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  • Outsider Art In Texas
    Outsider Art In Texas
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    Texas looms large: big skies, vast plains, large cities. The Lone Star State often inspires a heightened sense of place in its citizens that rivals or surpasses that of New […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Japanese Design (Taschen)
    Japanese Design (Taschen)
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    Comprehensive overview of Japanese design-work, lavishly illustrated. Taschen, 1992 Softcover Edition. Some light scuffing/wear to wraps.

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Gerhard Ruhm – Auf Messers Schneide
    Gerhard Ruhm – Auf Messers Schneide
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    Gerhard Rühm – table, piano Christa Hemtesberger – fork Alois Pillichshammer – knife Wolfgang Liko – tablespoon Jonas Geise – teaspoon Gabriele Egger – soup Fully transcribed, with accompanying [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Cheyney Thompson: Passages
    Cheyney Thompson: Passages
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    One of the first book-length publications on contemporary artist Cheyney Thompson, whose work is known for its radically forward-looking intellectualism and formal rigor. Cheyney Thompson’s (b. [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Hard Art: DC 1979
    Hard Art: DC 1979
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    “A great concert photograph finds a way to communicate all the stuff your retinas can’t detect. Noise. Humidity. Claustrophobia. Young minds being shaped inside sweaty skulls. Lucian [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Punk / Hardcore
  • Bat Girls and Acid Boys: The Spontaneous Drawings of Leigh Bowery & Friends
    Bat Girls and Acid Boys: The Spontaneous Drawings of Leigh Bowery & Friends
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    120 vivid “exquisite corpse” drawings made by the outrageous artist, performer, and designer Leigh Bowery with friends and collaborators during the 1980s and 1990s. In the wild years [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Eduardo Cadava – Paper Graveyards
    Eduardo Cadava – Paper Graveyards
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    A generously illustrated training manual for reading images, discussing work by Félix Nadar, Roland Barthes, Fazal Sheikh, Susan Meiselas, and others. Paper Graveyards is neither a work of [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • William Kentridge : (October Files)
    William Kentridge : (October Files)
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    Critical 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Theatre : Art Brut: The Collection
    Theatre : Art Brut: The Collection
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    The theatre is the central theme of this fourth volume in our series titled ‘Art Brut – The Collection’, published to coincide with the fourth Art Brut Biennale. After exploring [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Roy Lichtenstein : (October Files)
    Roy Lichtenstein : (October Files)
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    The most comprehensive collection on Lichtenstein, from the earliest reviews to recent reassessments, including several hard-to-find and previously unpublished pieces. Roy Lichtenstein’s [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Robert Morris and Angst
    Robert Morris and Angst
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    Both as an artist and as a theorist, Robert Morris (b. 1931) has challenged prevailing ideas about art and culture. He is best known as the father of Minimal Art. […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Richard Hamilton : (October Files)
    Richard Hamilton : (October Files)
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    Essays 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Slawomir Elsner – Panorama
    Slawomir Elsner – Panorama
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    The young Polish-born, Berlin-based painter Slawomir Elsner derives his paintings from photographs found in art books or in the media. For this project, Elsner took the Polish weekly magazine [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Martin Boyce: When Now Is Night
    Martin Boyce: When Now Is Night
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    Best known for his powerful sculptures and installations, Scottish artist Martin Boyce reconfigures everyday elements into alternate realities. Garbage cans are lopsided, trees consist of [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Chaos and Awe : Painting for the 21st Century
    Chaos and Awe : Painting for the 21st Century
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    Fifty 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, […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Robert Rauschenberg : (October Files)
    Robert Rauschenberg : (October Files)
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    Critical 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 […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe : Black Acid Co-Op / Bright White Underground / Stray Light Grey / Artichoke Underground
    Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe : Black Acid Co-Op / Bright White Underground / Stray Light Grey / Artichoke Underground
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    Since 2007, artists Jonah Freeman (born 1975) and Justin Lowe (born 1976) have collaborated to create mazelike immersive installations. This is the very first monograph on the duo, printed in [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Chris Marker – Staring Back
    Chris Marker – Staring Back
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    Photographs 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 […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • In the Mind but Not from There : Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art
    In the Mind but Not from There : Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art
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    Artists 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Ravens and Red Lipstick : Japanese Photography Since 1945
    Ravens and Red Lipstick : Japanese Photography Since 1945
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    Ravens & 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Jean-Michel Basquiat – The Notebooks
    Jean-Michel Basquiat – The Notebooks
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    A 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Dimensionism : Modern Art in the Age of Einstein
    Dimensionism : Modern Art in the Age of Einstein
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    The first book to document how artists of the early twentieth century responded to new scientific conceptions of reality. In the early twentieth century, influenced by advances in science that [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Alexander Von Humboldt : The Complete Drawings from the American Travel Journals
    Alexander Von Humboldt : The Complete Drawings from the American Travel Journals
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    At 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 […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Richard Prince: Untitled (Couple)
    Richard Prince: Untitled (Couple)
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    A year after Richard Prince’s Untitled (cowboy) photograph set a record for the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction, a study of a work from Richard Prince’s series of […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Dan Graham – Rock My Religion : Writings and Projects 1965-1990
    Dan Graham – Rock My Religion : Writings and Projects 1965-1990
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    Rock My Religion collects eighteen of Graham’s essays from all periods of his work, beginning with his essays on minimalist artists such as Dan Flavin and Donald Judd, continuing with […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Revolution of the Eye : Modern Art and the Birth of American Television
    Revolution of the Eye : Modern Art and the Birth of American Television
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    The 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 […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • The Art of Participation, 1950 to Now
    The Art of Participation, 1950 to Now
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    The 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 […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • American Genre Painting : The Politics of Everyday Life
    American Genre Painting : The Politics of Everyday Life
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    Drawing 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Hans Haacke : (October Files)
    Hans Haacke : (October Files)
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    Critical texts that span almost fifty years, mapping Haacke’s progression from engagement with biological systems to interrogation of the social and economic underpinnings of art. For five [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Birgit Jürgenssen : I Am
    Birgit Jürgenssen : I Am
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    This mesmerizing collection of photography, drawing, and sculpture showcases the work of Birgit Jürgenssen, an Austrian avant-garde artist. Birgit Jürgenssen (1949-2003), one of Austria’s [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Hal Foster – What Comes after Farce : Art and Criticism at a Time of Debacle
    Hal Foster – What Comes after Farce : Art and Criticism at a Time of Debacle
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    In a world where truth is cast in doubt and shame has gone missing, what are artists and critics on the left to do? How to demystify a political order […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Arthur Lubow – Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows
    Arthur Lubow – Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows
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    Man Ray (1890-1976), a founding father of Dada and a key player in French Surrealism, is one of the central artists of the twentieth century. He is also one of […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Live or Die : Philippe Vandenberg and Bruce Nauman
    Live or Die : Philippe Vandenberg and Bruce Nauman
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    This 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Futurist Manifestos
    Futurist Manifestos
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    On February 20th, 1909, a belligerent manifesto announcing the birth of the Futurist movement appeared on the front page of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro and sent immediate shockwaves throughout [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Disappearing-California C. 1970 : Bas Jan Ader, Chris Burden, Jack Goldstein
    Disappearing-California C. 1970 : Bas Jan Ader, Chris Burden, Jack Goldstein
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    In 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Dieter Roth & Richard Hamilton – Collaborations : Relations-Confrontations
    Dieter Roth & Richard Hamilton – Collaborations : Relations-Confrontations
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    Richard Hamilton first made contact with Dieter Roth in 1961, having seen some of his books the previous year. From then until Roth’s death in 1998, the two artists collaborated […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Hal Foster – Brutal Aesthetics Brutal Aesthetics : Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg
    Hal Foster – Brutal Aesthetics Brutal Aesthetics : Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg
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    How artists created an aesthetic of “positive barbarism” in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb In Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian Hal [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Bio Art : Altered Realities
    Bio Art : Altered Realities
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    In 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Bill Viola
    Bill Viola
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    The 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Thomas Crow – The Artist in the Counterculture : Bruce Conner to Mike Kelley and Other Tales from the Edge
    Thomas Crow – The Artist in the Counterculture : Bruce Conner to Mike Kelley and Other Tales from the Edge
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    How 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg : Art, Happenings, and Cultural Politics
    Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg : Art, Happenings, and Cultural Politics
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    This 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 […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Ana Ofak – Agents Of Abstraction
    Ana Ofak – Agents Of Abstraction
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    The aesthetics of a non-Soviet form of socialism, drafted by four Yugoslav artists in the 1950s.As the cold war gained momentum in Europe, Tito’s break with Stalin led to Yugoslavia’s [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Stephane Mallarme – The Book
    Stephane Mallarme – The Book
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    Frequently quoted but never before translated in its entirety, The Book is a visual poem about its own construction The French poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–98) was modernism’s great [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Nicolas Devil & Jean Rollin – Saga de Xam
    Nicolas Devil & Jean Rollin – Saga de Xam
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    In the annals of alternative comics, few works are as venerated, or as underseen, as Saga de Xam, the legendary French graphic novel by Nicholas Devil and Jean Rollin. Originally […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Sakevi Yokoyama – Oppressive Liberation Spirit: Vol I
    Sakevi Yokoyama – Oppressive Liberation Spirit: Vol I
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    “Sakevi Yokoyama’s artistic creations have consistently exuded brilliance, cryptic allure, and majestic qualities, while continually transcending the boundaries of conventional forms [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Fluxus And The Essential Questions Of Life
    Fluxus And The Essential Questions Of Life
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    Fluxus—from the Latin, meaning “to flow”—was a radical, international network of artists, composers, and designers in the 1960s and 1970s noted for blurring the boundaries between what we term [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Dennis Bernstein & Warren Lehrer – French Fries
    Dennis Bernstein & Warren Lehrer – French Fries
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    Exhibited internationally including at the Georges Pompidue Centre’s L’image Des Mots exhibition, and as a solo exhibit at the Pieter Brattinga Gallery in Amsterdam. Copies of French Fries are [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Animism In Art And Performance
    Animism In Art And Performance
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    This book explores Māori indigenous and non-indigenous scholarship corresponding with the term ‘animism’. In addressing visual, media and performance art, it explores the dualisms of people and [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Giovanni Lista – Theatre Futuriste Italien Vol I & II (as-is, TEXT IN FRENCH)
    Giovanni Lista – Theatre Futuriste Italien Vol I & II (as-is, TEXT IN FRENCH)
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    An anthology of Futurist theater works, wonderfully illustrated. La Cite, 1976 Softcover Edition. Noticeable discoloration to wraps of both volumes and edges of pages. Substantial glue breaks at [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Giovanni Lista – L’Art Postal Futuriste (TEXT IN FRENCH)
    Giovanni Lista – L’Art Postal Futuriste (TEXT IN FRENCH)
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    Giovanni Lista’s survey of mail art within the Futurist movement. Lavishly illustrated. Jean-Michel Place Publishers, 1979 Hardcover Edition. Light discoloration to edges of pages/boards. [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography