Popular Culture

An indispensable introduction to one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Part of the pioneering Tate Introductions series. Andy Warhol's work reflected and commented on contemporary themes in American society:...

A poetic new essay collection in which the symbols of the tarot brush up against life in a changing world. The Tarot de Marseille is a 16th-century set of playing cards, the deck on which the occult use of tarot was originally based. When Jessica...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781670704306Author Loridae ColoringFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedSeries Cat Gifts for Cat...

Popular music is far more than just songs we listen to; its meanings are also in album covers, lyrics, subcultures, voices and video soundscapes. Like language these elements can be used to communicate complex cultural ideas, values, concepts and...

Official companion book to the Netflix TV series featuring concept art, sketches, behind-the-scenes photography and interviews with cast and crew. Based on the worldwide phenomenon from Sunrise Inc., Cowboy Bebop is the jazz-inspired, genre-bending...

The Noisemakers examines Estridentismo, one of Mexico's first modern art and literary movements. Founded by poet Manuel Maples Arce, Estridentismo spurred dynamic collaborations and debates among artists, writers, and intellectuals during the decade...

Be inspired by Spider-Man, the neighbourhood hero who balances his great powers with great responsibility.This web-swinging Avenger will stop at nothing to save those in need and is hugely loyal to friends and family. In the pages of this book, learn to...

Build a starship fleet to launch from your kitchen table! Follow the photos, step-by-step instructions, and comprehensive parts lists in this book to build dozens of galaxy-hopping spacecraft that can fit in the palm of your hand! Puzzle out how to build...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692836118Author Robert W Sullivan IVFormat PaperbackPage Count 462Imprint Deadwood Publishing, LLCPublisher Deadwood Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)...

Celebrate more than 25 years of Kirby, the popular pink hero of the best-selling series of video games from Nintendo.A stylish new collection of art and designs from the best-selling Kirby video games. Featuring twenty-five years worth of sketches,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867197372Author Mark RydenFormat HardbackPage Count 68Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 1168g

This complete guide provides lessons and insights from 100 professional artists!Imagine an art class taught by 100 professional Japanese manga and anime illustrators. In much the same way, this essential guide gathers the collective knowledge, tips and...

A feminist literary theorist, specialist in Rembrandt, and a scholar with a knack for reading Old Testament stories, Mieke Bal weaves a tapestry of signs and meanings that enrich our senses. Her subject is the act of showing, the gesture of exposing to...

As one of the people who defined punk's protest art in the 1970s and 1980s, Gee Vaucher (b. 1945) deserves to be much better-known. She produced confrontational album covers for the legendary anarchist band Crass and later went on to do the same for...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506730820Author Stuart BamFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Over the years, Marvel Contest of Champions has become more epic, the heroes more powerful and the enemies more cunning - but the game has retained its core: the greatest battles in Marvel history! You have been summoned to the Battlerealm for the...

Bringing together cultural, political and economic analyses, Lawrence Grossberg offers an original and bold interpretation of the contemporary politics of both rock and popular culture.About the AuthorLawrence GrossbergBook InformationISBN...

The full story of the life and times of Kieran Patrick Kelly, the London Underground Serial Killer, who wandered up and down the Northern Line of the London Underground between 1960 and 1983, pushing innocent people that he had never met under trains,...

What is a consumer? Shopping with Freud looks at some of the surprising ways in which the consumer subject appears in a range of writings - from literature to marketing psychology to psychoanalysis. Rachel Bowlby shows how ideas about consumption are...

Coverage of such major news events as the Gulf War, the AIDS epidemic and the William Kennedy Smith rape trial is analysed by contributors who explore the languages of word and image that produce current events as spectacle.About the AuthorMarjorie...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979840470Author Barry VackerFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Center for Media and DestinyPublisher Center for Media and DestinyWeight(grams)...

LEGO(R) Heroes is a collection of twelve remarkable stories about everyday heroes using the LEGO(R) system in unique ways to solve some of life's greatest challenges. Meet twelve visionary builders from around the globe who have turned LEGO(R) play into...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951038571Author Mr. Richard BennettFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Clover PressPublisher Clover Press

Pop art is one of the most pivotal movements in modern art. It challenged the conventional idea of fine art and recognised the pervasive nature of materialism and consumerism that had taken over 20th-century society. This beautifully illustrated book...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770413641Author Kaitlin TremblayFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891241543Author Erik DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Verse Chorus Press,U.S.Publisher Puncture PublicationsWeight(grams) 498g

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781511646000Author Nancy MorseFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781522711797Author Geoffrey MontfortFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608879540Author Barry HutchisonFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

If the source of manga and anime is physically located in Japan, the temptation for many critics and scholars is to ask what aspects of Japanese culture and history gave rise to these media. This ninth volume of Mechademia-an annual collection of...

Gallery 1988's annual Crazy 4 Cult art show has quickly become a phenomenon, with huge crowds and high profile buyers like Kevin Smith and Joss Whedon snapping up work by the cream of the underground/urban scene. Following 2011's critically acclaimed...

A collaboration of political activism and participatory culture seeking to upend consumer capitalism, including interviews with The Yes Men, The Guerrilla Girls, among others. Coined in the 1980s, "culture jamming" refers to an array of tactics...

'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...

Women have been making art for centuries, yet their work has been seen as secondary or has gone unrecognised altogether. Women Making Art asks why this is so, and what it would take for us to realise the extent of women's extraordinary contribution to...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995518186Author Julian RothensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Redstone PressPublisher Redstone Press

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683836261Author Sideshow CollectiblesFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

Simultaneously celebrated and denigrated, celebrities represent not only the embodiment of success, but also the ultimate construction of false value. Celebrity and Power questions the impulse to become embroiled with the construction and collapse of the...

A revealing collection of quotations from world-renowned artist Damien HirstHirst-isms is a collection of quotations-bold, surprising, often humorous, and always insightful-from celebrated artist Damien Hirst, whose controversial work explores the...

This collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360 Degrees view on the circus. The three sections of the book, Aesthetics, Practice, Culture, approach aesthetic developments, issues of artistic practice, and the...

An introduction to the study of visual culture, this book offers a view of 'visual culture' that includes not only images, but also other visual media and forms of expression, from architecture to fashion, design and the human body. The book is organised...