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  • Design History and the History of Design

    by John A. Walker ...
    An essential overview as well as a theoretical critique for all students of design history. Walker studies the intellectual discipline of Design History and the issues that confront scholars writing histories of design.Taking his approach from a range of related fields, he discusses the problems of defining design and writing history. He considers the different methods that leading scholars have ... Read more

    $14.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cultural Offensive

    America's Impact on British Art Since 1945

    by John A. Walker ...
    The vibrant fine arts and mass culture that the United Stated exported to Britain in the postwar period had a powerful and far-reaching impact on many British artists, art students and critics. In a fascinating social and cultural history covering the period from the 1940s to the 1990s, but with emphasis on the 1950s and 1960s, John A. Walker offers a scholarly but accessible account of America's ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Art in the Age of Mass Media

    by John A. Walker ...
    Can fine art survive in an age of mass media? If so, in what forms and to what purpose? And can radical art still play a critical role in today's divided world?These are the questions addressed in the Art in the Age of Mass Media, as John Walker examines the fascinating relationship between art and mass media, and the myriad interactions between high and low culture in a postmodern, culturally ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Art and Celebrity

    by John A. Walker ...
    The growing cult of the celebrity in contemporary culture is throwing up paradoxical ideas about the contradictions between 'high' art and mass appeal and blurring the already unstable boundaries between art, commodity and popular culture.This is a lively and accessible study of the phenomenon, informed by a look at what happens when the 'serious' world of art collides with celebrity. Global ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Art & Outrage

    Provocation, Controversy and the Visual Arts

    by John A. Walker ...
    When art hits the headlines, it is usually because it has caused offence or is perceived by the media to have shock-value. Over the last fifty years many artists have been censored, vilified, accused of blasphemy and obscenity, threatened with violence, prosecuted and even imprisoned. Their work has been trashed by the media and physically attacked by the public.In Art & Outrage, John A. Walker ... Read more

    $29.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sergeant Jiggy

    by John A.Walker (JWYOU) ...
    This is a true story about a man who was born at the outbreak of the First World War, and who served in Italy during the Second World War. The story kicks off at the beginning of the First World War. George lives a wonderful life in the country next to a small farm, Meikle Dripps, in Scotland. Like all young men he rejoices when the jazz age comes about, and at this point he starts work in a ... Read more

    $5.45 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Behind the Wall

    by John A.Walker (JWYOU) ...
    Theo Rosenberg, originally a newspaper journalist, as a young man went behind the Berlin Wall in 1984. Forty years later, he accepts an offer to work in his home city of Glasgow. The position he takes up is editor of Clipe Media. As soon as he does this he is contacted by someone he met all those years ago Behind the Wall. This agency are keen for him to offer their stories to the public in his ... Read more

    $4.91 USD

  • Cross-Overs

    Art Into Pop/Pop Into Art

    by John A. Walker ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Popular Music
    This book, first published in 1987, was the first major survey of the links between the visual arts and pop music over the last thirty years. It brings to light the ideas, styles and people who have influenced both the look of pop and the shape of art. It examines how pop uses art movements like Dada, Futurism and Surrealism in everything from the design of album covers to the creation of a group ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • short cosmic stories

    by John A.Walker (JWYOU) ...
    This is a collection of short stories: The Reluctant Seer; The art of Crucifixion; The art of Crucifixion 2; The Old Minister; The Gardener; Living in a good area; Imitator; Adam and his mother; The Great Man and the mountain; Breakdown at Newlands Corner; Stonehenge understood; Holy Island; Unreal Trek; The Young Beggar girl, at Clarkston toll; Pilgrimage to Iona; Extraordinary Girl; Clouds Hill; ... Read more

    $4.16 USD

  • Generation R

    by John A.Walker (JWYOU) ...
    In the year 2022, every day two young preachers, Ignatius and Tertullian, go to the city of Glasgow to promote Generation R. They know that in the time they are living, many citizens are being controlled by the Image Makers. Generation C have been brain washed into believing the Internet and the Internet of things are real. The two rival factions are watched over by the Secret Elite, who ... Read more

    $4.78 USD

  • Poppy People

    by John A.Walker (JWYOU) ...
    Moina is surprised when she is told by her father that she is named after the woman who founded the poppy movement. She is so excited about this that she becomes a supporter of those who have served their country.While working in her local hotel, she comes across two characters who she thinks are going to plant a bomb in the city of London: Mustafa Pasha and Carlos the Cockroach.Moina decides to ... Read more

    $5.31 USD

  • Back to the Pagan world

    by John A.Walker (JWYOU) ...
    Abraham loves to paint the countryside, and like many other artists before him, he loves nature. Mercifully, during the pandemic, he can go there and forget all about what is happening throughout the world.Meanwhile, across the road from where he stays his two neighbours fascinate him, both for different reasons: Ian the ex policeman, and his next door neighbour Rick Papadopoulos, otherwise known ... Read more

    $5.45 USD