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by Kate Nelson Best
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
The History of Fashion Journalism is a uniquely comprehensive study of the development of the industry from its origins to the present day, and including professionals' such as Dylan Jones's vision of the future. Covering everything from early tailor's catalogues through to contemporary publications...
A Cultural History of Fashion in the 20th and 21st Centuries
From Catwalk to Sidewalk
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
This new edition of a bestselling textbook is designed for students, scholars, and anyone interested in 20th century fashion history.
Accessibly written and well illustrated, the book outlines the social and cultural history of fashion thematically, and contains a wide range of global case...
Montréal Chic: A Locational History of Montreal Fashion
A Locational History of Montreal Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Montreal is à la mode. A fashionable city in its own right, it also boasts fashion schools, an industry packed with local designers and manufacturers, and a dynamic scene that exhibits local and international collections. With its vibrant cultural life and affordable cost of living, designers and...
Music and the Elusive Revolution
Cultural Politics and Political Culture in France, 1968–1981
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2011
In May 1968, France teetered on the brink of revolution as a series of student protests spiraled into the largest general strike the country has ever known. In the forty years since, May ’68 has come to occupy a singular place in the modern political imagination, not just in France but across the...
Stick
Great Moments in Art, History, Film, and More...
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A hilarious send-up iconic images from art, history, film, children's stories, and more, rendered in stick figure drawings.
by Anne Massey
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
The chair—you’re likely sitting in one right now. Yet, despite its common presence in offices, restaurants, and homes, we very rarely stop to think about the origins of the chair and its place in culture. After all, the human body is actually more suited to sitting on the ground than on a chair;...
At the Piano
Interviews with 21st-Century Pianists
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
In At the Piano: Interviews with 21st-Century Pianists, Caroline Benser explores the kaleidoscopic world of twenty-first-century pianism through a series of extended interviews with eight major pianists: Leif Ove Andsnes, Jonathan Biss, Simone Dinnerstein, Marc-André Hamelin, Stephen Hough, Steven...
The Rejection Collection
Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Each week about fifty New Yorker cartoonists submit ten ideas, yielding five hundred cartoons for no more than twenty spots in the magazine. Arguably the most brilliant single-panel-gag cartoonists in the world create a bunch of cartoons every week that never see the light of day.
These rejects...
I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski
Life, The Big Lebowski, and What Have You
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
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First released in 1998, the Coen brothers' The Big Lebowski flopped at the box office. But over the past nine years the movie has developed a massive and passionate cult following, led by the creation of Lebowski Fest, a traveling festival of all things Lebowski. Held in a bowling...
by Steven Heller
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
From the lost art of show-card writing and the tumultuous days of guerrilla magazine publishing to the latest in electronic leaflet design and hot magazine covers, acclaimed graphic designer and author Steven Heller provides dozens of stunning examples of how graphic design has transformed from a subset of pop culture to a cultural driving force on its own.
POP
How Graphic Design Shapes Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
Pop culture is often maligned as fleeting, but history shows that sometimes what is pop in one culture has time-honored resonance in later ones. This book is an attempt to show that pop culture, especially as seen through the lenses of design, illustration, satiric and political art (and other things),...
Design Literacy
Understanding Graphic Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Author and design expert Steven Heller has revisited and revised the popular classic Design Literacy by revising many of the thoughtful essays from the original and mixing in thirty-two new works. Each essay offers a taste of the aesthetic, political, historical, and personal issues that have engaged...
by Pablo Daniel Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Seven tips for indie writers to design your book cover as a professional.My intention is to help authors who self-publish their works to improve the presentation quality of their books.Information is power and this book gives you all the information you need to make your covers look professional...
Graphic Design Rants and Raves
Bon Mots on Persuasion, Entertainment, Education, Culture, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Design is everywhere. Graphic design enters into everything. This is the scope of designer Steven Heller’s latest essay anthology that covers the spectrum of graphic design and related art and culture. Looking at design as practice, language, culture, and power, each of the forty-plus essays is...