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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...

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 9780867198775Author Kevin EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.

Evelyn Dove embraced the worlds of jazz, musical theatre and, most importantly, cabaret, in a career spanning five decades from the 1920s through to the 1960s. A black British diva with movie star looks, she captivated audiences and admirers around the...

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...

Delectable dessert patterns to satisfy any sweet tooth. Crochet a variety of sweet things, including key chains, pouches, bag mascots, and more!Book InformationISBN 9781974702138Author Miyuki IchikawaFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Viz Media, Subs...

The visual arts in Wales are in ferment. The growing fascination in painters, installation artists, sculptors and those working in mixed and electronic media has been reflected both in booming sales and private gallery growth on the one hand and,...

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 9788284620169Author Patricia G. BermanFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Munch MuseumPublisher Munch Museum

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...

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 9780399578786Author Megan MassacreFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA Inc

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

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 9781945710315Author MantracraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint New Castle P&pPublisher New Castle P&pWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 6mm

Welcome to the Jungle brings a black British perspective to the critical reading of a wide range of cultural texts, events and experiences arising from volatile transformations in the politics of ethnicity, sexuality and "race" during the 1980s. The ten...

A pictoral essay by the great art critic, novelist and long-time smoker, John Berger, and Turkish writer and illustrator Selcuk Demirel. "Once upon a time, men, women and (secretly) children smoked." This charming illustrated work reflects on the...

Style Legends, Rebels, and Visionaries is an inclusive and eclectic collection of 50 illustrated portraits by the immensely talented artist Bijou Karman. This curated collection of portraits features vintage and contemporary style legends such as Cher,...

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)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781917285452Author Kagami Jigoku KobayashiFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Bonefyre BooksPublisher Bonefyre BooksSeries Tokyo CinegraphixWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990823329Author Deirdre KellyFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc.

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632865298Author Walter HoppsFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Bloomsbury USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 663g

* 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...

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)...

Arthur Jeffress was an art dealer and collector from a Virginian family who bequeathed his "subversive little collection" (Derek Hill) to Tate and Southampton City Art Gallery on his suicide in 1961. That suicide, a result of his expulsion from Venice,...

"Meticulously researched and beautifully produced." Times Literary Supplement "A big and beautiful book." Journal of British Studies "A definitive history of the sports shoe." Amber Butchart, fashion historian "A necessary book [and] a great read."...

For anyone who listens reverentially in the half-light to Robert Johnson, Nick Drake, or Morrisey, who wait anxiously for new albums from The Cure, Leonard Cohen, or The Blue Nile, who buy up catalogs of Nina Simone, Johnny Cash, or Scott Walker, who...

Since first published in 1983, Manga! Manga!: The World of Japanese Comics has been the book to read for all those interested in Japanese comics. It is virtually the bible' from which all studies and appreciation of manga begins. More than that, given...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636141008Author Chuck DFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647291587Author Kyusaku YumenoFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Vertical Inc.Publisher Vertical Inc.

This anthology takes us beyond the status of masculinity itself, questioning society's and the media's normative concepts of the masculine, and considering the extent to which men and women can transcend these stereotypes and prescriptions.About the...

Honorable Mention for Art in 2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year AwardsThe music scene that sprang up across the Bay Area from 1965 to 1970 was energetic, immensely creative, and loudly outspoken. Bands needed theaters to play in, music promoters...

Kathy O'Dell argues that the growth of masochistic performance during the 1970s must be seen in the context of society's response to the Vietnam War and contemporaneous changes in theories of contract. She contends that the dynamic that exists between...

The pop icon Miley Ray Cyrus is a famed singer, songwriter and actor. Having begun her career as the beloved Hannah Montana on Disney Channel, the singer has created an extensive discography, comprised of chart-topping hits such as 'The Climb', 'Wrecking...

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

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540423382Author Jean TumbagahanFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692841853Author Nasty WomanFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Toppings PublishingPublisher Toppings PublishingSeries F*ck TrumpWeight(grams)...

Lines of Sight-the seventh volume in the Mechademia series, an annual forum devoted to Japanese anime and manga-explores the various ways in which anime, manga, digital media, fan culture, and Japanese art-from scroll paintings to superflat-challenge,...

In Post-Work, Stanley Aronowitz and Jonathan Cutler have collected essays from a variety of scholars to discuss the dreary future of work. The introduction, ThePost-Work Manifesto,, provides the framework for a radical reappraisal of work and suggests an...

This collaborative book explores the artistic and aesthetic development of shojo, or girl, manga and discusses the significance of both shojo manga and the concept of shojo, or girl culture. It features contributions from manga critics, educators, and...