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A Most Dangerous Method: The Story Of Jung, Freud And Sabina Spielrein
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man’s life. Six years later they were bitter […]
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Patrick Brantlinger – Bread & Circuses
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartLively and well written, Bread and Circuses analyzes theories that have treated mass culture as either a symptom or a cause of social decadence. Discussing many of the most influential […]
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Michel Foucault – Religion And Culture
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartPostmodern theorist Michel Foucault is best known for his work on power/ knowledge, and on the regulation of sexuality in modern society. Yet throughout his life, Foucault was continually [...]
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Julia Kristeva – Tales Of Love
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartJulia Kristeva pursues her exploration of the core emotions of the human psyche through a series of philosophical and literary texts. She focuses on the role of narcissism and idealization […]
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Elisabeth Croll – Feminism And Socialism In China
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartFirst published in 1978, Feminism and Socialism in China explores the inter-relationship of feminism and socialism and the contribution of each towards the redefinition of the role and status of [...]
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David J. Getsy – Queer Behavior
$25.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartScott Burton (1939–89) created performance art and sculpture that drew on queer experience and the sexual cultures that flourished in New York City in the 1970s. David J. Getsy argues […]
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Frederic W. Goudy – The Alphabet
$15.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartTraces the developments of the alphabet and lettering from ancient times, and presents a variety of lettering styles which have evolved Dorset Press, 1989 Hardcover Edition. Light general wear.
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Fluxus And The Essential Questions Of Life
$35.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartFluxus—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 [...]
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Animism In Art And Performance
$45.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis 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 [...]
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Giovanni Lista – Theatre Futuriste Italien Vol I & II (as-is, TEXT IN FRENCH)
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartAn 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 [...]
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Thomas Hine – Populuxe
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The decade from 1954 to 1964 was one of America’s great shopping sprees: never before were so many people able to acquire so many things, and never before was there […]
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This Quarter: Surrealist Number
$75.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe Andre Breton edited edition of This Quarter, originally issued in 1932. An absolutely essential text of surrealism, featuring many of the movements key figures, such as Dali, Man Ray […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
Richard Martin – Fashion And Surrealism
$32.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartShows surrealistic paintings, photographs, clothing, and accessories, and discusses the art movement’s affect on dress design, window displays, and advertising. Rizzoli, 1987 Hardcover [...]
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Nick Kaye – Site-Specific Art
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartSite-Specific Art charts the development of an experimental art form in an experimental way. Nick Kaye traces the fascinating historical antecedents of today’s installation and performance [...]
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Luigi Russolo – L’Arte Dei Rumori (TEXT IN ITALIAN)
$30.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartLuigi Russolo’s seminal manifesto/essay on the art of noise. Carucci Reprint of 1916 Softcover Edition. Writing on front wrap. Noticeable foxing/discoloration to both wraps and pages. TEXT [...]
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Daryl Easlea – Everybody Dance: Chic and the Politics of Disco
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartFew narratives in pop encompass Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Madonna, Duran Duran, Diana Ross, Johnny Mathis and Led Zeppelin. This story is one of them. Chic, led by […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction, Soul / Funk / Disco -
The Electric Muse Revisited
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartFolk music has been evolving and adapting for centuries, but in the 1960s and 70s came an extraordinary period of change and innovation. Rock musicians borrowed from traditional songs, while […]
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The Arab Avant-Garde: Music, Politics, Modernity
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartFrom jazz trumpeters drawing on the noises of warfare in Beirut to female heavy metallers in Alexandria, the Arab culture offers a wealth of exciting, challenging, and diverse musics. The […]
GENRE: International, Non-Fiction -
A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field, 1982–1998
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartAn anthology of key texts in the development of contemporary poetics. Lyn Hejinian and Barrett Watten are internationally recognized poet/critics. Together they edited the highly influential [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction -
Catherine Zimmer – Surveillance Cinema
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn Paris, a static video camera keeps watch on a bourgeois home. In Portland, a webcam documents the torture and murder of kidnap victims. And in clandestine intelligence offices around […]
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Perpetrator Cinema: Confronting Genocide in Cambodian Documentary
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartPerpetrator Cinema explores a new trend in the cinematic depiction of genocide that has emerged in Cambodian documentary in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. While past films [...]
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Orson Welles’s Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the Wind
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn the summer of 1970, legendary but self-destructive director Orson Welles returned to Hollywood from years of self-imposed exile in Europe and decided it was time to make a comeback […]
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Nicholas Ray: An American Journey
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartPerhaps best known for Rebel without a Cause, American filmmaker Nicholas Ray directed dozens of movies in the film noir genre, including In a Lonely Place, Johnny Guitar, and They […]
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Neither God nor Master: Robert Bresson and Radical Politics
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe French auteur Robert Bresson, director of such classics as Diary of a Country Priest (1951), The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962), The Devil, Probably (1977), and L’Argent (1983), […]
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Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi, and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartFrom the ashes of World War II, Rome was reborn as the epicenter of film, fashion, creative energy, tabloid media, and bold-faced libertinism that made “Italian” a global synonym for […]
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Viktor Shklovsky – Literature and Cinematography
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn this short, brilliant book, Viktor Shklovsky enunciates the function of the arts: what they are and, just as importantly, what they are not. In the course of defining what […]
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Douglas Kahn – Energies in the Arts
$15.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis book investigates energies—in the plural, the energies embedded and embodied in everything under the sun— as they are expressed in the arts. With contributions from scholars and critics from [...]
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Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartRoots in Reverse explores how Latin music contributed to the formation of the négritude movement in the 1930s. Taking Senegal and Cuba as its primary research areas, this work uses […]
GENRE: International, Non-Fiction -
Jonas Mekas – A Dance with Fred Astaire
$15.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartA Dance with Fred Astaire is an extraordinary collection of anecdotes and rare ephemera featuring a dizzying cast of cultural icons both underground and mainstream, both obscure and celebrated. [...]
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Black Soundscapes White Stages :The Meaning of Francophone Sound in the Black Atlantic
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartBlack Soundscapes White Stages explores the role of sound in understanding the African Diaspora on both sides of the Atlantic, from the City of Light to the islands of the […]
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Black Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe first book to comprehensively examine how the Black Panther Party has directly shaped the practices and ideas that have animated grassroots activism in the decades since its decline, Black [...]
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Concerning Violence: Fanon, Film, and Liberation in Africa, Selected Takes 1965-1987
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartAn unblinking portrait of the anticolonial struggles of the 1960s, Concerning Violence combines more than one hundred and fifty arresting color and black-and-white photographs from Göran Hugo [...]
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Robin Brown – Blood Ivory: The Massacre of the African Elephant
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartIt is more than a thousand years since the exploitation of the elephant began. However, it is only in the last hundred years, with the coming of the ‘Great White […]
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The Dreams of Interpretation: A Century down the Royal Road
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartRethinking the importance of Sigmund Freud’s landmark book The Interpretation of Dreams a century after its publication in 1900, this work brings together psychoanalysts, philosophers, cultural [...]
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Whole World in an Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression – 1955-1972
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartHow the radical music of the 1960s was birthed amid unprecedented upheaval and systemic repression. Decades since the radical music of the 1960s first hit the airwaves, the anthems of […]
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Noel Lobley – Sound Fragments: From Field Recording to African Electronic Stories
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis book is an ethnographic study of sound archives and the processes of creative decolonization that form alternative modes of archiving and curating in the 21st century. It explores the […]
GENRE: International, Non-Fiction -
Musicking Bodies: Gesture and Voice in Hindustani Music (NO DUSTJACKET)
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartIndian vocalists trace intricate shapes with their hands while improvising melody. Although every vocalist has an idiosyncratic gestural style, students inherit ways of shaping melodic space from [...]
GENRE: Hindustani, Non-Fiction -
Graeme Thomson – I Shot a Man in Reno: A History of Death by Murder, Suicide, Fire, Flood, Drugs, Disease and General Misadventure, as Related in Popular Song
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartWhat do the gangsta rap devotee, the grizzled blues fanatic, the bearded folk fan, the goth and the indie kid have in common? Ask and they will all say the […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
The Blue Moment: Miles Davis’s,and the Remaking of Modern Music
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cart“It is the most singular of sounds, yet among the most ubiquitous. It is the sound of isolation that has sold itself to millions.” Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue is […]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction -
Steven Miller – War After Death: On Violence and Its Limits
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartWar after Death considers forms of violence that regularly occur in actual wars but do not often factor into the stories we tell about war, which revolve invariably around killing […]
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Drugs of the Dreaming: Oneirogens: Salvia divinorum and Other Dream-Enhancing Plants
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartOneirogens are plant and animal substances that have long been used to facilitate powerful and productive dreaming. From the beginning of civilization, dreams have guided the inner and outer life [...]
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Geoffrey Pimm – The Violent Abuse of Women in 17th and 18th Century Britain
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are the gateway between the medieval world and the modern, centuries when the western societies moved from an age governed principally by religion and [...]
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Henri Cole – Orphic Paris
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartHenri Cole’s Orphic Paris combines autobiography, diary, essay, and poetry with photographs to create a new form of elegiac memoir. With Paris as a backdrop, Cole, an award-winning American poet, [...]
GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction -
The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartSince the days of the Roman Empire dictators have written books. But in the twentieth-century despots enjoyed unprecedented print runs to (literally) captive audiences. The titans of the [...]
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In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume I, 1957-1969
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartFor fifty years Samuel Delany has cultivated a special relationship with language in works of fiction, criticism, and memoir that have garnered critical praise and legions of fans. The present [...]
GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction -
Exotic Nations: Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830–1930
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn this highly original and critically informed book, Renata R. Mautner Wasserman looks at how, during the first decades following political independence, writers in the United States and Brazil [...]
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Bokutotsusô: Studies on the Calligraphy of the Zen Master Musô Soseki
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartMusô Soseki (1275-1351), one of the most important Zen patriarchs of the early fourteenth century in Japan, devoted his life to spreading Buddhist wisdom in his writings. As a member […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartWhile the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari became an international film classic, its director, Robert Wiene, was disparaged and even forgotten. Wiene’s oeuvre, however, exhibits a surprising [...]
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Simon Kuper – Spies, Lies, and Exile: The Extraordinary Story of Russian Double Agent George Blake
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartFew Cold War spy stories approach the sheer daring and treachery of George Blake’s. After fighting in the Dutch resistance during World War II, Blake joined the British spy agency […]
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Edmund Levin – A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libel
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartOn March 20, 1911, thirteen-year-old Andrei Yushchinsky was found stabbed to death in a cave on the outskirts of Kiev. Four months later, Russian police arrested Mendel Beilis, a [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction