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C.A Conrad – The Book Of Frank
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPraised by poet Anne Waldman as a “voyeuresque surreal portrait,” The Book of Frank is also, in the words of poet-critic Alan Gilbert, a “candid portrayal of human cruelty and […]
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Fluxus And The Essential Questions Of Life
$35.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFluxus—from the Latin, meaning “to flow”—was a radical, international network of artists, composers, and designers in the 1960s and 1970s noted for blurring the boundaries between what we term [...]
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Animism In Art And Performance
$45.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis book explores Māori indigenous and non-indigenous scholarship corresponding with the term ‘animism’. In addressing visual, media and performance art, it explores the dualisms of people and [...]
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Giovanni Lista – L’Art Postal Futuriste (TEXT IN FRENCH)
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsGiovanni Lista’s survey of mail art within the Futurist movement. Lavishly illustrated. Jean-Michel Place Publishers, 1979 Hardcover Edition. Light discoloration to edges of pages/boards. [...]
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Justin Green – Binky Brown Meets The Holy Virgin Mary
$70.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA lost classic of underground cartooning, Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary is Justin Green’s autobiographical portrayal of his struggle with religion and his own neuroses. Binky Brown is [...]
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Luigi Russolo – L’Arte Dei Rumori (TEXT IN ITALIAN)
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsLuigi 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, Print, Used ItemsFew 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 […]
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The Electric Muse Revisited
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFolk 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 […]
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The Arab Avant-Garde: Music, Politics, Modernity
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFrom 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 […]
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Catherine Zimmer – Surveillance Cinema
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 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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Perpetrator Cinema: Confronting Genocide in Cambodian Documentary
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPerpetrator 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 W…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 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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Leo Tolstoy – Three Simple Men: And Other Holy Folktales
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsYou’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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Lafcadio Hearn – Short Stories: Tales of the Supernatural
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis 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 […]
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James Purdy – Malcolm: A Comic Novel
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe 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 [...]
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Viktor Shklovsky – Literature and Cinematography
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 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, Print, Used ItemsNo 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 […]
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Surrealism in Latin America: Vivísimo Muerto
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis 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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Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolita…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsRoots 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 […]
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Conceptual Art in Britain: 1964–1979
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFeaturing 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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Concerning Violence: Fanon, Film, and Liberation in Africa, Selected T…
$12.00 | Book, Book / Paper Goods, Print, Used ItemsAn 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, Print, Used ItemsIt 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 […]
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Allan Marett – Songs, Dreamings, & Ghosts
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAboriginal 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 Br…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsKill ’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, […]
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Graeme Thomson – I Shot a Man in Reno: A History of Death by Mur…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWhat 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 […]
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The Blue Moment: Miles Davis’s,and the Remaking of Modern Music
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“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 […]
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Exotic Nations: Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States …
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 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, Print, Used ItemsMusô 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 […]
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Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWhile 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 [...]
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Luigi Pirandello – Stories for the Years
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsRegarded 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 […]
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Michael McClure – Rain Mirror: New Poems
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“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 [...]
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Natasha Trethewey – Monument: Poems New and Selected
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsLayering 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. [...]
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Vladislav Otroshenko – Addendum to a Photo Album
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Addendum to a Photo Album” is the saga of the births, deaths, and disappearances within the eccentric Mandrykin family. Following patriarch Malach, a Cossack captain, his wife [...]
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Simon Kuper – Spies, Lies, and Exile: The Extraordinary Story of…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFew Cold War spy stories approach the sheer daring and treachery of George Blake’s. After fighting in the Dutch resistance during World War II, Blake joined the British spy agency […]
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Edmund Levin – A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspirac…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOn March 20, 1911, thirteen-year-old Andrei Yushchinsky was found stabbed to death in a cave on the outskirts of Kiev. Four months later, Russian police arrested Mendel Beilis, a [...]
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Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: The Center of Cosmic Energy
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIlya Kabakov was born in the USSR in 1933, and immigrated to New York in 1992. He began working with his wife, Emilia, in 1989. The two continue to produce […]
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Roberto Bolano’s Fiction: An Expanding Universe
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsSince the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by literature in translation. Chris Andrews, a leading [...]
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Ghérasim Luca – Self-Shadowing Prey
$19.00 | Book, PrintSelf-Shadowing Prey, one of the final texts by the Romanian poet Ghérasim Luca (1913–1994), is clearly constructed around the sought complications of language. Embodying the surrealist operation [...]
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Rainer J. Hanshe/Friedrich Nietzsche/Vincent Van Gogh – Closing …
$40.00 | Book, PrintAs the 19th century comes to a close, Friedrich Nietzsche and Vincent van Gogh unknowingly traverse proximate geographical terrain, nearly circling one another like close but distant stars as the [...]
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Marquis De Sade – Stories, Tales, & Fables
$34.00 | Book, PrintWritten in his Bastille cell in the years between 120 Days of Sodom and Justine, this is the first English translation of Marquis de Sade’s collection of short works, Stories, […]
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Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France
$18.00 | Book, PrintNorma Cole has combed through books, little magazines, and correspondence to gather an exciting body of writing by our French contemporaries. There are letters, poems, interviews, critical [...]
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Lisa Jarnot – Some Other Kind Of Mission
$15.00 | Book, PrintComposed of poems, prose segments, and visual pieces, this remarkable first book is both formal and colloquial, fluid and hard-edge, with the diction riffing between Biblical and Dylanesque. A [...]
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Habib Tengour – Crossings
$17.00 | Book, PrintBeginning with the astonishing prologue poem, “Conversation with Mohammed Dib,” followed by four long, spectacular poems, each a small book in itself, Habib Tengour’s Crossings takes us through [...]
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Gérard Macé – The Last of the Egyptians
$15.00 | Book, Print“About Champollion I knew: that he did not go to Egypt with Napoleon, that he never saw the actual Rosetta stone, only more or less bad copies, that he suffered […]
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Felix Bernstein – Notes on Post-Conceptual Poetry
$15.00 | Book, PrintAn aggravated surveyer of contemporary poetry, art, and criticism, Felix Bernstein conducts an archaeological dig of the relics and ruins of Language poetry, Conceptual poetry, and his own [...]
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Jeremy Reed – Bad Boys
$20.00 | Book, PrintJeremy Reed’s Bad Boys rehabilitates some of his personal obsessions with poets and rock musicians into a rich assemblage of challenging, provocative assessments, in which the field of writing, [...]
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Kyle Booten – Salon des Fantômes
$24.00 | Book, PrintKyle Booten’s colossal Salon des Fantômes is a farcical evening with the digital summoning of long dead thinkers from history. They discuss aesthetics & ethics while getting falldown [...]
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J.K. Huysmans – The Cathedral
$30.00 | Book, PrintTHE CATHEDRAL, by J.K. Huysmans was originally published in French in 1898. The same year, this English translation by Clara Bell was published. THE CATHEDRAL is the second in a […]
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John Trefry – Plats
$18.00 | Book, PrintPlats is the ornate debut novel by John Trefry. A hallucinatory meditation on life in Los Angeles by a schizophrenic consciousness, Plats turns a funhouse mirror on the banality of […]
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Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
$29.00 | Book, PrintThe foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperback Shamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction