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  • Stan Brakhage: The Realm Buster
    Stan Brakhage: The Realm Buster
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    Stan 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, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • NSK from Kapital to Capital: Neue Slowenische Kunst-an Event of the Final Decade of Yugoslavia
    NSK from Kapital to Capital: Neue Slowenische Kunst-an Event of the Final Decade of Yugoslavia
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    The 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
    Marco Breuer: Early Recordings
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    “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
    James Lee Byars : The Rest is Silence
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    Published 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 […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Peter McGough – I’ve Seen the Future and I’m Not Going: The Art Scene and Downtown New York in the 1980s
    Peter McGough – I’ve Seen the Future and I’m Not Going: The Art Scene and Downtown New York in the 1980s
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    Brilliantly 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
    Constructing an Avant-Garde: Art in Brazil, 1949-1979
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    Brazilian 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • California Video: Artists and Histories
    California Video: Artists and Histories
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    Published 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 […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Between Form and Content: Perspectives on Jacob Lawrence + Black Mountain College
    Between Form and Content: Perspectives on Jacob Lawrence + Black Mountain College
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    This 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 […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • David Carrier – Aesthetics of the Margins / The Margins of Aesthetics: Wild Art Explained
    David Carrier – Aesthetics of the Margins / The Margins of Aesthetics: Wild Art Explained
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    “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, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Fredric Jameson – The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986
    Fredric Jameson – The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986
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    A 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.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • William T. Vollmann – The Book of Dolores
    William T. Vollmann – The Book of Dolores
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    William 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Stephen Greenblatt – The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
    Stephen Greenblatt – The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
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    Bolder, 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test & The Power Of Seeing
    Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test & The Power Of Seeing
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    A 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, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Morrissey – Autobiography
    Morrissey – Autobiography
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    Autobiography 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.

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Apocalypse Jukebox: The End of the World in American Popular Music
    Apocalypse Jukebox: The End of the World in American Popular Music
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    From 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jim Dine: This is How I Remember, Now: Portraits: Photographs by Jim Dine
    Jim Dine: This is How I Remember, Now: Portraits: Photographs by Jim Dine
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    Jim 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. […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Monstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe
    Monstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe
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    Multi-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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Paul Davies – The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence
    Paul Davies – The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence
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    Fifty 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Writing the Orgy: Power and Parody in Sade
    Writing the Orgy: Power and Parody in Sade
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    Writing the Orgy provides an innovative, highly persuasive interpretation of eroticism in the Marqui de Sade’s writing. Combining literary theory with methodologies borrowed from [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The William H. Gass Reader
    The William H. Gass Reader
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    Throughout 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
    Underground Movements: Modern Culture on the New York City Subway
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    “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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jonathan Strauss – Human Remains: Medicine, Death, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Paris
    Jonathan Strauss – Human Remains: Medicine, Death, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Paris
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    “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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Verena A Conley – Helene Cixous
    Verena A Conley – Helene Cixous
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Hard to Be a Saint in the City: The Spiritual Vision of the Beats
    Hard to Be a Saint in the City: The Spiritual Vision of the Beats
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    “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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo’s America
    Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo’s America
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Algerian Imprints: Ethical Space in the Work of Assia Djebar and Hélène Cixous
    Algerian Imprints: Ethical Space in the Work of Assia Djebar and Hélène Cixous
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    “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
    An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Pieces of Sound: German Experimental Radio
    Pieces of Sound: German Experimental Radio
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Julia Kristeva – Teresa, My Love: An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila
    Julia Kristeva – Teresa, My Love: An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila
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    “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
    Selected Writings of César Vallejo
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    “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
    John Ashbery – Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works
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    “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
    Adrienne Rich – Later Poems Selected and New: 1971–2012
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    “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
    Diane Wakoski – The Emerald City of Las Vegas
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    “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
    James Purdy – Cabot Wright Begins: A Novel
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    “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
    Nicholas Mosley – Assassins
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    “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
    Klaus Mann – Alexander
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    “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
    Alexander Theroux – Collected Poems
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    “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
    Carol Off – Bitter Chocolate: Anatomy of an Industry
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    “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
    Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It
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    “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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cinema
    Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cinema
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    “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
    Kembrew McLeod – Downtown Pop Underground
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    “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
    Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • The Serpent and the Sacred: Fertility Images in Southwestern Rock Art
    The Serpent and the Sacred: Fertility Images in Southwestern Rock Art
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910
    Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry
    Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry
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    “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
    Gerhard Richter: Images of an Era
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Blurring The Boundaries: Installation Art 1969-1996
    Blurring The Boundaries: Installation Art 1969-1996
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Abstracts of Karl Rahner’s Unserialized Essays
    Abstracts of Karl Rahner’s Unserialized Essays
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    “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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • 26 Songs in 30 Days: Woody Guthrie’s Columbia River Songs and the Planned Promised Land in the Pacific Northwest
    26 Songs in 30 Days: Woody Guthrie’s Columbia River Songs and the Planned Promised Land in the Pacific Northwest
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    “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
    Music of Azerbaijan: From Mugham to Opera
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    “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