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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

    $16.49 CAD 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

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lucy Lovelock: a girl in a whirl

    by John A.Walker (JWYOU) ...
    Lucy Lovelock and her friends, Jenny Penny, and Gina Cappuccino, like most young girls in the 21st century do not like being controlled by the TV and Media Moguls. And here today Lucy is off to work for the Academy of Entertainment: the main TV station in the city centre of town. How will she cope? How will the girl in a whirl keep her free spirit free? This edition includes part two: Mirror the ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Beautiful Protestant Religion

    by John A.Walker (JWYOU) ...
    The Beautiful Protestant Religion has been updated for the reader. This is a book about the author's feelings drawn from the Bible. ... Read more

    $4.06 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Art-lovers

    by John A.Walker (JWYOU) ...
    Art-lovers is set in 1982 and is the story of a young man called Henry Bowers. Henry wants to change society and culture with his art. He feels that the new vibrant culture is being slowly manipulated by industry, and in a few years time it will be all but gone in shape and form. The young artist wants to save it from being destroyed.When he makes up his mind to become an artist everything from ... Read more

    $7.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Music-lovers

    by John A.Walker (JWYOU) ...
    Music-lovers is the celebrated story set in Glasgow just before the year two thousand. The story is told through eyes of the man the Jungle Bar people call the MusicMan. The novel opens in the apartment of the MusicMan and thereafter follows him through the city. Glasgow has changed radically during the nineteen nineties because of the enterprise culture. Brimming with characters this is ... Read more

    $7.29 CAD 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

    $40.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Silent Faces at the Races

    by John A.Walker (JWYOU) ...
    Series series The Silent Scene
    The Silent Trilogy features the above novels: The Pop Festival; Silent Faces at the Races; The Film Festival. ... Read more

    $7.01 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poems for the 21st Century

    by John A.Walker (JWYOU) ...
    A selection of fantastic poems about life. The poems are all on different topics. One poem is about meeting Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon; another is about going along to a live broadcast of a football match in a pub. ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD 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

    $40.99 CAD 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

    $36.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Glass River

    by John A.Walker (JWYOU) ...
    Short story about how to avoid being hypnotised by the power of electronic images. One evening a young man walks to the river near where he stays, and there sitting by the river that night he understands for the first time the power of electronic images that are sent through the air to people all around the world. It’s Just an illusion. And as he sits there at the river bank he writes down his ... Read more

    $4.15 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus