An inside account of the creation of the rock band Roxy Music describes how the 1960s underground, Pop Art, and swinging London were transformed into a unique musical look and sound, in an illustrated volume that draws on interviews with those involved--including Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno, Andy Mackay, and Phil Manzanera. Original.

Recounts the story of the individuals and circumstances that would lead to the formation of Roxy Music. This work also gives an account of how Pop Art, the avant garde underground of the 1960s, and the heady slipstream of London during that decade were transformed into the fashion cults of revivalism, nostalgia and pop futurism in the early 1970s.

Product Description: Born in Samoa in 1947, Richard Wentworth first came to prominence in the late 1970s along with a generation of artists whose work came to be known as New British Sculpture. By concentrating on the overlooked, and transforming and manipulating industrial or found objects into works of art, Wentworth both subverts their original function and challenges existing systems of classification...read more

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Product Description: Rare book; green cover with cobra coming out of man's mouth. Excellent condition

Product Description: A blistering, brilliant and utterly original explanation of the Englishness of English pop culture in the twentieth century. An ambitious mould-breaking book on Englishness which abandons the false distinction between 'high' and 'low' culture in favour of a borderless world where pop music and sculpture, literature and film, TV and painting are all accorded the same respect, and are part of the same vision...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A photographic study of London produced by German photographer Rut Blees Luxemburg. The volume documents the way space has become an ideological manifestation of power and control.

Product Description: Michael De Winter is London's richest, trendiest, most successful architect in this satirical novel. When "Designate" magazine wants to do an in-depth feature on his life and buildings, Max comes face to face with the meaninglessness of his life and sets out to blow up all his creations...read more

Offers a satiric look at modern mores through the story of Miles Harrier, a young businessman, and the three women interested in him, Kelly O'Kelly, a performance artist, Lucinda Fortune, a psychic, and Stella Walker-Jones, a secretary-turned-model

Merril, manager of the Crypto-Amnesia Club, a trendy London nightclub, is a witness to his customers' pursuit of fashion and fads