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Lucian Krukowski – Art and Concept: A Philosophical Study
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAddressing the important and timely question of what it is to know something as an artwork, this volume explores the relationship between works of art and the concepts, evaluations, descriptions, [...]
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Origins, Imitation, Conventions: Representation in the Visual Arts
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsTwelve studies by eminent art historian James S. Ackerman. This collection contains studies written by art historian James Ackerman over the past decade. Whereas Ackerman’s earlier work [...]
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Henri Focillon – The Life of Forms in Art
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this beautiful meditation on the art-historical problem of style, Henri Focillon (1881–1943) describes how art forms change over time. Although he argues that the development of art is [...]
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Bruce Mau – Massive Change
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMassive Change is a modern, illustrated primer on the new inventions, technologies, and events that are affecting the human race worldwide. This book is part of a broader research project […]
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Moshe Idel – Messianic Mystics
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this stimulating book one of the world’s leading scholars of Jewish thought examines the long tradition of Jewish messianism and mystical experience. Moshe Idel calls upon his profound [...]
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Gnostic Faustus: The Secret Teachings Behind the Classic Text
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn The Gnostic Faustus, Ramona Fradon shows the legend of Doctor Faustus to be a composite Gnostic creation myth that reveals the process of spiritual salvation. Nearly every element of […]
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The Secret History of the World: As Laid Down by the Secret Societies
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe amazing surprise New York Times bestseller, filled with “breathtaking glimpses into worlds that heretofore have been little explored” (Foreward) They say that history is written [...]
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D’Arcy Thompson – On Growth and Form
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsClassic of biology and modern science sets forth seminal “theory of transformation” that one species evolves into another not by successive minor changes in individual body parts [...]
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Frances Colpitt – Abstract Art in the Late Twentieth Century
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThese essays on abstract painting by eleven of its most incisive critics trace the development of such critical issues as hard-edge painting, deductive and serial structure, monochrome [...]
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David F. Greenberg – The Construction of Homosexuality
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“At various times, homosexuality has been considered the noblest of loves, a horrible sin, a psychological condition or grounds for torture and execution. David F. Greenberg’s [...]
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The Magus of Freemasonry: The Mysterious Life of Elias Ashmole–S…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsElias Ashmole (1617-1692) was the first to record a personal account of initiation into Accepted Freemasonry. His writings help solve the debate between operative and “speculative” origins of [...]
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Jose Guadalupe Posada And the Mexican Broadside
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsJosé Guadalupe Posada (1851–1913), one of Mexico’s most important graphic artists, influenced the generation who lived through and pictured the Mexican Revolution. His powerful and visually [...]
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Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA groundbreaking book that explores how astrology can inform our understanding of the events that have shaped our world—the inspiration for the docuseries Changing of the Gods. In these pages, [...]
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Micea Eliade – Images and Symbols : Studies in Religious Symboli…
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMircea Eliade–one of the most renowned expositors of the psychology of religion, mythology, and magic–shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode of thought that not only came before [...]
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Mircea Eliade – The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and Histo…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis founding work of the history of religions, first published in English in 1954, secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-1986). Making [...]
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Charles Simic – Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn Dime-Store Alchemy, poet Charles Simic reflects on the life and work of Joseph Cornell, the maverick surrealist who is one of America’s great artists. Simic’s spare prose is as enchanting […]
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Crop Circles: A Beginner’s Guide
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsCrop circles are mysterious markings that have been found on farmland worldwide, ranging from simple circles to elaborate formations. This Beginner’s Guide explores the history of crop [...]
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Calvin Tomkins – Lives of the Artists
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFor more than four decades Calvin Tomkins’s incisive profiles in The New Yorker have given readers the most satisfying reports on contemporary art and artists available in any language. In [...]
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Francette Pacteau – The Symptom of Beauty
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFor a woman in the Western world, there is no escaping beauty. Either she possesses it, or she lacks it. If she lacks it, she may hope to gain it. […]
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Dane Rudhyar – Occult Preparations for a New Age
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIntriguing work by the French astrologer/spiritualist. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear to the wraps/boards, or light creasing/wear […]
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Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Write…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAs these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one startlingly subversive of the society that fostered it. From Anne [...]
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Gnostic Philosophy: From Ancient Persia to Modern Times
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAn extensive examination of the history of gnosticism and how its philosophy has influenced the Western esoteric tradition. Gnosticism was a contemporary of early Christianity, and its demise can [...]
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Jean Houston – The Passion of Isis and Osiris
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn The Passion of Isis and Osiris, Jean Houston, internationally renowned philosopher, psychologist, and explorer of world myth, takes us deep into the mysteries of Egypt, land of the ancient [...]
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What May Come: The Taller de Grafica Popular and the Mexican Political…
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsEstablished in Mexico City in 1937, the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Art Workshop) sought to create prints, posters, and illustrated publications that were popular and affordable, [...]
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Sacred Places: A Journey into the Holiest Lands
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsTakes readers on a tour of the world’s most sacred sights while tracing the earliest religious rituals and traditions of each area, including Stonehenge, the Kali Temple in Calcutta, and [...]
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Mircea Eliade – The Sacred & The Profane
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn The Sacred and the Profane, Mircea Eliade observes that while contemporary people believe their world is entirely profane or secular, they still at times find themselves connected [...]
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Jean Baudrillard – The Conspiracy of Art
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsCutting-edge theorist Jean Baudrillard on the complicitous dance of art, politics, economics, and media; includes “War Porn,” on Abu Ghraib as a new genre of reality TV. The images [...]
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Philip K Dick – Ubik
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn a dystopian future of psychic powers, Glen Runciter runs a lucrative business — deploying his teams of anti-psychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security from psychic spies. […]
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Craig Owens – Beyond Recognition : Representation, Power, and Cu…
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPerhaps more than any other recent writer, Craig Owens explored the relations among the discourses of contemporary art, sexuality, and power. His familiarity with the New York art world and […]
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Larry Townsend – The Severed Head
$17.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDuring the riots that followed the unpopular verdicts in the Rodney King trial, a group of skinhead punks preys on the Gay Community of West Hollywood. In the course of […]
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Robert Longo (Rizzoli Monograph)
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMonograph covering the New York-based multi-media artist. Book is in Like New condition and shows very light general wear. *Image in the listing is stock. There may be variation in […]
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Andre Bazin – The Cinema Of Cruelty
$50.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPerhaps the single most important voice of cinema in the twentieth century, André Bazin profoundly influenced the development of the scholarship that we know now as film criticism. Bazin has […]
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In the Mind’s Eye: Dada and Surrealism
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsLooks at paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculpture by Arp, Dali, Ernst, Gorky, Grosz, and others This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some […]
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Henry Corbin – The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsClassic work on Suhrawardi’s Illuminationist school of Persian Sufism by renowned philosopher and Iranologist Henry Corbin. In the Sufism of ancient Iran, the quest for the dawning of light in [...]
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Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsGnosticism developed alongside Judeo-Christianity over two thousand years ago, but with an important difference: It emphasizes, not faith, but direct perception of God–Gnosticism being [...]
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Gershom Scholem – Origins of the Kabbalah
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOne of the most important scholars of our century, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) opened up a once esoteric world of Jewish mysticism, the Kabbalah, to concerned students of religion. The Kabbalah [...]
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Walter Burkert – Savage Energies: Lessons of Myth and Ritual in …
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWe often think of classical Greek society as a model of rationality and order. Yet as Walter Burkert demonstrates in these influential essays on the history of Greek religion, there […]
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The Still Point: Reflections on Zen and Christian Mysticism
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIt is surely a significant manifestation of the permanence of the soul’s quest for God that the Western world, at a time when human values, principles, and ideals are being […]
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Jacques Derrida – Dissemination
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“The English version of Dissemination [is] an able translation by Barbara Johnson . . . . Derrida’s central contention is that language is haunted by dispersal, absence, loss, the [...]
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Idries Shah – The Sufis
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIdries Shah’s The Sufis is the most authoritative book about Sufism ever produced for a modern audience. This definitive work explores an immemorial wisdom tradition best-known for its [...]
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Colin Wilson – Poetry and Mysticism
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe mystic’s moment of illumination shares with great poetry the liberating power of the deepest levels of consciousness. In the words of William Blake, “If the doors of perception [...]
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Beyond the Blue Horizon: Myths and Legends of the Sun, Moon, Stars, an…
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn his classic study The Masks of God, Joseph Campbell conducted us on a fascinating global tour, showing how the seeds of myth grew in a similar fashion throughout the […]
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John Keay – The Spice Route: A History
$16.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAn exotic saga with the tang of drama in every voyage, The Spice Route transports the reader from the dawn of history to the ends of the earth.The Spice Route […]
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From Black Land To Fifth Sun: The Science Of Sacred Sites
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFrom the Nile’s black land to the Aztec’s world of the Fifth Sun, from the shrines at Phylakopi to the Maya ceremonial center of Xunantunich, sophisticated scientific techniques have [...]
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Camille Paglia – Sex, Art And American Culture
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA collection of twenty of Paglia’s out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America’s ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the [...]
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Stairways to the Stars: Skywatching in Three Great Ancient Cultures
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFor many ancient societies, the movements of the sun, moon, stars, and planets constituted an elaborate language, expressing the intentions of the spiritual forces they believed ruled the world. [...]
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The Golden Deer of Eurasia: Scythian and Sarmatian Treasures from the …
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAn introductory overview by Ann Farkas and essays by Russian authorities explain the history and archaeology of the nomads of Eurasia, the Filippovka kurgans, cults and rituals of the steppe […]
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George L. Hersey – Architecture and Geometry in the Age of the B…
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe age of the Baroque—a time when great strides were made in science and mathematics—witnessed the construction of some of the world’s most magnificent buildings. What did the work of […]
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Indian Mounds of the Middle Ohio Valley: A Guide to the Adena and Ohio…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMounds and earthworks are the most conspicuous elements of prehistoric Native American culture to be found on the landscape of eastern North America. This book, now in its seventh printing, […]
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The Tantric Way: Art, Science, Ritual
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThough its roots are in Hinduism, tantra’s goals are the universal ones of self-knowledge and liberated joy. Its methods and effects transcend geography and era, and can be applied to […]
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