repair is an act, metaphor, and...

In this strikingly original work, Stephen Moore considers God's male bodies--the body of Yahweh in the Hebrew Bible, and the Father of Jesus Christ, and Jesus himself in the New Testament--and our obsessive earthly quest for a perfect human form. God's...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936932290Author Beth PickensFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

Since its small screen debut in 1982, Macross has remained one of most influential mecha anime of all time. Longtime franchise illustrator Hidetaka Tenjin captures the high-flying action of the series' iconic "variable fighters" like no other artist...

Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance offers a unique discourse and an original aesthetic theory. It argues that fusing perspectives from the philosophy of Existentialism with insights from...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506725550Author AsmodeeFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

South Korean cinema is a striking example of non-Western contemporary cinematic success. Thanks to the increasing numbers of moviegoers and domestic films produced, South Korea has become one of the world's major film markets. In 2001, the South Korean...

It's now over twenty years since punk pogo-ed its way into our consciousness. Punk Rock So What?brings together a new generation of academics, writers and journalists to provide the first comprehensive assessment of punk and its place in popular music...

'Where can the human animal seek its energy in this era of lockdowns and social distancing? Dodge may help us to find out' Guardian'If you're a fan of Maggie Nelson's work, you'll like this book. It's truly beautiful' DazedIs love a force akin to...

Detailed, step-by-step instructions for recreating a classic 1960s Mustang with LEGO elements. The build, designed by famous Technic inventor Sariel, includes working steering, and operable doors and hood, as well as plenty of ideas for customisation...

The author of four seminal works on science and culture, Donna Haraway here speaks for the first time in a direct and non-academic voice. How Like a Leaf will be a welcome inside view of the author's thought.About the AuthorDonna J. Haraway is Professor...

This updated and thoroughly revised second edition of the best-selling The Cybercultures Reader, includes specially selected contemporary articles by key thinkers in the expanding field of cybercultures studies. With general and thematic section...

A century of American history reflected in the iconic private eye.Steadfast in fighting crime, but operating outside the police force-and sometimes even the law-is the private detective. Driven by his own moral code, he is a shadowy figure in a trench...

The intellectual and the popular: Irving Howe and John Waters, Susan Sontag and Ethel Rosenberg, Dwight MacDonald and Bill Cosby, Amiri Baraka and Mick Jagger, Andrea Dworkin and Grace Jones, Andy Warhol and Lenny Bruce. All feature in Andrew Ross's...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593312728Author Rax KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 132mm * 15mm

The official behind-the-scenes companion book to VIVO, the first-ever musical from the Academy Award-winning studio Sony Pictures Animation The Art of VIVO will give readers a behind-the-scenes look at VIVO, the first-ever musical from Sony Pictures...

From bottle gardens, the bachelor pad and Batman to designer gnomes and monogamy spray, this book uses a diverse range of objects to explore the changing significance of kitsch. With its unique approach to its subject, Kitsch! Cultural politics and taste...

This workbook provides a revolutionary new 3-step tracing technique that beginning artists can use to quickly learn to draw manga characters just like a pro!Popular manga artists Junka Morozumi and Tomomi Mizuna guide you through a series of carefully...

Brings together renowed and emerging critical voices to respond to the questions raised by the concept of the 'post-colonial'. The contributors explore the diverse cultures which are shaping our global future.About the AuthorIain Chambers and Lidia Curti...

Wes Lang is an artist whose work bridges the worlds of cutting-edge street culture and nostalgic Americana, invoking references as varied as Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Hell's Angels, Francis Bacon and the Grateful Dead. Oversized and with pull-out...

Small World spotlights photographer Steve Rolfe, whose tiny scenes echo real life at an impossible scale. Sometimes witty, sometimes earnest, Rolfe's work opens up a world within a world and reminds us that we're all part of something larger than...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781482632361Author Andrew MuirFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpace

Olly Moss has quickly become, according to Slashfilm, "one of the most in demand and influential pop culture artists today". For his simple but brilliant first book, Olly has put his own twist on the Victorian art of silhouette portraits. While this...

Innovative artist Spider Webb has brought the traditional art of tattooing into the modern age, elevating the primitive or folk art iconography into modern art with startling interpretations. 400 color and black and white tattoo flash, in two volumes,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735213685Author Jordan ReidFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Penguin Random House IndiaPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaSeries Big Activity...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984170156Author Laura's Dot to Dot TherapyFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Iain Chambers approaches the often overlooked details and textures of popular culture through a series of histories which show how it becomes continually remade as each of us defines our own urban space.About the AuthorIain ChambersBook InformationISBN...