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The Heroin Diariesby Nikki Sixx
Simon & Schuster 2007; US$ 14.99In one of the most unique memoirs of addiction ever published, MÖtley CrÜe's Nikki Sixx shares mesmerizing diary entries from the year he spiraled out of control in a haze of heroin and cocaine, presented alongside riveting commentary from people who were there at the time, and from Nikki himself. When MÖtley CrÜe was at the height of its fame, there wasn't any drug Nikki Sixx wouldn't do. He spent days -- sometimes alone, sometimes with other addicts, friends, and lovers -- in a coke and heroin-fueled daze. The highs were high, and Nikki's journal entries reveal some euphoria and joy. But the lows were lower, often ending with Nikki in his closet, surrounded by drug paraphernalia and wrapped in paranoid delusions. ... more...
Explicit Body in Performanceby Rebecca Schneider
Routledge 1997; US$ 38.95An in-depth and accessible study of the controversial and often shocking issues which surround the use of the female body in performance art. more...
Venus in Exileby Wendy Steiner
Simon & Schuster 2001; US$ 17.99Whereas previous eras had celebrated beauty as the central aim of art, the modernist avant-garde were deeply suspicious of beauty and its perennial symbols, woman and ornament, preferring instead the thrill and alienation of the sublime. They rejected harmony, empathy, and femininity in a denial still reverberating through art and social relations today. Exploring this casting of Venus, with all her charms, into exile, Wendy Steiner's brilliant, ambitious, and provocative analysis explores the twentieth century's troubled relationship with beauty. Tracing this strange and damaging history, starting from Kant's aesthetics and Mary Shelley's horrified response in Frankenstein, Steiner untangles the complex attitudes of modernists toward both... more...
Museum Time Machineby Robert Lumley
Routledge 1988; US$ 37.95A provocative contribution to the current debate on museums, this collection of essays contains contributions from France, Britain, Australia, the USA and Canada. more...
Cultural Snipingby Annette Kuhn; Jo Spence
Routledge 1995; US$ 43.95Jo Spence was one of Britain's pioneering photographers. This book is the first to reflect her unique contribution to photography and photographic theory. more...
Resistance Through Ritualsby Stuart Hall; Tony Jefferson
Routledge 1989; US$ 37.95This collection looks in detail at the wide range of youth subcultures from teds and skinheads to black rastafarians. more...
Pop Art and the Origins of Post-Modernismby Sylvia Harrison; Donald Kuspit
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 85.00Harrison's study examines the critical reception of Pop Art, comparing the ideas of its New York-based critics with the strikingly similar body of thought now associated with deconstructive post-modernism. Pop Art thus spawned not only visual commentary on post-war society, but also the subversive critical consciousness now dominant in academe. more...
Weimar Surfacesby Janet Ward
University of California Press 2001; US$ 15.95Germany of the 1920s offers a stunning moment in modernity, a time when surface values first became determinants of taste, activity, and occupation: modernity was still modern, spectacle was still spectacular. Janet Ward's luminous study revisits Weimar Germany via the lens of metropolitan visual culture, analyzing the power that 1920s Germany holds for today's visual codes of consumerism. more...
The Authority of Everyday Objectsby Paul Betts
University of California Press 2004; US$ 25.95From the Werkbund to the Bauhaus to Braun, from furniture to automobiles to consumer appliances, twentieth-century industrial design is closely associated with Germany. In this pathbreaking study, Paul Betts brings to light the crucial role that design played in building a progressive West German industrial culture atop the charred remains of the past. The Authority of Everyday Objects details how the postwar period gave rise to a new design culture comprising a sprawling network of diverse interest groups?including the state and industry, architects and designers, consumer groups and museums, as well as publicists and women's organizations?who all identified industrial design as a vital means of economic recovery, social reform, and even... more...
British Cultural Studiesby Graeme Turner
Routledge 2002; US$ 39.95This third edition of a popular text offers an accessible overview of the central themes: language, semiotics, Marxism and ideology, individualism, subjectivity and discourse. more...