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Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test & The Power Of Seeing
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA popular misconception of the controversial Rorschach test, which requires subjects to interpret a series of ten inkblots, is that there are no wrong answers. For professional psychologists, [...]
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Monstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMulti-disciplinary in approach and cross-European in scope, this richly illustrated book features new links between the political and the monstrous in the early modern period. Emphasizing the [...]
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Paul Davies – The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien I…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFifty years ago, a young astronomer named Frank Drake first pointed a radio telescope at nearby stars in the hope of picking up a signal from an alien civilization. Thus […]
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Jonathan Strauss – Human Remains: Medicine, Death, and Desire in…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“The living and the dead cohabited Paris until the late eighteenth century, when, in the name of public health, measures were taken to drive the latter from the city. Cemeteries […]
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Verena A Conley – Helene Cixous
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Reflecting the broad spectrum of modern European and American theory, this introductory series focuses on those cultural theorists who have had the most significant impact in the twentieth [...]
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Hard to Be a Saint in the City: The Spiritual Vision of the Beats
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“It’s been said that Jack Kerouac made it cool to be a thinking person seeking a spiritual experience. And there is no doubt that the writers he knew and inspired—iconic […]
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An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Paul Bowles’s seductive, terrifying, exquisitely detached fictions have inspired writers and iconoclasts from the Beats to the present day. In this brilliant and definitive [...]
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Carol Off – Bitter Chocolate: Anatomy of an Industry
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Bitter Chocolate is both an absorbing social history and a passionate investigation into an industry that has institutionalized abuse as it indulges our whims. Award-winning journalist [...]
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Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Over the last decade, blockchains and crypto have opened up a new terrain for political action. It is not surprising, however, that the crypto space has also become overrun by […]
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Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cine…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“In Picturing American Modernity, Kristen Whissel investigates the relationship between early American cinema and the experience of technological modernity. She demonstrates how between the [...]
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Kembrew McLeod – Downtown Pop Underground
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“The 1960s to early ’70s was a pivotal time for American culture, and New York City was ground zero for seismic shifts in music, theater, art, and filmmaking. The Downtown […]
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Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“In this lively narrative, award-winning author Michael Kammen presents a fascinating analysis of cutting-edge art and artists and their unique ability to both delight and provoke us. He [...]
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Gerhard Richter: Images of an Era
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Among German painter Gerhard Richter’s best-known works are his large-scale paintings based on—and sometimes applied directly to—photographs. A transplant to West Germany mere months [...]
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Abstracts of Karl Rahner’s Unserialized Essays
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Excellent reference work to finding specific topics within the vast range of the writings of Karl Rahner. Using this book in tandem with the authors earlier Abstracts of Karl Rahners […]
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The Henry Davis Gift: A Collection of Bookbindings
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“This much anticipated third and final volume of The Henry Davis Gift focuses on South and East European fine bindings, with additional sections on Oriental and American bindings. It [...]
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Gao Minglu – Total Modernity and the Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Ce…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“To the extent that Chinese contemporary art has become a global phenomenon, it is largely through the groundbreaking exhibitions curated by Gao Minglu: “China/Avant-Garde” [...]
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In the Atelier: Erik Desmazières Printmaker René Tazé Printer: An Arti…
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Erik Desmazières’s first love was drawing and he began engraving in the Ville de Paris studios from 1971. René Tazé joined the Leblanc studio, a famous and ancient Parisian intaglio [...]
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American Modernism at Mid-Century: The Work of Morris Davidson
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“This volume presents the first scholarly consideration of Morris Davidson (1898–1979), an influential painter and educator whose work has been neglected in the art history of [...]
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The Big Idea: Criticality and Practice in Contemporary Architecture
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Scott Johnson is the highly acclaimed designer of some of L.A.’s most recognized architecture. As partner in the award-winning Los Angeles architecture firm Johnson Fain he was the [...]
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Chain 6: Letters
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIssue six of Chain, featuring contributions from William Burroughs, Ron Silliman, Norma Cole and more. Chain, 1999 Softcover edition. Some discoloration/wear to wraps.
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Cinema And Art As Archive: Form, Medium, Memory
$15.00 | Print, Used ItemsAs Jacques Derrida wrote in 1995, while considering Archive Fever, nothing is less reliable or less clear today than the word “archive”. Nevertheless, the historic-cultural dimension of the [...]
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Sam Rohdie – Fellini Lexicon
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Federico Fellini (1920-93) was one of the most inventive of film-makers and he remains one of the best loved. Director of a whole series of celebrated films – among them […]
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Susan Sontag: Mind As Passion
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Susan Sontag has been a major figure in American intellectual life for over thirty years. She has consistently broken fresh ground in cultural analysis and provocatively engaged a wide [...]
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Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMasculine 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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After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOver 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 & Inte…
$12.00 | Book, PrintReviews, 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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Dennis Covington – Salvation On Sand Mountain
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“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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Art & Power: The Avant-garde & the Soviet State, 1917-1928
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 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 Mall…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAt 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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Running the Voodoo Down: The Electric Music of Miles Davis
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis book reassesses Miles Davis’ “electric period” and analyzes its continuing influence on contemporary music. While jazz purists often revile this phase – which encompasses the entire [...]
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Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsYears 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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Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex & Infanticide in…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis captivating history exposes a clandestine world of family and community secrets―incest, abortion, and infanticide―in the early modern Venetian republic. With the keen eye of a detective, [...]
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Michel Leiris – Fibrils: The Rules of the Game, Volume 3
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA beloved and versatile author and ethnographer, French intellectual Michel Leiris is often ranked in the company of Proust, Gide, Sartre, and Camus, yet his work remains largely unfamiliar to [...]
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Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsEarly science fiction has often been associated almost exclusively with Northern industrialized nations. In this groundbreaking exploration of the science fiction written in Latin America prior [...]
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Michel Leiris – Scratches: Rules of the Game – Volume 1
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“For me his work is not only a document that enriches our knowledge of man, but also a personal testament that touches me deeply.”–Francis BaconScratches is the first volume in [...]
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Marcus Rainsford – Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hay…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAs 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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Trip: Andy Warhol’s Plastic Fantastic Cross-Country Adventure.
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFrom 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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Adjusted Margin: Xerography, Art, & Activisim in the Late Twentie…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis is the story of how the xerographic copier, or “Xerox machine,” became a creative medium for artists and activists during the last few decades of the twentieth century. Paper […]
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Absence of Clutter: Minimal Writing as Art & Literature.
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 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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Jean Genet – May Day Speech
$20.00 | Print, Used Items, ZineTranscript 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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Ira Cohen – A Certain Kind of Wizard
$28.00 | Book, PrintPoet, photographer, filmmaker, publisher, and dauntless world traveler, Ira Cohen was a mythic figure of boundless energy who was a catalyst for creative scenes in New York, Tangier, Kathmandu, [...]
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Rédoine Faïd – Outlaw
$18.00 | Book, PrintMemoirs of celebrated criminals purvey vivid personal stories while spawning sharp questions about the cultures that produced them. In Outlaw: Author Armed & Dangerous, Rédoine Faïd, of [...]
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The Dream Sellers
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAn investigation into drug-dealers and the drug trade as a whole. Jossey-Bass, 1972 Hardcover first edition. Discoloration to edges of pages and wear to dustjacket apparent under mylar. [...]
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Spycomm: Covert Communication Techniques Of The Underground
$80.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Guerrillas, fugitives and other members of the “underground” must exploit existing resources to communicate secretly. This book tells you how they use improvised microfilm, [...]
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Loving Man: A Photographic Guide To Gay Male Lovemaking
$75.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOne of the first sex-ed & health guides for gay men. Hark Publishing, 1976 Hardcover edition. Some sagging from spine and wear to boards. Discoloration to edges of pages.
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Spiritual Sayings Of Kahlil Gibran
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsKahlil Gibran’s followup to The Prophet, a collection of spiritual aphorisms. Citadel Press, 1970 Softcover edition. Writing on front matter. Crack at spine in first few pages, but still [...]
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Ladder Of The Planets
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAn astrological guide to how the planets interact and impact astrology. Self-published, 1974 Booklet edition. Light discoloration to wraps.
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Alan Leo – Mars: The War Lord
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAlan Leo’s astrological study of the planet Mars. Samuel Weiser Publishing, 1970 Softcover edition. Wear to wraps, along with some discoloration to edges of pages.
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That Inconjunct Quincunx: The Not So Minor Aspect
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Most astrologers, when doing transits, progressions, or interpretations, neglect or skim over the so-called “minor” aspects(semi-sextle and quincunx) in astrology, preferring [...]
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Ronald Davison – Synastry: Understanding Human Relations Through…
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Astrology can be used as a valuable tool in the understanding of human relationships. This internationally acclaimed book lays the foundation for a comprehensive study by giving a basic [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction