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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 […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
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 [...]
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Annie Jacobsen – Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of C…
$24.00 | Book, Print“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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Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen
$34.00 | Book, Print“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, PrintA 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, PrintPresenting 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, PrintElectrifying, 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, PrintWith 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, PrintThe 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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Deforrest Brown – Assembling A Black Counter-Culture
$20.00 | Book, PrintIn 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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Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections
$16.00 | Book, PrintWith 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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Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House
$16.00 | Book, PrintAltered 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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A Most Dangerous Method: The Story Of Jung, Freud And Sabina Spielrein
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsIn 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 ItemsLively 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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David J. Getsy – Queer Behavior
$25.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsScott Burton (1939–89) created performance art and sculpture that drew on queer experience and the sexual cultures that flourished in New York City in the 1970s. David J. Getsy argues […]
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Frederic W. Goudy – The Alphabet
$15.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsTraces the developments of the alphabet and lettering from ancient times, and presents a variety of lettering styles which have evolved Dorset Press, 1989 Hardcover Edition. Light general wear.
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Fluxus And The Essential Questions Of Life
$35.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsFluxus—from the Latin, meaning “to flow”—was a radical, international network of artists, composers, and designers in the 1960s and 1970s noted for blurring the boundaries between what we term [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
Animism In Art And Performance
$45.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsThis book explores Māori indigenous and non-indigenous scholarship corresponding with the term ‘animism’. In addressing visual, media and performance art, it explores the dualisms of people and [...]
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Giovanni Lista – Theatre Futuriste Italien Vol I & II (as-i…
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsAn anthology of Futurist theater works, wonderfully illustrated. La Cite, 1976 Softcover Edition. Noticeable discoloration to wraps of both volumes and edges of pages. Substantial glue breaks at [...]
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Thomas Hine – Populuxe
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items“The decade from 1954 to 1964 was one of America’s great shopping sprees: never before were so many people able to acquire so many things, and never before was there […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Luigi Russolo – L’Arte Dei Rumori (TEXT IN ITALIAN)
$30.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsLuigi Russolo’s seminal manifesto/essay on the art of noise. Carucci Reprint of 1916 Softcover Edition. Writing on front wrap. Noticeable foxing/discoloration to both wraps and pages. TEXT [...]
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Daryl Easlea – Everybody Dance: Chic and the Politics of Disco
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsFew narratives in pop encompass Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Madonna, Duran Duran, Diana Ross, Johnny Mathis and Led Zeppelin. This story is one of them. Chic, led by […]
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The Electric Muse Revisited
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsFolk music has been evolving and adapting for centuries, but in the 1960s and 70s came an extraordinary period of change and innovation. Rock musicians borrowed from traditional songs, while […]
GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction -
The Arab Avant-Garde: Music, Politics, Modernity
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsFrom jazz trumpeters drawing on the noises of warfare in Beirut to female heavy metallers in Alexandria, the Arab culture offers a wealth of exciting, challenging, and diverse musics. The […]
GENRE: International, Non-Fiction -
Catherine Zimmer – Surveillance Cinema
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsIn Paris, a static video camera keeps watch on a bourgeois home. In Portland, a webcam documents the torture and murder of kidnap victims. And in clandestine intelligence offices around […]
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Perpetrator Cinema: Confronting Genocide in Cambodian Documentary
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsPerpetrator Cinema explores a new trend in the cinematic depiction of genocide that has emerged in Cambodian documentary in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. While past films [...]
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Orson Welles’s Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the W…
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsIn the summer of 1970, legendary but self-destructive director Orson Welles returned to Hollywood from years of self-imposed exile in Europe and decided it was time to make a comeback […]
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Neither God nor Master: Robert Bresson and Radical Politics
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsThe French auteur Robert Bresson, director of such classics as Diary of a Country Priest (1951), The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962), The Devil, Probably (1977), and L’Argent (1983), […]
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Viktor Shklovsky – Literature and Cinematography
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsIn this short, brilliant book, Viktor Shklovsky enunciates the function of the arts: what they are and, just as importantly, what they are not. In the course of defining what […]
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Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolita…
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsRoots in Reverse explores how Latin music contributed to the formation of the négritude movement in the 1930s. Taking Senegal and Cuba as its primary research areas, this work uses […]
GENRE: International, Non-Fiction -
Concerning Violence: Fanon, Film, and Liberation in Africa, Selected T…
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsAn unblinking portrait of the anticolonial struggles of the 1960s, Concerning Violence combines more than one hundred and fifty arresting color and black-and-white photographs from Göran Hugo [...]
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Robin Brown – Blood Ivory: The Massacre of the African Elephant
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsIt is more than a thousand years since the exploitation of the elephant began. However, it is only in the last hundred years, with the coming of the ‘Great White […]
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Whole World in an Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression – 1955-1972
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsHow the radical music of the 1960s was birthed amid unprecedented upheaval and systemic repression. Decades since the radical music of the 1960s first hit the airwaves, the anthems of […]
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Noel Lobley – Sound Fragments: From Field Recording to African E…
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsThis book is an ethnographic study of sound archives and the processes of creative decolonization that form alternative modes of archiving and curating in the 21st century. It explores the […]
GENRE: International, Non-Fiction -
Graeme Thomson – I Shot a Man in Reno: A History of Death by Mur…
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsWhat do the gangsta rap devotee, the grizzled blues fanatic, the bearded folk fan, the goth and the indie kid have in common? Ask and they will all say the […]
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The Blue Moment: Miles Davis’s,and the Remaking of Modern Music
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items“It is the most singular of sounds, yet among the most ubiquitous. It is the sound of isolation that has sold itself to millions.” Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue is […]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction -
Geoffrey Pimm – The Violent Abuse of Women in 17th and 18th Cent…
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsThe seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are the gateway between the medieval world and the modern, centuries when the western societies moved from an age governed principally by religion and [...]
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Henri Cole – Orphic Paris
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsHenri Cole’s Orphic Paris combines autobiography, diary, essay, and poetry with photographs to create a new form of elegiac memoir. With Paris as a backdrop, Cole, an award-winning American poet, [...]
GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction -
The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Ca…
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsSince the days of the Roman Empire dictators have written books. But in the twentieth-century despots enjoyed unprecedented print runs to (literally) captive audiences. The titans of the [...]
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Exotic Nations: Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States …
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsIn this highly original and critically informed book, Renata R. Mautner Wasserman looks at how, during the first decades following political independence, writers in the United States and Brazil [...]
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Bokutotsusô: Studies on the Calligraphy of the Zen Master Musô Soseki
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsMusô Soseki (1275-1351), one of the most important Zen patriarchs of the early fourteenth century in Japan, devoted his life to spreading Buddhist wisdom in his writings. As a member […]
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Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsWhile the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari became an international film classic, its director, Robert Wiene, was disparaged and even forgotten. Wiene’s oeuvre, however, exhibits a surprising [...]
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Simon Kuper – Spies, Lies, and Exile: The Extraordinary Story of…
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsFew Cold War spy stories approach the sheer daring and treachery of George Blake’s. After fighting in the Dutch resistance during World War II, Blake joined the British spy agency […]
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Edmund Levin – A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspirac…
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsOn March 20, 1911, thirteen-year-old Andrei Yushchinsky was found stabbed to death in a cave on the outskirts of Kiev. Four months later, Russian police arrested Mendel Beilis, a [...]
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Roberto Bolano’s Fiction: An Expanding Universe
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsSince the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by literature in translation. Chris Andrews, a leading [...]
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Fartherest Place: The Music Of John Luther Adams
$7.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsThe artistic heir of sonic artists such as John Cage and James Tenney, John Luther Adams is one of the most significant and highly regarded contemporary American composers. The Farthest […]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction