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Joel-Peter Witkin: A Retrospective (Signed!)
$150.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“At the age of 6, Joel-Peter Witkin witnessed an automobile accident in which a little girl was decapitated, her head rolling to a stop at his feet. This experience may […]
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Joel-Peter Witkin: Gods of Earth and Heaven
$40.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Once you have witnessed the dark, sensational visions of Joel-Peter Witkin, you will never be the same again. Witkin gets to you. Here you will encounter hermaphrodites, malformed bodies, [...]
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Cornelia Parker – Verso
$32.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis diminutive artists book was specially commissioned by Ivorypress as part of an ongoing series. Verso is a previously unpublished work by British sculptor and installation artist Cornelia [...]
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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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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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Meeting the Other Crowd: The Fairy Stories of Hidden Ireland
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items“The Other Crowd,” “The Good People,” “The Wee Folk,” and “Them” are a few of the names given to the fairies by the people of Ireland. Honored for [...]
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Richard Wollheim – Painting as an Art
$20.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsPainting as an Art is acclaimed philosopher Richard Wollheim’s encompassing vision of how to view art. Transcending the traditional boundaries of art history, Wollheim draws on his three great [...]
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Witold Gombrowicz – Cosmos
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsMilan Kundera called Witold Gombrowicz “one of the great novelists of our century.” Now his most famous novel, Cosmos, is available in a critically acclaimed translation by the [...]
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Luce Irigaray – je, tu, nous: Toward a Culture of Difference
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsIrigaray offers the clearest available introduction to her own work. Focusing on power, women, gender and patriarchal mythologies, she lays out what for her has become the central problem for [...]
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John Meyendorff – Christ in Eastern Christian Thought
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsThis major study of Byzantine Christology is at the same time a study of the Orthodox understanding of man and his salvation. Focusing on the concept of hypostasis or “person,” […]
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Negotiating History: German Art and the Past
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsOverview of German art movements and their relationship to the cultural history of Germany This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age […]
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The Book Before Printing: Ancient, Medieval and Oriental
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsIt is probable that the earliest “books” were written on wood or leaves as early as the fourth millennium B.C. These fragile materials, unfortunately, have not come down to us. […]
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The Mirror of the Gods: How the Renaissance Artists Rediscovered the P…
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsBy the end of the 15th century, the remains of the ancient gods littered the landscape of Western Europe. Christianity had erased the religions of ancient Greece and Rome and […]
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Islamic Art and Architecture (World of Art)
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsIncluding over a thousand years of history and stretching from the Atlantic to the borders of India and China, Islamic Art and Architecture is an unparalleled narrative of the arts […]
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Agnus Dei: L’art romànic i els artistes del segle XX (CATALAN LA…
$15.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsA lushly illustrated overview of how angels have been depicted in art. IN CATALAN LANGUAGE This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some […]
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C.G. Jung & C. Kerenyi – Essays on a Science of Mythology
$7.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsEssays on a Science of Mythology is a cooperative work between C. Kerényi, who has been called “the most psychological of mythologists,” and C. G. Jung, who has been called […]
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Homage to Pythagoras: Rediscovering Sacred Science
$7.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsThese articles, both scholarly and sympathetic to the Pythagorean perspective, are proof of the contemporary interest in Pythagoras’ philosophy as a living reality. Homage to Pythagoras is [...]
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Z’Ev Ben Shimon Halevi – Kabbalah and Exodus
$7.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsExamines the connection between the old testament and the Kabbalistic system. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear to […]
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Celebration: Studies in Festivity and Ritual
$7.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsIncludes material on ceremonial masks, Western Ashkenazic torah binders, Canela initiation festivals, potlatch ceremonies, Chamula carnivals, early 19th-century Protestant radicals, Penitentes, [...]
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Sacred Geometry: Philosophy & Practice
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsThe thinkers of ancient Egypt, Greece and India recognized that numbers governed much of what they saw in their world and hence provided an approach to its divine creator. Robert […]
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The Traveler’s Key to Northern India
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDescribes the historical background and religious significance of temples, shrines, palaces, and pilgrimage sites, and includes information on their art, architecture and legends This book is in [...]
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Robert Somerlott – Here, Mr. Splitfoot: An Informal Education in…
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsChapters include occult stars, identifying spirits, poltergeists, crystal-gazers, host of prophets, occult kaleidoscope, bibliography, index. A witty and informal exploration into modern read [...]
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S. Giedion – The Eternal Present: Volume I: The Beginnings of Ar…
$32.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Professor Giedion, well known as an historian of architecture, is concerned in this latest work with a problem that in his view has come more and more into the the […]
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The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taugh…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA journey of a thousand miles begins with one step, goes the ancient saying. This concept is at the root of the computational worldview, which basically says that very complex […]
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Louis Marin – To Destroy Painting
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe work of the eminent French cultural critic Louis Marin (1931-92) is becoming increasingly important to English-speaking scholars concerned with issues of representation. To Destroy Painting, [...]
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Egon Sendler – The Icon: Image of the Invisible
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA comprehensive study of the theology of the Icon and its history, the aesthetics of the Icon and its structures, and the techniques and steps to paint an Icon, this […]
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The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPhilosophers and theologians have long engaged in intense debate and introspection over the representation of the deity, its possibilities and its proscriptions. The Forbidden Image traces the [...]
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Arnold I Davidson – Emergence of Sexuality: Historical Epistemo…
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn a book that moves between philosophy and history, and with lasting significance for both, Arnold Davidson elaborates a powerful new method for considering the history of concepts and the […]
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Bojana Mojsov – Osiris: Death and Afterlife of a God
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBojana Mojsov tells the story of the cult of Osiris from beginning to end, sketching its development throughout 3,000 years of Egyptian history. Draws together the numerous records about Osiris [...]
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Rudolf Wittkower – Allegory and the Migration of Symbols
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“This book has a taxonomy of sets of similar symbols with which the history of their locations, uses, and meanings can be put together to see the whole. Well researched […]
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F.M Cornford – From Religion to Philosophy: A Study in the Origi…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis exploration of early Western philosophy traces the religious roots of science and systematic speculation. Cornford, a distinguished historian of ancient philosophy, combines deep classical [...]
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Ryu Murakami – Coin Locker Babies
$16.00 | Book, PrintTwo babies are left in a Tokyo station coin locker and survive against the odds, but their lives are forever tainted by this inauspicious start. As they grow up, they […]
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Julio Cortazar – 62: A Model Kit
$16.00 | Book, Print‘A deeply touching, enjoyable novel, beautifully written and fascinatingly mysterious and intricate in its designs’ New York TimesIn a city that could be Paris, London or Vienna, a loose-knit [...]
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Kurt Schwitters – Myself and My Aims: Writings on Art and Critic…
$50.00 | Book, PrintKurt Schwitters was a major protagonist in the histories of modern art and literature, whose response to the contradictions of modern life rivals that of Marcel Duchamp in its importance […]
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Surrealism and Magic: From Max Ernst to Leonora Carrington
$56.00 | Book, PrintLike no other 20th-century movement, Surrealism was keenly inspired by tropes of magic, myth and the occult. In their engagement with the irrational and the unconscious, numerous of its members [...]
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Joanna Moorhead – The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington
$19.00 | Book, PrintIn 2006 journalist Joanna Moorhead discovered that her father’s cousin, Prim, who had disappeared many decades earlier, was now a famous artist in Mexico. Although rarely spoken of in her [...]
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Paul Elie – The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in…
$24.00 | Book, PrintEnter the figures Paul Elie calls “crypto-religious.” Here is Leonard Cohen writing “Hallelujah” on his knees in a Times Square hotel room; Andy Warhol adapting Leonardo’s The Last Supper in […]
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Leon Genonceaux – The Tutu
$22.00 | Book, PrintThe nineteenth-century French writer and publisher Léon Genonceaux (1856―?) is as much of an enigma as those two legendary enfants terribles whom he was the first to publish: Arthur Rimbaud […]
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M. John Harrison – The Course Of The Heart
$16.00 | Book, PrintOn a hot May night, three Cambridge students carry out a ritualistic act that changes their lives. Decades later, none of the participants can remember what transpired; but their clouded […]
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Ryu Murakami – From the Fatherland with Love
$20.00 | Book, PrintAn ambitious, epic dystopian novel – part political thriller and part satire. From the Fatherland, with Love is set in an alternative, dystopian present in which the dollar has collapsed [...]
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The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook of Sacred Texts
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsZeus and the other gods of shining Olympus were in reality divine only by popular consent. Over the course of time Olympian luster diminished in favor of religious experiences more […]
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Burren Archaeology: A Tour Guide
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe Burren in County Clare contains one of the more dense concentrations of archaeological remains in Ireland. Its monuments illustrate the story of human activity since it was first settled […]
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An Assemblage of Spirits : Idea and Image in New Ireland
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDescribes the daily life and culture in Papua New Guinea, and shows examples of carved architectural panels, masks, dance ornaments, figures, friezes, and poles This book is in Good readable […]
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Paradise: A History of the Idea that Rules the World
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFrom the Church in the Middle Ages to the people who prepare sucidide bombers, there is always someone promsing a better tomorrow, if only we do what they say. Although […]
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The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages: Language, Theory, Mythology, …
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis book assess the relationship of literature to various other cultural forms in the Middle Ages. Jesse M. Gellrich uses the insights of such thinkers as Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Barthes, and [...]
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America, the Sorcerer’s New Apprentice: The Rise of New Age Sham…
$5.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsReincarnation, Eastern mysticism, channeling, psychic phenomena. Is America at the threshold of a glorious new age of enlightenment? Or have we, in our search for higher levels of human [...]
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Julius Evola – The Mystery of the Grail: Initiation and Magic in…
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this important study of the meaning of the Grail, one of Europe’s greatest esoteric philosophers discloses the pre-Christian and initiatic sources of this symbolic motif that is so [...]
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Walter Burkert – Greek Religion
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this book Walter Burkert, the most eminent living historian of ancient Greek religion, has produced the standard work for our time on that subject. First published in German in […]
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Henry Corbin – Avicenna and the Visionary Recital
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this work a distinguished scholar of Islamic religion examines the mysticism and psychological thought of the great eleventh-century Persian philosopher and physician Avicenna (Ibn Sina), [...]
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Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsArtists and writers reconsider the relationship between the body and electronic technology in the twenty-first century through essays, artworks, and an encyclopedic “Abecedarius of the New [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction