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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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Stella Kramrisch – The Hindu Temple Vol II
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis two-volume work explains in detail the religious and spiritual significance of the temple by means of copious references to Sanskrit texts–both sacred and scientific. It depicts the [...]
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Stella Kramrisch – The Hindu Temple Vol I
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis two-volume work explains in detail the religious and spiritual significance of the temple by means of copious references to Sanskrit texts–both sacred and scientific. It depicts the [...]
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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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Art & Today
$28.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsTargeting the same audience as Phaidon’s highly successful and long-selling Art Today by Edward Lucie-Smith, Art & Today surveys contemporary art from 1980 to today, discussing over 450 [...]
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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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Charles & Ray Eames – Powers Of Ten: A Flipbook
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsHold the universe in your hands with the Powers of Ten flipbook. This spectacular adventure in space and time takes the reader from the edge of the cosmos to a […]
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A Collecting Odyssey: The Alsdorf Collection of Indian and East Asian …
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA major contribution to the scholarship of South and Southeast Asian art. A major survey of South and Southeast Asian art drawn from the Alsdorf Collection, one of the finest […]
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Michael Fried – The Moment of Caravaggio
$32.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis is a groundbreaking examination of one of the most important artists in the Western tradition by one of the leading art historians and critics of the past half-century. In […]
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Alfred Jensen: Concordance
$35.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn an imaginative merging of abstraction and personalized iconography, Alfred Jensen’s bright paintings elaborate his comsological speculations, drawing on astronomy, physics and [...]
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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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Claude Cahun – Disavowals
$90.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMemories? Choice morsels. My soul is fragmentary.–from Disavowals Claude Cahun (1894-1954), born Lucy Schwob, was a poet, performer, resistance fighter, prisoner, Surrealist, [...]
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Dreaming Their Way : Australian Aboriginal Women Painters
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDreaming Their Way’ accompanies the first major US presentation of art by indigenous women in Australia. It showcases 33 artists’ important contributions to contemporary painting and [...]
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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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Sanctuaries of the Goddess: The Sacred Landscapes and Objects
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPeg Streep’s Sanctuaries of the Goddess is a journey into the past, a spiritual adventure into a long-buried time, that captures in glorious images and words the peaceable, generative deity [...]
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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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Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 1912 Paul Klee declared that the art of the mentally ill, as well as the art of children, “really should be taken far more seriously than are the collections […]
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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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Kasimir Malevich: 1878-1935
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMonograph covering Malevich’s entire career. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear to the wraps/boards, or light creasing/wear to […]
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Jim Dine: This Goofy Life of Constant Mourning
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis Goofy Life of Constant Mourning is the sincere title of a long visual poem by artist Jim Dine. The result of years of photographing poems after he has written […]
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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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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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African Ark: People and Ancient Cultures of Ethiopia and the Horn of A…
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“American photographer Carol Beckwith and Australian photographer Angela Fisher discovered their common pursuit upon their chance meeting in Kenya in 1978: to understand and depict the [...]
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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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Robert Smithson (University Of California Press)
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis fully illustrated book accompanies the first comprehensive American retrospective of Robert Smithson’s (1938-73) complex and influential career. Straddling the movements of minimalism [...]
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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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Matilda Olkinaite – The Unlocked Diary (Scarce)
$45.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWhat does it mean to open a murdered young poet’s diary 80 years after her death? This book is what would have been Matilda Olkinaitė’s early work, if it hadn’t […]
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Robert Westall – The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral: Two Stories …
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“I dreamt I was standing in the dark, looking up at the south-west tower … And our Kev was up there on top, in the dark, and screaming as if […]
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Robert Westall – Spectral Shadows: Three Supernatural Novellas
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThree supernatural novellas by Robert Westall, hailed as the finest British author of ghost stories since M.R. James, collected together for the first time BLACKHAM’S WIMPEY Why should [...]
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Robert Westall – Shadows of War
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn ‘Adolf’, a young boy becomes convinced his elderly neighbour is actually Adolf Hitler in hiding. The British soldiers in ‘The German Ghost’ have an otherworldly [...]
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Robert Westall – Antique Dust: Ghost Stories
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items‘Dealers are undertakers of a sort. When a man dies, the undertaker comes for the body, and the dealer comes for the rest. I deal in dead men’s clocks, pipes […]
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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 [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction