Popular Culture

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...

* The book demonstrates how a vernacular British performance form emerged as a hybrid of forms from Afro-American and minstrel, as well as French mime and Italian commedia dell'arte roots. * Theatre history is an essential part of theatre and drama...

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,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310116Author Adam ParfrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 1187g

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...

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 9781959411321Author Jack BenderFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Girl Friday ProductionsPublisher Girl Friday Productions

Featuring new essays by such prominent cultural theorists as Tony Bennett, Homi Bhabha, Donna Haraway, bell hooks, Constance Penley, Janice Radway, Andrew Ross, and Cornel West, Cultural Studies offers numerous specific cultural analyses while...

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

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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506714554Author Mike MignolaFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint 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 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)...

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 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)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544636347Author J. R. R. TolkienFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

"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...

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.

Geek art is the new pop art Characters from comics, movies, TV shows, and video games are a part of the collective imagination forever, so it's only natural that artists would begin integrating them into their work, giving birth to a new artistic...

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...

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 9781683969563Author John PhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615988337Author Rob MoranFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Airship 27Publisher Airship 27Weight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 216mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998059235Author Aaron WallaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Scribistics Corp.Publisher Scribistics Corp.Weight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Enjoy 25 edible works of art with this step-by-step guide to creating the perfect pie. Everyone knows that serving a pie for dessert makes guests happy. And serving one with a beautifully designed crust that makes guests swoon is even better. Pies are...

The Talking Cure examines four nationally syndicated television talk shows--Donahue, The Oprah Winfrey Show,Geraldo and Sally Jessy Raphael--which are primarily devoted to feminine culture and issues. Serving as one of the few public forums where...

In this new collection of essays on memory and amnesia in the postmodern world, cultural critic Andreas Huyssen considers how nationalism, literature, art, politics, and the media are obsessed with the past. The great paradox of our fin-de-siecle culture...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781484743379Author Don IwerksFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint HyperionPublisher Hyperion

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,...

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)...