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D. N. Rodowick – Gilles Deleuze’s Time Machine
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAlthough Gilles Deleuze is one of France’s most celebrated twentieth-century philosophers, his theories of cinema have largely been ignored by American scholars. Film theorist D. N. Rodowick [...]
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More Fun in the New World: The Unmaking & Legacy of L.A. Punk
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartPicking up where Under the Big Black Sun left off, More Fun in the New World explores the years 1982 to 1987, covering the dizzying pinnacle of L.A.’s punk rock […]
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Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartMasculine Singular is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France’s leading feminist film scholars. While most criticism of the New Wave has concentrated on the […]
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Big Goodbye: Chinatown & the Last Years of Hollywood
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelatory account of the making of a modern American masterpiece Chinatown is the Holy […]
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After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartOver the past twenty-five years, Italy’s film industry has produced a remarkable number of award-winning international art-house hits, among them Cinema Paradiso and Life Is Beautiful. [...]
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Mel Bochner – Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings & Interviews.
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cartReviews, art criticism, theoretical texts, interviews, catalog statements, notecards, magazine interventions, and other writings on art and art in the form of writing by a leading conceptual [...]
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Artist & His Critic Stripped Bare: The Correspondence of Marcel Duchamp & Robert Lebel (Bilingual Edition)
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartRobert Lebel, French art critic and collector, was instrumental in rendering Marcel Duchamp’s often hermetic life, art, and ideas accessible to a wider public across Europe and the United States, [...]
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Mrs. Florence Aadland – The Big Love
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Big Love is a Hollywood nightmare. It tells the story of Errol Flynn—a fading, alcoholic movie star—and the underage dancer-actress Beverly Aadland. The narrator? Beverly Aadland’s [...]
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Rocker Magazine – Issue #8
$14.00 | Magazine, Print Add to cartROCKER is a digest published in the great city of Philadelphia, PA, USA. It focuses on harsh noise, ambient, experimental + In this issue: • on the cover: Nick Forte’ […]
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Title TK
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Comprised of the artists and musicians Cory Arcangel, Howie Chen and Alan Licht, Title TK is a “band” that performs in music or art contexts. While they appear on stage […]
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Dennis Covington – Salvation On Sand Mountain
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“For New York Times reporter Dennis Covington, what began as a journalistic assignment-covering the trial of an Alabama pastor convicted of attempting to murder his wife with poisonous [...]
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Mike Davis – Late Victorian Holocausts
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful […]
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Art & Power: The Avant-garde & the Soviet State, 1917-1928
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn Art and Power, Andrei Sarabyanov and Natalia Strizhkova explore the historical period between 1917 to the early 1930s, when avant-garde artists and Bolshevik leaders worked hand in hand to [...]
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Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAt the outset of the twentieth century, language became a visual medium and a philosophical problem for European avant-garde artists. In Total Expansion of the Letter, art historian Trevor Stark [...]
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Real Hallucinations: Psychiatric Illness, Intentionality, & the Interpersonal World
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn Real Hallucinations, Matthew Ratcliffe offers a philosophical examination of the structure of human experience, its vulnerability to disruption, and how it is shaped by relations with other [...]
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Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe 1950s were a transformative, even revolutionary decade in the history of brain science. Using new techniques for probing brain activity and function, researchers in neurosurgery, psychiatry, [...]
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Rolling Thunder Logbook: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright’s Account of Bob Dylan’s Legendary Tour
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn the autumn of 1975, when “New England is festering with Bicentennial madness,” Bob Dylan and his Rolling Thunder Revue-a rag-tag variety show that Dylan envisioned as a traveling [...]
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Neon Screams: How Drill, Trap, & Basement Made Music New Again
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartNeon Screams is a manifesto, a rallying cry for the new musical futurism. Taking street music’s embrace of Auto-Tune in the late 2000s as his starting point, Kit Mackintosh launches […]
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Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartYears after its release, Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea remains one of the most beloved and best-selling albums in all of indie music, hailed as a […]
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Soma: The Divine Hallucinogen
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartSoma has been shrouded in mystery for centuries. It is simultaneously a sacred hallucinogenic plant used in secret rituals, a personified God, and an important cosmological principle. Summarizing [...]
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From the Bodies of the Gods: Psychoactive Plants & the Cults of the Dead as Revealed in Pagan, Hebrew, Minoan, & Christian Traditions
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartLong before the beginnings of civilization, humans have been sacrificed and their flesh used to produce sacred foods and oils for use in religious rites. Originating with the sacred harvest […]
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Courtly Love: The Path of Sexual Initiation
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe widespread turmoil that shook Western Europe as it entered the new millennium with the year 1000 prompted a vast reevaluation of the chief tenets of society. Foremost among these […]
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Vladimir Nabokov – Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews, & Letters to the Editor
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child”: so Vladimir Nabokov famously wrote in the introduction to his volume of selected […]
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Sublime Noise: Musical Culture and the Modernist Writer
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWhen Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring premiered in Paris in 1913, the crowd rioted in response to the harsh dissonance and jarring rhythms of its score. This was noise, not music. […]
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John Waters – Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartNo one knows more about everything―especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling―than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin mustache, auteur of the transgressive movie classics [...]
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Angela Carter – Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAngela Carter was one of the most important and influential writers of our time: a novelist of extraordinary power and a searching critic and essayist. This selection of her writing, […]
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Lydia Davis – Essays Two
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn Essays One, Lydia Davis, who has been called “a magician of self-consciousness” by Jonathan Franzen and “the best prose stylist in America” by Rick Moody, gathered a generous selection […]
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Marcus Rainsford – Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAs the first complete narrative in English of the Haitian Revolution, Marcus Rainsford’s An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti was highly influential in establishing [...]
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Ramayana: A Tale of Gods & Demons
$14.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFrom the kingdom of Ayodhya to the isle of Lanka, we are transported to a land that has inspired morality and spiritual tradition for thousands of years. Rama, the king […]
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Sex Scene: Media & the Sexual Revolution
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartSex Scene suggests that what we have come to understand as the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s was actually a media revolution. In lively essays, the […]
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Gesualdo Hex: Music, Myth, & Memory.
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn this vivid tale of adultery and intrigue, witchcraft and murder, Glenn Watkins explores the fascinating life of the Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo―a life suffused with scandal and [...]
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Trip: Andy Warhol’s Plastic Fantastic Cross-Country Adventure.
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFrom the author of Strapless and Guest of Honor, a book about a little-known road trip Andy Warhol took from New York to LA in 1963, and how that journey—and […]
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Donald Judd (October Files)
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartDonald Judd (1928-1994) is one of the most influential American artists of the postwar era. Beginning in the 1960s, he developed new ideas about art–in both his works and [...]
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Absence of Clutter: Minimal Writing as Art & Literature.
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn the 1960s and 70s, minimal and conceptual artists stripped language down to its most basic components: the word and the letter. Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Carl Andre, Lawrence Weiner, […]
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We Are The Mutants: The Battle For Hollywood From Rosemary’s Baby To Lethal Weapon
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWe Are the Mutants is a critical reassessment of what is arguably the most discussed and beloved stretch of movies in Hollywood history. Documenting the period between the arrival of […]
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Radical Virtuosity: Ana Mendieta & The Black Atlantic
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartReclaiming the artist Ana Mendieta as a formally innovative maker of performative art who forged connections to the marginalized around the world.The artist Ana Mendieta (1948–1985) is remembered [...]
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Steve Underwood “Even When It Makes No Sense – the Broken Flag Story”
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartEnglish cassette and record label Broken Flag was founded in 1982, and whilst not having released anything for a long time, it has never officially ceased to exist. Their primary […]
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James H. Forest – Thomas Merton’s Struggle With Peacemaking
$6.00 | Print, Zine Add to cart“Written by Merton’s friend Jim Forest and drawing heavily upon their extensive correspondence, this booklet explores Merton’s beliefs about Christians and war, his life as a monk and his [...]
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Jean Genet – May Day Speech
$20.00 | Print, Used Items, Zine Add to cartTranscript of Jean Genet’s May Day Speech, given in support of Bobby Seale after his imprisonment. City Lights, 1970 staple-bound zine. Some light wear and discoloration.
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Karl Ove Knausgaard – In The Land Of The Cyclops
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn his first essay collection to be published in English, the New York Times bestselling author of the My Struggle series Karl Ove Knausgaard explores art, philosophy, and literature with […]
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Julio Cortazar – Around The Day In Eighty Worlds
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartPoems, essays, and anecdotes accompany stories about a man sinking into the ground, an invisible monster, a woman who hates yawns, and miniature jaguars North Point Press, 1986 Hardcover edition. [...]
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Albert Camus – Neither Victims Nor Executioners
$16.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartNeither Victims nor Executioners was a series of essays by Albert Camus that were serialized in Combat, the daily newspaper of the French Resistance, in November 1946. In the essays […]
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Caro Levi – Christ Stopped at Eboli
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIt was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi—a doctor, painter, philosopher, and man of letters—was confined as a political prisoner because of his opposition to […]
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Ryszard Kapuscinski – The Shadow Of The Sun
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland’s state newspaper. From the early days […]
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Curzio Malaparte – Diary Of A Foreigner In Paris
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn 1947 Curzio Malaparte returned to Paris for the first time in fourteen years. In between, he had been condemned by Mussolini to five years in exile and, on release, […]
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Herve Guibert – Ghost Image
$10.00 | Book, Painting, Print, Used Items Add to cartGhost Image is made up of sixty-three short essays—meditations, memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems—and not a single image. Hervé Guibert’s brief, literary rumination on [...]
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Jean Cocteau – The White Book
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartLe Livre Blanc, a “white paper” on homosexual love, was first published anonymously in France by Cocteau’s contemporary Maurice Sachs, and was at once decried as by the critics [...]
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The Structure Of Magic II
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThese seminal works in neurolinguistic programming (NLP) help therapists understand how people create inner models of the world to represent their experience and guide their behavior. Volume I [...]
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Jenny Erpenbeck – Not A Novel
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartJenny Erpenbeck’s highly acclaimed novel Go, Went, Gone was a New York Times notable book and launched one of Germany’s most admired writers into the American spotlight. In the New […]
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Jean Genet – The Criminal Child
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe Criminal Child offers the first English translation of a key early work by Jean Genet. In 1949, in the midst of a national debate about improving the French reform-school […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction