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Louise Bourgeois: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsSurvey of Bourgeois’s work, published on the occasion of her 1982 exhibition at MOMA This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age […]
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Shamans Through Time: 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA survey of five centuries of writings on the world’s great shamans-the tricksters, sorcerers, conjurers, and healers who have fascinated observers for centuries. This collection of essays [...]
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Peter Wollen – Raiding the Icebox: Reflections on Twentieth-Cent…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsRaiding the Icebox is a kaleidoscopic review of the avant-garde and radical subcultures of the twentieth century, and explains how the most powerful artistic statements of the era redrew the […]
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Mircea Eliade – Essential Sacred Writings From Around the World
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOriginally published as From Primitives to Zen, this comprehensive anthology contains writings vital to all the major non-Western religious traditions, arranged thematically. Here are colorful [...]
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Julian Stallabrass – High Art Lite
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe recent controversy surrounding the Brooklyn Museum of Art’s Sensation! Show has further inflated the already burgeoning media profiles of British artists like Damien Hirst, Chris Ofili, Sarah [...]
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Transcendence: The Disinformation Encyclopedia of Transhumanism and th…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsTranshumanism is an international movement that advocates the use of science and technology to overcome the “natural” limitations experienced by humanity through such developments as: [...]
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Hugo Ball – Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsHugo Ball―poet, philosopher, novelist, cabaret performer, journalist, mystic―was a man extremely sensitive to the currents of his time and carried in their wake. In February 1916 he founded the [...]
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The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation, and the Self…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMarcel Duchamp is a founding figure of twentieth-century art and culture, the common source to which many contemporary movements trace their roots. His career has often been celebrated for its [...]
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Daniel C. Noel – The Soul of Shamanism: Western Fantasies, Imagi…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFrom the Merlin of Arthurian romances to Mircea Eliade’s academic researches, from Carlos Castaneda’s Don Juan to the archetypal images of Carl Jung, the figure of the shaman has [...]
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Nigel Pennick – Magical Alphabets: The Secrets and Significance …
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsUsing the premise that languages and the alphabets that comprise them are metaphorical microcosms of our world, Nigel Pennick demonstrates how various alphabets function as a metaphysical [...]
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Mike Jay – The Atmosphere of Heaven: The Unnatural Experiments o…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe stranger-than-fiction story of the Enlightenment visionaries who discovered the unexpected effects of inhaling nitrous oxide. At the Pneumatic Institution in Bristol, England, founded in the [...]
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Star Gods of the Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsObservations of the sun, moon, planets, and stars played a central role in ancient Maya lifeways, as they do today among contemporary Maya who maintain the traditional ways. This pathfinding […]
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The Serpent and the Swan: The Animal Bride in Folklore and Literature
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe Serpent and the Swan is a history and analysis of animal bride tales from antiquity to the present. The animal bride tale, the author argues, is an enduring expression […]
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Gregory & Mary Bateson – Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemolo…
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAngels Fear is the final sustained thinking of the great Gregory Bateson, written in collaboration with his anthropologist daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson. Here we have set out before us [...]
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R.Crumb – The Book of Genesis
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsEnvisioning the first book of the bible like no one before him, R. Crumb, the legendary illustrator, reveals here the story of Genesis in a profoundly honest and deeply moving […]
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Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMarcel Duchamp is often viewed as an “artist-engineer-scientist,” a kind of rationalist who relied heavily on the ideas of the French mathematician and philosopher Henri Poincaré. Yet [...]
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Anish Kapoor: Unconformity and Entropy
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThroughout his creative career, Turner Prize-winning sculptor Anish Kapoor has worked extensively with architects and engineers, and built a large body of public works that merge sculpture and [...]
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The Sublime (Documents Of Contemporary Art Series)
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn the contemporary world, where technology, spectacle, and excess seemto eclipse nature, the individual, and society, what might be the characteristics ofa contemporary sublime? If there is any [...]
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Louis Kaplan – The Strange Case Of William Mumler
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe story of the birth of spirit photography and the controversy surrounding its discovery. In the 1860s, William Mumler photographed ghosts—or so he claimed. Faint images of the dearly departed [...]
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Francis Bacon: Important Paintings from the Estate
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Francis Bacon’s first painting of a pope was Head VI of 1949, a head‑and‑shoulders image which already presented the inspired conflation between the Velázquez portrait of Pope Innocent X [...]
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Anselm Kiefer: Dein und Mein Alter und das Alter der Welt : Your Age a…
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsGagosian is proud to present an exhibition by Anselm Kiefer entitled Dein und mein alter und das alter der Welt (Your Age and Mine and the Age of the World). […]
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Smile of the Buddha: Eastern Philosophy and Western Art from Monet to …
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsSmile of the Buddha explores the influences of Asian world-views and particularly Buddhism on the art of Europe and America in the modern era. In an informative and perceptive introduction […]
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The Mystical Now : Art and the Sacred
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsArgues that sacred art is not synonymous with art on religious subjects, and analyzes sixty-five twentieth-century works which display the intense and personal commitment characteristic of the [...]
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A Book by Anselm Kiefer
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOffers a brief profile of the German artist, reproduces a book of his watercolors, which include seascapes and nudes, and discusses the themes of his work This book is in […]
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Wahine Toa: Women of Maori Myth
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAn exploration of the stories of 8 women from Maori myths, in art works and texts. The artist intends her work to be visual representations of the myths, rather than […]
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Doctrinal Nourishment: Art and Anarchism in the Time of James Ensor
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA sharp send-up of authoritarian hubris–in which bloated, self-satisfied, bare-bottomed public officials excrete a foul diet literally to be swallowed by the masses–the etching [...]
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The Essential Writings of Frithjof Schuon
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis collection brings together the essential writings of a master thinker whose work bridges philosophy, spirituality, and metaphysics. Through eloquent essays and reflections, it explores the [...]
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In Quest Of The Absolute
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis volume contains full-color plates of important works by Kasimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Robert Ryman, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Helmut Federle [...]
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Marija Gimbutas – The Language of the Goddess: Unearthing the Hi…
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA noted archaeologist demonstrates the existence of prehistoric goddess-worshipping, egalitarian, nonviolent cultures whose hidden heritage is just now being restored This book is in Good [...]
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Benjamin H. D. Buchloh – Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry: Es…
$40.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsSome critics view the postwar avant-garde as the empty recycling of forms and strategies from the first two decades of the twentieth century. Others view it, more positively, as a […]
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Susan Buck-Morss – The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and…
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWalter Benjamin’s magnum opus was a book he did not live to write. In The Dialectics of Seeing, Susan Buck-Morss offers an inventive reconstruction of the Passagen Werk, or Arcades […]
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Shamanism and Tantra in the Himalayas
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe Himalayan kingdom of Nepal may be the only culture in the world where both shamanic and tantric techniques are still alive and in full practice today. The result of […]
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Anselm Kiefer, the Seven Heavenly Palaces 1973-2001
$40.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBorn in the final weeks of World War II–in what Germans who wished to erase it from collective memory called Year Zero–Anselm Kiefer has long sought to come to grips […]
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Alberto Giacometti : Dialogue with the History of Art
$40.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“From Giacometti’s impressionistic roots to his latter spindly bronzes, this comprehensive volume details touching graphite sketches, ink drawings, oil paintings and study upon study [...]
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The Art of Richard Tuttle
$40.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOver the past four decades, Richard Tuttle has thrown into question nearly every conceivable artistic convention and critical category to create an enormously inventive body of abstract work-one [...]
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Anselm Kiefer: The High Priestess
$45.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“The High Priestess is a 1989 art book by Anselm Kiefer, featuring an essay by Armin Zweite, that documents Kiefer’s monumental sculpture of the same name, which consists of two […]
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H.P Blavatsky – The Secret Doctrine Boxset
$50.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsContinuously in print for over 100 years, the SD remains today the most comprehensive sourcebook of the esoteric tradition, outlining the fundamental tenets of the “Secret Doctrine of the [...]
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Oliver Byrne: The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid
$50.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsNearly a century before Mondrian made geometrical red, yellow, and blue lines famous, 19th-century mathematician Oliver Byrne employed the color scheme for his 1847 edition of Euclid’s [...]
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Cartographies Of Time: A History Of The Timeline (Scarce)
$60.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“What does history look like? How do you draw time? Cartographies of Time is the first history of the timeline, written engagingly and with incredible visuals. The authors, both [...]
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Duchamp in Context: Science and Technology in the Large Glass and Rela…
$65.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Between 1915 and 1923, Marcel Duchamp created one of the most mystifying art works of the early twentieth century: The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (also known as […]
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Paula Rego: Behind the Scenes (scarce)
$100.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPaula Rego: Behind the Scenes offers the reader a unique opportunity to observe the studio life and working practice of one of the most important figurative artists working today. In […]
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The Living Are Few, The Dead Many : Selected Works of Hans Henny Jahnn
$17.00 | Book, PrintThe works of Hans Henny Jahnn exploded on to the inter-war literary scene in Germany as a crazed marriage of Gothic Romanticism, modernist literary Expressionism and the experiments of writers [...]
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Kyle Gann – Robert Ashley (American Composers Series)
$30.00 | Book, PrintThis book explores the life and works of the pioneering opera composer Robert Ashley, one of the leading American composers of the post-Cage generation. Ashley’s innovations began in the [...]
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Dennis Cooper – Closer
$14.00 | Book, PrintPhysically beautiful and strangely passive, George Miles attracts his fellow students’ attention, like a wallet lying on the street. One after another, his teenage friends rifle through [...]
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Jewelle Gomez – The Gilda Stories
$14.00 | Book, PrintIn this radically reimagined vampire myth, the night hides many things… Louisiana, 1850. A young girl escapes slavery and is taken in by two mysterious women. Rumoured to be witches, […]
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Audrey Niffenegger – Her Fearful Symmetry
$14.00 | Book, PrintWhen Elspeth Noblin dies she leaves her beautiful flat overlooking Highgate Cemetery to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina. But until the solicitor’s letter falls through the door of [...]
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Hitomi Kanehara – Autofiction
$14.00 | Book, PrintIn this darkly addictive, devious novel, love is pain. Rin is flying back from her honeymoon. She’s madly in love with her husband. The future looks rosy. Then he disappears […]
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Ottessa Moshfegh – Death in Her Hands
$14.00 | Book, PrintHer name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn’t me. Here is her dead body. While on her daily walk with her dog in the woods […]
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Yoko Ogawa – The Diving Pool
$14.00 | Book, PrintThree strange, tortuous stories from the shadow queen of contemporary Japanese fiction. A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high […]
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Constance Debre – Offenses
$16.00 | Book, PrintIs a criminal born or made? What turns them towards violence?A young man stabs an elderly woman ten times for the sake of a 450 euro debt. But why would […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive