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You may know Bill Campbell's name, but chances are, you know his handiwork better, especially the Weird-Ohs models that burst on the pop culture scene in the 1960s. Enjoy looking back over the career of this colorful artist in over 700 brilliant photos...

Examines the construction of images of masculinity and the effect they have on identity, sexuality and sexual politics. Influences from black and white culture are explored as well as the ironies of class, colour and sexuality.About the AuthorDavid...

How do images hold and convey meaning? How do we understand them? What are they trying to say? How do they persuade and influence us? The author writes a complete account analyzing the meaning and construction of images, throughout history to present...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486468891Author Lynd WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Series Dover Fine Art, History of...

In this new collection of her provocative essays on Third World art and culture, Trinh Minh-ha offers new challenges to Western regimes of knowledge. Bringing to her subjects an acute sense of the many meanings of the marginal, she examines topics such...

-Focuses on what actually works in development practice, in order to inform and inspire practitioners and students -Impressive global reach, with a wide range of case studies drawn from across Algeria, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Mexico,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867198546Author Todd SchorrFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 3428g

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,...

From Carolyn Turgeon, editor in chief of Enchanted Living and author of The Faerie Handbook and The Mermaid Handbook, comes this exquisitely illustrated and beautifully designed lifestyle compendium, a complete guide to the world of unicorns covering...

The official art book for the animated movie Luck. The Art and Making of Luck showcases, in beautifully illustrated detail, the concept art behind the story of the unluckiest girl in the world: Sam Greenfield. When Sam stumbles into the...

Digital Performance in Everyday Life combines theories of performance, communication, and media to explore the many ways we perform in our everyday lives through digital media and in virtual spaces.Digital communication technologies and the social norms...

This revised and updated edition of a hugely successful book brings together the most valuable and stimulating writings on subcultures, from the early work of the Chicago School on 'deviant' social groups to the present day reasearch and theories.This...

With ruminations on drawing, colour and caricature, on the political meaning of fairy-tales, talking animals and human beings as machines, Hollywood Flatlands brings to light the links between animation, avant-garde art and modernist criticism.Focusing...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998895109Author Steven KeslowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Quillpop BooksPublisher Quillpop BooksWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

The essential collection of pin-ups from photographer Robert Alvarado. He subtly combines color, form, and style to create an allure that captivates onlookers and confounds fellow photographers. The influence of pin-up photography pioneers like Alberto...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681123424Author Herve BourhisFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint NBM Publishing CompanyPublisher NBM Publishing Company

For most of the twentieth century, the private eye dominated crime fiction and film, a lone figure fighting for justice, often in opposition to the official representatives of law and order. More recently, however, the police have begun to take centre...

In Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination, Eric Herhuth draws upon film theory, animation theory, and philosophy to examine how animated films address aesthetic experience within contexts of technological, environmental, and sociocultural change. Since...

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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984879585Author Emily FlakeFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Pamela Dorman BooksPublisher Penguin Adult

Mona Hatoum creates events, videos, sculptures and installations that relate to the body, to language and to the condition of exile. Her most famous work Corps Etranger, first shown at the Tate Gallery when she was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1995,...

A wide-ranging introductory guide for readers making their first steps into the world of manga, this book helps readers explore the full range of Japanese comic styles, forms and traditions from its earliest texts to the internationally popular comics of...

In this volume, emerging and established scholars bring ethical and political concerns for the environment, nonhuman animals and social justice to the study of nineteenth-century visual culture. They draw their theoretical inspiration from the vitality...

Raiding the Icebox is a kaleidoscopic review of the avant-garde and radical subcultures of the twentieth century, and explains how the most powerful artistic statements of the era redrew the line between high and low art.Beginning with an analysis of the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781981172603Author Matthew McCaffreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

In this highly engaging book, Antony Easthope examines 'Englishness' as a form and a series of shared discourses. Discussing the subject of 'nation' - a growing area in literary and cultural studies - Easthope offers polemical arguments written in a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525657323Author Michael FinkelFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 391gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 146mm *...

The actual historical moments of birth of the various arts are not known. At most, significant changes of direction are distinguishable - and these are usually detected retrospectively. However, the founding of eurythmy, a new art of movement, has been...

Kat Von D's followup to her "New York Times" bestseller "High Voltage Tattoo" offers an intimate look at a pivotal year in her personal and professional life through an illustrated diary that begins in spring 2008 and ends in summer 2009. When Kat does a...

Kat Von D's followup to her "New York Times" bestseller "High Voltage Tattoo" offers an intimate look at a pivotal year in her personal and professional life through an illustrated diary that begins in spring 2008 and ends in summer 2009. When Kat does a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781791943233Author Laura's Dot to Dot TherapyFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedSeries Dot to Dot...

Nominee for the 2021 Eisner Awards Best Academic/Scholarly Work In the twenty-first century, the field of comics studies has exploded. Scholarship on graphic novels, comic books, comic strips, webcomics, manga, and all forms of comic art has grown at a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951038151Author Mr. Timothy TrumanFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Clover PressPublisher Clover Press

Featuring a wide array of iconic rock posters, period photographs, music memorabilia and light shows, "out-of-this-world" clothing, and avant-garde films, this catalogue celebrates San Francisco's rebellious and colorful counterculture that blossomed in...

Discover the fascinating connections between the world's greatest artists. Artistic Circles introduces some of the most inspirational stories of friendship, love, creativity and shared passions in the world of art. Whether through teaching, as in the...

Baroque between the Wars is a fascinating and new account of the arts in the twenties and thirties. We often think of this time as being dominated by modernism, yet the period saw a dialogue between modern baroque - eclectic, playful, camp, open to...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954575069Author Sean EganFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Askill PublishingPublisher Askill PublishingWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 203mm *...

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

Most of us, at various moments in our lives, either adopt a `tourist' identity of are framed within another's tourist experience. Travellers' Tales investigates the future for travelling in a world whose boundaries are shifting and dissolving. The...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624120336Author Benjamin JoinauFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Seoul SelectionPublisher Seoul SelectionWeight(grams) 288g