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Michel Chion – Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen
$32.00 | Book, PrintMichel Chion’s landmark Audio-Vision has exerted significant influence on our understanding of sound-image relations since its original publication in 1994. Chion argues that sound film [...]
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Joanne Kyger – There You Are: Interviews, Journals, and Ephemera
$25.00 | Book, PrintThe inaugural book of Wave’s new interview series, There You Are combines forty years of interviews, letters, poems, and journals to present a narrative of the remarkable poet Joanne Kyger, [...]
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Denton Welch – In Youth Is Pleasure: & I Left My Grandfathe…
$18.00 | Book, PrintA tender and fierce account of boyhood and nascent homosexual desire First published in 1945, In Youth Is Pleasure is a beautiful and unassuming coming-of-age novel by the English writer […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits
$35.00 | Book, PrintIn Experimental Otherwise, Benjamin Piekut takes the reader into the heart of what we mean by “experimental” in avant-garde music. Focusing on one place and time―New York City, 1964―Piekut [...]
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Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre R…
$27.00 | Book, PrintThree New York Dadas and The Blind Man relates the story of the triangular relationship between Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché and Beatrice Wood, told in the words of two of […]
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Joseph McElroy – Cannonball
$15.00 | Book, PrintWritten in a voice of passion, warning, and awakening, Joseph McElroy’s ninth novel, Cannonball, takes us to a distant war we never understood and have half forgotten upheld by an […]
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Pierre Macorlan – Mademoiselle Bambu
$23.00 | Book, PrintMademoiselle Bambù is Pierre Mac Orlan’s take on the spy novel, written and expanded between 1932 and 1966. Set in Hamburg, London, Palermo, Brest and other ports of call in […]
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Giorgio Manganelli – To Those Gods Beyond
$24.00 | Book, PrintThis combination of two key works by the Italian avant-garde writer Giorgio Manganelli (1922–90) is a major addition to the small number of his works available in English. In the […]
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Cecilia Konchar Farr – As I Was Saying
$30.00 | Book, PrintAn indispensable companion to Gertrude Stein’s masterpiece, The Making of Americans. One of the great works of 20th-century American fiction, Stein’s novel represents a peak of modernist [...]
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Diane Di Prima – Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems
$22.00 | Book, PrintFeminist Beat poet Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Swarthmore College for two years before moving to Greenwich Village in Manhattan and becoming a writer […]
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Jane Bowles – Plain Pleasures: Stories
$16.00 | Book, PrintIn these uncanny and insidious tales, Jane Bowles presents an incendiary and groundbreaking vision of the mad possibilities of literary modernism. From “Everything Is Nice,” where an American [...]
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Jane Bowles – Two Serious Ladies
$18.00 | Book, PrintJane Bowles’s avant-garde study of women breaking free from the bonds of convention is itself a master class in liberation from the constraints of everyday thinking, form, and feeling. Two […]
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Chester Himes – A Rage In Harlem
$16.00 | Book, PrintA special edition of A Rage in Harlem, a ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, who patrol New York City’s roughest streets in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking […]
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Nothing and Everything – The Influence of Buddhism on the Americ…
$22.00 | Book, PrintIn America in the late 1950s and early 60s, the world—and life itself—became a legitimate artist’s tool, aligning with Zen Buddhism’s emphasis on “enlightenment at any moment” and living in […]
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Bohumil Hrabal – Too Loud A Solitude
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsToo Loud a Solitude is a tender and funny story of Hanta––a man who has lived in a Czech police state––for 35 years, working as compactor of wastepaper and books. […]
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Max Planck – Scientific Autobiography And Other Papers
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this fascinating autobiography from the foremost genius of twentieth-century physics, Max Planck tells the story of his life, his aims, and his thinking. Published posthumously, the papers in [...]
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S Alfonso Williams – The Interlocutor
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn The Interlocutor, S. Alfonso Williams takes the reader on an immersive journey through his unique blend of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and politics. His poetic style has a rhythm that breathes [...]
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Do Not Sell At Any Price
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBefore MP3s, CDs, and cassette tapes, even before LPs or 45s, the world listened to music on fragile, 10-inch shellac discs that spun at 78 revolutions per minute. While vinyl […]
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Geoff Dyer – The Ongoing Moment
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsGreat photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both. Focusing on the ways in which canonical figures like Alfred Stieglitz, […]
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Robert Irwin: All The Rules Will Change
$50.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsRobert Irwin, one of the most influential postwar American artists and a pioneering figure of California Light and Space Art, is the subject of this book that traces his development […]
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Roni Horn: Going North Boxset (scarce)
$100.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDeveloped in collaboration with the artist, this two-volume monograph is a comprehensive survey of Roni Horn’s art. A leading figure in contemporary art, Roni Horn addresses wide ranging issues [...]
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Joyce Johnson – Minor Characters
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 1954, Joyce Johnson’s Barnard professor told his class that most women could never have the kinds of experiences that would be worth writing about. Attitudes like that were not […]
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Cheyney Thompson: Passages
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOne of the first book-length publications on contemporary artist Cheyney Thompson, whose work is known for its radically forward-looking intellectualism and formal rigor. Cheyney Thompson’s (b. [...]
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Leaning On The Moment: Interviews From Parabola
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFeaturing interviews with Mircea Eliade, Joseph Campbell & others. Parabola Books, 1986 Hardcover Edition. Some staining to upper edge of pages. Some scuffing/discoloration to dustjacket
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Jaime Semprún – A Gallery of Recuperation
$19.00 | Book, PrintThe first English translation of the French cult classic that lampoons France’s most popular intellectuals of the post-1968 period and their ideas, which became forces of counterrevolution. [...]
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Manfred Hermes – Hystericizing Germany
$26.00 | Book, PrintRainer Werner Fassbinder’s fourteen-part Berlin Alexanderplatz, broadcast on German television in 1980, is a pivotal work in the artist’s oeuvre. The 1929 novel by Alfred Döblin, a [...]
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Jörg Heiser – Double Lives in Art and Pop Music
$29.00 | Book, PrintExploring the relationship between art and pop music over the last fifty years. Why did Andy Warhol decide to enter the music business by producing the Velvet Underground, and what […]
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Justine Frank – Sweet Sweat
$26.00 | Book, PrintSweet Sweat, the only novel by Belgian artist Justine Frank, is unusual, to say the least—a blend of feminism, pornography, Judaism, and art, written in French in 1931. Its heroine […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Ryann Donnelly – Body High
$15.00 | Book, PrintHow do we medicate ourselves, and why can’t we cure the people we love? In Body High, encounters with lurid bodily sculptures from the ’60s offer remedies to the author’s […]
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Michael Gardiner – Empire of Deterrence
$15.00 | Book, PrintA nuclear-extinction unconscious has worked over the last 30 years to ‘automate’ much political thinking and recuperate it into individualist culture wars that reaffirming the extinction regimes [...]
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Subcontinental Synthesis: Electronic Music at the National Institute o…
$25.00 | Book, PrintThe history of India’s first electronic music studio founded in 1969 at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad by David Tudor. Subcontinental Synthesis explores the history of India’s [...]
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Thomas Pynchon – Against The Day
$25.00 | Book, PrintSpanning the era between the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Dario Dzamonja – Letters from the Madhouse
$20.00 | Book, PrintAn uncompromising account of a Bosnian writer’s life as an exile in America. Considered a literary icon of Bosnia, Dario Džamonja wrote raw, unfiltered accounts of life in the streets […]
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William Kentridge : (October Files)
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsCritical texts and interviews that explore the drawings, animations, and theatrical work of the South African artist William Kentridge. Since the 1970s, the South African artist William Kentridge [...]
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Roy Lichtenstein : (October Files)
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe most comprehensive collection on Lichtenstein, from the earliest reviews to recent reassessments, including several hard-to-find and previously unpublished pieces. Roy Lichtenstein’s [...]
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Richard Hamilton : (October Files)
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsEssays and articles about Richard Hamiton, “the intellectual father of Pop art.“ Still little-known in the United States, Richard Hamilton is a key figure in twentieth-century art. An original [...]
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Martin Boyce: When Now Is Night
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBest known for his powerful sculptures and installations, Scottish artist Martin Boyce reconfigures everyday elements into alternate realities. Garbage cans are lopsided, trees consist of [...]
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Chaos and Awe : Painting for the 21st Century
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFifty paintings, reproduced in color, by an international array of contemporary artists, show the aptness and relevance of painting in an era of uncertainty. In an age of global instability, […]
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Robert Rauschenberg : (October Files)
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsCritical 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 […]
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The Reason for the Darkness of the Night : Edgar Allan Poe and the For…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAn innovative biography of Edgar Allan Poe―highlighting his fascination and feuds with science. Decade after decade, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of the most popular American writers. He is [...]
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Chris Marker – Staring Back
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPhotographs by one of French cinema’s most influential and enigmatic artists. Any new film and any new book by French filmmaker Chris Marker is an event. Marker gave film lovers […]
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High Religion : A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAn eminent anthropologist examines the foundings of the first celibate Buddhist monasteries among the Sherpas of Nepal in the early 20th century — a religious development that was a major [...]
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Lucinda Williams – Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told Y…
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsLucinda Williams’s rise to fame was anything but easy. Raised in a working-class family in the Deep South, she moved from town to town each time her father–a poet, a […]
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Dangerous Rhythms : Jazz and the Underworld
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDangerous Rhythms tells the symbiotic story of jazz and the underworld: a relationship fostered in some of 20th century America’s most notorious vice districts. For the first half of the [...]
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In the Mind but Not from There : Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsArtists and critics explore the concept of Real Abstraction to help understand contemporary cultural production In the Mind, But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art considers [...]
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Vision Machines: Cinema, Literature and Sexuality in Spain and Cuba, 1…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOver the last decade, visibility and sexuality have become a major theme in Spanish and Cuban cinema, literature and art. This book explores this development in the light of contemporary […]
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Robin Robertson – The Long Take : A Noir Narrative
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFrom the award-winning British author–a poet’s noir narrative that tells the story of a D-Day veteran in postwar America: a good man, brutalized by war, haunted by violence and [...]
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Alexander Von Humboldt : The Complete Drawings from the American Trave…
$60.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAt the dawn of the 19th-century, the Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt was granted permission to charter an expedition to Spain’s colonies in the New World. Over the course of […]
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Bruce Grant – In the Soviet House of Culture : A Century of Pere…
$17.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAt the outset of the twentieth century, the Nivkhi of Sakhalin Island were a small population of fishermen under Russian dominion and an Asian cultural sway. The turbulence of the […]
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The Art of Participation, 1950 to Now
$13.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe first fully illustrated survey of participatory art and its key practitioners, published in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This new survey covers the rich and […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction