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Julie Hecht – Was This Man a Genius?: Talks with Andy Kaufman
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsJust as Andy Kaufman subverted traditional forms of comedy, Julie Hecht, with her deadpan wit and highly original style, subverts the traditional form of the profile with her acclaimed nonfiction [...]
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Chester Himes – If He Hollers Let Him Go
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis story of a man living every day in fear of his life for simply being black is as powerful today as it was when it was first published in […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
NSK from Kapital to Capital: Neue Slowenische Kunst-an Event of the Fi…
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe generously illustrated, lavishly documented story of NSK (Neue Slowenische Kunst), the eastern European art collective present at the last revolution of the twentieth century. This book is [...]
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James Lee Byars : The Rest is Silence
$17.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPublished on the occasion of the exhibition James Lee Byars: The Rest Is Silence, 27 April – 24 June 2006 at Michael Werner Gallery, New York (in collaboration with Mary […]
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Peter McGough – I’ve Seen the Future and I’m Not Goi…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBrilliantly funny, frank, and shattering, this is the bittersweet memoir by Peter McGough of his life with artist David McDermott. Set in New York’s Lower East Side of the 1980s […]
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Constructing an Avant-Garde: Art in Brazil, 1949-1979
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBrazilian avant-garde artists of the postwar era worked from a fundamental but productive out-of-jointness. They were modernist but distant from modernism. Europeans and North Americans may feel [...]
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Fredric Jameson – The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA collection of Jameson’s essays related to literary theory. Book is in “Like New” condition. Some light superficial wear and/or remainder mark might be present.
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Kamala Tiyavanich – In the Cool Shade of Compassion: The Enchant…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA fascinating collection of stories of the Thai forest monks that illuminates the Thai Forest tradition as a vibrant, compassionate, and highly appealing way of life. This work ingeniously [...]
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Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test & The Power Of Seeing
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA popular misconception of the controversial Rorschach test, which requires subjects to interpret a series of ten inkblots, is that there are no wrong answers. For professional psychologists, [...]
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Monstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMulti-disciplinary in approach and cross-European in scope, this richly illustrated book features new links between the political and the monstrous in the early modern period. Emphasizing the [...]
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Paul Davies – The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien I…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFifty years ago, a young astronomer named Frank Drake first pointed a radio telescope at nearby stars in the hope of picking up a signal from an alien civilization. Thus […]
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Jonathan Strauss – Human Remains: Medicine, Death, and Desire in…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“The living and the dead cohabited Paris until the late eighteenth century, when, in the name of public health, measures were taken to drive the latter from the city. Cemeteries […]
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Verena A Conley – Helene Cixous
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Reflecting the broad spectrum of modern European and American theory, this introductory series focuses on those cultural theorists who have had the most significant impact in the twentieth [...]
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Hard to Be a Saint in the City: The Spiritual Vision of the Beats
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“It’s been said that Jack Kerouac made it cool to be a thinking person seeking a spiritual experience. And there is no doubt that the writers he knew and inspired—iconic […]
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An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Paul Bowles’s seductive, terrifying, exquisitely detached fictions have inspired writers and iconoclasts from the Beats to the present day. In this brilliant and definitive [...]
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Adrienne Rich – Later Poems Selected and New: 1971–2012
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“In Later Poems: Selected and New 1971–2012, the strong trajectory of the work of one of the most important artists of American letters is on display. This volume brings together […]
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Diane Wakoski – The Emerald City of Las Vegas
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Dedicated to America’s mythic city, Diane Wakoski discusses risk, betrayal, and history in this third volume of her Archaeology of Movies and Books. Wakoski skillfully weaves together [...]
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Carol Off – Bitter Chocolate: Anatomy of an Industry
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Bitter Chocolate is both an absorbing social history and a passionate investigation into an industry that has institutionalized abuse as it indulges our whims. Award-winning journalist [...]
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Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Over the last decade, blockchains and crypto have opened up a new terrain for political action. It is not surprising, however, that the crypto space has also become overrun by […]
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Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cine…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“In Picturing American Modernity, Kristen Whissel investigates the relationship between early American cinema and the experience of technological modernity. She demonstrates how between the [...]
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Kembrew McLeod – Downtown Pop Underground
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“The 1960s to early ’70s was a pivotal time for American culture, and New York City was ground zero for seismic shifts in music, theater, art, and filmmaking. The Downtown […]
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Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“In this lively narrative, award-winning author Michael Kammen presents a fascinating analysis of cutting-edge art and artists and their unique ability to both delight and provoke us. He [...]
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Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Letters profiles Canadian artist Michael Morris during the period between 1964 and 1971 with a particular focus on his relationship with concrete poetry, considered to be among the first [...]
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Gerhard Richter: Images of an Era
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Among German painter Gerhard Richter’s best-known works are his large-scale paintings based on—and sometimes applied directly to—photographs. A transplant to West Germany mere months [...]
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Blurring The Boundaries: Installation Art 1969-1996
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“A classic documentation of site-specific and multi-media installation artwork, Blurring the Boundaries surveys twenty-five years of the genre’s finest accomplishments. Included are [...]
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Abstracts of Karl Rahner’s Unserialized Essays
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Excellent reference work to finding specific topics within the vast range of the writings of Karl Rahner. Using this book in tandem with the authors earlier Abstracts of Karl Rahners […]
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26 Songs in 30 Days: Woody Guthrie’s Columbia River Songs and th…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“In 1941, Woody Guthrie wrote 26 songs in 30 days–including classics like “Roll On Columbia” and “Pastures of Plenty”–when he was hired by the Bonneville [...]
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The Henry Davis Gift: A Collection of Bookbindings
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“This much anticipated third and final volume of The Henry Davis Gift focuses on South and East European fine bindings, with additional sections on Oriental and American bindings. It [...]
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Gao Minglu – Total Modernity and the Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Ce…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“To the extent that Chinese contemporary art has become a global phenomenon, it is largely through the groundbreaking exhibitions curated by Gao Minglu: “China/Avant-Garde” [...]
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In the Atelier: Erik Desmazières Printmaker René Tazé Printer: An Arti…
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Erik Desmazières’s first love was drawing and he began engraving in the Ville de Paris studios from 1971. René Tazé joined the Leblanc studio, a famous and ancient Parisian intaglio [...]
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American Modernism at Mid-Century: The Work of Morris Davidson
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“This volume presents the first scholarly consideration of Morris Davidson (1898–1979), an influential painter and educator whose work has been neglected in the art history of [...]
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The Big Idea: Criticality and Practice in Contemporary Architecture
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Scott Johnson is the highly acclaimed designer of some of L.A.’s most recognized architecture. As partner in the award-winning Los Angeles architecture firm Johnson Fain he was the [...]
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Rocco Di Pietro – The Comedy Of The Real (Self-Published weirdne…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“This is a novel about metaphysics and philosophy in the form a biography.” Self-Published (via lulu books), 2023 Softcover edition. General light wear
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Ron Silliman – Jones (Very rare chapbook)
$40.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPart of Silliman’s Alphabet series/long-form poem. Generator, 1993 Staple-bound chapbook. Cornerwear, light discoloration and creasing to wraps.
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Chain 6: Letters
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIssue six of Chain, featuring contributions from William Burroughs, Ron Silliman, Norma Cole and more. Chain, 1999 Softcover edition. Some discoloration/wear to wraps.
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Cinema And Art As Archive: Form, Medium, Memory
$15.00 | Print, Used ItemsAs Jacques Derrida wrote in 1995, while considering Archive Fever, nothing is less reliable or less clear today than the word “archive”. Nevertheless, the historic-cultural dimension of the [...]
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Marc Saporta – Composition No.1 (Very rare)
$150.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“VE3 is a re-imagining of a book originally published in the 1960s. The book is the first ever book in a box”, called Composition No.1 by Marc Saporta. When we […]
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Jenny Saville: Catalog (English/Italian Edition)
$50.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA monograph containing a selection of Jenny Saville’s paintings, along with writings on her work in English & Italian. MACRO, 2005 Softcover edition. Light general wear.
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Herman Broch – The Sleepwalkers: A Triology (1st English Edition…
$200.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“With his epic trilogy, The Sleepwalkers, Hermann Broch established himself as one of the great innovators of modern literature, a visionary writer-philosopher the equal of James Joyce, [...]
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Cormac McCarthy – Suttree (Scarce Vintage Contemporaries Edition…
$110.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road, here is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his […]
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Arno Schmidt – The Egghead Republic (Scarce)
$75.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Charles Henry Winer, a journalist who in the year 2008 travels across the hominid zone, a post-nuclear wasteland in the western united states, to visit IRAS (the International Republic of [...]
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Matt Furie – Boy’s Club #2 (Very Rare)
$300.00 | Print, Used Items, ZineIssue #2 of Matt Furie’s comic strip of anthropomorphic animals. Buenaventura Press, 2008 Comic magazine edition. Light wear to spine and corners.
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Sam Rohdie – Fellini Lexicon
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Federico Fellini (1920-93) was one of the most inventive of film-makers and he remains one of the best loved. Director of a whole series of celebrated films – among them […]
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Don Delillo – Libra
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“In this powerful, unsettling novel, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald’s odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. [...]
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Susan Sontag: Mind As Passion
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Susan Sontag has been a major figure in American intellectual life for over thirty years. She has consistently broken fresh ground in cultural analysis and provocatively engaged a wide [...]
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Jean-Paul Sartre – Les Mains Sales (FRENCH EDITION)
$5.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The story is told mainly in […]
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Jean-Paul Sartre – La Nausee (FRENCH EDITION)
$5.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation [...]
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Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMasculine Singular is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France’s leading feminist film scholars. While most criticism of the New Wave has concentrated on the […]
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After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOver the past twenty-five years, Italy’s film industry has produced a remarkable number of award-winning international art-house hits, among them Cinema Paradiso and Life Is Beautiful. [...]
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Mel Bochner – Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings & Inte…
$12.00 | Book, PrintReviews, art criticism, theoretical texts, interviews, catalog statements, notecards, magazine interventions, and other writings on art and art in the form of writing by a leading conceptual [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction