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All Tomorrow's Parties: The Velvet Underground Story by Koren Shadmi
HumanoidsRRP: $52.98SciFier: $37.55An examination of some of rock'n'roll's most iconic figures-The Velvet Underground & Andy Warhol-and the loaded push-pull relationship that distorted their lives and echoed throughout popular culture... -
My Voyage in Art by Michael Lawrence
SciFier: $70.70My Voyage in Art includes 197 colour images of paintings, watercolours, sculptures and people over a 60 year period accompanied by a detailed essay. Encounters with Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Morrison,... -
Jonas Mekas: Interviews Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker 9781496829221
RRP: $63.49SciFier: $41.26A refugee from post-World War II Europe who emigrated to the US in 1949, Jonas Mekas (1922-2019) became one of America's foremost champions of independent cinema and one of its most innovative... -
The Pocket Pop Art
RRP: $16.94SciFier: $12.93Pop Art lives all around us - in the hearts and minds of those that created it and through the influence it has in our world today, visibly in art, advertising and popular culture.This book provides... -
Jonas Mekas: Interviews Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker 9781496829214
RRP: $192.92SciFier: $192.90A refugee from post-World War II Europe who emigrated to the US in 1949, Jonas Mekas (1922-2019) became one of America's foremost champions of independent cinema and one of its most innovative... -
Ways of Curating Hans Ulrich Obrist 9780241950968
RRP: $23.30SciFier: $18.42Drawing on his own experiences and inspirations - from staging his first exhibition in his tiny Zurich kitchen in 1986 to encounters with artists, exhibition makers and thinkers - Hans Ulrich Obrist... -
Money in Art: From Coinage to Crypto David Trigg 9781912122967
RRP: $42.38SciFier: $33.14As an inescapable aspect of everyday life, money has appeared in the background of art throughout its history within the context of mythological, biblical and historic scenes. In the last seventy... -
Ex-Cinema: From a Theory of Experimental Film and Video Akira Lippit 9780520274143
RRP: $63.60SciFier: $52.85What does it mean for film and video to be experimental? In this collection of essays framed by the concept "ex-" - meaning from, outside, and no longer - Akira Mizuta Lippit explores the aesthetic,... -
Ex-Cinema: From a Theory of Experimental Film and Video Akira Lippit 9780520274129
RRP: $133.56SciFier: $109.39What does it mean for film and video to be experimental? In this collection of essays framed by the concept "ex-" - meaning from, outside, and no longer - Akira Mizuta Lippit explores the aesthetic,... -
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in the Blink of an Eye Will Gompertz 9780241965993
RRP: $31.78SciFier: $25.33What is modern art? Why do we either love it or loathe it? And why is it worth so much damn money? Join Will Gompertz on a dazzling tour that will change the way you look at modern art forever. From... -
Fashion Theology Robert Covolo 9781481312738
RRP: $82.57SciFier: $64.85What is fashion? Where does it come from? Why has it come to permeate modern life?In the last half century, questions like these have drawn serious academic reflection, resulting in a new field of... -
Hotel Chelsea by Colin Miller
RRP: $74.09SciFier: $54.76An immersive photographic tour of the legendary Chelsea Hotel, whose residents share their stories and reveal the delirious history of this landmark. Jackson Pollock, Robert Mapplethorpe, Patti... -
No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture Andrew Ross 9780415900379
SciFier: $89.04The intellectual and the popular: Irving Howe and John Waters, Susan Sontag and Ethel Rosenberg, Dwight MacDonald and Bill Cosby, Amiri Baraka and Mick Jagger, Andrea Dworkin and Grace Jones, Andy... -
Experimental Film and Queer Materiality Juan A. Suarez (Professor of American Studies, Professor of American Studies, University of Murcia) 9780197566992
SciFier: $148.91Often described as an art of abstraction and subjective introspection, experimental film is also invested in exploring daily objects and materials and in channeling, in the process, a peculiar... -
The Women Who Changed Art Forever by Eva Rossetti
RRP: $31.78SciFier: $23.66These women changed art forever - told in colourful graphic novel form, this is the story of four pioneers of feminist art: Judy Chicago, Faith Ringold, Ana Mendieta, and the Guerilla Girls.Each made... -
Keith Haring/Jean-Michel Basquiat - Crossing Lines Dieter Buchhart 9781925432725
RRP: $95.40SciFier: $85.35An exploration of the personal and artistic connections between two icons of twentieth-century art Keith Haring (1958-1990) and Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) changed the art world of the 1980s... -
Roy's House by Susan Rubin
RRP: $21.18SciFier: $12.15Welcome to Roy's house! Come on in and take a look around. There is a big sofa with room for lots of friends, three red fish swimming in a bowl, a yellow chair for reading, and, of course, Roy's... -
Pop Art and Popular Music: Jukebox Modernism Melissa L. Mednicov 9781032339078
SciFier: $89.04This book offers an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to Pop art scholarship through a recuperation of popular music into art historical understandings of the movement. Jukebox modernism is a... -
The Adventures of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets Herge 9780316003742
SciFier: $26.88The classic graphic novel. The first of Tintin's black-and-white adventures. Sent on assignment to the Soviet Union, Tintin boards a train...but after an explosion, Tintin is blamed for the bombing,... -
The Adventures of Tintin: Tintin and Alph-Art Herge 9780316003759
RRP: $23.30SciFier: $22.71The classic graphic novel. The unfinished final adventure of Tintin featuring Herge's black-and-white sketches. Opera singer Bianca Castafiore has a guru: Endaddine Akass is handing his advice out to... -
The Black Hole of the Camera by J.J. Murphy
RRP: $63.60SciFier: $52.85Andy Warhol, one of the twentieth century's major visual artists, was a prolific filmmaker who made hundreds of films, many of them - "Sleep", "Empire", "Blow Job", "The Chelsea Girls", and "Blue... -
Cinema Ann Arbor: How Campus Rebels Forged a Singular Film Culture Frank Uhle 9780472133475
RRP: $69.85SciFier: $52.19Ann Arbor, long known for its political and cultural activism, has an equally compelling history of engagement with film and media. In their quest to show art and independent films and in their... -
Steve McQueen: Interviews Geoffrey Lokke 9781496858818
RRP: $186.56SciFier: $153.17Steve McQueen: Interviews is the first collection of conversations with the acclaimed filmmaker, and one that spans his career to date. Included are McQueen's discussions with artists, critics,... -
Steve McQueen: Interviews Geoffrey Lokke 9781496858825
RRP: $40.26SciFier: $34.66Steve McQueen: Interviews is the first collection of conversations with the acclaimed filmmaker, and one that spans his career to date. Included are McQueen's discussions with artists, critics,... -
Materialist Film Peter Gidal 9781138995703
SciFier: $92.71A polemical introduction to the avant-garde and experimental in film (including making and viewing), Materialist Film is a highly original, thought-provoking book.Thirty-seven short chapters work... -
The First Pop Age by Hal Foster
RRP: $63.60SciFier: $54.34Who branded painting in the Pop age more brazenly than Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and Ed Ruscha? And who probed the Pop revolution in image and identity more... -
Enchanted by Jesse Kowalski
SciFier: $54.91For hundreds of years, artists have been inspired by the imaginative potential of fantasy. Unlike science fiction, which is based on fact, fantasy presents an impossible reality - a universe... -
Screen Presence by Stephen Monteiro
SciFier: $197.18Cinema plays a major role in contemporary art, yet the deeper influence of its diverse historical forms on artistic practice has received little attention. Screen Presence explores the intersections... -
Film, Form and Phantasy: Adrian Stokes and Film Aesthetics M. O'Pray 9780333537626
SciFier: $201.99This book explores the ideas of the neglected English aesthetician and art historian, Adrian Stokes. Stokes's Kleinian-based concepts of carving and modelling are analysed in relation to film,... -
Anno Dracula - Johnny Alucard Kim Newman 9781783290994
Titan BooksRRP: $27.54SciFier: $20.14Fallen from grace and driven from the British Empire in previous instalments, Dracula seems long gone. A relic of the past. Yet, when vampire boy Johnny Alucard descends upon America, stalking the... -
Bike Boys, Drag Queens, and Superstars by Juan A. Suarez
RRP: $50.86SciFier: $44.37"This comprehensive, insightful study demonstrates that 1960s New York underground film fused 'artistic innovation and the exploration of everyday life' and distinctively interacted with mass culture... -
Refocus: the Films of Mary Harron Kyle Barrett 9781474494410
SciFier: $197.18Mary Harron's diverse career includes cult films like I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page, as well as a range of network and cable television episodes. This is the first... -
Yves Saint Laurent: a Moroccan Passion by Pierre Berge
RRP: $53.00SciFier: $38.08In this facsimile of a handwritten leather-bound journal, Pierre Berge, the longtime partner of Yves Saint Laurent, remembers their life together In this handwritten, personal memoir, Pierre... -
Hirst-isms Damien Hirst 9780691239859
RRP: $27.54SciFier: $25.14A revealing collection of quotations from world-renowned artist Damien HirstHirst-isms is a collection of quotations-bold, surprising, often humorous, and always insightful-from celebrated artist... -
Basquiat-isms by Jean-Michel Basquiat
SciFier: $24.57A collection of essential quotations and other writings from artist and icon Jean-Michel BasquiatOne of the most important artists of the late twentieth century, Jean-Michel Basquiat explored the... -
Legendary Artists and the Clothes They Wore by Terry Newman
RRP: $53.00SciFier: $49.67Whether it's Cecil Beaton's flamboyant, classically tailored suits, Frida Kahlo's love of bright color, or Cindy Sherman's penchant for minimalism, an artist's attire often reflects the creative and... -
!Printing the Revolution! by Claudia E. Zapata
RRP: $106.00SciFier: $96.95A 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... -
City That Never Sleeps by Murray Pomerance
SciFier: $76.11New York, more than any other city, has held a special fascination for filmmakers and viewers. In every decade of Hollywood filmmaking, artists of the screen have fixated upon this fascinating place... -
James Dean by Paul Alexander
RRP: $25.42SciFier: $19.53No more than a promising actor with a handful of films to his name when he died in 1955, James Dean has since been elevated to an iconic status surpassed only by Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. ... -
Warhol's Prophecy Shaun Hutson 9780230765511
RRP: $40.26SciFier: $36.02"Everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes," said Andy Warhol. And fame is something certain people will go to any lengths to achieve: whether to be revered or reviled, the lure of notoriety is...