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  • Ann Marks – Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny
    Ann Marks – Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Phot…
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    Vivian Maier, the photographer nanny whose work was famously discovered in a Chicago storage locker, captured the imagination of the world with her masterful images and mysterious life. Before [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Terry Taylor – The Altered Object: Techniques, Projects, Inspiration
    Terry Taylor – The Altered Object: Techniques, Projects, Inspira…
    $10.00 | , , ,

    Altered art is the fastest growing craft trend today—but its practitioners can’t live by books alone: they long to expand their horizons and explore new directions. And this follow-up to […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Werner Gillon – A Short History of African Art
    Werner Gillon – A Short History of African Art
    $10.00 | , ,

    An history of the visual arts of Africa – sculpture, painting and architecture; textiles, pottery and other household objects; jewellery, ceremonial and religious dress and body art. The [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Perez Sanchez and Sayre – Goya and the Spirit of Enlightenment
    Perez Sanchez and Sayre – Goya and the Spirit of Enlightenment
    $20.00 | , , ,

    Published in conjunction with a landmark exhibition, this exceptional catalogue features the paintings, prints, and drawings that most clearly convey Francisco Goya’s engagement with [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Frans Baudouin  – Peter Paul Rubens
    Frans Baudouin – Peter Paul Rubens
    $25.00 | , , ,

    This book offers a series of in-depth studies, including an excellent selection of some new as well as previously published essays. These essays give a valuable account of the exceptional […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Matt Furie – Boy’s Club #2 (scarce)
    Matt Furie – Boy’s Club #2 (scarce)
    $150.00 | , , ,

    Issue #2 of Matt Furie’s comic strip of anthropomorphic animals. Buenaventura Press, 2008 Comic magazine edition. Light wear to spine and corners.

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Maia Ruth Lee – Bondage Baggage
    Maia Ruth Lee – Bondage Baggage
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    Bondage Baggage is the first major monograph on the work of artist Maia Ruth Lee and focuses on her ongoing body of work of the same name. Working across painting, […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Into The Time Horizon
    Into The Time Horizon
    $30.00 | ,

    Although there have been a range of international exhibitions exploring different aspects of environmentalism in the last couple years, Into the Time Horizon promises to be one of the most […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Ryan McIntosh and Yogan Muller – Tracy Hills
    Ryan McIntosh and Yogan Muller – Tracy Hills
    $35.00 | ,

    A collaboration between LA-based photographers McIntosh and Muller in which they explore and document Tracy Hills—a new master-planned community being built near Tracy, in the central valley of [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds – Honor Song
    Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds – Honor Song
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    Heap of Birds harnesses color, text, place, and the language of abstraction to reconstruct histories, engage with the treatment of global Indigenous communities, and advance the rights of, and [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Ed Ruscha – They Called Her Styrene
    Ed Ruscha – They Called Her Styrene
    $16.00 | , , ,

    Los Angeles-based artist Ed Ruscha, one of the seminal American artists of the past 30 years, is known for taking elements from the visual language of advertising and commercial art: […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Otto Muehl ‎– Musik 1982-90
    Otto Muehl ‎– Musik 1982-90
    $12.00 | , , ,

    Condition: VG+/VG+ *Image in the listing is stock. There may be variation in the actual product.

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries
    Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries
    $100.00 | , ,

    Founded in 1985 in Sarpsborg, Norway, Slayer Magazine quickly rose to prominence by championing countless unsigned death metal pioneers. The pages of the magazine became a written gospel for the [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Metal, Zine
  • David Doubilet – Water Light Time
    David Doubilet – Water Light Time
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    Beneath the surface of the world’s waters lie landscapes, species, vegetations and populations as diverse and splendid as those on land, yet these kingdoms have been explored by few. Water [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Barefoot Gen: Volume Four
    Barefoot Gen: Volume Four
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    Barefoot Gen Volume Four ―”Out of the Ashes” ―resumes nine days after the bomb, as Gen and his mother continue to struggle for food, shelter and water amid chaos and […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Barefoot Gen: Volume Three
    Barefoot Gen: Volume Three
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    Barefoot Gen Volume Three ―”Life After the Bomb” ―picks up the story with Gen, his mother and his baby brother searching for a place to rest in the bomb’s aftermath. […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Barefoot Gen: Volume Two
    Barefoot Gen: Volume Two
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    Barefoot Gen Volume Two ―”The Day After” ―tells the story of the day after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, as seen through the eyes of seven-year-old Gen Nakaoka. […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Elkins – Re-Enchantment
    Elkins – Re-Enchantment
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    The near-absence of religion from contemporary discourse on art is one of the most fundamental issues in postmodernism. Artists critical of religion can find voices in the art world, but […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Andre Kertesz – Birds
    Andre Kertesz – Birds
    $10.00 | , ,

    Part of the Images Of America Series Book is in Very Good condition and shows light general wear. There may be slight shelfwear to edges and wraps,  however binding will […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Tony Fitzpatrick – The Apostles of Humboldt Park
    Tony Fitzpatrick – The Apostles of Humboldt Park
    $10.00 | , ,

    “Despite the tragic and Heartbreaking toll Covid -19 has taken on the lives of Americans, there were things that we grasped in order to hold on to hope.In spite of […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Charles Simonds – Museum of Contemporary Art (as-is, notes)
    Charles Simonds – Museum of Contemporary Art (as-is, notes)
    $10.00 | , ,

    Published in conjunction with the exhibition that was seen in Chicago from November 7, 1981-January 3, 1982; and subsequently at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Fort Worth Art […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Volkmar Essers – Henri Matisse (Taschen Basic Art Series)
    Volkmar Essers – Henri Matisse (Taschen Basic Art Series)
    $10.00 | , ,

    Henri Matisse (1869 1954), a cofounder of Fauvism, understood the expressive power of pure colors and simple forms. As seen here, his color harmonies can be analogous to musical compositions, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • David Smith: Replacing the Shower of Sparks…
    David Smith: Replacing the Shower of Sparks…
    $10.00 | , ,

    Gallery exhibition catalog. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear to the wraps/boards, or light creasing/wear to the pages. […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Clarke – Becoming Edvard Munch
    Clarke – Becoming Edvard Munch
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    Two potent myths have traditionally defined our understanding of the artist Edvard Munch (1862–1944): he was mentally unstable, as his iconic work The Scream (1893) suggests, and he was radically [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Complete Paintings of the Van Eycks
    The Complete Paintings of the Van Eycks
    $10.00 | , ,

    Jan van Eyck, the most famous and innovative Flemish painter of the 15th century, is thought to have been born in the village of Maaseyck in Limbourg around 1390 and […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Zafran – Gaugin’s Nirvana
    Zafran – Gaugin’s Nirvana
    $10.00 | , ,

    Shortly before Gauguin made his first Tahitian journey in 1891, he spent nearly two years in the remote Breton fishing village of Le Pouldu. Seeking creative isolation in a “primitive” […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Painting at Northwestern: Conger, Paschke, Valerio
    Painting at Northwestern: Conger, Paschke, Valerio
    $12.00 | , ,

    Overview of Conger, Paschke, Valerio’s work as part of an exhibition catalog for Northwestern. Book is in Very Good condition and shows light general wear. There may be slight shelfwear [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Davidts & Paice – The Fall of the Studio
    Davidts & Paice – The Fall of the Studio
    $12.00 | , ,

    Valiz’s Antennae series picks up new currents in the arts and commissions essays that transmit current waves of thought. The Fall of the Studio: Artists at Work, a collection of […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Vitruvius – Ten Books on Architecture
    Vitruvius – Ten Books on Architecture
    $12.00 | , ,

    The oldest and most influential book ever written on architecture, this volume describes the classic principles of symmetry, harmony, and proportion and the ancients’ methods, materials, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Forbidden Worlds Volume 2: May/June to November 1952
    Forbidden Worlds Volume 2: May/June to November 1952
    $15.00 | , ,

    Hardcover. Tales exploring the supernatural featuring featuring Issues 6-11 from May/June 1952 to November 1952 of the ACG classic Forbidden Worlds. This second volume has been meticulously [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • D’ Alessandro & Elderfield – Matisse: Radical Invention
    D’ Alessandro & Elderfield – Matisse: Radical Inventi…
    $15.00 | , ,

    The works that Henri Matisse (1869–1954) executed between late 1913 and 1917 are among his most demanding, experimental, and enigmatic. Often sharply composed, heavily reworked, and dominated by [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Samuel Palmer: 1805 – 1881
    Samuel Palmer: 1805 – 1881
    $15.00 | , ,

    This book, which accompanied the first major retrospective of Samuel Palmer’s work in nearly 80 years, unites 170 of Palmer’s finest watercolours, drawings, etchings and oils from [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Bermudez and Gardner – Art and Morality
    Bermudez and Gardner – Art and Morality
    $15.00 | , ,

    Featuring contributions from Matthew Kieran, Aaron Ridley, Roger Scruton and Mary Mothersill to name but a few, this collection of groundbreaking new papers on aesthetics and ethics, highlights [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Berzock and Clarke – Representing Africa in American Art Museums
    Berzock and Clarke – Representing Africa in American Art Museums
    $20.00 | , ,

    In recent years, the critical study of museums has emerged as a major focus of scholarly inquiry across various disciplines, bringing into greater focus the effect that museum practice has […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • The Sacred Conspiracy: The Internal Papers of the Secret Society of Acephale
    The Sacred Conspiracy: The Internal Papers of the Secret Society of Ac…
    $40.00 | , ,

    This book recounts what must be one of the most unusual intellectual journeys of modern times, in which the influential philosopher, cultural theorist and occasional pornographer Georges Bataille [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Laurie Anderson – United States (as-is, no dustjacket)
    Laurie Anderson – United States (as-is, no dustjacket)
    $45.00 | , ,

    The companion art book/libretto for Anderson’s multi-media performance show/magnum opus. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear to the [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • The Celtic Year: A Perpetual Solar And Lunar Calendar
    The Celtic Year: A Perpetual Solar And Lunar Calendar
    $100.00 | , ,

    A perpetual Solar and Lunar Calendar. The ancient festivals and the cycles of the Sun, Moon and Zodiac. Gorgeously illustrated. Light creasing from the fold of the calendar itself. Folds […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Jean Fautrier: 1898-1964
    Jean Fautrier: 1898-1964
    $32.00 | , ,

    Jean Fautrier, one of France’s most important interwar and postwar artists, is perhaps best known for the Otages, his series of abstract paintings featuring partially obliterated or [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Late Modern: The Visual Arts Since 1945
    Late Modern: The Visual Arts Since 1945
    $7.00 | , ,

    This new and augmented edition brings the history of the visual arts since the war forward to the events of the mid-1970’s, and, in particular, to the shift of attention […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Lisa Saltzman – Anselm Kiefer and Art After Auschwitz
    Lisa Saltzman – Anselm Kiefer and Art After Auschwitz
    $30.00 | , ,

    Anselm Kiefer and Art after Auschwitz examines the legacy of German-Jewish culture in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Positioning Kiefer as a deeply learned artist who encounters and represents [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Himalayan Art: Wall-Painting and Sculpture (as-is)
    Himalayan Art: Wall-Painting and Sculpture (as-is)
    $7.00 | , ,

    Illustrated overview of the art of the Himalayan peoples This book is in Acceptable readable condition. It has been read and will show noticeable age & wear to the wraps/boards, […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Sol Lewitt: Incomplete Open Cubes
    Sol Lewitt: Incomplete Open Cubes
    $50.00 | , ,

    A documentation and critical examination of Sol LeWitt’s influential Incomplete Open Cubes. With essays by Nicholas Baume, Jonathan Flatley, and Pamela M. Lee. Begun in 1974, Incomplete [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Way Of Cartouche Set (as-is, no box, wear/discoloration)
    The Way Of Cartouche Set (as-is, no box, wear/discoloration)
    $40.00 | ,

    A manual and card set by English occultist Murry Hope on a method of divination based on the ancient Egyptian religion and using hieroglyphic images known as cartouches. Hope explains […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • John Neumeier – Traum Wege
    John Neumeier – Traum Wege
    $60.00 | , ,

    Photobook of the work of the choreographer John Neumeier Book is in Very Good condition and shows light general wear. There may be slight shelfwear to edges and wraps,  however […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Hans Haacke and Pierre Bourdieu – Free Exchange
    Hans Haacke and Pierre Bourdieu – Free Exchange
    $15.00 | , ,

    Pierre Bourdieu and Hans Haacke’s frank and open dialogue on contemporary art and culture ranges widely, from censorship and obscenity to the social conditions of artistic creativity. Among [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Barbara Catoir – Conversations with Antoni Tapies
    Barbara Catoir – Conversations with Antoni Tapies
    $10.00 | , ,

    The author has condensed hundreds of hours of her conversations with Spain’s leading contemporary artist, and neatly assembled them in thematic chapters. Book is in Very Good condition and [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Steve Diet Goedde: The Beauty of Fetish (Signed/inscribed!)
    Steve Diet Goedde: The Beauty of Fetish (Signed/inscribed!)
    $60.00 | , ,

    “Fashion magazines are a deliberate reference point for Steve Diet Goedde in his gorgeous “The Beauty of Fetish,” a collection of shots of women in bondage and fetish gear that [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty
    Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty
    $50.00 | , ,

    Marilyn Minter is famed for her glossy, hyper-realistic paintings, photographs and video works―seductive images that borrow the language of fashion and advertising photography, exploring the [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Marilyn Minter: All Wet
    Marilyn Minter: All Wet
    $15.00 | , ,

    New feminist portraiture from Marilyn Minter, in dialogue with ancient Greek art and Impressionism. American visual artist Marilyn Minter (born 1948) has long cultivated a space between the [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Joel-Peter Witkin: Forty Photographs (Signed!)
    Joel-Peter Witkin: Forty Photographs (Signed!)
    $40.00 | , ,

    Signed exhibition catalog of the surrealist photographer’s work This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear to the wraps/boards, or […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography