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The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art Worlds
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMapping the new geography of the visual arts, from the explosion of biennials to the emerging art markets in Asia and the Middle East. The geography of the visual arts […]
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Hans Belting – Likeness and Presence: A History of the Image bef…
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBefore the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as “art” but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presence of the Holy. In this magisterial book, [...]
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Photography and Painting in the Work of Gerhard Richter: Four Essays o…
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsEssays by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Jean-Francois Chevrier, Armin Zweite, and Rainer Rochlitz. This publication brings together four texts which analyze Gerhard Richter’s monumental project [...]
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Wilson Bryan Key – Subliminal Seduction
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsExplains the ways in which the media uses sex and violence to manipulate human behavior, citing specific examples from Playboy, Vogue, and Cosmopolitan magazines. This book is in Good readable [...]
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The New Art–the New Life: The Collected Writings Of Piet Mondria…
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWhen the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) made his first ventures into the realm of nonrepresentational art, he could hardly have imagined the impact his vision would have on [...]
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Henri Matisse: Modernist Against the Grain
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWhat makes Henri Matisse a “modernist,” when so much of his work harks back to older French traditions and the artist himself never seems entirely at home in the twentieth […]
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Manuel Lima – Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information
$40.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOur ability to generate information now far exceeds our capacity to understand it. Finding patterns and making meaningful connections inside complex data networks has emerged as one of the [...]
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Guy Davenport – The Geography Of Imagination (as-is, no dustjack…
$45.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn the 40 essays that constitute this collection, Guy Davenport, one of America’s major literary critics, elucidates a range of literary history, encompassing literature, art, philosophy [...]
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Shamans Of The 20th Century
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn Shamans of the 20th Century, anthropologist Ruth-Inge Heinze takes a critical look at the global re-emergence of the shaman in the late twentieth century, redefiing the role of the […]
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Tomb of the Eagles: A Window on Stone Age Tribal
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIsbister in the Orkneys is one of those extraordinary archaeological sites where the remains of Neolithic man and his works have been so well preserved that they give us an […]
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The Secret Doctrine of the Kabbalah: Recovering the Key to Hebraic Sac…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFor centuries the Kabbalah has fascinated devotees of mysticism while its origins have remained obscure. Now, in her brilliant new work, Leonora Leet reveals that the Kabbalah was the product [...]
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Heinz Westman – Structure of Biblical Myths: The Ontogenesis of …
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA fascinating journey through one of the most important myths of Western culture-the Bible. Citing parallels from classical and oriental sources, Westman interprets biblical stories from the [...]
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Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion: An Anthropological Study of the Super…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA comparative reader that takes an anthropological approach to the study of religious beliefs, both strange and familiar. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read […]
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Death, Ecstasy, and Other Worldly Journeys
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBelief in a spirit world, and a blissful or agonizing afterlife, is one of the most pervasive and deeply-rooted characteristics of religion. This volume offers a wide-ranging exploration of this [...]
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Constance Classen – The Colour of Angels: Cosmology, Gender and …
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe Colour of Angels uncovers the gender politics behind our attitude to the senses. Using a wide variety of examples, ranging from the sensuous religious visions of the middle ages […]
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Spirit in Ashes: Hegel, Heidegger, and Man-Made Mass Death
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsContemporary phenomena of mass death―such as Hiroshima and Auschwitz―have brought with them the threat of annihilation of human life. In this provocative and disturbing book, Edith Wyschogrod [...]
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Ninian Smart – Dimensions of the Sacred: An Anatomy of the World…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis work explores the underlying features of the world’s major religions and comparable secular systems of thought. It considers Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, [...]
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William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsModern scholars often find it difficult to account for the profound eccentricities in the work of William Blake, dismissing them as either ahistorical or simply meaningless. But with this [...]
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Vincent Scully – Pueblo: Mountain, Village, Dance
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe vast and beautiful landscape of the American Southwest has long haunted artists and writers seeking to understand the mysteries of the deep affinity between the land and the Native […]
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The Book of Mystical Chapters: Meditations on the Soul’s Ascent,…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe early Christian monks of Egypt, Syria, and Palestine were the spiritual heroes of their age—fleeing the security of civilization for the desert, where they sought God in lives of […]
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Leon Kass – The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsExamining Genesis in a philosophical light, Leon Kass presents it not as a story of what happened long ago, but as the enduring story of humanity itself. He asserts that […]
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Robert Masters – The Goddess Sekhmet (scarce, as-is, markings)
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsRobert Masters presents the wisdom of ancient Egypt through the perspective of contemporary research in psychology and religious studies in his profound study of The Goddess Sekhmet: [...]
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The Beauty of the Primitive: Shamanism and Western Imagination
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFor the past forty years shamanism has drawn increasing attention among the general public and academics. There is an enormous literature on shamanism, but no one has tried to understand […]
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Anselm Kiefer and the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger
$40.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAnselm Kiefer and the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger is a work of cultural history that situates the art works of one of the most important contemporary painters in relation to […]
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Reginald Bakeley – On Gnoming
$5.00 | Print, Used Items, Zine“On Gnoming”: Phooka editor Reginald Bakeley outlines the principles of hunting and cooking these small, malignant, and particularly tasty woodland creatures. A sidebar on defenses against trolls [...]
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C. G. Jung: A Biography in Books
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 1912, C. G. Jung wrote, “Should it happen that all traditions in the world were cut off with a single blow, the whole mythology and history of religion would […]
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Steven Mithen – After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-500…
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items20,000 BC, the peak of the last ice age―the atmosphere is heavy with dust, deserts, and glaciers span vast regions, and people, if they survive at all, exist in small, […]
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Hans Belting – The Invisible Masterpiece
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe ‘invisible masterpiece’ is an unattainable ideal, a work into which a dream of absolute art is incorporated but can never be realized. By means of this metaphor borrowed from […]
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The Chemical Choir: A History of Alchemy
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA pre-cursor to contemporary chemistry and physics, alchemy began as the pursuit of knowledge, initially in China as a search for the secret of immortality, and appearing independently in Egypt [...]
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Hillel Schwartz – Century’s End : An Orientation Manual fo…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA “Future Shock” for the turn of the century, Century’s End contains a rich trove of facts that will delight readers whose job it is to know what moods will […]
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Lucy R. Lippard – Mixed Blessings : New Art in a Multicultural A…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn America today there is a little-known explosion of creative art by women and men from many different ethnic backgrounds. Mixed Blessings is the first book to discuss the crosscultural […]
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Dark Nature: A Natural History of Evil
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAt a time when violence threatens to become epidemic and genocide takes the place of diplomacy in many regions of the world, it is no longer enough to simply dismiss […]
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Apocalyptic Spirituality (Classics of Western Spirituality)
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“In its breadth of vision and seriousness of purpose, the series leaves little room for complaint or cavil…An editorial program of real vision; series like this are what makes [...]
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Harry C James – Pages from Hopi History
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“More than half a century of contact between the author and the Hopi people has resulted in an unusual opportunity for long informative talks with friends from the villages. These […]
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The Dimensions of Paradise: Sacred Geometry, Ancient Science, and the …
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe priests of ancient Egypt preserved a geometrical canon, a numerical code of harmonies and proportions, that they applied to music, art, statecraft, and all the institutions of their [...]
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Shamans Through Time: 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA survey of five centuries of writings on the world’s great shamans-the tricksters, sorcerers, conjurers, and healers who have fascinated observers for centuries. This collection of essays [...]
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Peter Wollen – Raiding the Icebox: Reflections on Twentieth-Cent…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsRaiding the Icebox is a kaleidoscopic review of the avant-garde and radical subcultures of the twentieth century, and explains how the most powerful artistic statements of the era redrew the […]
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Mircea Eliade – Essential Sacred Writings From Around the World
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOriginally published as From Primitives to Zen, this comprehensive anthology contains writings vital to all the major non-Western religious traditions, arranged thematically. Here are colorful [...]
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Julian Stallabrass – High Art Lite
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe recent controversy surrounding the Brooklyn Museum of Art’s Sensation! Show has further inflated the already burgeoning media profiles of British artists like Damien Hirst, Chris Ofili, Sarah [...]
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Transcendence: The Disinformation Encyclopedia of Transhumanism and th…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsTranshumanism is an international movement that advocates the use of science and technology to overcome the “natural” limitations experienced by humanity through such developments as: [...]
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The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation, and the Self…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMarcel Duchamp is a founding figure of twentieth-century art and culture, the common source to which many contemporary movements trace their roots. His career has often been celebrated for its [...]
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Daniel C. Noel – The Soul of Shamanism: Western Fantasies, Imagi…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFrom the Merlin of Arthurian romances to Mircea Eliade’s academic researches, from Carlos Castaneda’s Don Juan to the archetypal images of Carl Jung, the figure of the shaman has [...]
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Nigel Pennick – Magical Alphabets: The Secrets and Significance …
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsUsing the premise that languages and the alphabets that comprise them are metaphorical microcosms of our world, Nigel Pennick demonstrates how various alphabets function as a metaphysical [...]
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Mike Jay – The Atmosphere of Heaven: The Unnatural Experiments o…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe stranger-than-fiction story of the Enlightenment visionaries who discovered the unexpected effects of inhaling nitrous oxide. At the Pneumatic Institution in Bristol, England, founded in the [...]
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Star Gods of the Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsObservations of the sun, moon, planets, and stars played a central role in ancient Maya lifeways, as they do today among contemporary Maya who maintain the traditional ways. This pathfinding […]
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The Serpent and the Swan: The Animal Bride in Folklore and Literature
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe Serpent and the Swan is a history and analysis of animal bride tales from antiquity to the present. The animal bride tale, the author argues, is an enduring expression […]
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Faces Of The Living Dead: The Belief In Spirit Photography
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMartyn Jolly examines the evolution and photographic techniques of spirit photography – the craze for photographing ‘spirits’, which was rooted in the popularity of Spiritualism [...]
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Gregory & Mary Bateson – Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemolo…
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAngels Fear is the final sustained thinking of the great Gregory Bateson, written in collaboration with his anthropologist daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson. Here we have set out before us [...]
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Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMarcel Duchamp is often viewed as an “artist-engineer-scientist,” a kind of rationalist who relied heavily on the ideas of the French mathematician and philosopher Henri Poincaré. Yet [...]
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The Sublime (Documents Of Contemporary Art Series)
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn the contemporary world, where technology, spectacle, and excess seemto eclipse nature, the individual, and society, what might be the characteristics ofa contemporary sublime? If there is any [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction