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NSK from Kapital to Capital: Neue Slowenische Kunst-an Event of the Fi…
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe generously illustrated, lavishly documented story of NSK (Neue Slowenische Kunst), the eastern European art collective present at the last revolution of the twentieth century. This book is [...]
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Peter McGough – I’ve Seen the Future and I’m Not Goi…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartBrilliantly funny, frank, and shattering, this is the bittersweet memoir by Peter McGough of his life with artist David McDermott. Set in New York’s Lower East Side of the 1980s […]
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Constructing an Avant-Garde: Art in Brazil, 1949-1979
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartBrazilian avant-garde artists of the postwar era worked from a fundamental but productive out-of-jointness. They were modernist but distant from modernism. Europeans and North Americans may feel [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
David Carrier – Aesthetics of the Margins / The Margins of Aesth…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Wild Art” refers to work that exists outside the established, rarified world of art galleries and cultural channels. It encompasses uncatalogued, uncommodified art not often recognized as such, [...]
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Fredric Jameson – The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA collection of Jameson’s essays related to literary theory. Book is in “Like New” condition. Some light superficial wear and/or remainder mark might be present.
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
William T. Vollmann – The Book of Dolores
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWilliam T. Vollmann has travelled to Soviet-occupied Afghanistan with Islamic commandos, shivered out a solitary stretch at the North Magnetic Pole in winter, hopped freight trains, studied the [...]
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Kamala Tiyavanich – In the Cool Shade of Compassion: The Enchant…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA fascinating collection of stories of the Thai forest monks that illuminates the Thai Forest tradition as a vibrant, compassionate, and highly appealing way of life. This work ingeniously [...]
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Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test & The Power Of Seeing
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA 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 Items Add to cartMulti-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 Items Add to cartFifty 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 Add to cart“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 Add to cart“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 Add to cart“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 Add to cart“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 Add to cart“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 Add to cart“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 Add to cart“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 Add to cart“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 Add to cart“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 Add to cart“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 Add to cart“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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Music of Azerbaijan: From Mugham to Opera
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“This book traces the development of Azerbaijani art music from its origins in the Eastern, modal, improvisational tradition known as mugham through its fusion with Western classical, jazz, [...]
GENRE: International, Non-Fiction -
The Henry Davis Gift: A Collection of Bookbindings
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“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 Add to cart“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 Add to cart“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 [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
American Modernism at Mid-Century: The Work of Morris Davidson
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“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 [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
The Big Idea: Criticality and Practice in Contemporary Architecture
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“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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An Introduction To Modern Architecture (as-is)
$5.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“An explanation of what ‘modern’ architecture is all about, describing also the stages by which it has reached its present degree of development. With plans and diagrams and 48 [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Chain 6: Letters
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIssue 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 Items Add to cartAs 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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Early Cinema: Space, Frame Narrative
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn the twenty years preceding the First World War, cinema rapidly developed from a fairground curiosity into a major industry and social institution, a source of information and entertainment for [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
The Cradle Of Erotica
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“This book examines African and Asian sexual behavior. It is a sequel to The Jewel in the Lotus, a survey of the sexual culture of the East. An immensely readable […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Sam Rohdie – Fellini Lexicon
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“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 […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Susan Sontag: Mind As Passion
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“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 [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Jean Baudrillard – Spirit of Terrorism
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn dealing all the cards to itself, the system forced the Other to change the rules of the game. And the new rules are ferocious, because the game is ferocious. […]
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Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartMasculine 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 […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartOver 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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Kate Brideau – Typographic Medium
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAn innovative examination of typography as a medium of communication rather than part of print or digital media. Typography is everywhere and yet widely unnoticed. When we read type, we […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Mel Bochner – Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings & Inte…
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cartReviews, 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 [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Dennis Covington – Salvation On Sand Mountain
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“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 Items Add to cartIn 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 [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mall…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAt 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 Items Add to cartThis 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 [...]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction -
Neon Screams: How Drill, Trap, & Basement Made Music New Again
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartNeon Screams is a manifesto, a rallying cry for the new musical futurism. Taking street music’s embrace of Auto-Tune in the late 2000s as his starting point, Kit Mackintosh launches […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartYears 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 […]
GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Non-Fiction -
Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex & Infanticide in…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis 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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Sublime Noise: Musical Culture and the Modernist Writer
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWhen Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring premiered in Paris in 1913, the crowd rioted in response to the harsh dissonance and jarring rhythms of its score. This was noise, not music. […]
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Michel Leiris – Fibrils: The Rules of the Game, Volume 3
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA 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 Items Add to cartEarly 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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Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWomen’s contributions to science fiction over the past century have been lasting and important, but critical work in the field has only just begun to explore its full range. Justine […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction