Showing 1–50 of 405 resultsSorted by latest
FILTERS
Showing 1–50 of 405 resultsSorted by latest
-
Saxophone Colossus: The Life And Music Of Sonny Rollins
$14.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe long-awaited first full biography of legendary jazz saxophonist and composer Sonny Rollins. Sonny Rollins has long been considered an enigma. Known as the “Saxophone Colossus,” he is widely [...]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction -
Outsider Art In Texas
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartTexas looms large: big skies, vast plains, large cities. The Lone Star State often inspires a heightened sense of place in its citizens that rivals or surpasses that of New […]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
Japanese Design (Taschen)
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartComprehensive overview of Japanese design-work, lavishly illustrated. Taschen, 1992 Softcover Edition. Some light scuffing/wear to wraps.
GENRE: Art/Photography -
Gerhard Ruhm – Auf Messers Schneide
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartGerhard Rühm – table, piano Christa Hemtesberger – fork Alois Pillichshammer – knife Wolfgang Liko – tablespoon Jonas Geise – teaspoon Gabriele Egger – soup Fully transcribed, with accompanying [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic -
Cheyney Thompson: Passages
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartOne of the first book-length publications on contemporary artist Cheyney Thompson, whose work is known for its radically forward-looking intellectualism and formal rigor. Cheyney Thompson’s (b. [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
Hard Art: DC 1979
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“A great concert photograph finds a way to communicate all the stuff your retinas can’t detect. Noise. Humidity. Claustrophobia. Young minds being shaped inside sweaty skulls. Lucian [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Punk / Hardcore -
#Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAn apparently contradictory yet radically urgent collection of texts tracing the genealogy of a controversial current in contemporary philosophy. Accelerationism is the name of a contemporary [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Marshall McLuhan – Understanding Media
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe groundbreaking, seminal work that redefined the way we think about communication—and the then-emerging phenomenon of mass media. Marshall McLuhan’s classic work Understanding Media was called [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Steve Goodman – Sonic Warfare
$29.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn exploration of the production, transmission, and mutation of affective tonality—when sound helps produce a bad vibe.Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Jaime Semprún – A Gallery of Recuperation
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe first English translation of the French cult classic that lampoons France’s most popular intellectuals of the post-1968 period and their ideas, which became forces of counterrevolution. [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh – Omnicide II
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn infernal catalogue of manic visionaries, inspired by the poetry of the Middle East. In a new work in which conceptual elaboration, storytelling, and poetics are fused in the infernal […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh – Omnicide
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA fragmentary catalogue of poetic derangements that reveals the ways in which mania communicates with an extreme will to annihilation What kind of circumstances provoke an obsessive focus on the [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Manfred Hermes – Hystericizing Germany
$26.00 | Book, Print Add to cartRainer Werner Fassbinder’s fourteen-part Berlin Alexanderplatz, broadcast on German television in 1980, is a pivotal work in the artist’s oeuvre. The 1929 novel by Alfred Döblin, a [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Hollis Frampton & Bruce Jenkins – On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters
$40.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe collected writings of artist and filmmaker Hollis Frampton, including all the essays from the long-unavailable Circles of Confusion along with rare additional material. As Hollis [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Jörg Heiser – Double Lives in Art and Pop Music
$29.00 | Book, Print Add to cartExploring the relationship between art and pop music over the last fifty years. Why did Andy Warhol decide to enter the music business by producing the Velvet Underground, and what […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Fusion! From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother
$21.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe role of jazz as a catalyst in rock, pop, funk, new wave, hip-hop, and techno. From music writer Alex Coles, Fusion! From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother traces the […]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction -
Steve Finbow – Notes from the Sick Room
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartNotes from the Sick Room is an investigation into the connections between physical illness and creativity. Although there are a number of books investigating mental illness and creativity, there [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Ryann Donnelly – Body High
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartHow do we medicate ourselves, and why can’t we cure the people we love? In Body High, encounters with lurid bodily sculptures from the ’60s offer remedies to the author’s […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Michael Gardiner – Empire of Deterrence
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA nuclear-extinction unconscious has worked over the last 30 years to ‘automate’ much political thinking and recuperate it into individualist culture wars that reaffirming the extinction regimes [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Subcontinental Synthesis: Electronic Music at the National Institute of Design, India 1969–1972
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe history of India’s first electronic music studio founded in 1969 at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad by David Tudor. Subcontinental Synthesis explores the history of India’s [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction -
Bat Girls and Acid Boys: The Spontaneous Drawings of Leigh Bowery & Friends
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cart120 vivid “exquisite corpse” drawings made by the outrageous artist, performer, and designer Leigh Bowery with friends and collaborators during the 1980s and 1990s. In the wild years [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna
$35.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn intellectual biography of one of the most celebrated and yet least understood figures of the late twentieth century, Terence McKenna. A stand-up philosopher who made a unique contribution to [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Schizo-Culture: The Event/The Book
$40.00 | Book, Print Add to cartNever-before-published lectures, Q&As, and squabbles from the conference that introduced French theory into America, with a facsimile of the journal issue that emerged from it. I think [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction -
William E. Jones – Halsted Plays Himself
$28.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe life, times, and mysteries of Fred Halsted, gay porn’s first film auteur. Fred Halsted’s L.A. Plays Itself (1972) was gay porn’s first masterpiece: a sexually explicit, [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Sylvère Lotringer – Overexposed
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA report on the administration of deviant desire in specialized clinics that documents the way our postmodern society exposes sexuality to the point of overexposure. Do you ever get aroused […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Dario Dzamonja – Letters from the Madhouse
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn uncompromising account of a Bosnian writer’s life as an exile in America. Considered a literary icon of Bosnia, Dario Džamonja wrote raw, unfiltered accounts of life in the streets […]
GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction -
Eduardo Cadava – Paper Graveyards
$17.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA generously illustrated training manual for reading images, discussing work by Félix Nadar, Roland Barthes, Fazal Sheikh, Susan Meiselas, and others. Paper Graveyards is neither a work of [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
David Thomson – Murder and the Movies
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartHow many acts of murder have each of us followed on a screen? What does that say about us? Do we remain law-abiding citizens who wouldn’t hurt a fly? Film […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History: Erkki Kurenniemi In 2048
$17.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA critical mapping of the multiplicities of Finnish artist and technology pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi—composer of electronic music, experimental filmmaker, inventor, collector, futurologist. Over [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
William Kentridge : (October Files)
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartCritical texts and interviews that explore the drawings, animations, and theatrical work of the South African artist William Kentridge. Since the 1970s, the South African artist William Kentridge [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
Theatre : Art Brut: The Collection
$13.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe theatre is the central theme of this fourth volume in our series titled ‘Art Brut – The Collection’, published to coincide with the fourth Art Brut Biennale. After exploring [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
Roy Lichtenstein : (October Files)
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe most comprehensive collection on Lichtenstein, from the earliest reviews to recent reassessments, including several hard-to-find and previously unpublished pieces. Roy Lichtenstein’s [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
Robert Morris and Angst
$17.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartBoth as an artist and as a theorist, Robert Morris (b. 1931) has challenged prevailing ideas about art and culture. He is best known as the father of Minimal Art. […]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
Richard Hamilton : (October Files)
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartEssays and articles about Richard Hamiton, “the intellectual father of Pop art.“ Still little-known in the United States, Richard Hamilton is a key figure in twentieth-century art. An original [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
Slawomir Elsner – Panorama
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe young Polish-born, Berlin-based painter Slawomir Elsner derives his paintings from photographs found in art books or in the media. For this project, Elsner took the Polish weekly magazine [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
Martin Boyce: When Now Is Night
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartBest known for his powerful sculptures and installations, Scottish artist Martin Boyce reconfigures everyday elements into alternate realities. Garbage cans are lopsided, trees consist of [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
Chaos and Awe : Painting for the 21st Century
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFifty paintings, reproduced in color, by an international array of contemporary artists, show the aptness and relevance of painting in an era of uncertainty. In an age of global instability, […]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
Robert Rauschenberg : (October Files)
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartCritical essays on the artist Robert Rauschenberg, focusing on the important period of his development in the 1950s and 1960s. From the moment art historian Leo Steinberg championed his work […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe : Black Acid Co-Op / Bright White Underground / Stray Light Grey / Artichoke Underground
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartSince 2007, artists Jonah Freeman (born 1975) and Justin Lowe (born 1976) have collaborated to create mazelike immersive installations. This is the very first monograph on the duo, printed in [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
The Reason for the Darkness of the Night : Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAn innovative biography of Edgar Allan Poe―highlighting his fascination and feuds with science. Decade after decade, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of the most popular American writers. He is [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Lesley Chamberlain – Nietzsche in Turin : The End of the Future
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartBeautifully packaged reissue of the vividly lyrical biography of Nietzsche that John Banville called ‘a major intellectual event’ In 1888, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche moved to [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Chris Marker – Staring Back
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartPhotographs by one of French cinema’s most influential and enigmatic artists. Any new film and any new book by French filmmaker Chris Marker is an event. Marker gave film lovers […]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
Alex Ross – Wagnerism : Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFor better or worse, Wagner is the most widely influential figure in the history of music. Around 1900, the phenomenon known as Wagnerism saturated European and American culture. Such colossal [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Michele Wallace – Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA classic and controversial critique of sexism in the black nationalist movement, this “landmark black feminist text” is essential reading for those engaged in discussions about feminism and race [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Vron Ware – Beyond the Pale : White Women, Racism, and History
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartHow have ideas about white women figured in the history of racism? Vron Ware argues that they have been central, and that feminism has, in many ways, developed as a […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Randall Sullivan – LAbyrinth : A Detective Investigates the Murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B. I. G. , the Implication of Death Row Records’ Suge Knight, and the Origins of the Los Angeles Police Scandal
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn September 1996, Tupac Shakur was murdered in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. In March 1997, the Notorious B.I.G. was similarly shot after an awards show in Los Angeles. […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
High Religion : A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAn eminent anthropologist examines the foundings of the first celibate Buddhist monasteries among the Sherpas of Nepal in the early 20th century — a religious development that was a major [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Dangerous Rhythms : Jazz and the Underworld
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartDangerous Rhythms tells the symbiotic story of jazz and the underworld: a relationship fostered in some of 20th century America’s most notorious vice districts. For the first half of the [...]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction -
Frank Gonzalez-Crussi – The Body Fantastic
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn The Body Fantastic, Frank Gonzalez-Crussi looks at the human body through the lens of dreams, myths, legends, and anecdotes of the bizarre, exploring the close connection of the fictitious [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
In the Mind but Not from There : Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartArtists and critics explore the concept of Real Abstraction to help understand contemporary cultural production In the Mind, But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art considers [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction