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Vron Ware – Beyond the Pale : White Women, Racism, and History
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartHow have ideas about white women figured in the history of racism? Vron Ware argues that they have been central, and that feminism has, in many ways, developed as a […]
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Mute: Experimentalists of the Independent Music Movement
$17.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartMute is one of the most revered and influential indie labels of all time. Through the music of its tight-knit community of artists–ranging from Cabaret Voltaire, Nick Cave’s The [...]
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High Religion : A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAn eminent anthropologist examines the foundings of the first celibate Buddhist monasteries among the Sherpas of Nepal in the early 20th century — a religious development that was a major [...]
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Dangerous Rhythms : Jazz and the Underworld
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartDangerous Rhythms tells the symbiotic story of jazz and the underworld: a relationship fostered in some of 20th century America’s most notorious vice districts. For the first half of the [...]
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Frank Gonzalez-Crussi – The Body Fantastic
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn The Body Fantastic, Frank Gonzalez-Crussi looks at the human body through the lens of dreams, myths, legends, and anecdotes of the bizarre, exploring the close connection of the fictitious [...]
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In the Mind but Not from There : Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartArtists and critics explore the concept of Real Abstraction to help understand contemporary cultural production In the Mind, But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art considers [...]
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Vision Machines: Cinema, Literature and Sexuality in Spain and Cuba, 1…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartOver the last decade, visibility and sexuality have become a major theme in Spanish and Cuban cinema, literature and art. This book explores this development in the light of contemporary […]
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Dimensionism : Modern Art in the Age of Einstein
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe first book to document how artists of the early twentieth century responded to new scientific conceptions of reality. In the early twentieth century, influenced by advances in science that [...]
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Bruce Grant – In the Soviet House of Culture : A Century of Pere…
$17.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAt the outset of the twentieth century, the Nivkhi of Sakhalin Island were a small population of fishermen under Russian dominion and an Asian cultural sway. The turbulence of the […]
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Nam June Paik
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartExplore the ground-breaking work of 20th-century, avant-garde artist Nam June Paik, the pioneer of video art, and discover his impact on the digital age. Nam June Paik was one of […]
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Revolution of the Eye : Modern Art and the Birth of American Televisio…
$13.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe aesthetics and concepts of modern art have influenced American television ever since its inception in the 1930s. In return, early television introduced the public to the latest trends in […]
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The Art of Participation, 1950 to Now
$13.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe first fully illustrated survey of participatory art and its key practitioners, published in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This new survey covers the rich and […]
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American Genre Painting : The Politics of Everyday Life
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartDrawing on contemporary literature, popular culture, news, and census reports, Johns convincingly shows that antebellum American genre painting was not a simple recording of an Edenic American [...]
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Jet Age Aesthetic : The Glamour of Media in Motion
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA stunning look at the profound impact of the jet plane on the mid-century aesthetic, from Disneyland to Life magazine. Vanessa R. Schwartz engagingly presents the jet plane’s power to […]
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Hans Haacke : (October Files)
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartCritical texts that span almost fifty years, mapping Haacke’s progression from engagement with biological systems to interrogation of the social and economic underpinnings of art. For five [...]
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Alexandra Popoff – Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIf Vasily Grossman’s 1961 masterpiece, Life and Fate, had been published during his lifetime, it would have reached the world together with Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago and before [...]
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Hal Foster – What Comes after Farce : Art and Criticism at a Tim…
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn a world where truth is cast in doubt and shame has gone missing, what are artists and critics on the left to do? How to demystify a political order […]
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Arthur Lubow – Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartMan Ray (1890-1976), a founding father of Dada and a key player in French Surrealism, is one of the central artists of the twentieth century. He is also one of […]
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Futurist Manifestos
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartOn February 20th, 1909, a belligerent manifesto announcing the birth of the Futurist movement appeared on the front page of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro and sent immediate shockwaves throughout [...]
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Jack Burnham – Dissolve into Comprehension : Writings and Interv…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartInfluential writings by the legendary art critic and theorist Jack Burnham-a pioneer in new media systems aesthetics and an early advocate of conceptualism. Jack Burnham is one of the few […]
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Dirty Pictures : How an Underground Network of Nerds, Feminists, Misfi…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn the 1950s, comics meant POW! BAM! superheroes, family-friendly gags, and Sunday funnies, but in the 1960s, inspired by these strips and the satire of MAD magazine, a new generation […]
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Hal Foster – Brutal Aesthetics Brutal Aesthetics : Dubuffet, Bat…
$16.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartHow artists created an aesthetic of “positive barbarism” in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb In Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian Hal [...]
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Bio Art : Altered Realities
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn an era of fast-paced technological progress and with the impact of humans on the environment increasing, the concept of “nature” itself seems called into question. Bio Art explores [...]
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Thomas Crow – The Artist in the Counterculture : Bruce Conner to…
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartHow California’s counterculture of the 1960s to 1980s profoundly shaped–and was shaped by–West Coast artists The 1960s exert a special fascination in modern art. But most [...]
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Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg : Art, Happenings, and Cultural Polit…
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis new interpretation of the structure and meaning of the Happenings produced by Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg in the late 1950s and 1960s sheds light on the context, theoretical […]
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Gerhard Richter – This Great Allegory : On World-Decay and World…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAn engagement with the relation between the world in which an artwork is created-a world that perishes or decays over time-and the new world that the artwork opens up. Gerhard […]
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Milo Rigaud – Secrets Of Voodoo
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSecrets of Voodoo traces the development of this complex religion (in Haiti and the Americas) from its sources in the brilliant civilizations of ancient Africa. This book presents a [...]
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Mises – Stapelia Mixta
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA compilation of 16 rigorous, eccentric essays commissioned by the German founder of psychophysics The original 1824 German publication of Stapelia Mixta united a bevy of eccentric proposals, [...]
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Marcel Benabou – Why I Have Not Written Any Of My Books
$14.00 | Book, Print Add to cartMarcel Bénabou is quick to acknowledge that his own difficulty in writing has plenty of company. Words stick and syntax is stubborn, meaning slips and synonyms cluster. A blank page […]
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Knife-Woman: The Life of Louise Bourgeois
$35.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe first major biography on artist Louise Bourgeois brings the life and work of an iconic twentieth-century artist into sharp focus Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) was one of the most important [...]
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Pierre Guyotat – Idiocy
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartPierre Guyotat was one of the most radical and uncompromising writers of the twentieth century, a literary successor to Sade, Bataille, and Genet whose visceral fictions and bold experiments with [...]
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Synths, Sax and Situationists: The French Musical Underground 1968-197…
$31.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAt the dawn of the ’70s, in a country still reeling from the aftershocks of World War 2, an underground movement of rock musicians resolved to tear it all up […]
GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Non-Fiction -
Annie Jacobsen – Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of C…
$24.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“When diplomacy fails, and war is unwise, the president calls on the CIA’s Special Activities Division, a highly-classified branch of the CIA and the most effective, black operations [...]
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The Mystery of Perception: A Conversation with Lynne Tillman
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartCandid and instantly engaging, this will be the go-to introduction to Lynne Tillman for readers everywhere and is a must have for any fan. A breakthrough for the legendary underground […]
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Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen
$34.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“The definitive, authorized, and first-ever biography of Terry Allen, the internationally acclaimed visual artist and iconoclastic songwriter who occupies an utterly unique position [...]
GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction -
Simon Critchley – Mysticism
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA probing, inspiring exploration of mysticism not as religious practice but as a mode of experience and way of life by one of the most provocative philosophical thinkers of our […]
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Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy M…
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartPresenting startling new biographical details about Timothy McVeigh and exposing stark contradictions and errors contained in previous depictions of the “All-American Terrorist,” this [...]
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Donna Haraway – Manifestly Haraway
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartElectrifying, provocative, and controversial when first published thirty years ago, Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto” is even more relevant today, when the divisions that she so eloquently [...]
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Gershom Scholem – Origins of the Kabbalah
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWith the publication of The Origins of the Kabbalah in 1950, one of the most important scholars of our century brought the obscure world of Jewish mysticism to a wider […]
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Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe landmark book that situates Blake’s poetry within the intellectual movements of his day and unlocks his symbolism for modern readers. Since it was first published, Northrop Frye’s [...]
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Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman’s Hyperrealist Everyday
$28.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThrough films that alternate between containment, order, and symmetry on the one hand, and obsession, explosiveness, and a lack of control on the other, Chantal Akerman has gained a reputation [...]
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Deforrest Brown – Assembling A Black Counter-Culture
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn Assembling a Black Counter Culture, writer and musician DeForrest Brown, Jr, provides a history and critical analysis of techno and adjacent electronic music such as house and electro, showing [...]
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Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn his short 37 years, John Whiteside “Jack” Parsons embodied at least several different roles in one tormented but glorious life. By day, Parsons’ unorthodox genius created a [...]
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Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWith mass poisonings, global warming and other tidings of contemporary civilization threatening the planet, shouldn’t we begin to reconsider our unthinking attachment to it? Feral House’s new [...]
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Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn its open improvisations, lapidary lyrics, errant melodies, and relentless pursuit of spontaneity, the British experimental band Henry Cow pushed rock music to its limits. Its rotating [...]
GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Non-Fiction -
Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAltered State–now updated—is the definitive text on ecstasy culture, using a cast of characters to track the origins of the scene through psychedelic subcults, underground gay discos, [...]
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Claude Cahun: Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals)
$34.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFirst published in 1930 by anti-fascist, avant-garde publisher Éditions du Carrefour in Paris as Aveux non Avenus, Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals) is Claude Cahun’s wildly radical answer to [...]
GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction -
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 [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction