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Wahine Toa: Women of Maori Myth

An exploration of the stories of 8 women from Maori myths, in art works and texts. The artist intends her work to be visual representations of the myths, rather than […]

GENRE: Art/Photography

Doctrinal Nourishment: Art and Anarchism in the Time of James Ensor

$25.00 | Book, Print, Used Items

A sharp send-up of authoritarian hubris–in which bloated, self-satisfied, bare-bottomed public officials excrete a foul diet literally to be swallowed by the masses–the etching [...]

GENRE: Art/Photography

The Essential Writings of Frithjof Schuon

$25.00 | Book, Print, Used Items

This collection brings together the essential writings of a master thinker whose work bridges philosophy, spirituality, and metaphysics. Through eloquent essays and reflections, it explores the [...]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

In Quest Of The Absolute

$30.00 | Book, Print, Used Items

This volume contains full-color plates of important works by Kasimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Robert Ryman, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Helmut Federle [...]

GENRE: Art/Photography

Marija Gimbutas – The Language of the Goddess: Unearthing the Hi…

$30.00 | Book, Print, Used Items

A noted archaeologist demonstrates the existence of prehistoric goddess-worshipping, egalitarian, nonviolent cultures whose hidden heritage is just now being restored This book is in Good [...]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

Benjamin H. D. Buchloh – Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry: Es…

$40.00 | Book, Print, Used Items

Some critics view the postwar avant-garde as the empty recycling of forms and strategies from the first two decades of the twentieth century. Others view it, more positively, as a […]

GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction

Arthur Versluis – Theosophia: Hidden Dimensions of Christianity

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Theosophia traces the long-hidden esoteric stream of Christian gnostic theosophy, revealing a “chivalric” religion of the Holy Spirit at the heart of Christianity. It shows that all three major [...]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

Susan Buck-Morss – The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and…

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Walter Benjamin’s magnum opus was a book he did not live to write. In The Dialectics of Seeing, Susan Buck-Morss offers an inventive reconstruction of the Passagen Werk, or Arcades […]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

Shamanism and Tantra in the Himalayas

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The Himalayan kingdom of Nepal may be the only culture in the world where both shamanic and tantric techniques are still alive and in full practice today. The result of […]

GENRE: Art/Photography

Anselm Kiefer, the Seven Heavenly Palaces 1973-2001

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Born in the final weeks of World War II–in what Germans who wished to erase it from collective memory called Year Zero–Anselm Kiefer has long sought to come to grips […]

GENRE: Art/Photography

Alberto Giacometti : Dialogue with the History of Art

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“From Giacometti’s impressionistic roots to his latter spindly bronzes, this comprehensive volume details touching graphite sketches, ink drawings, oil paintings and study upon study [...]

GENRE: Art/Photography

The Art of Richard Tuttle

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Over the past four decades, Richard Tuttle has thrown into question nearly every conceivable artistic convention and critical category to create an enormously inventive body of abstract work-one [...]

GENRE: Art/Photography

Anselm Kiefer: The High Priestess

$45.00 | Book, Print, Used Items

“The High Priestess is a 1989 art book by Anselm Kiefer, featuring an essay by Armin Zweite, that documents Kiefer’s monumental sculpture of the same name, which consists of two […]

GENRE: Art/Photography

WhiteWalls: Fluxus (scarce!)

$50.00 | Book, Print, Used Items

The Fluxus issue of WhiteWalls Journal, featuring writings by Philip Corner, Alison Knowles, Carolee Schneemann, Dick Higgins and more WhiteWalls, 1987 Softcover edition. Light discoloration [...]

GENRE: Art/Photography

H.P Blavatsky – The Secret Doctrine Boxset

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Continuously in print for over 100 years, the SD remains today the most comprehensive sourcebook of the esoteric tradition, outlining the fundamental tenets of the “Secret Doctrine of the [...]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

Oliver Byrne: The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid

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Nearly a century before Mondrian made geometrical red, yellow, and blue lines famous, 19th-century mathematician Oliver Byrne employed the color scheme for his 1847 edition of Euclid’s [...]

GENRE: Art/Photography

Cartographies Of Time: A History Of The Timeline (Scarce)

$60.00 | Book, Print, Used Items

“What does history look like? How do you draw time? Cartographies of Time is the first history of the timeline, written engagingly and with incredible visuals. The authors, both [...]

GENRE: Art/Photography

Duchamp in Context: Science and Technology in the Large Glass and Rela…

$65.00 | Book, Print, Used Items

“Between 1915 and 1923, Marcel Duchamp created one of the most mystifying art works of the early twentieth century: The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (also known as […]

GENRE: Art/Photography

Briony Fer – The Infinite Line: Re-making Art After Modernism

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This landmark book offers a radical reinterpretation of the innovative art of the late 1950s and 1960s. Examining the work of major artists of the period—including Mark Rothko, Piero Manzoni, [...]

GENRE: Art/Photography

Paula Rego: Behind the Scenes (scarce)

$100.00 | Book, Print, Used Items

Paula Rego: Behind the Scenes offers the reader a unique opportunity to observe the studio life and working practice of one of the most important figurative artists working today. In […]

GENRE: Art/Photography

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 […]

GENRE: Art/Photography

Julian Cope – Japrocksampler

$21.00 | Book, Print

In the 1960s rock n roll music began crossing the Atlantic Oceanwith The Beatles and The Who leading the British Invasion of the United Statesand the Pacific Ocean, as American […]

GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Non-Fiction

The Living Are Few, The Dead Many : Selected Works of Hans Henny Jahnn

$17.00 | Book, Print

The works of Hans Henny Jahnn exploded on to the inter-war literary scene in Germany as a crazed marriage of Gothic Romanticism, modernist literary Expressionism and the experiments of writers [...]