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Nick Kaye – Site-Specific Art
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartSite-Specific Art charts the development of an experimental art form in an experimental way. Nick Kaye traces the fascinating historical antecedents of today’s installation and performance [...]
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Luigi Russolo – L’Arte Dei Rumori (TEXT IN ITALIAN)
$30.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartLuigi Russolo’s seminal manifesto/essay on the art of noise. Carucci Reprint of 1916 Softcover Edition. Writing on front wrap. Noticeable foxing/discoloration to both wraps and pages. TEXT [...]
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Daryl Easlea – Everybody Dance: Chic and the Politics of Disco
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartFew narratives in pop encompass Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Madonna, Duran Duran, Diana Ross, Johnny Mathis and Led Zeppelin. This story is one of them. Chic, led by […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction, Soul / Funk / Disco -
The Electric Muse Revisited
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartFolk music has been evolving and adapting for centuries, but in the 1960s and 70s came an extraordinary period of change and innovation. Rock musicians borrowed from traditional songs, while […]
GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction -
The Arab Avant-Garde: Music, Politics, Modernity
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartFrom jazz trumpeters drawing on the noises of warfare in Beirut to female heavy metallers in Alexandria, the Arab culture offers a wealth of exciting, challenging, and diverse musics. The […]
GENRE: International, Non-Fiction -
Catherine Zimmer – Surveillance Cinema
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn Paris, a static video camera keeps watch on a bourgeois home. In Portland, a webcam documents the torture and murder of kidnap victims. And in clandestine intelligence offices around […]
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Jacques Boyreau – Supertrash
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartSuperTrash is the mutagenic sequel to Trash: The Graphic Genius of Xploitation Movie Posters (2002, Chronicle), the book that became a prophecy of the lasting influence of grindhouse and a […]
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Rewind: British Artists’ Video in the 1970s & 1980s
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis anthology explores the pioneering period of the British video art form that has become a hallmark of contemporary art. Drawing on interviews, ephemera, archived tapes, and installations from [...]
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Perpetrator Cinema: Confronting Genocide in Cambodian Documentary
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartPerpetrator Cinema explores a new trend in the cinematic depiction of genocide that has emerged in Cambodian documentary in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. While past films [...]
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Orson Welles’s Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the Wind
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn the summer of 1970, legendary but self-destructive director Orson Welles returned to Hollywood from years of self-imposed exile in Europe and decided it was time to make a comeback […]
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Nicholas Ray: An American Journey
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartPerhaps best known for Rebel without a Cause, American filmmaker Nicholas Ray directed dozens of movies in the film noir genre, including In a Lonely Place, Johnny Guitar, and They […]
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Neither God nor Master: Robert Bresson and Radical Politics
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe French auteur Robert Bresson, director of such classics as Diary of a Country Priest (1951), The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962), The Devil, Probably (1977), and L’Argent (1983), […]
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Kabuki Plays on Stage. Volume 4: Restoration and Reform, 1872-1905
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartRestoration and Reform, 1872-1905, is the fourth and final volume in a monumental new series that traces kabuki’s changing relations to Japanese society during the premodern era. The twelve [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Leo Tolstoy – Three Simple Men: And Other Holy Folktales
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartYou’ve met the characters in these stories before. We meet them in folktales from all around the world. There is the simple, wise old man who understands far more than […]
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Régis Bonvicino – Sky-Eclipse: Selected Poems
$7.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartPlayful and depth-filled poetry by the Brazilian luminary. Book is in “Like New” condition. Some light superficial wear and/or remainder mark might be present.
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Lafcadio Hearn – Short Stories: Tales of the Supernatural
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis gorgeous hardback edition brings the writing of Lafcadio Hearn to life. Ranging from the legends of the West Indies to the mysteries of the Orient, Lafcadio Hearn blurs the […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
James Purdy – Malcolm: A Comic Novel
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe twenty-first-century revival of James Purdy continues with his classic novel of innocence and corruption. Introduced simply as “the boy on the bench,” the titular character of Malcolm is a [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Viktor Shklovsky – Literature and Cinematography
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn this short, brilliant book, Viktor Shklovsky enunciates the function of the arts: what they are and, just as importantly, what they are not. In the course of defining what […]
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James Purdy – Eustace Chisholm & the Works: A Novel
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartNo James Purdy novel has dazzled contemporary writers more than this haunting tale of unrequited love in an indifferent world. A seedy depression-era boarding house in Chicago plays host to […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Surrealism in Latin America: Vivísimo Muerto
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis collection of essays—the first major account of surrealism in Latin America that covers both literary and visual production—explores the role the movement played in the construction and [...]
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Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama―Manhattan, 1970–1980
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn this important volume, Jay Sanders and J. Hoberman explore the vibrant underground performance art scene of 1970s New York. Focusing on little-known and long-forgotten works, which were often [...]
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Douglas Kahn – Energies in the Arts
$15.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis book investigates energies—in the plural, the energies embedded and embodied in everything under the sun— as they are expressed in the arts. With contributions from scholars and critics from [...]
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Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartRoots in Reverse explores how Latin music contributed to the formation of the négritude movement in the 1930s. Taking Senegal and Cuba as its primary research areas, this work uses […]
GENRE: International, Non-Fiction -
Conceptual Art in Britain: 1964–1979
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartFeaturing some of the most exciting artworks of the 20th century, this is the first book to explore the rich history of conceptual art in Britain during a key period […]
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Black Soundscapes White Stages :The Meaning of Francophone Sound in the Black Atlantic
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartBlack Soundscapes White Stages explores the role of sound in understanding the African Diaspora on both sides of the Atlantic, from the City of Light to the islands of the […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Black Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe first book to comprehensively examine how the Black Panther Party has directly shaped the practices and ideas that have animated grassroots activism in the decades since its decline, Black [...]
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Concerning Violence: Fanon, Film, and Liberation in Africa, Selected Takes 1965-1987
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartAn unblinking portrait of the anticolonial struggles of the 1960s, Concerning Violence combines more than one hundred and fifty arresting color and black-and-white photographs from Göran Hugo [...]
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Robin Brown – Blood Ivory: The Massacre of the African Elephant
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartIt is more than a thousand years since the exploitation of the elephant began. However, it is only in the last hundred years, with the coming of the ‘Great White […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
The Dreams of Interpretation: A Century down the Royal Road
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartRethinking the importance of Sigmund Freud’s landmark book The Interpretation of Dreams a century after its publication in 1900, this work brings together psychoanalysts, philosophers, cultural [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Whole World in an Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression – 1955-1972
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartHow the radical music of the 1960s was birthed amid unprecedented upheaval and systemic repression. Decades since the radical music of the 1960s first hit the airwaves, the anthems of […]
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Noel Lobley – Sound Fragments: From Field Recording to African Electronic Stories
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis book is an ethnographic study of sound archives and the processes of creative decolonization that form alternative modes of archiving and curating in the 21st century. It explores the […]
GENRE: International, Non-Fiction -
Allan Marett – Songs, Dreamings, & Ghosts
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartAboriginal musicians receive songs both from an eternal realm known as The Dreaming and from the ghosts of deceased ancestors. Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts is the first book-length study of […]
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James McBride – Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartKill ’Em and Leave is more than a book about James Brown. Brown embodied the contradictions of American life: He was an unsettling symbol of the tensions between North and South, […]
GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco -
Graeme Thomson – I Shot a Man in Reno: A History of Death by Murder, Suicide, Fire, Flood, Drugs, Disease and General Misadventure, as Related in Popular Song
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartWhat do the gangsta rap devotee, the grizzled blues fanatic, the bearded folk fan, the goth and the indie kid have in common? Ask and they will all say the […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
The Blue Moment: Miles Davis’s,and the Remaking of Modern Music
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cart“It is the most singular of sounds, yet among the most ubiquitous. It is the sound of isolation that has sold itself to millions.” Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue is […]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction -
Drugs of the Dreaming: Oneirogens: Salvia divinorum and Other Dream-Enhancing Plants
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartOneirogens are plant and animal substances that have long been used to facilitate powerful and productive dreaming. From the beginning of civilization, dreams have guided the inner and outer life [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Geoffrey Pimm – The Violent Abuse of Women in 17th and 18th Century Britain
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are the gateway between the medieval world and the modern, centuries when the western societies moved from an age governed principally by religion and [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Henri Cole – Orphic Paris
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartHenri Cole’s Orphic Paris combines autobiography, diary, essay, and poetry with photographs to create a new form of elegiac memoir. With Paris as a backdrop, Cole, an award-winning American poet, [...]
GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction -
The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartSince the days of the Roman Empire dictators have written books. But in the twentieth-century despots enjoyed unprecedented print runs to (literally) captive audiences. The titans of the [...]
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In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume I, 1957-1969
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartFor fifty years Samuel Delany has cultivated a special relationship with language in works of fiction, criticism, and memoir that have garnered critical praise and legions of fans. The present [...]
GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction -
Exotic Nations: Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830–1930
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn this highly original and critically informed book, Renata R. Mautner Wasserman looks at how, during the first decades following political independence, writers in the United States and Brazil [...]
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Bokutotsusô: Studies on the Calligraphy of the Zen Master Musô Soseki
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartMusô Soseki (1275-1351), one of the most important Zen patriarchs of the early fourteenth century in Japan, devoted his life to spreading Buddhist wisdom in his writings. As a member […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartWhile the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari became an international film classic, its director, Robert Wiene, was disparaged and even forgotten. Wiene’s oeuvre, however, exhibits a surprising [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Luigi Pirandello – Stories for the Years
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartRegarded as one of Europe’s great modernists, Pirandello was also a master storyteller, a fine observer of the drama of daily life with a remarkable ear for dialogue and a […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Michael McClure – Rain Mirror: New Poems
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Rain Mirror”, writes poet Michael McClure, “is my most bare and forthright book. It contains two long poems, ‘Crisis Blossom’ and ‘Haiku Edge’ which are [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Sophocles – Oedipus at Kolonos: A New Translation
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartAmong the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Oedipus at Kolonos is one of seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now available from Harper Perennial in a […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Natasha Trethewey – Monument: Poems New and Selected
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartLayering joy and urgent defiance―against physical and cultural erasure, against white supremacy whether intangible or graven in stone―Trethewey’s work gives pedestal and witness to unsung icons. [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Mikheil Javakhishvili – Kvachi
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis is, in brief, the story of a swindler, a Georgian Felix Krull, or perhaps a cynical Don Quixote, named Kvachi Kvachantiradze: womanizer, cheat, perpetrator of insurance fraud, bank-robber, [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Here & Elsewhere: The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Burke
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe rhetorically gorgeous essay-stories of Kenneth Burke were unlike any other fiction of the 1920s. Here & Elsewhere gathers, for the first time, all of Burke’s fiction: 23 short stories [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Zaza Burchuladze – Adibas
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartWar is raging in Georgia, Russian fighter planes are thundering overhead, and yet, for some, the falling bombs cause no more impact than the slight ripple moving through the purified […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive