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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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Ellen Handler Spitz – Art and Psyche : A Study in Psychoanalysis…
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this provocative, closely argued book, Ellen Handler Spitz explores three principal psychoanalytic approaches to art. The first considers the relations between an artist’s life and work; the [...]
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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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Egon Schiele (Braziller Monograph)
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsEgon Schiele was a meteor that flashed across the galaxy of Viennese art at the beginning of the last century. Although he lived only twenty-eight years–dying quite suddenly of influenza [...]
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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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Fluid Flesh: The Body, Religion And The Visual Arts
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsHow do we relate the body we have and the bodies we see to the mind, or to the soul? Fluid Flesh addresses the relationship between the body, religion, and […]
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Annette Messager. Comédie tragédie 1971-1989 (french language/as-is)
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMonograph covering the mid-period work of the French multi-media artist, Annette Messager This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear […]
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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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Lanier Graham – Goddesses in Art
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAn extraordinary range of images, from prehistory to the 1990s, representing female deities of all types and temperaments from a worldwide array of cultures, showing the goddess as the ultimate [...]
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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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Gauguin: Artist As Alchemist
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPaul Gauguin (1848–1903) was a creative force above and beyond his legendary work as a painter. Surveying the full scope of his career-spanning experiments in different media and formats—clay, [...]
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Richard Pousette-Dart (Metropolitan Museum of Art Monograph)
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIssued in conjunction with a 1997-1998 exhibition of artwork by New York School painter Richard Pousette-Dart at the Met. With essays by Lowery Stokes Sims and Stephen Polcari, a checklist […]
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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, 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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W.J.T Mitchell – Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDiscusses the nature of images, examines the connection between images and words, and analyzes the ideological meaning of images This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read […]
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Pat Steir: Paintings
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFeaturing the paintings of the widely acclaimed and widely exhibited artist, this book contains the reflections of the author on Steir’s position in the art world and the art tradition […]
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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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Andrea Aromatico – Alchemy: The Great Secret
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMedieval alchemists, forerunners of today’s chemists, sought to transmute base metals into gold. This lively illustrated history explores intriguing aspects of this mix of science, [...]
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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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Creative Copies: Interpretative Drawings from Michelangelo to Picasso
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsGathers studies and interpretative sketches of famous paintings and sculptures by other artists, and discusses how each artist responded to his source This book is in Good readable condition. It [...]
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H. P. Blavatsky – Isis Unveiled Vol II
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsISIS UNVEILED was H. P. Blavatsky’s first major literary effort, a critical response to the growing materialism in both scientific and religious institutions, and a vindication of the [...]
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H. P. Blavatsky – Isis Unveiled
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsISIS UNVEILED was H. P. Blavatsky’s first major literary effort, a critical response to the growing materialism in both scientific and religious institutions, and a vindication of the [...]
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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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The Veil of Isis : An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsNearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words “Phusis kruptesthai philei.” How the aphorism, usually translated as [...]
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Jasper Johns: A Retrospective
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAccompanying the major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1996-97, Jasper A Retrospective contains 264 color plates illustrating Johns’s work in all its facets – [...]
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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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Michael Leja – Reframing Abstract Expressionism : Subjectivity a…
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn the wake of World War II, the paintings of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, and other New York School artists participated in a culture-wide initiative […]
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Max Ernst (as-is, no dustjacket)
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBeautiful monograph covering the Surrealist’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 […]
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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 […]
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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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Victor Stoichita – A Short History of the Shadow
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this investigative tour de force, Victor I. Stoichita untangles the history of one of the most enduring technical and symbolic challenges to beset Western artists – the depiction and […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction