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Liz Goldwyn's lifelong fascination with the inimitable glamour of classic burlesque inspired her to spend the past eight years corresponding with, visiting, interviewing, receiving striptease lessons from, and forming close relationships with the last...

Make San-X characters and their accessories out of yarn! Amigurumi are cute crocheted stuffed animals from Japan. Combine amigurumi with San-X and you get the most adorable crocheted characters! This book of patterns with full-color photographs shows you...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781368076937Author Disney BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionSeries Art of ColoringWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 274mm *...

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In The Cult of LEGO, Wired's GeekDad blogger John Baichtal and BrickJournal founder Joe Meno take you on a magnificent, illustrated tour of the LEGO (R) community, its people, and their creations. The Cult of LEGO introduces us to fans and builders from...

Packed with everything you need to know about creating super-sweet chibis, this step-by-step guide contains 40 ultra-cute figures and animals, bursting with personality and fun. Each of the step-by-step sequences includes a basic line-work drawing you...

Even Death cares about his work-life balance...Death never takes a day off. Until he gets a letter from the HR department insisting he use up his accrued vacation time, that is. In this humorous and heartfelt book from beloved illustrator Brian Rea,...

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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891024634Author Frayda FeldmanFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Distributed Art PublishersPublisher Distributed Art PublishersWeight(grams) 2530g

Many graffiti artists carry sketchbooks, called black books, and they ask crew members and others whose work they admire to inscribe their books with lettering or drawings. A few years ago, the Getty Research Institute invited artists, including Angst,...

A fascinating look at Keith Haring's New York City subway artwork from the 1980sCelebrated artist Keith Haring (1958-1990) has been embraced by popular culture for his signature bold graphic line drawings of figures and forms. Like other graffiti artists...

Discover the works of Joe Brainard, whose quirky style earned him a reputation as a "recognizable American phenomenon" and "oddball classicist"-with a foreword by 4321 author Paul Auster (John Ashbery) An artist associated with the New York School of...

A unique, full-color compendium that celebrates and explores the enduring power and allure of the world's most iconic lip shade, jam-packed with entertaining stories, anecdotes, little-known facts, quotes, and more than 100 gorgeous images culled from...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617750809Author The Jesus LizardFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 1312g

A groundbreaking look at how Chicano graphic artists and their collaborators have used their work to imagine and sustain identities and political viewpoints during the past half centuryThe 1960s witnessed the rise of the Chicano civil rights movement, or...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780762493746Author Christine KopaczewskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Rp MinisPublisher Rp MinisSeries Rp MinisWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 86mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781797227658Author Martin SalisburyFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Chronicle BooksPublisher Chronicle BooksWeight(grams) 1383gDimensions(mm) 277mm * 203mm...

Throughout the 1960s and 70s, London-based Big O Posters helped define the new and democratic art medium of the psychedelic poster, a vehicle for rebellion against the old order that went hand in hand with the music, literature, and film of the time...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984858290Author Ian BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647228613Author InsightsPage Count 192Imprint InsightsPublisher InsightsSeries Insights JournalsWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 180mm * 20mm

In Anime's Media Mix, Marc Steinberg convincingly shows that anime is far more than a style of Japanese animation. Beyond its immediate form of cartooning, anime is also a unique mode of cultural production and consumption that led to the phenomenon that...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593135778Author Robert LambrechtsFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062985330Author Rebecca VincentFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 196mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607749332Author Ella Frances SandersFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/RodaleWeight(grams)...

Moe is a huge cultural phenomenon and one of the driving forces behind the enormous success of Japanese anime and manga--not just in Japan but now throughout the world.In Japan, avid fans of manga comics, anime films and video games use the term Moe to...

Starting with the Civil War and cartoonist Thomas Nast, creator of the lasting images of Uncle Sam and Santa Claus, author Jeremy Dauber whizzes readers through comics' progress in the twentieth century and beyond: from the golden age of newspaper comic...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619027275Author Arthur GraceFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

In 1975, when political scientist Benedict Anderson reached Wat Phai Rong Wua, a massive temple complex in rural Thailand conceived by Buddhist monk Luang Phor Khom, he felt he had wandered into a demented Disneyland. One of the world's most bizarre...

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Like England's Arthur and France's Charlemagne, the Cid is Spain's national hero, and for centuries he has served as an ideal model of citizenship. All Spaniards are familiar with the story of the Cid and the multifarious ways in which he is visualized...

A collectible, four-color illustrated A-Z treasury of gangster rappers, the hip-hop high-life, and notorious pop culture history, told through a series of graphic doodles on 3" x 3" sticky notes.Four years ago, a Post-it (R) note changed Marlon Sassy's...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250051707Author Peter BiskindFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm...

From the soaring castles of Sleeping Beauty to the bloody battles of Game of Thrones, from Middle-earth in The Lord of the Rings to mythical beasts in Dungeons & Dragons and from Medieval Times to the Renaissance Faire to Disneyland, the Middle Ages have...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307278388Author R.A. ScottiFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735211094Author Kerby RosanesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 253mm * 254mm * 10mm

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...

A lavishly illustrated global exploration of the vast array of styles and most significant practitioners of tattoo from ancient times to today Tattoo art and practice has seen radical changes in the 21st century, as its popularity has exploded. An...

With Amy Herman's Fixed., we now have access to what the FBI, NATO, the State Department, Interpol, Scotland Yard, and many more organizations and their leaders have been using to solve their most intractable problems.Demonstrating a powerful paradigm...

The neo-burlesque movement seeks to restore a sense of glamour, theatricality, and humor to striptease. Neo-burlesque performers strut their stuff in front of audiences that appreciate their playful brand of pro-sex, often gender-bending, feminism. ...

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...