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Emmett Williams – My Life in Flux & Vice Versa
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis is an endlessly stimulating memoir, by a figure who was involved in some of the most astounding art of the post-war era, and a fresh, spontaneous account of the […]
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The Ecstasy of St. Kara: Kara Walker
$19.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsKara Walker’s work astutely examines race, gender, and identity. Walker’s newest series of large-scale drawings stem from her consideration of monuments and notions of permanence and impermanence [...]
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Barry Flanagan: Early Works, 1965-1982
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBarry Flanagan (1941–2009) is best known for his bronze hare sculptures that sit, walk, or leap in museums and public spaces around the world. The success of these and other […]
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Robert Desjarlais – Sensory Biographies: Lives & Deaths amo…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsRobert Desjarlais’s graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modalities have contributed to the making and [...]
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Barbie Latza Nadeau – Roadmap to Hell: Sex, Drugs, & Guns o…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsChasing the money from kidnapped Nigerian hair braiders to ISIS gunrunners, this is the story of modern slavery in Europe and how the plight of those most in need is […]
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Allen F Roberts – Dance of Assassins: Performing Early Colonial …
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA Dance of Assassins presents the competing histories of how Congolese Chief Lusinga and Belgian Lieutenant Storms engaged in a deadly clash while striving to establish hegemony along the [...]
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George Hayduke – Revenge
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDepicts pranks that can be used to humiliate, defame, insult, or trick individuals or organizations on whom one seeks revenge Lyle Stuart, 1982 Softcover Edition. Some discoloration to wraps and [...]
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Lewis Spence – An Encyclopedia Of Occultism
$16.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsSince its intitial publication in 1920, this book has remained the supreme arbiter in all matters of dispute concerning the occult. Contains 2,500 entries and articles summarizing the entire [...]
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Janina Wellmann – Biological Motion: A History Of Life
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Biological Motion studies the foundational relationship between motion and life. To answer the question, “What is Life?,” prize-winning historian of science Janina Wellmann engages in a [...]
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Florian Fuchs – Civic Storytelling
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Why did short narrative forms like the novella, fable, and fairy tale suddenly emerge around 1800 as genres symptomatic of literature’s role in life and society? In order to explain […]
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Colin McGinn – The Power Of Movies: How Screen And Mind Interact
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“How is watching a movie similar to dreaming? What goes on in our minds when we become absorbed in a movie? How does looking “into” a movie screen allow us […]
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Caroline Arni – Of Human Born: Fetal Lives 1800-1950
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAt a time when the becoming of a human being in a woman’s body has, once again, become a fraught issue—from abortion debates and surrogacy controversies to prenatal diagnoses and […]
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Sidney D. Kirkpatrick – A Cast Of Killers
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsForty years after the 1921 murder of distinguised silent film director William Desmond Taylor, another famed director, King Vidor, ferreted out Taylor’s murderer. The full story of this [...]
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Dark Matter: In Defiance of Catastrophic Modernity: A Fieldguide to Al…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsCollaborators for more than four decades, lawyer, author, filmmaker, and multimedia artist Alexander Kluge and social philosopher Oskar Negt are an exceptional duo in the history of Critical [...]
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William Benton – Birds
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis book was first published in 1972 by the Graphic Arts Workshop of the Portland Museum of Art School in Oregon, as a limited edition of 200 copies. On the […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing G…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDuring World War I, German soldiers shot down carrier pigeons for fear the birds were carrying enemy communiqués; in Mexico, the United States, and other countries, mules were used for […]
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A Conspiracy of Images: Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of t…
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn October 1962, a set of blurred surveillance photographs brought the world to the brink of nuclear apocalypse during the Cuban missile crisis. The pictures themselves demonstrated little, and [...]
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Vicente Huidobro – Manifest/Manifestos
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe first publication in English of the great Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro’s manifestos, published originally in 1925. Book is in “Like New” condition. Some light superficial wear and/or [...]
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Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Volume 2: Black Sacred Music from Sit…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsVolume 1 of Nothing but Love in God’s Water traced the music of protest spirituals from the Civil War to the American labor movement of the 1930s and 1940s, and […]
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Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Volume 1: Black Sacred Music fr…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe first of two volumes chronicling the history and role of music in the African American experience, Nothing but Love in God’s Water explores how songs and singers helped African […]
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Cindy Sherman: Untitled Horrors (German Text)
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThroughout her career, Cindy Sherman (*1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey) has been interested in the derailed and deviant sides of human nature, noticeable both in her selection of subject […]
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Maurice Blanchot – Desperate Clarity: Chronicles of Intellectual…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThese articles gradually outline a practical project that both looks back to the radical artistic doctrines of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and anticipates the most original [...]
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Writers Under Surveillance: The FBI Files
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWriters are dangerous. They have ideas. The proclivity of writers for ideas drove the FBI to investigate many of them—to watch them, follow them, start files on them. Writers under […]
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Lesley Wheeler – Voicing American Poetry: Sound and Performance …
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe most interesting tensions and ambitions of twentieth-century American poetry intersect in one resonant word: voice. The term “poetic voice” emphasizes poetry’s reliance on [...]
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Remainders of the American Century: Post-Apocalyptic Novels in the Age…
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis book explores the post-apocalyptic novel in American literature from the 1940s to the present as reflections of a growing anxiety about the decline of US hegemony. Post-apocalyptic novels [...]
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John Rechy – About My Life and the Kept Woman: A Memoir
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe untold personal life story of the novelist whom Gore Vidal has hailed as one of the few original American writers of the last century.” John Rechy’s first novel, City […]
GENRE: Memoir -
Julie Hecht – Was This Man a Genius?: Talks with Andy Kaufman
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsJust as Andy Kaufman subverted traditional forms of comedy, Julie Hecht, with her deadpan wit and highly original style, subverts the traditional form of the profile with her acclaimed nonfiction [...]
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Chester Himes – If He Hollers Let Him Go
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis story of a man living every day in fear of his life for simply being black is as powerful today as it was when it was first published in […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
NSK from Kapital to Capital: Neue Slowenische Kunst-an Event of the Fi…
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe 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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James Lee Byars : The Rest is Silence
$17.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPublished on the occasion of the exhibition James Lee Byars: The Rest Is Silence, 27 April – 24 June 2006 at Michael Werner Gallery, New York (in collaboration with Mary […]
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Peter McGough – I’ve Seen the Future and I’m Not Goi…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBrilliantly 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 ItemsBrazilian 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 [...]
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Fredric Jameson – The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA 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 -
Kamala Tiyavanich – In the Cool Shade of Compassion: The Enchant…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA 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 ItemsA 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 ItemsMulti-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 ItemsFifty 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“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 […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Verena A Conley – Helene Cixous
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“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“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“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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Diane Wakoski – The Emerald City of Las Vegas
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Dedicated to America’s mythic city, Diane Wakoski discusses risk, betrayal, and history in this third volume of her Archaeology of Movies and Books. Wakoski skillfully weaves together [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Carol Off – Bitter Chocolate: Anatomy of an Industry
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“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 [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“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“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“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“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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Blurring The Boundaries: Installation Art 1969-1996
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“A classic documentation of site-specific and multi-media installation artwork, Blurring the Boundaries surveys twenty-five years of the genre’s finest accomplishments. Included are [...]
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Abstracts of Karl Rahner’s Unserialized Essays
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“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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26 Songs in 30 Days: Woody Guthrie’s Columbia River Songs and th…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“In 1941, Woody Guthrie wrote 26 songs in 30 days–including classics like “Roll On Columbia” and “Pastures of Plenty”–when he was hired by the Bonneville [...]
GENRE: Folk / Country