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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Henri Cole – Orphic Paris
    Henri Cole – Orphic Paris
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    Henri Cole’s Orphic Paris combines autobiography, diary, essay, and poetry with photographs to create a new form of elegiac memoir. With Paris as a backdrop, Cole, an award-winning American poet, [...]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume I, 1957-1969
    In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume I, 1957-1969
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    For fifty years Samuel Delany has cultivated a special relationship with language in works of fiction, criticism, and memoir that have garnered critical praise and legions of fans. The present [...]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Bokutotsusô: Studies on the Calligraphy of the Zen Master Musô Soseki
    Bokutotsusô: Studies on the Calligraphy of the Zen Master Musô Soseki
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    Musô Soseki (1275-1351), one of the most important Zen patriarchs of the early fourteenth century in Japan, devoted his life to spreading Buddhist wisdom in his writings. As a member […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • William T. Vollmann – Shadows of Love, Shadows of Loneliness, Vol. 2
    William T. Vollmann – Shadows of Love, Shadows of Loneliness, Vol. 2
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    In this landmark collection, William T. Vollmann offers a kaleidoscopic retrospective of the visual artwork he has produced over four decades, with new commentary from Vollmann on his process, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Richard Artschwager: Into the Desert
    Richard Artschwager: Into the Desert
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    Richard Artschwager: Into The Desert is the first Artschwager monograph that focuses exclusively on the artist’s drawings, and their intimate and influential relationship on [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: The Center of Cosmic Energy
    Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: The Center of Cosmic Energy
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    Ilya Kabakov was born in the USSR in 1933, and immigrated to New York in 1992. He began working with his wife, Emilia, in 1989. The two continue to produce […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • David Herrerias – The Book Of Q’ab-itz
    David Herrerias – The Book Of Q’ab-itz
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    The Book of Q’ab iTz appears as the vessel for the sorcerer, for contained within is the evidence of a practitioner who has dedicated the past few years to the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Hannah baer – Trans girl suicide museum
    Hannah baer – Trans girl suicide museum
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    one part ketamine spiral, one part confessional travelogue from the edge of gender, tgsm is a hallucinatory transmission on sex, identity, the internet, and the flickering wish not to exist […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • John Belshaw & Diane Purvey – Vancouver Noir
    John Belshaw & Diane Purvey – Vancouver Noir
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    It was an era of gambling, smuggling rings, grifters, police corruption, bootleggers, brothels, murders, and more. It was also a time of intensified concern with order, conformity, structure, and [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Unica Zurn – The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts
    Unica Zurn – The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts
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    What our staff has to say: “A unique and disturbing memoir from an underread surrealist master” – Cleo Anagram play meets psychic crisis in Unica Zürn’s acclaimed [...]

    GENRE: Memoir, Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • Barbara T. Smith: I Am Abandoned
    Barbara T. Smith: I Am Abandoned
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    I Am Abandoned documents a little-known, but visionary performance by Barbara T. Smith. Taking place in 1976, it featured a conversation in real time between two psychoanalytic computer programs [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Emmett Williams – My Life in Flux & Vice Versa
    Emmett Williams – My Life in Flux & Vice Versa
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    This is an endlessly stimulating memoir, by a figure who was involved in some of the most astounding art of the post-war era, and a fresh, spontaneous account of the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Memoir
  • Evidence for Contact: Ken Grimes, 1993-2021
    Evidence for Contact: Ken Grimes, 1993-2021
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    A singularly interstellar journey into the work of a visionary figure in outsider art, featuring an introduction by Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Ecstasy of St. Kara: Kara Walker
    The Ecstasy of St. Kara: Kara Walker
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    Kara Walker’s work astutely examines race, gender, and identity. Walker’s newest series of large-scale drawings stem from her consideration of monuments and notions of permanence and impermanence [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Barry Flanagan: Early Works, 1965-1982
    Barry Flanagan: Early Works, 1965-1982
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    Barry Flanagan (1941–2009) is best known for his bronze hare sculptures that sit, walk, or leap in museums and public spaces around the world. The success of these and other […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Healing Flower Color Cards
    The Healing Flower Color Cards
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    77 card deck that combines Dr. E. Bachs Flower medicine and color therapy meditation with outstanding plant and flower drawings to make anyone a flower botanist. AGM Aktiengesellschaft [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Young British Art: The Saatchi Decade
    Young British Art: The Saatchi Decade
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    800 works, chosen by Charles Saatchi from his collection, are juxtaposed with media coverage and texts by Richard Cork, Sarah Kent and Dick Price. Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1999 Hardcover Edition. [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Basilicas Of Ethiopia: An Architectural History
    The Basilicas Of Ethiopia: An Architectural History
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    The basilica is symbolic of the history of Christianity in Ethiopia. Aizan, the first Christian king of the Aksumite empire was responsible for the creation of the large, five-aisled church […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Patricia Highsmith – Her Diaries And Notebooks
    Patricia Highsmith – Her Diaries And Notebooks
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    Relegated to the genre of mystery during her lifetime, Patricia Highsmith is now recognized as one of “our greatest modernist writers” (Gore Vidal). Beloved by fans who were unaware of […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Charles Freger – Cimarron: Freedom And Masquerade
    Charles Freger – Cimarron: Freedom And Masquerade
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    All across the Americas, from the sixteenth century onwards, enslaved Africans escaped their captors and struck out on their own. These runaways established their own communities or joined with [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Murat Nemet-Nejat – Peripheral Space of Photography
    Murat Nemet-Nejat – Peripheral Space of Photography
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    This profound essay explores what separates photography from other artistic media. Murat Nemet-Nejat argues that photographic seeing is not a plastic experience, but a meditative one built around [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Cindy Sherman: Untitled Horrors (German Text)
    Cindy Sherman: Untitled Horrors (German Text)
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    Throughout her career, Cindy Sherman (*1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey) has been interested in the derailed and deviant sides of human nature, noticeable both in her selection of subject […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • David Maisel: Black Maps
    David Maisel: Black Maps
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    Black Maps is the first in-depth survey of the major aerial projects by David Maisel, whose images of radically altered terrain have transformed the practice of contemporary landscape [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • John Rechy – About My Life and the Kept Woman: A Memoir
    John Rechy – About My Life and the Kept Woman: A Memoir
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    The untold personal life story of the novelist whom Gore Vidal has hailed as “one of the few original American writers of the last century.” John Rechy’s first novel, City […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Marco Breuer: Early Recordings
    Marco Breuer: Early Recordings
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    “Early Recordings” presents the first comprehensive look at the work of the respected, conceptually driven artist, Marco Breuer. Boldly experimental, Breuer uses an extensive and [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • James Lee Byars : The Rest is Silence
    James Lee Byars : The Rest is Silence
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    Published on the occasion of the exhibition James Lee Byars: The Rest Is Silence, 27 April – 24 June 2006 at Michael Werner Gallery, New York (in collaboration with Mary […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography