The Arts books

For the first time, Hottest Hits brings together the fastest-moving UK singles charts of the 1960s and 1970s. Between...  Read More >>

The Logic of Filtering offers a media archaeological perspective on sound and music that develops a new analysis...  Read More >>

Mensuration and Proportion Signs represents the first attempt to see the origin of musical mensuration and proportion...  Read More >>

This book, the first of two volumes on Steven Wilson, tackles the first ten years of his solo career, from his debut...  Read More >>

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The Moog synthesizer ""bent the course of music forever"" Rolling Stone declared. Bob Moog, the man who did that...  Read More >>

Smokin Jo, a legend in the club world and the only woman to be awarded DJ of the Year in DJ Magazine's list of Top...  Read More >>

A full, comprehensive history of all things King Kong.  Read More >>

What can one city tell us about the global textile waste problem? This Open Access study is the first detailed ethnography...  Read More >>

This is the untold history of Oceania's 1960s lost psychedelic album, The Happy Prince. Recorded in Sydney by the...  Read More >>

Re-issued with a new preface, afterword and reading list, Don We Now Our Gay Apparel analyzes the trends in dress...  Read More >>

Air-Dry Masterpieces features the latest crafting addiction, air-dry clay, while offering an accessible creative...  Read More >>

National Geographic explorer Mac Stone reveals the breathtaking wetlands and swamps of the American Southeast, showcasing...  Read More >>

The authorized Paul Weller biography.  Read More >>

More than just Wolverine's origin story, with Weapon X legendary creator Barry Windsor-Smith challenged readers’...  Read More >>

This book shows some of Uwe Wittwer's most impressive works, offering an immersive experience of his ongoing creative...  Read More >>

The Secret Lives of Dragons and Other Mythical Creatures: And How to Draw Them is a modern guide to drawing dragons...  Read More >>

Explores the relationship between craft and war, examining craft fabrication, practices, objects, makers and users...  Read More >>

The go-to resource for understanding desire, same-sex and trans eroticism in Shakespeare's texts, this second edition...  Read More >>

A BFI Film Classic exploring Todd Haynes’s kaleidoscopic glam-rock epic, Velvet Goldmine (1998) - an alternative...  Read More >>

A study of Claire Denis' s exhilarating drama Beau travail (1998) in the BFI Film Classics series  Read More >>

In this sharp and humorous look at the outright risqué, as well as the grotesquely exaggerated or repulsive, Ribeiro...  Read More >>

While tracing the social and cultural history of fashion and its complex relationship to modernity, Elizabeth Wilson...  Read More >>

Fashioning London charts the history of clothing in England’s capital through its manufacture, promotion, cultural...  Read More >>

A study of Jean-Pierre Melville's 1967 neo-noir crime drama Le Samouraï in the BFI Film Classics series.  Read More >>