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  • Richard Hamilton : (October Files)
    Richard Hamilton : (October Files)
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    Essays 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Slawomir Elsner – Panorama
    Slawomir Elsner – Panorama
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    The 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Martin Boyce: When Now Is Night
    Martin Boyce: When Now Is Night
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    Best known for his powerful sculptures and installations, Scottish artist Martin Boyce reconfigures everyday elements into alternate realities. Garbage cans are lopsided, trees consist of [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Chaos and Awe : Painting for the 21st Century
    Chaos and Awe : Painting for the 21st Century
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    Fifty 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, […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Robert Rauschenberg : (October Files)
    Robert Rauschenberg : (October Files)
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    Critical 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 […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe : Black Acid Co-Op / Bright White Underground / Stray Light Grey / Artichoke Underground
    Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe : Black Acid Co-Op / Bright White Underground / Stray Light Grey / Artichoke Underground
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    Since 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Reason for the Darkness of the Night : Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
    The Reason for the Darkness of the Night : Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
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    An 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lesley Chamberlain – Nietzsche in Turin : The End of the Future
    Lesley Chamberlain – Nietzsche in Turin : The End of the Future
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    Beautifully packaged reissue of the vividly lyrical biography of Nietzsche that John Banville called ‘a major intellectual event’ In 1888, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche moved to [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Chris Marker – Staring Back
    Chris Marker – Staring Back
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    Photographs 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 […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Alex Ross – Wagnerism : Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
    Alex Ross – Wagnerism : Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
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    For 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Michele Wallace – Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman
    Michele Wallace – Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman
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    A 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Vron Ware – Beyond the Pale : White Women, Racism, and History
    Vron Ware – Beyond the Pale : White Women, Racism, and History
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    How 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • 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
    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
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    In 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. […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • High Religion : A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism
    High Religion : A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism
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    An 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lucinda Williams – Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You : A Memoir
    Lucinda Williams – Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You : A Memoir
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    Lucinda 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 […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Memoir
  • Dangerous Rhythms : Jazz and the Underworld
    Dangerous Rhythms : Jazz and the Underworld
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    Dangerous 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 [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Frank Gonzalez-Crussi – The Body Fantastic
    Frank Gonzalez-Crussi – The Body Fantastic
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    In 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • In the Mind but Not from There : Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art
    In the Mind but Not from There : Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art
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    Artists 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Ravens and Red Lipstick : Japanese Photography Since 1945
    Ravens and Red Lipstick : Japanese Photography Since 1945
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    Ravens & 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Jean-Michel Basquiat – The Notebooks
    Jean-Michel Basquiat – The Notebooks
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    A 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Vision Machines: Cinema, Literature and Sexuality in Spain and Cuba, 1983-1993
    Vision Machines: Cinema, Literature and Sexuality in Spain and Cuba, 1983-1993
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    Over 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Robin Robertson – The Long Take : A Noir Narrative
    Robin Robertson – The Long Take : A Noir Narrative
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    From 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 [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Dimensionism : Modern Art in the Age of Einstein
    Dimensionism : Modern Art in the Age of Einstein
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    The 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Alexander Von Humboldt : The Complete Drawings from the American Travel Journals
    Alexander Von Humboldt : The Complete Drawings from the American Travel Journals
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    At 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 […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Bruce Grant – In the Soviet House of Culture : A Century of Perestroikas
    Bruce Grant – In the Soviet House of Culture : A Century of Perestroikas
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    At 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Richard Prince: Untitled (Couple)
    Richard Prince: Untitled (Couple)
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    A 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 […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Dan Graham – Rock My Religion : Writings and Projects 1965-1990
    Dan Graham – Rock My Religion : Writings and Projects 1965-1990
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    Rock 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 […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Revolution of the Eye : Modern Art and the Birth of American Television
    Revolution of the Eye : Modern Art and the Birth of American Television
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    The 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 […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • The Art of Participation, 1950 to Now
    The Art of Participation, 1950 to Now
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    The 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 […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • American Genre Painting : The Politics of Everyday Life
    American Genre Painting : The Politics of Everyday Life
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    Drawing 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Jet Age Aesthetic : The Glamour of Media in Motion
    Jet Age Aesthetic : The Glamour of Media in Motion
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    A 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Hans Haacke : (October Files)
    Hans Haacke : (October Files)
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    Critical 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Birgit Jürgenssen : I Am
    Birgit Jürgenssen : I Am
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    This 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Alexandra Popoff – Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century
    Alexandra Popoff – Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century
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    If 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Friedrich Durrenmatt – The Visit
    Friedrich Durrenmatt – The Visit
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    Dürrenmatt 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
    Lidia Yuknavitch – Thrust: A Novel
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    As 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
    Pathetic Literature
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    “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
    Olga Tokarczuk – The Books Of Jacob
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    In 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 […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Hal Foster – What Comes after Farce : Art and Criticism at a Time of Debacle
    Hal Foster – What Comes after Farce : Art and Criticism at a Time of Debacle
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    In 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 […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Arthur Lubow – Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows
    Arthur Lubow – Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows
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    Man 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 […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Live or Die : Philippe Vandenberg and Bruce Nauman
    Live or Die : Philippe Vandenberg and Bruce Nauman
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    This 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Futurist Manifestos
    Futurist Manifestos
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    On 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Disappearing-California C. 1970 : Bas Jan Ader, Chris Burden, Jack Goldstein
    Disappearing-California C. 1970 : Bas Jan Ader, Chris Burden, Jack Goldstein
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    In 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Dirty Pictures : How an Underground Network of Nerds, Feminists, Misfits, Geniuses, Bikers, Potheads, Printers, Intellectuals, and Art School Rebels Revolutionized Art and Invented Comix
    Dirty Pictures : How an Underground Network of Nerds, Feminists, Misfits, Geniuses, Bikers, Potheads, Printers, Intellectuals, and Art School Rebels Revolutionized Art and Invented Comix
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    In 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Dieter Roth & Richard Hamilton – Collaborations : Relations-Confrontations
    Dieter Roth & Richard Hamilton – Collaborations : Relations-Confrontations
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    Richard 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 […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Hal Foster – Brutal Aesthetics Brutal Aesthetics : Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg
    Hal Foster – Brutal Aesthetics Brutal Aesthetics : Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg
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    How 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Bio Art : Altered Realities
    Bio Art : Altered Realities
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    In 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Bill Viola
    Bill Viola
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    The 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Thomas Crow – The Artist in the Counterculture : Bruce Conner to Mike Kelley and Other Tales from the Edge
    Thomas Crow – The Artist in the Counterculture : Bruce Conner to Mike Kelley and Other Tales from the Edge
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    How 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg : Art, Happenings, and Cultural Politics
    Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg : Art, Happenings, and Cultural Politics
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    This 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