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Jim Dine: This Goofy Life of Constant Mourning
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis Goofy Life of Constant Mourning is the sincere title of a long visual poem by artist Jim Dine. The result of years of photographing poems after he has written […]
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Robert Masters – The Goddess Sekhmet (scarce, as-is, markings)
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsRobert Masters presents the wisdom of ancient Egypt through the perspective of contemporary research in psychology and religious studies in his profound study of The Goddess Sekhmet: [...]
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The Beauty of the Primitive: Shamanism and Western Imagination
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFor the past forty years shamanism has drawn increasing attention among the general public and academics. There is an enormous literature on shamanism, but no one has tried to understand […]
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Anselm Kiefer and the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger
$40.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAnselm Kiefer and the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger is a work of cultural history that situates the art works of one of the most important contemporary painters in relation to […]
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Reginald Bakeley – On Gnoming
$5.00 | Print, Used Items, Zine“On Gnoming”: Phooka editor Reginald Bakeley outlines the principles of hunting and cooking these small, malignant, and particularly tasty woodland creatures. A sidebar on defenses against trolls [...]
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Lewis Carroll’s Croquet Companion
$5.00 | Print, Used Items, ZineWhat introduction needs be made for Lewis Carroll, or even Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the affectionate alter ego of the man behind the nonsensical classics “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and [...]
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C. G. Jung: A Biography in Books
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 1912, C. G. Jung wrote, “Should it happen that all traditions in the world were cut off with a single blow, the whole mythology and history of religion would […]
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Steven Mithen – After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-500…
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items20,000 BC, the peak of the last ice age―the atmosphere is heavy with dust, deserts, and glaciers span vast regions, and people, if they survive at all, exist in small, […]
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African Ark: People and Ancient Cultures of Ethiopia and the Horn of A…
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“American photographer Carol Beckwith and Australian photographer Angela Fisher discovered their common pursuit upon their chance meeting in Kenya in 1978: to understand and depict the [...]
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Hans Belting – The Invisible Masterpiece
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe ‘invisible masterpiece’ is an unattainable ideal, a work into which a dream of absolute art is incorporated but can never be realized. By means of this metaphor borrowed from […]
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Robert Smithson (University Of California Press)
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis fully illustrated book accompanies the first comprehensive American retrospective of Robert Smithson’s (1938-73) complex and influential career. Straddling the movements of minimalism [...]
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The Chemical Choir: A History of Alchemy
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA pre-cursor to contemporary chemistry and physics, alchemy began as the pursuit of knowledge, initially in China as a search for the secret of immortality, and appearing independently in Egypt [...]
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Matilda Olkinaite – The Unlocked Diary (Scarce)
$45.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWhat does it mean to open a murdered young poet’s diary 80 years after her death? This book is what would have been Matilda Olkinaitė’s early work, if it hadn’t […]
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Robert Westall – The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral: Two Stories …
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“I dreamt I was standing in the dark, looking up at the south-west tower … And our Kev was up there on top, in the dark, and screaming as if […]
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Robert Westall – Spectral Shadows: Three Supernatural Novellas
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThree supernatural novellas by Robert Westall, hailed as the finest British author of ghost stories since M.R. James, collected together for the first time BLACKHAM’S WIMPEY Why should [...]
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Robert Westall – Shadows of War
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn ‘Adolf’, a young boy becomes convinced his elderly neighbour is actually Adolf Hitler in hiding. The British soldiers in ‘The German Ghost’ have an otherworldly [...]
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Robert Westall – Antique Dust: Ghost Stories
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items‘Dealers are undertakers of a sort. When a man dies, the undertaker comes for the body, and the dealer comes for the rest. I deal in dead men’s clocks, pipes […]
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Nina Antonia – Flitting
$4.00 | Print, Used Items, ZineThus opens Flitting, a short Christmas story offered as a Fiddler’s Green holiday special. A darkly poetic telling of English changeling folklore set in the modern day, Flitting provides a […]
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Hillel Schwartz – Century’s End : An Orientation Manual fo…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA “Future Shock” for the turn of the century, Century’s End contains a rich trove of facts that will delight readers whose job it is to know what moods will […]
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Lucy R. Lippard – Mixed Blessings : New Art in a Multicultural A…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn America today there is a little-known explosion of creative art by women and men from many different ethnic backgrounds. Mixed Blessings is the first book to discuss the crosscultural […]
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Dark Nature: A Natural History of Evil
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAt a time when violence threatens to become epidemic and genocide takes the place of diplomacy in many regions of the world, it is no longer enough to simply dismiss […]
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Apocalyptic Spirituality (Classics of Western Spirituality)
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“In its breadth of vision and seriousness of purpose, the series leaves little room for complaint or cavil…An editorial program of real vision; series like this are what makes [...]
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Harry C James – Pages from Hopi History
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“More than half a century of contact between the author and the Hopi people has resulted in an unusual opportunity for long informative talks with friends from the villages. These […]
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The Dimensions of Paradise: Sacred Geometry, Ancient Science, and the …
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe priests of ancient Egypt preserved a geometrical canon, a numerical code of harmonies and proportions, that they applied to music, art, statecraft, and all the institutions of their [...]
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Louise Bourgeois: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsSurvey of Bourgeois’s work, published on the occasion of her 1982 exhibition at MOMA This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age […]
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Shamans Through Time: 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA survey of five centuries of writings on the world’s great shamans-the tricksters, sorcerers, conjurers, and healers who have fascinated observers for centuries. This collection of essays [...]
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Peter Wollen – Raiding the Icebox: Reflections on Twentieth-Cent…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsRaiding the Icebox is a kaleidoscopic review of the avant-garde and radical subcultures of the twentieth century, and explains how the most powerful artistic statements of the era redrew the […]
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Mircea Eliade – Essential Sacred Writings From Around the World
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOriginally published as From Primitives to Zen, this comprehensive anthology contains writings vital to all the major non-Western religious traditions, arranged thematically. Here are colorful [...]
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Julian Stallabrass – High Art Lite
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe recent controversy surrounding the Brooklyn Museum of Art’s Sensation! Show has further inflated the already burgeoning media profiles of British artists like Damien Hirst, Chris Ofili, Sarah [...]
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Transcendence: The Disinformation Encyclopedia of Transhumanism and th…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsTranshumanism is an international movement that advocates the use of science and technology to overcome the “natural” limitations experienced by humanity through such developments as: [...]
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Hugo Ball – Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsHugo Ball―poet, philosopher, novelist, cabaret performer, journalist, mystic―was a man extremely sensitive to the currents of his time and carried in their wake. In February 1916 he founded the [...]
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The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation, and the Self…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMarcel Duchamp is a founding figure of twentieth-century art and culture, the common source to which many contemporary movements trace their roots. His career has often been celebrated for its [...]
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Daniel C. Noel – The Soul of Shamanism: Western Fantasies, Imagi…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFrom the Merlin of Arthurian romances to Mircea Eliade’s academic researches, from Carlos Castaneda’s Don Juan to the archetypal images of Carl Jung, the figure of the shaman has [...]
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Nigel Pennick – Magical Alphabets: The Secrets and Significance …
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsUsing the premise that languages and the alphabets that comprise them are metaphorical microcosms of our world, Nigel Pennick demonstrates how various alphabets function as a metaphysical [...]
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Mike Jay – The Atmosphere of Heaven: The Unnatural Experiments o…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe stranger-than-fiction story of the Enlightenment visionaries who discovered the unexpected effects of inhaling nitrous oxide. At the Pneumatic Institution in Bristol, England, founded in the [...]
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Star Gods of the Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsObservations of the sun, moon, planets, and stars played a central role in ancient Maya lifeways, as they do today among contemporary Maya who maintain the traditional ways. This pathfinding […]
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The Serpent and the Swan: The Animal Bride in Folklore and Literature
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe Serpent and the Swan is a history and analysis of animal bride tales from antiquity to the present. The animal bride tale, the author argues, is an enduring expression […]
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Faces Of The Living Dead: The Belief In Spirit Photography
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMartyn Jolly examines the evolution and photographic techniques of spirit photography – the craze for photographing ‘spirits’, which was rooted in the popularity of Spiritualism [...]
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Gregory & Mary Bateson – Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemolo…
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAngels Fear is the final sustained thinking of the great Gregory Bateson, written in collaboration with his anthropologist daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson. Here we have set out before us [...]
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R.Crumb – The Book of Genesis
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsEnvisioning the first book of the bible like no one before him, R. Crumb, the legendary illustrator, reveals here the story of Genesis in a profoundly honest and deeply moving […]
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Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMarcel Duchamp is often viewed as an “artist-engineer-scientist,” a kind of rationalist who relied heavily on the ideas of the French mathematician and philosopher Henri Poincaré. Yet [...]
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Anish Kapoor: Unconformity and Entropy
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThroughout his creative career, Turner Prize-winning sculptor Anish Kapoor has worked extensively with architects and engineers, and built a large body of public works that merge sculpture and [...]
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The Sublime (Documents Of Contemporary Art Series)
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn the contemporary world, where technology, spectacle, and excess seemto eclipse nature, the individual, and society, what might be the characteristics ofa contemporary sublime? If there is any [...]
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Louis Kaplan – The Strange Case Of William Mumler
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe story of the birth of spirit photography and the controversy surrounding its discovery. In the 1860s, William Mumler photographed ghosts—or so he claimed. Faint images of the dearly departed [...]
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Timothy J Knab – The Dialogue of Earth and Sky: Dreams, Souls, C…
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn Mexico’s Sierra Norte de Puebla, beliefs that were held before the coming of Europeans continue to guide the lives of modern Aztecs. For residents of San Martín Zinacapan, life […]
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Francis Bacon: Important Paintings from the Estate
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Francis Bacon’s first painting of a pope was Head VI of 1949, a head‑and‑shoulders image which already presented the inspired conflation between the Velázquez portrait of Pope Innocent X [...]
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Anselm Kiefer: Dein und Mein Alter und das Alter der Welt : Your Age a…
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsGagosian is proud to present an exhibition by Anselm Kiefer entitled Dein und mein alter und das alter der Welt (Your Age and Mine and the Age of the World). […]
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Smile of the Buddha: Eastern Philosophy and Western Art from Monet to …
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsSmile of the Buddha explores the influences of Asian world-views and particularly Buddhism on the art of Europe and America in the modern era. In an informative and perceptive introduction […]
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The Mystical Now : Art and the Sacred
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsArgues that sacred art is not synonymous with art on religious subjects, and analyzes sixty-five twentieth-century works which display the intense and personal commitment characteristic of the [...]
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A Book by Anselm Kiefer
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOffers a brief profile of the German artist, reproduces a book of his watercolors, which include seascapes and nudes, and discusses the themes of his work This book is in […]
GENRE: Art/Photography