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  • Sakevi Yokoyama – Oppressive Liberation Spirit: Vol I
    Sakevi Yokoyama – Oppressive Liberation Spirit: Vol I
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    “Sakevi Yokoyama’s artistic creations have consistently exuded brilliance, cryptic allure, and majestic qualities, while continually transcending the boundaries of conventional forms [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • A Most Dangerous Method: The Story Of Jung, Freud And Sabina Spielrein
    A Most Dangerous Method: The Story Of Jung, Freud And Sabina Spielrein
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    In 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man’s life. Six years later they were bitter […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Trash: The Graphic Genius of Xploitation Movie Posters
    Trash: The Graphic Genius of Xploitation Movie Posters
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    Trash proudly assembles more than 150 masterpieces of twisted brilliance: lowbrow graphic poster art from the sickest, sleaziest, sexiest, and weirdest films from the 1950s through the 1980s. A [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Patrick Brantlinger – Bread & Circuses
    Patrick Brantlinger – Bread & Circuses
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    Lively and well written, Bread and Circuses analyzes theories that have treated mass culture as either a symptom or a cause of social decadence. Discussing many of the most influential […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Michel Foucault – Religion And Culture
    Michel Foucault – Religion And Culture
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    Postmodern theorist Michel Foucault is best known for his work on power/ knowledge, and on the regulation of sexuality in modern society. Yet throughout his life, Foucault was continually [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Julia Kristeva – Tales Of Love
    Julia Kristeva – Tales Of Love
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    Julia Kristeva pursues her exploration of the core emotions of the human psyche through a series of philosophical and literary texts. She focuses on the role of narcissism and idealization […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Elisabeth Croll – Feminism And Socialism In China
    Elisabeth Croll – Feminism And Socialism In China
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    First published in 1978, Feminism and Socialism in China explores the inter-relationship of feminism and socialism and the contribution of each towards the redefinition of the role and status of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • David J. Getsy – Queer Behavior
    David J. Getsy – Queer Behavior
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    Scott Burton (1939–89) created performance art and sculpture that drew on queer experience and the sexual cultures that flourished in New York City in the 1970s. David J. Getsy argues […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Frederic W. Goudy – The Alphabet
    Frederic W. Goudy – The Alphabet
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    Traces the developments of the alphabet and lettering from ancient times, and presents a variety of lettering styles which have evolved Dorset Press, 1989 Hardcover Edition. Light general wear.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Fluxus: A Creative Revolution 1962-2012
    Fluxus: A Creative Revolution 1962-2012
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    In-depth catalog surveying the Fluxus movement Skira, 2012 Softcover Edition. Still wrapped, slight bowing apparent because of this

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Fluxus And The Essential Questions Of Life
    Fluxus And The Essential Questions Of Life
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    Fluxus—from the Latin, meaning “to flow”—was a radical, international network of artists, composers, and designers in the 1960s and 1970s noted for blurring the boundaries between what we term [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Edward Ruscha: Words Without Thoughts Never To Heaven Go
    Edward Ruscha: Words Without Thoughts Never To Heaven Go
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    Exhibition catalog for Edward Ruscha’s 1988 exhibition of the same title. Harry N. Abrams, 1988 Softcover Edition. Light general wear. Scuffing to dustjacket.

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Dennis Bernstein & Warren Lehrer – French Fries
    Dennis Bernstein & Warren Lehrer – French Fries
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    Exhibited internationally including at the Georges Pompidue Centre’s L’image Des Mots exhibition, and as a solo exhibit at the Pieter Brattinga Gallery in Amsterdam. Copies of French Fries are [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Animism In Art And Performance
    Animism In Art And Performance
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    This book explores Māori indigenous and non-indigenous scholarship corresponding with the term ‘animism’. In addressing visual, media and performance art, it explores the dualisms of people and [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Giovanni Lista – Theatre Futuriste Italien Vol I & II (as-is, TEXT IN FRENCH)
    Giovanni Lista – Theatre Futuriste Italien Vol I & II (as-is, TEXT IN FRENCH)
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    An anthology of Futurist theater works, wonderfully illustrated. La Cite, 1976 Softcover Edition. Noticeable discoloration to wraps of both volumes and edges of pages. Substantial glue breaks at [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Giovanni Lista – L’Art Postal Futuriste (TEXT IN FRENCH)
    Giovanni Lista – L’Art Postal Futuriste (TEXT IN FRENCH)
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    Giovanni Lista’s survey of mail art within the Futurist movement. Lavishly illustrated. Jean-Michel Place Publishers, 1979 Hardcover Edition. Light discoloration to edges of pages/boards. [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Justin Green – Binky Brown Meets The Holy Virgin Mary
    Justin Green – Binky Brown Meets The Holy Virgin Mary
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    A lost classic of underground cartooning, Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary is Justin Green’s autobiographical portrayal of his struggle with religion and his own neuroses. Binky Brown is [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Yvonne Rainer – Work 1961-73
    Yvonne Rainer – Work 1961-73
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    “Originally published in 1974 by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Yvonne Rainer’s Work 1961-73 documents the artist’s landmark early works at the intersection of dance, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • William Wegman
    William Wegman
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    Large softcover catalogue published on the occasion of the William Wegman exhibition in the Rooseum – Center For Contemporary art, Malmo March 7 – May 10 1998. Rooseum, 1998 Softcover [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Thomas Hine – Populuxe
    Thomas Hine – Populuxe
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    “The decade from 1954 to 1964 was one of America’s great shopping sprees: never before were so many people able to acquire so many things, and never before was there […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • This Quarter: Surrealist Number
    This Quarter: Surrealist Number
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    The Andre Breton edited edition of This Quarter, originally issued in 1932. An absolutely essential text of surrealism, featuring many of the movements key figures, such as Dali, Man Ray […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • The Fluxus Constellation
    The Fluxus Constellation
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    A general catalogue exploring key works and texts of the Fluxus movement. Neos Edizioni, 2002 Softcover edition. Upper corner near spine dinged/dented. Light wear to wraps.

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Richard Martin – Fashion And Surrealism
    Richard Martin – Fashion And Surrealism
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    Shows surrealistic paintings, photographs, clothing, and accessories, and discusses the art movement’s affect on dress design, window displays, and advertising. Rizzoli, 1987 Hardcover [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Now Jump: Inaugural Festival of the Nam June Paik Art Center
    Now Jump: Inaugural Festival of the Nam June Paik Art Center
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    “This catalogue was published to commemoration of the inaugural Festival of the Nam June Paik Art Center that took place on October 9, 2008. NOW JUMP, the title of the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Nick Kaye – Site-Specific Art
    Nick Kaye – Site-Specific Art
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    Site-Specific Art charts the development of an experimental art form in an experimental way. Nick Kaye traces the fascinating historical antecedents of today’s installation and performance [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Luigi Russolo – L’Arte Dei Rumori (TEXT IN ITALIAN)
    Luigi Russolo – L’Arte Dei Rumori (TEXT IN ITALIAN)
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    Luigi Russolo’s seminal manifesto/essay on the art of noise. Carucci Reprint of 1916 Softcover Edition. Writing on front wrap. Noticeable foxing/discoloration to both wraps and pages. TEXT [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Donald Judd
    Donald Judd
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    This pioneering book, the first monograph devoted to Donald Judd, addresses the whole breadth of Judd’s practices. Drawing on documents found in nearly twenty archives, David Raskin explains why [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Daryl Easlea – Everybody Dance: Chic and the Politics of Disco
    Daryl Easlea – Everybody Dance: Chic and the Politics of Disco
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    Few narratives in pop encompass Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Madonna, Duran Duran, Diana Ross, Johnny Mathis and Led Zeppelin. This story is one of them. Chic, led by […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • The Electric Muse Revisited
    The Electric Muse Revisited
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    Folk music has been evolving and adapting for centuries, but in the 1960s and 70s came an extraordinary period of change and innovation. Rock musicians borrowed from traditional songs, while […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • The Arab Avant-Garde: Music, Politics, Modernity
    The Arab Avant-Garde: Music, Politics, Modernity
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    From jazz trumpeters drawing on the noises of warfare in Beirut to female heavy metallers in Alexandria, the Arab culture offers a wealth of exciting, challenging, and diverse musics. The […]

    GENRE: International, Non-Fiction
  • A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field, 1982–1998
    A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field, 1982–1998
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    An anthology of key texts in the development of contemporary poetics. Lyn Hejinian and Barrett Watten are internationally recognized poet/critics. Together they edited the highly influential [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction
  • Catherine Zimmer – Surveillance Cinema
    Catherine Zimmer – Surveillance Cinema
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    In Paris, a static video camera keeps watch on a bourgeois home. In Portland, a webcam documents the torture and murder of kidnap victims. And in clandestine intelligence offices around […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jacques Boyreau – Supertrash
    Jacques Boyreau – Supertrash
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    SuperTrash is the mutagenic sequel to Trash: The Graphic Genius of Xploitation Movie Posters (2002, Chronicle), the book that became a prophecy of the lasting influence of grindhouse and a […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Rewind: British Artists’ Video in the 1970s & 1980s
    Rewind: British Artists’ Video in the 1970s & 1980s
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    This anthology explores the pioneering period of the British video art form that has become a hallmark of contemporary art. Drawing on interviews, ephemera, archived tapes, and installations from [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Perpetrator Cinema: Confronting Genocide in Cambodian Documentary
    Perpetrator Cinema: Confronting Genocide in Cambodian Documentary
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    Perpetrator Cinema explores a new trend in the cinematic depiction of genocide that has emerged in Cambodian documentary in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. While past films [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Orson Welles’s Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the Wind
    Orson Welles’s Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the Wind
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    In the summer of 1970, legendary but self-destructive director Orson Welles returned to Hollywood from years of self-imposed exile in Europe and decided it was time to make a comeback […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nicholas Ray: An American Journey
    Nicholas Ray: An American Journey
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    Perhaps best known for Rebel without a Cause, American filmmaker Nicholas Ray directed dozens of movies in the film noir genre, including In a Lonely Place, Johnny Guitar, and They […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Neither God nor Master: Robert Bresson and Radical Politics
    Neither God nor Master: Robert Bresson and Radical Politics
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    The French auteur Robert Bresson, director of such classics as Diary of a Country Priest (1951), The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962), The Devil, Probably (1977), and L’Argent (1983), […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi, and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome
    Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi, and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome
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    From the ashes of World War II, Rome was reborn as the epicenter of film, fashion, creative energy, tabloid media, and bold-faced libertinism that made “Italian” a global synonym for […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Viktor Shklovsky – Literature and Cinematography
    Viktor Shklovsky – Literature and Cinematography
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    In this short, brilliant book, Viktor Shklovsky enunciates the function of the arts: what they are and, just as importantly, what they are not. In the course of defining what […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Surrealism in Latin America: Vivísimo Muerto
    Surrealism in Latin America: Vivísimo Muerto
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    This collection of essays—the first major account of surrealism in Latin America that covers both literary and visual production—explores the role the movement played in the construction and [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama―Manhattan, 1970–1980
    Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama―Manhattan, 1970–1980
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    In this important volume, Jay Sanders and J. Hoberman explore the vibrant underground performance art scene of 1970s New York. Focusing on little-known and long-forgotten works, which were often [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Douglas Kahn  – Energies in the Arts
    Douglas Kahn – Energies in the Arts
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    This book investigates energies—in the plural, the energies embedded and embodied in everything under the sun— as they are expressed in the arts. With contributions from scholars and critics from [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism
    Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism
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    Roots in Reverse explores how Latin music contributed to the formation of the négritude movement in the 1930s. Taking Senegal and Cuba as its primary research areas, this work uses […]

    GENRE: International, Non-Fiction
  • Jonas Mekas – A Dance with Fred Astaire
    Jonas Mekas – A Dance with Fred Astaire
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    A Dance with Fred Astaire is an extraordinary collection of anecdotes and rare ephemera featuring a dizzying cast of cultural icons both underground and mainstream, both obscure and celebrated. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Conceptual Art in Britain: 1964–1979
    Conceptual Art in Britain: 1964–1979
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    Featuring some of the most exciting artworks of the 20th century, this is the first book to explore the rich history of conceptual art in Britain during a key period […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Black Soundscapes White Stages :The Meaning of Francophone Sound in the Black Atlantic
    Black Soundscapes White Stages :The Meaning of Francophone Sound in the Black Atlantic
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    Black Soundscapes White Stages explores the role of sound in understanding the African Diaspora on both sides of the Atlantic, from the City of Light to the islands of the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Black Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party
    Black Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party
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    The first book to comprehensively examine how the Black Panther Party has directly shaped the practices and ideas that have animated grassroots activism in the decades since its decline, Black [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Concerning Violence: Fanon, Film, and Liberation in Africa, Selected Takes 1965-1987
    Concerning Violence: Fanon, Film, and Liberation in Africa, Selected Takes 1965-1987
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    An unblinking portrait of the anticolonial struggles of the 1960s, Concerning Violence combines more than one hundred and fifty arresting color and black-and-white photographs from Göran Hugo [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Robin Brown – Blood Ivory: The Massacre of the African Elephant
    Robin Brown – Blood Ivory: The Massacre of the African Elephant
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    It is more than a thousand years since the exploitation of the elephant began. However, it is only in the last hundred years, with the coming of the ‘Great White […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction