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Suburbia. Tupperware, television, bungalows and respectable front lawns. Always instantly recognisable though never entirely familiar. The tight semi-detached estates of thirties Britain and the infenced and functional tract housing of middle America...

How the Vietnam War changed American artBy the late 1960s, the United States was in a pitched conflict in Vietnam, against a foreign enemy, and at home-between Americans for and against the war and the status quo. This powerful book showcases how...

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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419773990Author Aleksi BriclotFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint CernunnosPublisher Cernunnos

This second collection of gorgeously illustrated artworks highlights events fromvolumes 10 through 15 of the main story. The definitive edition also includesillustrations from volumes 1 through 3 of Sword Art Online: Progressive, as well as artfrom...

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...

Machines called Mutoscopes offered quick shows for a penny from 1895 until as late as the 1970s, flipping cards to create the impression of a "moving picture." Associated with amusement piers and parks, and men's restrooms, these machines were notorious...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506722412Author SNKFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845831196Author Stephen James WalkerFormat PaperbackImprint Telos Publishing LtdPublisher Telos Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 630gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865622661Author Blas GallegoFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint S Q Publications,USPublisher S Q Publications,US

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781368018715Author Jeff KurttiFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Disney EditionsPublisher Disney Book Publishing Inc.

Focusing on prints (etchings, drypoints, color lithographs), Picasso and the Circus presents a pivotal moment in Picasso's early career, between his Blue and Rose Periods, when he was increasingly drawn to the subject of the circus in Paris. The book...

The ultimate fashion bible for manga and anime artists!Create realistic-looking outfits and one-of-a-kind looks for your manga and anime characters, or design amazing creations for any cosplay event. Author Rabimaru is Japan's leading fashion illustrator...

Performance Anxieties looks at the on-going debates over the value of psychoanalysis for feminist theory and politics--specifically concerning the social and psychical meanings of racialization. Beginning with an historicized return to Freud and the...

"I've always looked upon cartooning as comedy's last frontier. I have done stand-up, sketches, movies, monologues, awards show introductions, sound bites, blurbs, talk show appearances, and tweets, but the idea of a one-panel image with or without a...

A complete narrative history of the weird and wonderful world of Underground Comix-now in paperback! In the 1950s, comics meant POW! BAM! superheroes, family-friendly gags, and Sunday funnies, but in the 1960s, inspired by these strips and the satire of...

Magnificent hardcover art books featuring the incredible images and lore of Magic: The Gathering (R)! Danger and adventure await in these pages, lavishly illustrated with the award-winning art of Magic: The Gathering (R)! The seventh book in VIZ Media's...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781976482946Author Theodore AshfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Featuring 20 removable art pieces of your favorite World Warriors! Cover the walls of your personal dojo with classic heroes Ryu, Chun-Li, Ken and Guile, dark villains M.Bison, Vega, Sagat, and Akuma, and modern martial artists like Menat, Juri,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606997383Author Jacques BoyreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 606g

Stuart Hall's work has been central to the formation and development of cultural studies as an international discipline. Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies is an invaluable collection of writings by and about Stuart Hall. The book...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781983686689Author Laura's Dot to Dot TherapyFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840686715Author Pep PentangeliFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Creation BooksPublisher Creation Books

Australian governments at all levels have been engaged with arts and culture in many different forms since the beginning of European settlement. The way this has occurred is documented and analysed here, both from an historical and critical perspective...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867198867Author Annie OwensFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.

From the girl next door to sexy switch-blade sisters, the pin-up girls depicted in this collection of works by 15 of today's best artists boldly display the full spectrum of the genre. Through masterful use of color and media, both traditional and...

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...

There has long been a politics around the way in which women are represented, with objection not so much to specific images as to a regime of looking which places the represented woman in a particular relationship to the spectator's gaze. Artists have...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959411321Author Jack BenderFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Girl Friday ProductionsPublisher Girl Friday Productions

The legendary Samurai, and the sharp-edged katanas they mastered, are the point of this thrill-seeking guide to drawing swordfights, battle scenes and skirmishes.The Complete Guide to Drawing Dynamic Manga Sword Fighters provides a highly detailed series...

Emoticons matter. Equal signs do, too. This book takes them seriously and shows how and why they matter. Digital Shift explores the increasingly ubiquitous presence of punctuation and typographical marks in our lives using them as reading lenses to...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506713533Author Square EnixFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945710315Author MantracraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint New Castle P&pPublisher New Castle P&pWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 6mm

Embrace the iconic '60s counterculture movement with 14 large-scale psychedelic black-light posters.Hippy & Trippy Art is filled with mind-bending illustrative posters that give your space that groovy vibe. With phrases and symbols of peace, love, and...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943444311Author Samson PollenFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint New TexturePublisher New TextureSeries Men's Adventure LibraryWeight(grams)...

Having forged his graphic style painting subways in New York in the late 1970s, Futura was among the first graffiti artists to be shown in contemporary galleries in the early 1980s, where his paintings shared space with works by Keith Haring, Jean-Michel...

Set your manga characters in motion! Draw Amazing Manga Characters combines the strengths, talents, and perspectives of five different manga artists over 81 lessons that increase in detail and complexity. Key building blocks allow you to progress as you...

* This book curates new thinking through interviews with designers who are artists, producers, professors, partners, parents, and collaborators. This book is a place to observe how one career can contain many possibilities. * Would be recommended reading...

Readers will know Bob Ross (1942-1995) as the gentle, afro'd painter of happy trees on PBS. And while the Florida-born artist is reviled or ignored by the elite art world and scholarly art educators, he continues to be embraced around the globe as a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943444038Author George GrossFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint New TexturePublisher New TextureSeries Men's Adventure LibraryWeight(grams)...