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Graham Hancock – Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark o…
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe fact of the Lost Ark of the Covenant is one of the grant historical mysteries of all time. To believers, the Ark is the legendary vesel holding the stone […]
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Graham Hancock – Fingerprints of the Gods: The Quest For Earth&#…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsCould the story of mankind be far older than we have previously believed? Using tools as varied as archaeo-astronomy, geology, and computer analysis of ancient myths. Graham Hancock presents a [...]
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David Rothenberg – Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science, and …
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“The peacock’s tail,” said Charles Darwin, “makes me sick.” That’s because the theory of evolution as adaptation can’t explain why nature is so [...]
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Ajanta and Ellora
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe Cave-temples at Ajanta and Ellora are without doubt one of the most remarkable sights in India. Excavated from solid rock, each temple took years to complete. The energy of […]
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James William Gibson – A Reenchanted World: The Quest for a New …
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA surprising and enlightening investigation of how modern society is making nature sacred once again. For more than two centuries, Western cultures, as they became ever more industrialized, [...]
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Colin Wilson – Rogue Messiahs: Tales of Self-Proclaimed Saviors
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThroughout history, Western culture has been bedeviled by false prophets, charlatans, and self-appointed messianic figures. Their appetites for destruction and depravity have led to broken lives [...]
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Animal Spirits: An Illustrated Guide
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsExplores how animals, in the past and present, have been seen as repositories of spiritual energy, and discusses animal myths and symbols, and beliefs about animal intelligence and the soul […]
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American, African, and Old European Mythologies
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMythologies offers illuminating examples of the workings of myth in the structure of societies past and present—how we create, use, and are guided by systems of myth to answer fundamental […]
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Ritual of the Wind: North American Indian Ceremonies, Music, and Dance…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsStudy of the ceremonies and rituals of various indigenous north american tribes. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear […]
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Giza: The Truth: The People, Politics, and History Behind the World…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe first responsible assessment of the entire range of theories behind Giza, this exhaustively researched book plunges into the history of recent explorations of the legendary site. Essential [...]
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Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsContemporary art is the object of inflated and widely divergent claims. But what kind of discourse can open it up effectively to critical analysis? Anywhere or Not at All is […]
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Lyle Campbell – Historic Linguistics: An Introduction
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis accessible, hands-on text not only introduces students to the important topicsin historical linguistics but also shows them how to apply the methods described and how to thinkabout the [...]
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Varese: A Looking Glass Diary
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsEdgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (also spelled Edgar Varèse; 22 December 1883 – 2 November 6 1965) was an innovative French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career […]
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Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAccompanying a nationally touring exhibition, this critical history of American art of the 1920s provides a fresh perspective on the strikingly original modernist imagery of the Jazz Age. Youth [...]
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Rethinking Imagination: Culture And Creativity
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDiscusses the different ways in which the concept of imagination has been construed, and provides fascinating glimpses of the role of imagination in the creation and management of Modernity. This [...]
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Art and Spiritual Transformation : The Seven Stages of Death and Rebir…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsArt and Spiritual Transformation presents a seven-stage journey from the darkened soul to the light of spiritual illumination that is possible through the world of art. Finley Eversole introduces [...]
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Philip Hanson: The Subtle Diagram
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsCatalog for an exhibition held at Corbett vs. Dempsey September 10 – October 16, 2010 This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some […]
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Soma: The Divine Hallucinogen
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsSoma has been shrouded in mystery for centuries. It is simultaneously a sacred hallucinogenic plant used in secret rituals, a personified God, and an important cosmological principle. Summarizing [...]
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John Willats – Art and Representation : New Principles in the An…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn Art and Representation, John Willats presents a radically new theory of pictures. To do this, he has developed a precise vocabulary for describing the representational systems in pictures: the [...]
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The Oxford Book of the Supernatural
$10.00 | Book, Book / Paper Goods, Print, Used ItemsFrom the eerie visitation of Scrooge by Marley’s ghost, to the three witches brewing evil on the heath in Macbeth, to the deadly lust for blood of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, […]
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Mythical Beasts: Traditions and Tales of Favorite Fabled Creatures
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMost of the mythical monsters and beasts that live in our literature and lore — some wild and dangerous, others noble and gentle — were born in the fertile crescent […]
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Frank O. Gehry: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsNo building was more anticipated than Frank Gehry’s stunning new museum in Bilbao, an industrial city in the Basque Country of northern Spain. Philip Johnson, the dean of American [...]
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Reading Blake’s Designs (as-is, no dustjacket)
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this innovative study, Christopher Heppner constructs a new assessment and interpretation of William Blake as an illustrator of texts that were not his own. Ranging over topics such as […]
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The Levant: A Fractured Mosaic
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAt the outset of the 21st century, perhaps the most interesting feature of the Levant (in Arabic, Bilad al-Sham), in the midst of an overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim Arab world, is […]
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The Greek Qabalah: Alphabetic Mysticism and Numerology in the Ancient …
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis book will be of interest to a wide range of readers, from students of Ancient History and early Christianity, to Qabalists and modern magicians. Extensive notes and citations from […]
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Gods in the Bazaar: The Economies of Indian Calendar Art
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsGods in the Bazaar is a fascinating account of the printed images known in India as “calendar art” or “bazaar art,” the color-saturated, mass-produced pictures often used on calendars and […]
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Cahokia: Mirror of the Cosmos
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAt the turn of the last millennium, a powerful Native American civilization emerged and flourished in the American Midwest. By A.D. 1050 the population of its capital city, Cahokia, was […]
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Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsNew painting and drawing is the subject of Remote Viewing, which accompanies an exhibition at the Whitney Museum. The book brings together eight artists, some well known, others emerging, all [...]
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Doctor Illuminatus: A Ramon Llull Reader
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFor this new anthology, Anthony Bonner has chosen central texts from his acclaimed two-volume compilation Selected Works of Ramon Llull (Princeton, 1985). Available for the first time in an [...]
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Polly Schaafsma – The Rock Art Of Utah
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOver many centuries, the prehistoric Fremont and Anasazi peoples of present-day Utah left an artistic record in which distinctive styles are readily identifiable. From the Uinta Mountains through [...]
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Pre-Columbian Art and the Post-Columbian World : Ancient American Sour…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsUntil this trailblazing 1993 book, now reissued in paperback, much attention had been given to the connection between modern art and indigenous African forms, while pre-Columbian sources of [...]
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Jacques Ranciere – Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime o…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsComposed in a series of scenes, Aisthesis–Rancière’s definitive statement on the aesthetic–takes its reader from Dresden in 1764 to New York in 1941. Along the way, we view the Belvedere […]
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Rosemary Clark – The Sacred Tradition in Ancient Egypt: The Esot…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAt the heart of the monumental splendor of ancient Egypt was a spiritual goal, the elevation of human life from its material condition to its original divine nature. And the […]
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Molefi Kete Asante – Kemet, Afrocentricity And Knowledge
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Asante’s book, Kemet,Afrocentricity,and Knowledge, continues his project of forging a new discipline out of the many strands of Black Studies. Like his previous works, this is a [...]
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Knowledge for the Afterlife: The Egyptian Amduat – A Quest for I…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsEvery evening the sun becomes old and weak and finally sets behind the Western horizon. Yet, it rises again in the morning, rejuvenated. How is that possible? How could the […]
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Victoria Newhouse – Art and the Power of Placement
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWhere and how an artwork is presented can enhance it or detract from it, or even alter its meaning. Depending on the display, painting and sculpture can denote a religious, […]
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Lesley Dill: A Ten Year Survey
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMonograph/overview of the early career of the New York based multi-media artist. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear […]
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John Bennett – The Night of the Great Butcher
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA collection of short stories & pieces by the iconoclastic proto-beat writer. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Matt Mullican: A Drawing Translates the Way of Thinking
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPublished on the occasion of The Drawing Center’s exhibition, Matt Mullican: A Drawing Translates the Way of Thinking presents a selection of the artist’s work from throughout his [...]
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Sacred Visions: Early Paintings from Central Tibet (as-is, no dustjack…
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDevoted to a period of extraordinary cultural achievement – from the 11th to the mid-15th century – when Tibet became known as the Buddhist holy land – this book accompanies [...]
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Brought to Light : Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBrought to Light invites readers to step back to a time when photography, X-rays, and movies were new, when forays into the world beneath the skin or the realm beyond […]
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Eduardo M. Moctezuma – The Aztecs
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPresents a comprehensive portrait of the Aztec people, their culture, and their art This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & […]
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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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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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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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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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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 […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction