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  • Shamanism and Tantra in the Himalayas
    Shamanism and Tantra in the Himalayas
    $30.00 | , ,

    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
    Anselm Kiefer, the Seven Heavenly Palaces 1973-2001
    $40.00 | , ,

    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
    Alberto Giacometti : Dialogue with the History of Art
    $40.00 | , ,

    “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
    The Art of Richard Tuttle
    $40.00 | , ,

    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
    Anselm Kiefer: The High Priestess
    $45.00 | , ,

    “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!)
    WhiteWalls: Fluxus (scarce!)
    $50.00 | , ,

    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
  • Oliver Byrne: The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid
    Oliver Byrne: The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid
    $50.00 | , ,

    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)
    Cartographies Of Time: A History Of The Timeline (Scarce)
    $60.00 | , ,

    “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 Related Works (Scarce)
    Duchamp in Context: Science and Technology in the Large Glass and Rela…
    $65.00 | , ,

    “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
    Briony Fer – The Infinite Line: Re-making Art After Modernism
    $65.00 | , ,

    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)
    Paula Rego: Behind the Scenes (scarce)
    $100.00 | , ,

    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
  • Mark Lombardi: Global Networks (Very Rare, as-is)
    Mark Lombardi: Global Networks (Very Rare, as-is)
    $180.00 | , ,

    In drawings both small and monumental, Mark Lombardi creates visual narratives of the way money flows in our postimperial, transnational economy: from corporations to political organizations, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Joel-Peter Witkin: A Retrospective (Signed!)
    Joel-Peter Witkin: A Retrospective (Signed!)
    $150.00 | , ,

    “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
  • Ul de Rico – Rainbow Goblins
    Ul de Rico – Rainbow Goblins
    $20.00 | ,

    After seven goblins try to steal it, the Rainbow is careful never again to touch the earth. Since its original publication in 1978, the fantastic colors, amazing detail, and sweeping […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Rosemarie Trockel/Paloma Varga Weisz – Maison De Plaisance
    Rosemarie Trockel/Paloma Varga Weisz – Maison De Plaisance
    $25.00 | , ,

    Maison de Plaisance is a collaboration between German artists Rosemarie Trockel (born 1952) and Paloma Varga Weisz (born 1966), who have created an installation at the Museum Morsbroich, near [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Carl Andre : Sculpture As Place, 1958 – 2010
    Carl Andre : Sculpture As Place, 1958 – 2010
    $45.00 | , ,

    A major retrospective catalogue on the career of minimalist sculptor and poet Carl Andre. Carl Andre (b. 1935) redefined the parameters of abstract sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s. He […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Millennium: Tribal Wisdom And The Modern World
    Millennium: Tribal Wisdom And The Modern World
    $10.00 | , ,

    “Harvard anthropologist Maybury-Lewis argues that the ancient wisdom, communal sharing and closeness to nature found in tribal societies hold survival lessons for our modern industrial [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Joel-Peter Witkin: Gods of Earth and Heaven
    Joel-Peter Witkin: Gods of Earth and Heaven
    $40.00 | , ,

    “Once you have witnessed the dark, sensational visions of Joel-Peter Witkin, you will never be the same again. Witkin gets to you. Here you will encounter hermaphrodites, malformed bodies, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Susan Sontag – The Way We Live Now
    Susan Sontag – The Way We Live Now
    $8.00 | , ,

    “This book is the result of a unique collaboration. ‘The Way We Live Now’ was first published as a short story in the New Yorker in 1986. It concerns the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Sophie Calle – The Hotel
    Sophie Calle – The Hotel
    $40.00 | ,

    A forensic conceptualist’s inventory of the ordinary and extraordinary lives in a Venetian hotel In 1981 Sophie Calle took a job as a chambermaid for the Hotel C in Venice, […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Japan Art Revolution: The Japanese Avant-Garde, from Angura to Provoke
    Japan Art Revolution: The Japanese Avant-Garde, from Angura to Provoke
    $50.00 | ,

    A captivating examination of the avant-garde art scene in Japan in the 1960s and ’70s, and the revolutionary Japanese artists who made it a creative force both in the country […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • John Waters: Indecent Exposure
    John Waters: Indecent Exposure
    $30.00 | , ,

    It has been more than fifty years since John Waters filmed his first short on the roof of his parents’ Baltimore home. Over the following decades, Waters has developed a […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents
    Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents
    $18.00 | ,

    An exploration of the unsettling collisions of art and culture in Georges Bataille’s revolutionary journal and a new consideration of twentieth-century masterpieces by Picasso, Miró, Dalí, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Charles Harrison – Essays on Art and Language
    Charles Harrison – Essays on Art and Language
    $10.00 | ,

    These essays by art historian and critic Charles Harrison are based on the premise that making art and talking about art are related enterprises. They are written from the point […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Michael Mann: A Contemporary Retrospective
    Michael Mann: A Contemporary Retrospective
    $16.00 | , ,

    During his career, Michael Mann has drawn a singular and innovative line within the Hollywood industry. The Last of the Mohicans, Heat, Revelations, Ali, Collateral, Miami Vice, and even Public [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Lucy R. Lippard on Pop Art
    Lucy R. Lippard on Pop Art
    $7.00 | , ,

    Explore the dynamic world of 1960s pop art through Lucy Lippard’s insightful analysis of this groundbreaking international art movement. Pop Art epitomized the free spirit of the 1960s, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Francis Bacon: Unsichtbare Räume/Invisible Rooms
    Francis Bacon: Unsichtbare Räume/Invisible Rooms
    $16.00 | , ,

    This fascinating and beautifully illustrated book on the work of Francis Bacon, one of the 20th century’s greatest painters, takes an in-depth look at his trademark motif of figures imprisoned [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Vu: The Story of a Magazine
    Vu: The Story of a Magazine
    $30.00 | ,

    The best pages from the sensational photo magazine published in France in the 1920s and 1930s. Established in Paris in 1928, VU combined stunning photography with dynamic layouts and first-rate [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Story of the Tekkieh Moaven: Kermanshah, Iran
    The Story of the Tekkieh Moaven: Kermanshah, Iran
    $17.00 | ,

    The Tekkieh Moaven is a significant religious monument in Kermanshah and one of the most important national memorials in Iran. Following the building’s destruction in the early 20th [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Rock Against Racism: 1976–1981
    Rock Against Racism: 1976–1981
    $17.00 | ,

    An outstanding photography book documenting a movement that rocked the world. Syd Shelton: Rock Against Racism is a body of photographs that Syd Shelton produced for and about the British […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The King of Kowloon: The Art of Tsang Tsou Choi
    The King of Kowloon: The Art of Tsang Tsou Choi
    $18.00 | , ,

    An icon in his native city, Tsang Tsou Choi (1921–2007) covered the streets of Hong Kong with his graffiti for over 35 years, using a brush and ink to proclaim […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Lei Xue – Eulogy for Burying a Crane and the Art of Chinese Calligraphy
    Lei Xue – Eulogy for Burying a Crane and the Art of Chinese Call…
    $22.00 | , ,

    Eulogy for Burying a Crane (Yi he ming) is perhaps the most eccentric piece in China’s calligraphic canon. Apparently marking the burial of a crane, the large inscription, datable to […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Ligature ‎– Night Discussions
    Ligature ‎– Night Discussions
    $6.00 | ,

    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Limbs Bin – Shelf Dreams
    Limbs Bin – Shelf Dreams
    $5.00 | ,

    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • James Van Der Zee – The Harlem Book of the Dead
    James Van Der Zee – The Harlem Book of the Dead
    $24.00 | ,

    Available for the first time since 1978, The Harlem Book of the Dead showcases James Van Der Zee’s unflinching creative vision Originally published in 1978, The Harlem Book of the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, Beatrice Wood
    Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre R…
    $27.00 | ,

    Three New York Dadas and The Blind Man relates the story of the triangular relationship between Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché and Beatrice Wood, told in the words of two of […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Black Fire! New Spirits: Images Of A Revolution
    Black Fire! New Spirits: Images Of A Revolution
    $30.00 | , ,

    At the start of the 1960s, jazz entered a unique period of revolution as African-American musicians redefined the art form in the context of the Civil Rights Movement, Afro-centric rhythm […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Robert Irwin: All The Rules Will Change
    Robert Irwin: All The Rules Will Change
    $50.00 | , ,

    Robert Irwin, one of the most influential postwar American artists and a pioneering figure of California Light and Space Art, is the subject of this book that traces his development […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Values Of Design
    Values Of Design
    $25.00 | , ,

    Dual-language (Chinese/English) investigation into the design of every-day objects. Lavishly illustrated. Design Society/Victoria & Albert, 2017 Softcover Edition. Dent to upper left corner [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977 (scarce)
    Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977 (scarce)
    $80.00 | , ,

    Photography played a critical role in conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s, as artists turned to photography as both medium and subject matter. Light Years offers the first major […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Roni Horn: Going North Boxset (scarce)
    Roni Horn: Going North Boxset (scarce)
    $100.00 | , ,

    Developed in collaboration with the artist, this two-volume monograph is a comprehensive survey of Roni Horn’s art. A leading figure in contemporary art, Roni Horn addresses wide ranging issues [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Cienfuegos ‎– Autogolpe
    Cienfuegos ‎– Autogolpe
    $12.00 | , ,

    Beyond crushing sounds from Alex Suárez Label: L.I.E.S. Records – LIES108 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 2018 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Country Club ‎– Collection 2009​-​2020
    Country Club ‎– Collection 2009​-​2020
    $60.00 | , ,

    Contains both Country Club albums and the EP Brothers. Label: Breathing Problem Productions – BPP-151 Format: 3 x Vinyl, LP, Remastered Country: US Released: 2021 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Coil ‎– The Ape Of Naples
    Coil ‎– The Ape Of Naples
    $45.00 | , ,

    “”The Ape of Naples” is a deeply emotional and uniquely rewarding album. In its immediate accessibility it is somewhat reminiscent of Coil’s mid-1980s classic “Horse [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Cheyney Thompson: Passages
    Cheyney Thompson: Passages
    $18.00 | , ,

    One 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
  • Gary Panter – Jimbo
    Gary Panter – Jimbo
    $30.00 | ,

    Gary Panter is one of America’s great creative forces: the illustrator for the trailblazing punk magazine Slash, set designer for the legendary TV show Pee-wee’s Playhouse, and one of the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Bat Girls and Acid Boys: The Spontaneous Drawings of Leigh Bowery & Friends
    Bat Girls and Acid Boys: The Spontaneous Drawings of Leigh Bowery &…
    $19.00 | ,

    120 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
  • Keith Haring – Journals
    Keith Haring – Journals
    $22.00 | ,

    Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980’s. His artwork-with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion-filtered in to the world’s [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Memoir
  • S.P.I.T.E. ‎– Violence
    S.P.I.T.E. ‎– Violence
    $12.00 | , ,

    “Solo album by Gary Mundy. This pre-dates Kleistwahr. This was the only record released under this name. Originally released on cassette in 1982 on Broken Flag as BF2. Re-released on […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • William Kentridge : (October Files)
    William Kentridge : (October Files)
    $9.00 | , ,

    Critical 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