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Claude Cahun – Disavowals
$90.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMemories? Choice morsels. My soul is fragmentary.–from Disavowals Claude Cahun (1894-1954), born Lucy Schwob, was a poet, performer, resistance fighter, prisoner, Surrealist, [...]
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Shamans Of The 20th Century
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn Shamans of the 20th Century, anthropologist Ruth-Inge Heinze takes a critical look at the global re-emergence of the shaman in the late twentieth century, redefiing the role of the […]
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Tomb of the Eagles: A Window on Stone Age Tribal
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIsbister in the Orkneys is one of those extraordinary archaeological sites where the remains of Neolithic man and his works have been so well preserved that they give us an […]
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The Secret Doctrine of the Kabbalah: Recovering the Key to Hebraic Sac…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFor centuries the Kabbalah has fascinated devotees of mysticism while its origins have remained obscure. Now, in her brilliant new work, Leonora Leet reveals that the Kabbalah was the product [...]
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Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion: An Anthropological Study of the Super…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA comparative reader that takes an anthropological approach to the study of religious beliefs, both strange and familiar. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read […]
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Sanctuaries of the Goddess: The Sacred Landscapes and Objects
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPeg Streep’s Sanctuaries of the Goddess is a journey into the past, a spiritual adventure into a long-buried time, that captures in glorious images and words the peaceable, generative deity [...]
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Death, Ecstasy, and Other Worldly Journeys
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBelief in a spirit world, and a blissful or agonizing afterlife, is one of the most pervasive and deeply-rooted characteristics of religion. This volume offers a wide-ranging exploration of this [...]
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Constance Classen – The Colour of Angels: Cosmology, Gender and …
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe Colour of Angels uncovers the gender politics behind our attitude to the senses. Using a wide variety of examples, ranging from the sensuous religious visions of the middle ages […]
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Spirit in Ashes: Hegel, Heidegger, and Man-Made Mass Death
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsContemporary phenomena of mass death―such as Hiroshima and Auschwitz―have brought with them the threat of annihilation of human life. In this provocative and disturbing book, Edith Wyschogrod [...]
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Ninian Smart – Dimensions of the Sacred: An Anatomy of the World…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis work explores the underlying features of the world’s major religions and comparable secular systems of thought. It considers Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, [...]
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William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsModern scholars often find it difficult to account for the profound eccentricities in the work of William Blake, dismissing them as either ahistorical or simply meaningless. But with this [...]
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Vincent Scully – Pueblo: Mountain, Village, Dance
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe vast and beautiful landscape of the American Southwest has long haunted artists and writers seeking to understand the mysteries of the deep affinity between the land and the Native […]
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The Book of Mystical Chapters: Meditations on the Soul’s Ascent,…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe early Christian monks of Egypt, Syria, and Palestine were the spiritual heroes of their age—fleeing the security of civilization for the desert, where they sought God in lives of […]
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Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 1912 Paul Klee declared that the art of the mentally ill, as well as the art of children, “really should be taken far more seriously than are the collections […]
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Leon Kass – The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsExamining Genesis in a philosophical light, Leon Kass presents it not as a story of what happened long ago, but as the enduring story of humanity itself. He asserts that […]
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Jim Dine: This Goofy Life of Constant Mourning
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis Goofy Life of Constant Mourning is the sincere title of a long visual poem by artist Jim Dine. The result of years of photographing poems after he has written […]
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The Beauty of the Primitive: Shamanism and Western Imagination
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFor the past forty years shamanism has drawn increasing attention among the general public and academics. There is an enormous literature on shamanism, but no one has tried to understand […]
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Anselm Kiefer and the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger
$40.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAnselm Kiefer and the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger is a work of cultural history that situates the art works of one of the most important contemporary painters in relation to […]
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Reginald Bakeley – On Gnoming
$5.00 | Print, Used Items, Zine“On Gnoming”: Phooka editor Reginald Bakeley outlines the principles of hunting and cooking these small, malignant, and particularly tasty woodland creatures. A sidebar on defenses against trolls [...]
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Lewis Carroll’s Croquet Companion
$5.00 | Print, Used Items, ZineWhat introduction needs be made for Lewis Carroll, or even Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the affectionate alter ego of the man behind the nonsensical classics “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and [...]
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Steven Mithen – After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-500…
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items20,000 BC, the peak of the last ice age―the atmosphere is heavy with dust, deserts, and glaciers span vast regions, and people, if they survive at all, exist in small, […]
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Hans Belting – The Invisible Masterpiece
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe ‘invisible masterpiece’ is an unattainable ideal, a work into which a dream of absolute art is incorporated but can never be realized. By means of this metaphor borrowed from […]
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The Chemical Choir: A History of Alchemy
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA pre-cursor to contemporary chemistry and physics, alchemy began as the pursuit of knowledge, initially in China as a search for the secret of immortality, and appearing independently in Egypt [...]
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Robert Westall – The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral: Two Stories …
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“I dreamt I was standing in the dark, looking up at the south-west tower … And our Kev was up there on top, in the dark, and screaming as if […]
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Robert Westall – Spectral Shadows: Three Supernatural Novellas
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThree supernatural novellas by Robert Westall, hailed as the finest British author of ghost stories since M.R. James, collected together for the first time BLACKHAM’S WIMPEY Why should [...]
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Robert Westall – Shadows of War
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn ‘Adolf’, a young boy becomes convinced his elderly neighbour is actually Adolf Hitler in hiding. The British soldiers in ‘The German Ghost’ have an otherworldly [...]
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Robert Westall – Antique Dust: Ghost Stories
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items‘Dealers are undertakers of a sort. When a man dies, the undertaker comes for the body, and the dealer comes for the rest. I deal in dead men’s clocks, pipes […]
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Nina Antonia – Flitting
$4.00 | Print, Used Items, ZineThus opens Flitting, a short Christmas story offered as a Fiddler’s Green holiday special. A darkly poetic telling of English changeling folklore set in the modern day, Flitting provides a […]
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Dark Nature: A Natural History of Evil
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAt a time when violence threatens to become epidemic and genocide takes the place of diplomacy in many regions of the world, it is no longer enough to simply dismiss […]
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Harry C James – Pages from Hopi History
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“More than half a century of contact between the author and the Hopi people has resulted in an unusual opportunity for long informative talks with friends from the villages. These […]
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The Dimensions of Paradise: Sacred Geometry, Ancient Science, and the …
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe priests of ancient Egypt preserved a geometrical canon, a numerical code of harmonies and proportions, that they applied to music, art, statecraft, and all the institutions of their [...]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography