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 used in the absence of a theoretical framework, and looks critically at a number of his...

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 that moment is done exactly right. However no one seems interested in him, and he is outl...

The Pop Festival is the first book in the Silent Trilogy. The novel is set at the beginning of the 21st century. Pop culture by this time has long faded into the past. All the movements and cults of the twenty-first century go into the city to celebrate the old Pop Festival. The event takes place every year, and it gives the people of the new era a chance to try and understand what pop culture was all about. The novel was first published in 1995. 'Well worth investigating,' Scotsman

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 culture is now dominated by celebrities, some of whom, like Madonna and Stallone, are art c...

This is a collection of four books: Music-lovers, The Pop Festival, Silent Faces at the Races, The Film Festival. The Pop Festival is set at the beginning of the 21st century. Pop culture by this time has long faded into the past. All the movements and cults of the twenty-first century go into the city to celebrate the old Pop Festival. The event takes place every year, and it gives the people of the new era a chance to try and understand what pop culture was all about. The novel was first...

It was such a great mystery how every day the Zephyrman got up early and followed the wind. There was no one like him. And here he was today coming along the street where the young lad lived with his mum and dad and sister. After speaking to the Zephyrman the young lad tells him that he too one day will follow the wind. However, the young lad is curious to know where the old man goes; so he decides to follow him. When they reach the city something terrible happens to the old man, and the y...

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.

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 thoughts into a notebook and develops a philosophy so that he can remain free from the strange po...

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 as the Happy Celebrant.Where he lives, the locals all go to the golf club bar ev...

The Silent Trilogy features the above novels: The Pop Festival; Silent Faces at the Races; The Film Festival. For the first time in the history of publishing you can buy a book with a 14 track musical CD in it, that is part of the storyline, or download the tracks from Amazon. The music relates to different parts of the trilogy

No one, except the artist, John A.Walker, (JWYOU) has written novels and musical albums to go with them.This book lays out the lyrics from his 14 albums, along with the covers. So far the artist is the only one, to date, to be given this role. He is not a corporate artist. The only way you may hear of his work is by way of mouth.

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 newspaper office in town. Unfortunately in 1936 he falls ill and is paid off. Thankfully he recover...