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Trajectories brings together cultural theorists not only from countries with a known historical critical tradition such as America, Canada and Australia but from the East-Asia locations of Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Philippines, India and...

This book is a bold and expressively designed treasure trove of information about the history of swearing. With its bold and expressive design, The F***ing History of Swearing is an outstanding visual feast. Swearing is and always has been regarded as...

'No one else casts such a shrewd and gimlet eye on contemporary life.' - William BoydComic, dark and insightful, What Happened? is Hanif Kureishi's new collection of essays and fiction. No topic is too fringe or too mainstream for this insatiable-and...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739597627Author julian rothensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Redstone PressPublisher Redstone Press

A unique collection of brilliant quotations from the legendary Pop artistOne of the most influential artists of his time and ours, Andy Warhol is nearly as renowned for what he said as for what he did. Indeed, he is so quotable that things he never said...

This collection is devoted to exploring stereotypes about the social conditions of poor whites in the United States and comparing these stereotypes with the social reality.About the AuthorMatt Wray, Annalee NewitzReviews"[T]he essays in Matt Wray and...

Many of the greatest avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century were Ukrainians or came from Ukraine. Whether living in Paris, St. Petersburg or Kyiv, they made major contributions to painting, sculpture, theatre, and film-making. Because their...

How do some monuments become so socially powerful that people seek to destroy them? After ignoring monuments for years, why must we now commemorate public trauma, but not triumph, with a monument? To explore these and other questions, Robert S. Nelson...

Even ardent fans of Andy Warhol (1928-1987) may be surprised to learn that the artist created a significant body of western work. In fact, Warhol was drawn to the lore and lure of the American West throughout his life. He was heavily influenced by the...

Mark Dion (b.1961) is an American artist who, in making his art, metamorphoses into explorer, biochemist, detective and archaeologist. In his gallery installations around Europe and America since the 1980s, Dion has constructed the laboratories,...

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...

Focusing on individual authors from Heinrich Boll to Gunther Grass, Hermann Lenz to Peter Schneider, The Language of Silence offers an analysis of West German literature as it tries to come to terms with the Holocaust and its impact on postwar West...

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)...

Although the arts have played a significant role in both world history and Christian history, the contemporary church has often shunned them in favour of a more intellectual approach to theology. Beholding the Glory argues the necessity of renewing an...

The authoritative guide to cosplay written by a legend in the community, and packed with step-by-step advice and fascinating investigations into every aspect of the art. Cosplay-a portmanteau combining "costume" and "play"-has become one of the...

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 9780262546140Author Karin WagnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782958945107Author Akiko IwamotoFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint ROCKBOOK SASPublisher ROCKBOOK SAS

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...

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)...

K-pop's remarkable global popularity is no coincidence. Its success cannot be attributed to a talented individual or a set of favourable government policies but is instead the result of continuous innovation by risk-taking entrepreneurs.For the first...

First published in 1987. This is a book about the music of the Caribbean - from calypso and ska through to Reggae and Caribbean club culture.About the AuthorDick HebdigeBook InformationISBN 9780415058759Author Dick HebdigeFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867198775Author Kevin EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.

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

At a moment when superheroes dominate pop culture, Gary Bettinson takes us back to the first comic book blockbuster. Superman: The Movie - The 40th Anniversary Interviews is a revealing behind-the-scenes portrait of the personalities and expertise that...

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...

A guide to choosing, completing, and sharing a 100-day creative project. There s a creative person inside every one of us! You don t have to consider yourself an artist to create and share fun or expressive work; sometimes all it takes is commitment...

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...

Shiny Things combines an interest in visual art with a broad attention to popular culture - the wideness of its range is striking. It is more than just an expansion of subject matter, which many of today's innovative books also have - it considers how a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087966762Author Chris CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 8mm

Each John Wick film has earned more money and recognition than its predecessor, defying the conventional wisdom about the box office's action movie landscape, normally dominated by superhero movies and science fiction epics.As The Worlds of John Wick...

In 2017, twenty-five years after its initial release, a new season of Twin Peaks shook the world of television. This new book is a detailed analysis of the third season of the television series and aims to elucidate some of the meanings of Twin Peaks:...

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...

A collection of stunning brand-new exclusive original art celebrating the TV series Firefly. An original glossy coffee table book bursting with brand new and exclusive art. The book includes over 120 pieces by professional artists, illustrators,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648371615Author Bobcat PressFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Echo Point Books & Media, LLCPublisher Echo Point Books & Media, LLCWeight(grams)...

This book investigates the pictorial figurations, aesthetic styles and visual tactics through which visual art and popular culture attempt to appeal to "all of us". One key figure these practices bring into play-the "everybody" (which stands for "all of...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683831433Author Mike SassFormat HardbackPage Count 5Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions