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David Thomson – Murder and the Movies
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsHow many acts of murder have each of us followed on a screen? What does that say about us? Do we remain law-abiding citizens who wouldn’t hurt a fly? Film […]
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William Kentridge : (October Files)
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsCritical texts and interviews that explore the drawings, animations, and theatrical work of the South African artist William Kentridge. Since the 1970s, the South African artist William Kentridge [...]
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Roy Lichtenstein : (October Files)
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe most comprehensive collection on Lichtenstein, from the earliest reviews to recent reassessments, including several hard-to-find and previously unpublished pieces. Roy Lichtenstein’s [...]
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Richard Hamilton : (October Files)
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsEssays and articles about Richard Hamiton, “the intellectual father of Pop art.“ Still little-known in the United States, Richard Hamilton is a key figure in twentieth-century art. An original [...]
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Martin Boyce: When Now Is Night
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBest known for his powerful sculptures and installations, Scottish artist Martin Boyce reconfigures everyday elements into alternate realities. Garbage cans are lopsided, trees consist of [...]
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Chaos and Awe : Painting for the 21st Century
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFifty paintings, reproduced in color, by an international array of contemporary artists, show the aptness and relevance of painting in an era of uncertainty. In an age of global instability, […]
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Robert Rauschenberg : (October Files)
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsCritical essays on the artist Robert Rauschenberg, focusing on the important period of his development in the 1950s and 1960s. From the moment art historian Leo Steinberg championed his work […]
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The Reason for the Darkness of the Night : Edgar Allan Poe and the For…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAn innovative biography of Edgar Allan Poe―highlighting his fascination and feuds with science. Decade after decade, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of the most popular American writers. He is [...]
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Chris Marker – Staring Back
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPhotographs by one of French cinema’s most influential and enigmatic artists. Any new film and any new book by French filmmaker Chris Marker is an event. Marker gave film lovers […]
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High Religion : A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAn eminent anthropologist examines the foundings of the first celibate Buddhist monasteries among the Sherpas of Nepal in the early 20th century — a religious development that was a major [...]
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Lucinda Williams – Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told Y…
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsLucinda Williams’s rise to fame was anything but easy. Raised in a working-class family in the Deep South, she moved from town to town each time her father–a poet, a […]
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Dangerous Rhythms : Jazz and the Underworld
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDangerous Rhythms tells the symbiotic story of jazz and the underworld: a relationship fostered in some of 20th century America’s most notorious vice districts. For the first half of the [...]
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In the Mind but Not from There : Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsArtists and critics explore the concept of Real Abstraction to help understand contemporary cultural production In the Mind, But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art considers [...]
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Ravens and Red Lipstick : Japanese Photography Since 1945
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsRavens & Red Lipstick provides a visually bold survey of Japanese photography’s recent history. Drawing together extensive research and a succession of engaging dialogues with both [...]
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Jean-Michel Basquiat – The Notebooks
$14.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA facsimile edition of the artist’s fascinating working notebooks Brooklyn-born Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) was one of the most important artists of the 1980s. A key figure in the New [...]
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Vision Machines: Cinema, Literature and Sexuality in Spain and Cuba, 1…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOver the last decade, visibility and sexuality have become a major theme in Spanish and Cuban cinema, literature and art. This book explores this development in the light of contemporary […]
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Robin Robertson – The Long Take : A Noir Narrative
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFrom the award-winning British author–a poet’s noir narrative that tells the story of a D-Day veteran in postwar America: a good man, brutalized by war, haunted by violence and [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Alexander Von Humboldt : The Complete Drawings from the American Trave…
$60.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAt the dawn of the 19th-century, the Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt was granted permission to charter an expedition to Spain’s colonies in the New World. Over the course of […]
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Bruce Grant – In the Soviet House of Culture : A Century of Pere…
$17.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAt the outset of the twentieth century, the Nivkhi of Sakhalin Island were a small population of fishermen under Russian dominion and an Asian cultural sway. The turbulence of the […]
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Revolution of the Eye : Modern Art and the Birth of American Televisio…
$13.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe aesthetics and concepts of modern art have influenced American television ever since its inception in the 1930s. In return, early television introduced the public to the latest trends in […]
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The Art of Participation, 1950 to Now
$13.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe first fully illustrated survey of participatory art and its key practitioners, published in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This new survey covers the rich and […]
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American Genre Painting : The Politics of Everyday Life
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDrawing on contemporary literature, popular culture, news, and census reports, Johns convincingly shows that antebellum American genre painting was not a simple recording of an Edenic American [...]
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Eileen Myles – A Working Life
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe first new collection since Evolution from the prolific poet, activist, and writer Eileen Myles, a “Working Life” unerringly captures the measure of life. Whether alone or in [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Alexandra Popoff – Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIf Vasily Grossman’s 1961 masterpiece, Life and Fate, had been published during his lifetime, it would have reached the world together with Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago and before [...]
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Pathetic Literature
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Literature is pathetic.” So claims Eileen Myles in their provocative and robust introduction to Pathetic Literature, a breathtaking mishmash of pieces ranging from poems to theater [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Live or Die : Philippe Vandenberg and Bruce Nauman
$13.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis publication combines the works of Belgian artist Philippe Vandenberg (1952-2009) and American artist Bruce Nauman (b. 1941). At first, it may seem startling to see Nauman’s small but [...]
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Jack Burnham – Dissolve into Comprehension : Writings and Interv…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsInfluential writings by the legendary art critic and theorist Jack Burnham-a pioneer in new media systems aesthetics and an early advocate of conceptualism. Jack Burnham is one of the few […]
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Disappearing-California C. 1970 : Bas Jan Ader, Chris Burden, Jack Gol…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 1971, Chris Burden disappeared for three days without a trace. This book, also entitled Disappearing, examines the theme of disappearance in the works of Burden and his contemporaries, Bas [...]
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Dirty Pictures : How an Underground Network of Nerds, Feminists, Misfi…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn the 1950s, comics meant POW! BAM! superheroes, family-friendly gags, and Sunday funnies, but in the 1960s, inspired by these strips and the satire of MAD magazine, a new generation […]
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Bio Art : Altered Realities
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn an era of fast-paced technological progress and with the impact of humans on the environment increasing, the concept of “nature” itself seems called into question. Bio Art explores [...]
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Bill Viola
$22.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe first monograph of one of contemporary art’s most powerful creative minds and perhaps the most successful multi-media artist working today. Bill Viola began producing video works in the early [...]
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Thomas Crow – The Artist in the Counterculture : Bruce Conner to…
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsHow California’s counterculture of the 1960s to 1980s profoundly shaped–and was shaped by–West Coast artists The 1960s exert a special fascination in modern art. But most [...]
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Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg : Art, Happenings, and Cultural Polit…
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis new interpretation of the structure and meaning of the Happenings produced by Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg in the late 1950s and 1960s sheds light on the context, theoretical […]
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Eyeless In Gaza – Back From The Rains (1986 UK Pressing)
$28.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl“The final Eyeless in Gaza release before the duo’s temporary split, Back From the Rains builds on the pop sense of Rust Red September excellently. Beginning with the brief a […]
GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk -
V/A – The Quick Neat Job (Crépuscule Collection 1)
$25.00 | LP, Used Items, VinylCrépuscule Collection No.1. Features tracks by Anna Domino, Be Music & Paul Haig Label: Les Disques Du Crépuscule – VIL-28048 Format: Vinyl, Compilation, LP Country: Japan Released: 1986 VG+/VG+
GENRE: Indie / Alternative -
James White & The Blacks – Off White (1980 Japanese Pressing)
$50.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl“For Off White, James Chance, a veteran of New York’s avant-garde no wave scene, recast his seminal band the Contortions as a parody of a soul band, albeit one incorporating […]
GENRE: Indie / Alternative