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Samuel R. Delany – Times Square Red, Times Square Blue: 20th Ann…
$28.00 | Book, PrintTwentieth anniversary edition of a landmark book that cataloged a vibrant but disappearing neighborhood in New York City In the two decades that preceded the original publication of Times Square [...]
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Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits
$35.00 | Book, PrintIn 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 -
Michel Chion – Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise
$35.00 | Book, PrintFirst 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, PrintMeditations 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 […]
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George Berger – Story Of Crass
$22.00 | Book, PrintCrass was the anarcho-punk face of a revolutionary movement founded by radical thinkers and artists Penny Rimbaud, Gee Vaucher, and Steve Ignorant. When punk ruled the waves, Crass waived the [...]
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Cecilia Konchar Farr – As I Was Saying
$30.00 | Book, PrintAn 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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Deleuze & Guattari – Anti-Oedipus
$23.00 | Book, PrintWhen it first appeared in France, Anti-Oedipus was hailed as a masterpiece by some and “a work of heretical madness” by others. In it, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari set […]
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Ken Hollings – Welcome to Mars
$13.00 | Book, PrintWelcome 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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Nothing and Everything – The Influence of Buddhism on the Americ…
$22.00 | Book, PrintIn 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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Max Planck – Scientific Autobiography And Other Papers
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 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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Live Wires: A History of Electronic Music
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWe 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 -
S Alfonso Williams – The Interlocutor
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 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 ItemsBefore 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 ItemsGreat 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 ItemsOne 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. [...]
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Jaime Semprún – A Gallery of Recuperation
$19.00 | Book, PrintThe 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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Manfred Hermes – Hystericizing Germany
$26.00 | Book, PrintRainer 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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Jörg Heiser – Double Lives in Art and Pop Music
$29.00 | Book, PrintExploring 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, PrintThe 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, PrintA 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, PrintHow 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, PrintA 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, PrintThe 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, PrintAn 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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Sylvère Lotringer – Overexposed
$17.00 | Book, PrintA 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, PrintAn 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 […]
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David Thomson – Murder and the Movies
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsHow 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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William Kentridge : (October Files)
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsCritical 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 ItemsThe 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 ItemsEssays 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 ItemsCritical 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 ItemsAn 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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High Religion : A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAn 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 ItemsDangerous 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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In the Mind but Not from There : Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsArtists 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 ItemsOver 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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Bruce Grant – In the Soviet House of Culture : A Century of Pere…
$17.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAt 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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Revolution of the Eye : Modern Art and the Birth of American Televisio…
$13.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe 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 ItemsThe 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 ItemsDrawing 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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Alexandra Popoff – Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIf 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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Jack Burnham – Dissolve into Comprehension : Writings and Interv…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsInfluential 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 ItemsIn 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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Bio Art : Altered Realities
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 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 ItemsHow 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 ItemsThis 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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Marcel Benabou – Why I Have Not Written Any Of My Books
$14.00 | Book, PrintMarcel 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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Pierre Guyotat – Idiocy
$18.00 | Book, PrintPierre 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, PrintAt 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 -
Norbert Wiener – The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and …
$19.00 | Book, PrintFor the 75th anniversary, a new edition of The Human Use of Human Beings–the landmark book that delves into the relationship between humans and computers, and presciently anticipates many [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction