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Stan Brakhage: The Realm Buster
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartStan Brakhage’s body of work counts as one of the most important within post-war avant-garde cinema, and yet it has rarely been given the attention it deserves. Over the years, […]
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NSK from Kapital to Capital: Neue Slowenische Kunst-an Event of the Final Decade of Yugoslavia
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe 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 [...]
GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics, Non-Fiction -
Marco Breuer: Early Recordings
$16.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Early Recordings” presents the first comprehensive look at the work of the respected, conceptually driven artist, Marco Breuer. Boldly experimental, Breuer uses an extensive and [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
James Lee Byars : The Rest is Silence
$17.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartPublished 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 Going: The Art Scene and Downtown New York in the 1980s
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartBrilliantly 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 […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Constructing an Avant-Garde: Art in Brazil, 1949-1979
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartBrazilian 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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California Video: Artists and Histories
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartPublished to accompany a landmark exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from March 15 through June 18, 2008, California Video presents the first comprehensive survey of the […]
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Between Form and Content: Perspectives on Jacob Lawrence + Black Mountain College
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis catalog accompanies Between Form and Content: Perspectives on Jacob Lawrence + Black Mountain College, the first exhibition to focus on a watershed moment in the seminal career of Jacob […]
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David Carrier – Aesthetics of the Margins / The Margins of Aesthetics: Wild Art Explained
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Wild Art” refers to work that exists outside the established, rarified world of art galleries and cultural channels. It encompasses uncatalogued, uncommodified art not often recognized as such, [...]
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Fredric Jameson – The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA 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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William T. Vollmann – The Book of Dolores
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWilliam T. Vollmann has travelled to Soviet-occupied Afghanistan with Islamic commandos, shivered out a solitary stretch at the North Magnetic Pole in winter, hopped freight trains, studied the [...]
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Stephen Greenblatt – The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartBolder, even, than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve explores the enduring story of humanity’s first parents. Comprising […]
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Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test & The Power Of Seeing
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA 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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Morrissey – Autobiography
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAutobiography covers Morrissey’s life from his birth until the present day. Book is in “Like New” condition. Some light superficial wear and/or remainder mark might be present.
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Apocalypse Jukebox: The End of the World in American Popular Music
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFrom its indefinite beginnings through its broad commercialization and endless reinterpretation, American rock-and-roll music has been preoccupied with an end-of-the-world mentality that extends [...]
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Jim Dine: This is How I Remember, Now: Portraits: Photographs by Jim Dine
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartJim Dine may be best known for his prints, paintings and sculptural works–and for being one of the founders of Pop art–but he has also been making photographs since 1996. […]
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Monstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartMulti-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 Intelligence
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFifty 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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Writing the Orgy: Power and Parody in Sade
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWriting the Orgy provides an innovative, highly persuasive interpretation of eroticism in the Marqui de Sade’s writing. Combining literary theory with methodologies borrowed from [...]
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The William H. Gass Reader
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThroughout his career, William Gass relentlessly pushed at the boundaries of language, celebrating the music of the sentence and the aesthetics of the written word. Now, the best and most […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Underground Movements: Modern Culture on the New York City Subway
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“For more than a century the New York City subway system has been a vital part of the city’s identity, even as judgments of its value have varied. It has […]
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Jonathan Strauss – Human Remains: Medicine, Death, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Paris
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“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 Add to cart“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 Add to cart“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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Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo’s America
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo’s America is a fresh and engaging study of “last things” in Don DeLillo’s works-things like death, mourning, and the decline [...]
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Algerian Imprints: Ethical Space in the Work of Assia Djebar and Hélène Cixous
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Born and raised in French Algeria, Assia Djebar and Hélène Cixous represent in their literary works signs of conflict and enmity, drawing on discordant histories so as to reappraise the [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“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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Pieces of Sound: German Experimental Radio
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Since the rise of film and television, radio has continued to evolve, with satellite radio and podcasts as its latest incarnations. Any understanding of the development of radio, like its [...]
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Julia Kristeva – Teresa, My Love: An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Mixing fiction, history, psychoanalysis, and personal fantasy, Teresa, My Love turns a past world into a modern marvel, following Sylvia Leclercq, a French psychoanalyst, academic, and [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Selected Writings of César Vallejo
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“For the first time in English, readers can now evaluate the extraordinary breadth of César Vallejo’s diverse oeuvre that, in addition to poetry, includes magazine and newspaper [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
John Ashbery – Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Renowned for his inventive mind, ambitious play with language, and dexterity with a wide range of tones and styles, John Ashbery has been a major artistic figure in the cultural life […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Adrienne Rich – Later Poems Selected and New: 1971–2012
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“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 […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Diane Wakoski – The Emerald City of Las Vegas
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“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 [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
James Purdy – Cabot Wright Begins: A Novel
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Cabot Wright is a handsome, Yale-educated stockbroker and scion of a good family. He also happens to be the convicted rapist of nearly three hundred women. Bernie Gladhart is a […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Nicholas Mosley – Assassins
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“As one of the characters in Assassins says, “Tolstoy was right, you can’t beat the Gods. It’s the small things – the warp and woof – that make up the […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Klaus Mann – Alexander
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“This historical fantasy, written by the son of the well-known German novelist Thomas Mann, takes Alexander the Great for its subject, charting his life and career, and examining his [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Alexander Theroux – Collected Poems
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The publication of Alexander Theroux’s Collected Poems, a gathering of more than 660 poems, an astonishing creative output, will be among the major literary events of the year. Here is [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Carol Off – Bitter Chocolate: Anatomy of an Industry
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“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 [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“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 Cinema
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“In Picturing American Modernity, Kristen Whissel investigates the relationship between early American cinema and the experience of technological modernity. She demonstrates how between the [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Kembrew McLeod – Downtown Pop Underground
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“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 […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“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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The Serpent and the Sacred: Fertility Images in Southwestern Rock Art
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The Southwest holds a treasure trove of prehistoric rock art, the fascinating images of petroglyphs and pictographs spanning thousands of years of Indian culture. Fertility has been [...]
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Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“This publication explores the complex relationship between American art and early film. Depicting turn-of-the-century photographs, film stills, posters, prints and paintings, the struggle [...]
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Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“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 [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Gerhard Richter: Images of an Era
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“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 Add to cart“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 Add to cart“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 the Planned Promised Land in the Pacific Northwest
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“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 [...]
GENRE: Folk / Country -
Music of Azerbaijan: From Mugham to Opera
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“This book traces the development of Azerbaijani art music from its origins in the Eastern, modal, improvisational tradition known as mugham through its fusion with Western classical, jazz, [...]
GENRE: International, Non-Fiction