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Indian Cinema In The Time Of Celluloid
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid, Ashish Rajadhyaksha argues that any exploration of the social uses to which cinema is put in a place like India can only […]
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Annette Michelson – On The Wings Of Hypothesis: Collected Writings On Soviet Cinema
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAnnette Michelson’s erudite and incisive readings of the revolutionary films of Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, collected for the first time.This posthumous volume gathers Annette [...]
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Matilde Marcolli – Lumen Nature: Visions Of The Abstract In Art And Mathematics
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartExploring common themes in modern art, mathematics, and science, including the concept of space, the notion of randomness, and the shape of the cosmos.This is a book about art—and a […]
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Joel Warner – The Curse Of The Marquis De Sade
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartDescribed as both “one of the most important novels ever written” and “the gospel of evil,” 120 Days of Sodom was written by the Marquis de Sade, a notorious eighteenth-century […]
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Hard Travelin’: The Life And Legacy Of Woody Guthrie
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFor the first ever American Music Masters event sponsored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, musicians and folkies came together to salute the life and legacy […]
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Stereophonica: Sound And Space In Science, Technology And The Arts
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartEpisodes in the transformation of our understanding of sound and space, from binaural listening in the nineteenth century to contemporary sound art. The relationship between sound and space has [...]
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Richard Thompson – Beeswing
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn this moving and immersive memoir, Richard Thompson, international and longtime beloved music legend, recreates the spirit of the 1960s, where he found, and then lost, and then found his way [...]
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Marcel Schwob – The Children’s Crusade
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“I’ve just read Marcel Schwob’s The Children’s Crusade twice over, with deep admiration and reverence. I am profoundly moved: what a work! And to think I’d never heard the name […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Robert Barry – The Music Of The Future
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe Music of the Future is not a book of predictions or speculations about how to save the music business or the bleeding edge of technologies. Rather, it’s a history […]
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October Files: Robert Rauschenberg
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartCritical 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 in [...]
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A Social History Of Iranian Cinema Volume 1: The Artisanal Era 1897-1941
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartHamid Naficy is one of the world’s leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth century to the […]
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Joy Williams – Honored Guest
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn short stories “so vibrant and alive they have heartbeats, the prose so electric and dazzling it makes the pulse race” (Vanity Fair), a masseuse breaks her rich client’s wrist [...]
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Emmett Williams – A Flexible History Of Fluxus Facts & Fictions
$16.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartHere Emmett Williams turns cartoonist, in the footsteps of Lyonel Feininger, Rube Goldberg, and Ad Reinhardt. His pseudo-historical collage-drawings, digitally remastered by Ann Noel for this [...]
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New York Is Now: The New Wave Of Free Jazz
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFor nearly 20 years, a group of musicians has been making music in the tradition of pioneers such as Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, and John Coltrane, but which is uniquely […]
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Derek Jarman – Jubilee: Six Film Scripts
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFrom the early seventies until his death in 1994, Derek Jarman made scores of films. Assembled here are six of his unforgettable film scripts: Akenaten, Jubilee, Bob-Up-A-Down, B Movie: Little [...]
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Derek Jarman – At Your Own Risk
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn At Your Own Risk, Derek Jarman weaves poetry, prose, photographs and newspaper extracts into a rich tapestry of gay experience in the UK. The buttoned-up repression of the fifties and […]
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Marjorie Perloff – The Futurist Moment
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartMarjorie Perloff’s stunning book was one of the first to offer a serious and far-reaching examination of the momentous flourishing of Futurist aesthetics in the European art and literature of [...]
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Kazuki Tomokawa – Try Saying You’re Alive
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA vivid account of life on the margins and Tokyo’s 1970s underground culture from a Japanese folk legend Tokyo in the 1970s was a magnet for young musicians, poets and […]
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Frantz Fanon – The Wretched Of The Earth
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFirst published in 1961, Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth is a masterful and timeless interrogation of race, colonialism, psychological trauma, and revolutionary struggle. In 2020, it [...]
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Penny Rimbaud – The Last Of The Hippies
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFirst published in 1982 as part of the Crass record album Christ: The Album, Penny Rimbaud’s The Last of the Hippies is a fiery anarchist polemic centered on the story […]
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Laura Mulvey – Fetishism And Curiosity (Silver Edition)
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWriter and film-maker Laura Mulvey is widely regarded as one of the most challenging and incisive contemporary cultural theorists, credited for incorporating film theory, psychoanalysis and [...]
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Peter Greenaway – Eight And A Half Women
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartEight and a Half Women accompanies Peter Greenaway’s latest movie of that name (referring to Fellini’s film), to be released in 1999. A laconic black comedy, the film examines the [...]
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Lucky Kunst: The Rise And Fall Of Young British Art
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe first inside account of the rise of Britain’s most notorious modern art movement is a hilarious, picaresque chronicle of dissoluteness, drunkenness, and epically bad behavior Today artists [...]
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The World Of Lucha Libre
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe World of Lucha Libre is an insider’s account of lucha libre, the popular Mexican form of professional wrestling. Heather Levi spent more than a year immersed in the world […]
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Speed Limits
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA stunning exhibition catalogue to mark the centenary of the foundation of the Italian futurist movement, whose 1909 manifesto proclaimed “that the world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new [...]
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Douglas Gordon: Superhumanatural
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis book will accompany the first major solo exhibition of Douglas Gordon’s work in Scotland since he presented his now celebrated work, 24 Hour Psycho at Tramway in Glasgow in […]
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England On Fire: A Visual Journey Through Albion’s Psychic Landscape
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis is a book about English art like no other. Forget the tired rogues’ gallery of lords and ladies, forget the tall ships and haywains. These images cut to the […]
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Philippe Grandrieux: Sonic Cinema
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartPhilippe Grandrieux is one of cinema’s only living true radicals and feted as one of the most innovative and important film makers of his generation. His consistently controversial work [...]
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Radical Virtuosity: Ana Mendieta & The Black Atlantic
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartReclaiming the artist Ana Mendieta as a formally innovative maker of performative art who forged connections to the marginalized around the world.The artist Ana Mendieta (1948–1985) is remembered [...]
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Surrealism At Play
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn Surrealism at Play Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy. For surrealist artists, […]
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Semiotext(e): The German Issue
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major global mutation, bridging art and intellect, culture and politics, Europe and America.The German Issue (1982) was originally [...]
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From A Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art And Representation In France
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFrom a Nation Torn provides a powerful critique of art history’s understanding of French modernism and the historical circumstances that shaped its production and reception. Within art [...]
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The Fierce Urgency Of Now: Improvisation, Rights And The Ethics Of Cocreation
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe Fierce Urgency of Now links musical improvisation to struggles for social change, focusing on the connections between the improvisation associated with jazz and the dynamics of human rights [...]
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Gerhard Richter – This Great Allegory: On World-Decay And World-Opening In The Work Of Art
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAn engagement with the relation between the world in which an artwork is created—a world that perishes or decays over time—and the new world that the artwork opens up. Gerhard […]
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Networking The Bloc: Experimental Art In Eastern Europe 1965-1981
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe story of the experimental zeitgeist in Eastern European art, seen through personal encounters, pioneering dialogues, collaborative projects, and cultural exchanges.Throughout the 1970s, a [...]
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Seeing The Unspeakable: The Art Of Kara Walker
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartOne of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur “genius” grant, Kara Walker, an African American artist, is best known for her iconic, often life-size, black-and-white silhouetted figures, arranged [...]
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Parallel Public: Experimental Art In Late East Germany
$16.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartHow East German artists made their country’s experimental art scene a form of (counter) public life. Experimental artists in the final years of the German Democratic Republic did not practice [...]
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A Slow Burning Fire: The Rise Of The New Art Practice In Yugoslavia
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe first comprehensive study of the former Yugoslavia’s diverse and groundbreaking alternative art scenes from the 1960s to the 1980s. This first comprehensive study of the former [...]
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Band Of Bikers
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn the basement of an apartment building in Manhattan,Scott Zieher discovered a pile of photographs among the effects of a recently deceased tenant. These photographs,presented for the first time [...]
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Agustin Fernandez Mallo – The Nocilla Trilogy
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA landmark in contemporary Spanish literature, Agustin Fernandez Mallo’s Nocilla Trilogy—Nocilla Dream, Nocilla Lab, and Nocilla Experience—presents multiple narratives of people and places that [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Brion Gysin: Tuning In To The Multimedia Age
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis comprehensive biography presents the achievements of Brion Gysin, a multi-faceted artist whose work has influenced performers such as David Bowie and Mick Jagger. Recalling the heady [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
Out Of Sight: The Los Angeles Art Scene Of The Sixities
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA social and cultural history of Los Angeles and its emerging art scene in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s The history of modern art typically begins in Paris and ends […]
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On & By: Andy Warhol
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWritings about Andy Warhol by critics, artists, cultural theorists, and Factory associates together with archival material, interviews, and texts by Warhol himself. The impact of Andy Warhol on [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Francis Booth – Amongst Those Left: The British Experimental Novel 1940-1980
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAmongst Those Left is a long-overdue study of experimental literature in Britain from the beginning of the twentieth century through the 1980s. Undertaken with the aim of refuting the idea […]
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Emile Durkheim – Suicide
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA classic book about the phenomenon of suicide and its social causes written by one of the world’s most influential sociologists. Emile Durkheim’s Suicide addresses the phenomenon of suicide and [...]
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October Files: John Cage
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAn extended trajectory of Cage literature, from early critical reaction to writing by contemporaries to current scholarship.John Cage (1912–1992) defined a radical practice of composition that [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction -
Jack Stevenson – Lars Von Trier
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWith the international success of “Breaking the Waves” and “Dancer in the Dark”, Lars von Trier has established himself as one of the most provocative and daring film [...]
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Sacred Arts Of Haitian Vodou
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“This abundantly illustrated anthology brings together 16 essays by scholars, artists, and ritual experts who examine the sacred arts of Haitian Vodou from multiple perspectives. Among the [...]
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Bill Ayers – Fugitive Days: A Memoir
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartBill Ayers memoir of his radicalization, time spent leading the Weather Undergound and time spent running from the FBI. Beacon Press, 2001 hardcover edition. Tearing and sticker on dust jacket, [...]
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Werewolves In Western Culture: A Lycanthropy Reader
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Our understanding of lycanthropy is limited by our association of it with contemporary portrayals of werewolves in horror films and gothic fiction. No rational person today believes that a [...]
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Persephone’s Quest: Entheogens and The Origins of Religion
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“This fascinating book discusses the role played by psychoactive mushrooms in the religious rituals of ancient Greece, Eurasia, and Mesoamerica. R. Gordon Wasson, an internationally known [...]
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R. Buckminster Fuller – Intuition
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAccomplished polymath R.Buckminster Fuller impacted and influenced everyone from John Cage to early hippie movements. Intuition is his 12th book. “In this series of poem-essays, Fuller [...]
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The Tibetan Book Of The Dead
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe essential Buddhist text on living & dying. The Evans-Wentz translation of The Tibetan Book Of The Dead, while controversial for its accuracy, was still monumentally impactful for helping [...]
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Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology
$22.00 | Book, Print Add to cartNow in paperback, a significant new collection of concrete poetry that redefines what this unique literary movement means today. Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology is the first overview of [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Iceberg Slim – Night Train to Sugar Hill
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cart1980s Los Angeles. The crack epidemic has hit hard. Innocent and damned alike fall victim to the artificial allure of the drug — a teenager accidentally overdoses, junkies smoke crack […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA major contribution for American readers and students of Russian literature and an exciting discovery for fans of contemporary writers as eclectic as George Saunders, John Ashbery, and Martin [...]
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Cannibal Error (Revised)
$32.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA social history of the ‘video nasty’. In the early 1980s, video technology forever changed the face of home entertainment. The videocassette – a handy-sized cartridge of [...]
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Sergio De La Pava – A Naked Singularity
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe critically acclaimed novel that is now a major motion picture starring John Boyega and Olivia Cooke, coming to theaters August 6, streaming August 13! A Naked Singularity tells the […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Antonin Artaud – Journey To Mexico
$34.00 | Book, Print Add to cartOn 10 January 1936, the poet, actor, and dramatic theorist, Antonin Artaud departed Europe on a journey to Mexico that would take him from the streets, cafés, and lecture halls […]
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Troy James Weaver – Visions
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“Troy James Weaver’s novel unravels the typical coming-of-age story. It erases the distinction between finding and losing your voice, becoming enlightened by a vision and swallowed by [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive