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Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits
$35.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn Experimental Otherwise, Benjamin Piekut takes the reader into the heart of what we mean by “experimental” in avant-garde music. Focusing on one place and time―New York City, 1964―Piekut [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction -
Pierre Schaeffer – Treatise on Musical Objects: An Essay Across …
$45.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Treatise on Musical Objects is regarded as Pierre Schaeffer’s most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Schaeffer expands his earlier research in musique concrète to [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction -
Michel Chion – Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise
$35.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFirst published in French in 1998, revised in 2010, and appearing here in English for the first time, Michel Chion’s Sound addresses the philosophical, interpretive, and practical questions [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction -
Raul Ruiz – Notes, Recollections and Sequences of Things Seen: E…
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartMeditations on cinema and method from the acclaimed Chilean director of City of Pirates and Life Is a Dream This volume gathers excerpts from the diary of celebrated Chilean experimental […]
GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction -
A Revolution in Music: The History of the Groupe de Recherches Musical…
$45.00 | Book, Print Add to cartEstablished in the 1950s by musician and engineer Pierre Schaeffer, the Groupe de Recherches Musicales would become the nerve center for avant-garde artists experimenting with sound and [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction -
The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia’s Coal Miners an…
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFrom before the dawn of the 20th century until the arrival of the New Deal, one of the most protracted and deadly labor struggles in American history was waged in […]
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Cecilia Konchar Farr – As I Was Saying
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn indispensable companion to Gertrude Stein’s masterpiece, The Making of Americans. One of the great works of 20th-century American fiction, Stein’s novel represents a peak of modernist [...]
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Elias Canetti – The Book Against Death
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti all his life declared himself a “mortal enemy” of death―and here, in English at last, is his landmark book on the subject The Book […]
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Ken Hollings – Welcome to Mars
$13.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWelcome to Mars is a captivating look at the culture of postwar America and its dream of limitless technological and human development. Utilizing declassified government archives, newspaper [...]
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J. Hoberman – Everything Is Now
$35.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA groundbreaking cultural history of 1960s New York, from the legendary writer on art and film Like Paris in the 1920s, New York City in the 1960s was a cauldron […]
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Nothing and Everything – The Influence of Buddhism on the Americ…
$22.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn America in the late 1950s and early 60s, the world—and life itself—became a legitimate artist’s tool, aligning with Zen Buddhism’s emphasis on “enlightenment at any moment” and living in […]
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Duras: A Biography
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis is the first full-length biography of one of the best-known and most influential French writers of our time, as celebrated for her films (Hiroshima Mon Amour) as for her […]
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses And The Fall Of New York
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartOne of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, Robert Caro’s monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most [...]
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Meet Me In The Bathroom: Rebirth And Rock And Roll In NYC 2001-2011
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartJoining the ranks of the classics Please Kill Me, Our Band Could Be Your Life, and Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, an intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the […]
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Max Planck – Scientific Autobiography And Other Papers
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn this fascinating autobiography from the foremost genius of twentieth-century physics, Max Planck tells the story of his life, his aims, and his thinking. Published posthumously, the papers in [...]
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Leroi Jones – Blues People (as-is)
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The path the slave took to ‘citizenship’ is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen’s music—through the music that is most closely […]
GENRE: Blues, Non-Fiction -
Live Wires: A History of Electronic Music
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWe live in an electronic world, saturated with electronic sounds. Yet, electronic sounds aren’t a new phenomenon; they have long permeated our sonic landscape. What began as the otherworldly [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction -
Extremely Loud: Sound As A Weapon
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn this troubling and wide-ranging account, acclaimed journalist Juliette Volcler looks at the long history of efforts by military and police forces to deploy sound against enemies, criminals, [...]
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S Alfonso Williams – The Interlocutor
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn The Interlocutor, S. Alfonso Williams takes the reader on an immersive journey through his unique blend of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and politics. His poetic style has a rhythm that breathes [...]
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Do Not Sell At Any Price
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartBefore MP3s, CDs, and cassette tapes, even before LPs or 45s, the world listened to music on fragile, 10-inch shellac discs that spun at 78 revolutions per minute. While vinyl […]
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Geoff Dyer – The Ongoing Moment
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartGreat photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both. Focusing on the ways in which canonical figures like Alfred Stieglitz, […]
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Cheyney Thompson: Passages
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartOne 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 -
Marshall McLuhan – Understanding Media
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe groundbreaking, seminal work that redefined the way we think about communication—and the then-emerging phenomenon of mass media. Marshall McLuhan’s classic work Understanding Media was called [...]
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Jaime Semprún – A Gallery of Recuperation
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe first English translation of the French cult classic that lampoons France’s most popular intellectuals of the post-1968 period and their ideas, which became forces of counterrevolution. [...]
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Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh – Omnicide II
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn infernal catalogue of manic visionaries, inspired by the poetry of the Middle East. In a new work in which conceptual elaboration, storytelling, and poetics are fused in the infernal […]
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Manfred Hermes – Hystericizing Germany
$26.00 | Book, Print Add to cartRainer Werner Fassbinder’s fourteen-part Berlin Alexanderplatz, broadcast on German television in 1980, is a pivotal work in the artist’s oeuvre. The 1929 novel by Alfred Döblin, a [...]
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Hollis Frampton & Bruce Jenkins – On the Camera Arts and Con…
$40.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe collected writings of artist and filmmaker Hollis Frampton, including all the essays from the long-unavailable Circles of Confusion along with rare additional material. As Hollis [...]
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Kim Gordon – Is It My Body?
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThroughout the 1980s and early ’90s, Kim Gordon—widely known as a founding member of the influential band Sonic Youth—produced a series of writings on art and music. Ranging from [...]
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Jörg Heiser – Double Lives in Art and Pop Music
$29.00 | Book, Print Add to cartExploring the relationship between art and pop music over the last fifty years. Why did Andy Warhol decide to enter the music business by producing the Velvet Underground, and what […]
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Fusion! From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother
$21.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe role of jazz as a catalyst in rock, pop, funk, new wave, hip-hop, and techno. From music writer Alex Coles, Fusion! From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother traces the […]
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Mark Fisher – K-Punk
$35.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA comprehensive collection of the writings of Mark Fisher (1968-2017), whose work defined critical writing for a generation. This comprehensive collection brings together the work of acclaimed [...]
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Ryann Donnelly – Body High
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartHow do we medicate ourselves, and why can’t we cure the people we love? In Body High, encounters with lurid bodily sculptures from the ’60s offer remedies to the author’s […]
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Michael Gardiner – Empire of Deterrence
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA nuclear-extinction unconscious has worked over the last 30 years to ‘automate’ much political thinking and recuperate it into individualist culture wars that reaffirming the extinction regimes [...]
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Subcontinental Synthesis: Electronic Music at the National Institute o…
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe history of India’s first electronic music studio founded in 1969 at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad by David Tudor. Subcontinental Synthesis explores the history of India’s [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction -
Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna
$35.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn intellectual biography of one of the most celebrated and yet least understood figures of the late twentieth century, Terence McKenna. A stand-up philosopher who made a unique contribution to [...]
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Schizo-Culture: The Event/The Book
$40.00 | Book, Print Add to cartNever-before-published lectures, Q&As, and squabbles from the conference that introduced French theory into America, with a facsimile of the journal issue that emerged from it. I think [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction -
Sylvère Lotringer – Overexposed
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA report on the administration of deviant desire in specialized clinics that documents the way our postmodern society exposes sexuality to the point of overexposure. Do you ever get aroused […]
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Dario Dzamonja – Letters from the Madhouse
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn uncompromising account of a Bosnian writer’s life as an exile in America. Considered a literary icon of Bosnia, Dario Džamonja wrote raw, unfiltered accounts of life in the streets […]
GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction -
Eduardo Cadava – Paper Graveyards
$17.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA 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 -
James C. Klagge – Wittgenstein’s Artillery : Philosophy as…
$13.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartLudwig Wittgenstein once said, “Really one should write philosophy only as one writes poetry.” In Wittgenstein’s Artillery, James Klagge shows how, in search of ways to reach [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
David Thomson – Murder and the Movies
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartHow many acts of murder have each of us followed on a screen? What does that say about us? Do we remain law-abiding citizens who wouldn’t hurt a fly? Film […]
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Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History: Erkki Kurenniemi In 2048
$17.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA critical mapping of the multiplicities of Finnish artist and technology pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi—composer of electronic music, experimental filmmaker, inventor, collector, futurologist. Over [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
William Kentridge : (October Files)
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartCritical 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 -
Roy Lichtenstein : (October Files)
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe most comprehensive collection on Lichtenstein, from the earliest reviews to recent reassessments, including several hard-to-find and previously unpublished pieces. Roy Lichtenstein’s [...]
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Richard Hamilton : (October Files)
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartEssays 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 [...]
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Robert Rauschenberg : (October Files)
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartCritical 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 […]
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The Reason for the Darkness of the Night : Edgar Allan Poe and the For…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAn innovative biography of Edgar Allan Poe―highlighting his fascination and feuds with science. Decade after decade, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of the most popular American writers. He is [...]
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Lesley Chamberlain – Nietzsche in Turin : The End of the Future
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartBeautifully packaged reissue of the vividly lyrical biography of Nietzsche that John Banville called ‘a major intellectual event’ In 1888, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche moved to [...]
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Alex Ross – Wagnerism : Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFor better or worse, Wagner is the most widely influential figure in the history of music. Around 1900, the phenomenon known as Wagnerism saturated European and American culture. Such colossal [...]
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Michele Wallace – Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA classic and controversial critique of sexism in the black nationalist movement, this “landmark black feminist text” is essential reading for those engaged in discussions about feminism and race [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction