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The Politics of Punk: Protest and Revolt from the Streets
David Ensminger · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 227
Format: Print book
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Punk rock has long been equated with the ever-shifting concepts of dissent, disruption, and counter-cultural activities. As a result, since its 1970s and 1980s incarnations, when bands in Britain - from The Clash and Sex Pistols to Angelic Upstarts, U.K. Subs, and Crass - offered alternative... |
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Small Architecture Now!
Philip Jodidio · TASCHEN
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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Saving space: Big ideas for small buildings |
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1000 Record Covers
Michael Ochs · Taschen
Format: Hardcover
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Jacket madness: A splendid collection of album art from the 1960s to the 90s Record covers are a sign of our life and times. Like the music on the discs, they address such issues as love, life, death, fashion, and rebellion. For music fans the covers are the expression of a period,... |
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ROOTS, RADICALS AND ROCKERS
BILLY BRAGG · Faber & Faber
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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"A remarkable history of skiffle.... Bragg impresses throughout with engaging prose and painstaking research. He further enlivens the text with personal insights and witty asides that give the material a unique cast few professional writers would dare.... an accomplished work."... |
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Michelangelo: A Life in Six Masterpieces
Miles J. Unger · Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Pages: 448
Format: Book
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The life of one of the most revolutionary artists in history, told through the story of six of his greatest masterpieces.Among the immortals - Leonardo, Rembrandt, Picasso - Michelangelo stands alone as a master of painting, sculpture, and architecture. He was not only the greatest artist... |
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Keepers: The Greatest Films--and Personal Favorites--of a Moviegoing Lifetime
Richard Schickel · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From a legendary film critic and movie fan extraordinaire, the highlights reel of a life spent at the movies Richard Schickel has seen, by his own estimate, more than twenty thousand films. He has been a reviewer since 1965 (long for Time magazine), has written almost forty books on the subject,... |
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Harry Potter: The Artifact Vault
Jody Revenson · Harper Design
Pages: 207
Format: Print book
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Throughout the making of the eight Harry Potter movies, designers and craftspeople were tasked with creating fabulous chocolate-fantasy feasts, flying brooms, enchanted maps, and much more, in addition to numerous magical items necessary in a wizard's everyday life - for example, newspapers... |
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The Houses That Sears Built: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sears Catalog Homes
Rosemary Fuller Thornton · Gentle Beam Publications
Pages: 158
Format: Paperback
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This is a newly revised and expanded version of The Houses That Sears Built. This new edition includes more than 20 new photos of existing Sears Homes throughout the country as well as a plethora of recently discovered information. This major revision also includes reproductions of newly-discovered... |
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How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art
David Salle · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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A master class in contemporary art by one of the preeminent painters of our time.How does art work? How does it move us, inform us, challenge us? Internationally renowned painter David Salle's incisive essay collection illuminates the work of many of the most influential artists of the twentieth... |
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