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Richard Hamilton : (October Files)
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartEssays and articles about Richard Hamiton, “the intellectual father of Pop art.“ Still little-known in the United States, Richard Hamilton is a key figure in twentieth-century art. An original [...]
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Slawomir Elsner – Panorama
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe young Polish-born, Berlin-based painter Slawomir Elsner derives his paintings from photographs found in art books or in the media. For this project, Elsner took the Polish weekly magazine [...]
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Martin Boyce: When Now Is Night
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartBest known for his powerful sculptures and installations, Scottish artist Martin Boyce reconfigures everyday elements into alternate realities. Garbage cans are lopsided, trees consist of [...]
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Chaos and Awe : Painting for the 21st Century
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFifty paintings, reproduced in color, by an international array of contemporary artists, show the aptness and relevance of painting in an era of uncertainty. In an age of global instability, […]
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Robert Rauschenberg : (October Files)
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartCritical essays on the artist Robert Rauschenberg, focusing on the important period of his development in the 1950s and 1960s. From the moment art historian Leo Steinberg championed his work […]
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Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe : Black Acid Co-Op / Bright White Underground / Stray Light Grey / Artichoke Underground
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartSince 2007, artists Jonah Freeman (born 1975) and Justin Lowe (born 1976) have collaborated to create mazelike immersive installations. This is the very first monograph on the duo, printed in [...]
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The Reason for the Darkness of the Night : Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAn innovative biography of Edgar Allan Poe―highlighting his fascination and feuds with science. Decade after decade, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of the most popular American writers. He is [...]
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Lesley Chamberlain – Nietzsche in Turin : The End of the Future
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartBeautifully packaged reissue of the vividly lyrical biography of Nietzsche that John Banville called ‘a major intellectual event’ In 1888, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche moved to [...]
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Chris Marker – Staring Back
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartPhotographs by one of French cinema’s most influential and enigmatic artists. Any new film and any new book by French filmmaker Chris Marker is an event. Marker gave film lovers […]
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Alex Ross – Wagnerism : Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFor better or worse, Wagner is the most widely influential figure in the history of music. Around 1900, the phenomenon known as Wagnerism saturated European and American culture. Such colossal [...]
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Michele Wallace – Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA classic and controversial critique of sexism in the black nationalist movement, this “landmark black feminist text” is essential reading for those engaged in discussions about feminism and race [...]
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Vron Ware – Beyond the Pale : White Women, Racism, and History
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartHow have ideas about white women figured in the history of racism? Vron Ware argues that they have been central, and that feminism has, in many ways, developed as a […]
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Randall Sullivan – LAbyrinth : A Detective Investigates the Murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B. I. G. , the Implication of Death Row Records’ Suge Knight, and the Origins of the Los Angeles Police Scandal
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn September 1996, Tupac Shakur was murdered in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. In March 1997, the Notorious B.I.G. was similarly shot after an awards show in Los Angeles. […]
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High Religion : A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAn eminent anthropologist examines the foundings of the first celibate Buddhist monasteries among the Sherpas of Nepal in the early 20th century — a religious development that was a major [...]
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Lucinda Williams – Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You : A Memoir
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartLucinda Williams’s rise to fame was anything but easy. Raised in a working-class family in the Deep South, she moved from town to town each time her father–a poet, a […]
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Dangerous Rhythms : Jazz and the Underworld
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartDangerous Rhythms tells the symbiotic story of jazz and the underworld: a relationship fostered in some of 20th century America’s most notorious vice districts. For the first half of the [...]
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Frank Gonzalez-Crussi – The Body Fantastic
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn The Body Fantastic, Frank Gonzalez-Crussi looks at the human body through the lens of dreams, myths, legends, and anecdotes of the bizarre, exploring the close connection of the fictitious [...]
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In the Mind but Not from There : Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartArtists and critics explore the concept of Real Abstraction to help understand contemporary cultural production In the Mind, But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art considers [...]
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Ravens and Red Lipstick : Japanese Photography Since 1945
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartRavens & Red Lipstick provides a visually bold survey of Japanese photography’s recent history. Drawing together extensive research and a succession of engaging dialogues with both [...]
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Jean-Michel Basquiat – The Notebooks
$14.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA facsimile edition of the artist’s fascinating working notebooks Brooklyn-born Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) was one of the most important artists of the 1980s. A key figure in the New [...]
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Vision Machines: Cinema, Literature and Sexuality in Spain and Cuba, 1983-1993
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartOver the last decade, visibility and sexuality have become a major theme in Spanish and Cuban cinema, literature and art. This book explores this development in the light of contemporary […]
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Robin Robertson – The Long Take : A Noir Narrative
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFrom the award-winning British author–a poet’s noir narrative that tells the story of a D-Day veteran in postwar America: a good man, brutalized by war, haunted by violence and [...]
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Dimensionism : Modern Art in the Age of Einstein
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe first book to document how artists of the early twentieth century responded to new scientific conceptions of reality. In the early twentieth century, influenced by advances in science that [...]
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Alexander Von Humboldt : The Complete Drawings from the American Travel Journals
$60.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAt the dawn of the 19th-century, the Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt was granted permission to charter an expedition to Spain’s colonies in the New World. Over the course of […]
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Bruce Grant – In the Soviet House of Culture : A Century of Perestroikas
$17.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAt the outset of the twentieth century, the Nivkhi of Sakhalin Island were a small population of fishermen under Russian dominion and an Asian cultural sway. The turbulence of the […]
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Richard Prince: Untitled (Couple)
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA year after Richard Prince’s Untitled (cowboy) photograph set a record for the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction, a study of a work from Richard Prince’s series of […]
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Dan Graham – Rock My Religion : Writings and Projects 1965-1990
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartRock My Religion collects eighteen of Graham’s essays from all periods of his work, beginning with his essays on minimalist artists such as Dan Flavin and Donald Judd, continuing with […]
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Revolution of the Eye : Modern Art and the Birth of American Television
$13.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe aesthetics and concepts of modern art have influenced American television ever since its inception in the 1930s. In return, early television introduced the public to the latest trends in […]
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The Art of Participation, 1950 to Now
$13.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe first fully illustrated survey of participatory art and its key practitioners, published in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This new survey covers the rich and […]
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American Genre Painting : The Politics of Everyday Life
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartDrawing on contemporary literature, popular culture, news, and census reports, Johns convincingly shows that antebellum American genre painting was not a simple recording of an Edenic American [...]
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Jet Age Aesthetic : The Glamour of Media in Motion
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA stunning look at the profound impact of the jet plane on the mid-century aesthetic, from Disneyland to Life magazine. Vanessa R. Schwartz engagingly presents the jet plane’s power to […]
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Hans Haacke : (October Files)
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartCritical texts that span almost fifty years, mapping Haacke’s progression from engagement with biological systems to interrogation of the social and economic underpinnings of art. For five [...]
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Birgit Jürgenssen : I Am
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis mesmerizing collection of photography, drawing, and sculpture showcases the work of Birgit Jürgenssen, an Austrian avant-garde artist. Birgit Jürgenssen (1949-2003), one of Austria’s [...]
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Alexandra Popoff – Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIf Vasily Grossman’s 1961 masterpiece, Life and Fate, had been published during his lifetime, it would have reached the world together with Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago and before [...]
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Friedrich Durrenmatt – The Visit
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartDürrenmatt once wrote of himself: ?I can best be understood if one grasps grotesqueness,” and The Visit is a consummate, alarming Dürrenmatt blend of hilarity, horror, and vertigo. The play […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Lidia Yuknavitch – Thrust: A Novel
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAs rising waters–and an encroaching police state–endanger her life and family, a girl with the gifts of a “carrier” travels through water and time to rescue vulnerable [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Pathetic Literature
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Literature is pathetic.” So claims Eileen Myles in their provocative and robust introduction to Pathetic Literature, a breathtaking mishmash of pieces ranging from poems to theater [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Olga Tokarczuk – The Books Of Jacob
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas–and a new unrest–begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has […]
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Hal Foster – What Comes after Farce : Art and Criticism at a Time of Debacle
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn a world where truth is cast in doubt and shame has gone missing, what are artists and critics on the left to do? How to demystify a political order […]
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Arthur Lubow – Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartMan Ray (1890-1976), a founding father of Dada and a key player in French Surrealism, is one of the central artists of the twentieth century. He is also one of […]
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Live or Die : Philippe Vandenberg and Bruce Nauman
$13.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis publication combines the works of Belgian artist Philippe Vandenberg (1952-2009) and American artist Bruce Nauman (b. 1941). At first, it may seem startling to see Nauman’s small but [...]
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Futurist Manifestos
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartOn February 20th, 1909, a belligerent manifesto announcing the birth of the Futurist movement appeared on the front page of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro and sent immediate shockwaves throughout [...]
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Disappearing-California C. 1970 : Bas Jan Ader, Chris Burden, Jack Goldstein
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn 1971, Chris Burden disappeared for three days without a trace. This book, also entitled Disappearing, examines the theme of disappearance in the works of Burden and his contemporaries, Bas [...]
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Dirty Pictures : How an Underground Network of Nerds, Feminists, Misfits, Geniuses, Bikers, Potheads, Printers, Intellectuals, and Art School Rebels Revolutionized Art and Invented Comix
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn the 1950s, comics meant POW! BAM! superheroes, family-friendly gags, and Sunday funnies, but in the 1960s, inspired by these strips and the satire of MAD magazine, a new generation […]
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Dieter Roth & Richard Hamilton – Collaborations : Relations-Confrontations
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartRichard Hamilton first made contact with Dieter Roth in 1961, having seen some of his books the previous year. From then until Roth’s death in 1998, the two artists collaborated […]
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Hal Foster – Brutal Aesthetics Brutal Aesthetics : Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg
$16.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartHow artists created an aesthetic of “positive barbarism” in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb In Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian Hal [...]
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Bio Art : Altered Realities
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn an era of fast-paced technological progress and with the impact of humans on the environment increasing, the concept of “nature” itself seems called into question. Bio Art explores [...]
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Bill Viola
$22.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe first monograph of one of contemporary art’s most powerful creative minds and perhaps the most successful multi-media artist working today. Bill Viola began producing video works in the early [...]
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Thomas Crow – The Artist in the Counterculture : Bruce Conner to Mike Kelley and Other Tales from the Edge
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartHow California’s counterculture of the 1960s to 1980s profoundly shaped–and was shaped by–West Coast artists The 1960s exert a special fascination in modern art. But most [...]
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Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg : Art, Happenings, and Cultural Politics
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis new interpretation of the structure and meaning of the Happenings produced by Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg in the late 1950s and 1960s sheds light on the context, theoretical […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction