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Frans De Waard – America’s Greatest Noise
$21.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe next book on Korm Plastics contains no photographs of the artists, no list of released records, no pictures of record sleeves, and no footnotes. It is not a hardcover, […]
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Neumusik – The Complete Edition
$32.00 | Book, Print Add to cartBook containing all six issues of the Neumusik fanzine which David Elliott edited between 1979-82 while at university. The ‘zine focussed on European, electronic and experimental music which had [...]
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Julia Kristeva – Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
$24.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, she analyzes the nature of attitudes toward repulsive [...]
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Greer Lankton: Sketchbook, September 1977
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSketchbook, September 1977 is an early journal by Greer Lankton written during her time as an art student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It offers key […]
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Hermann Burger – Tractatus Logico-Suicidalis: On Killing Oneself
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn the tunnel-village of Göschenen, a man named Hermann Burger has vanished without a trace from his hotel room, suspected of suicide. What is found in his room is not […]
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Martin Wong: Footprints, Poems, and Leaves
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA rich and engaging facsimile of the artist’s first visual poetry book, self-published in 1968 The paintings of Chinese American artist Martin Wong (1946-99) are celebrated for their [...]
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Marcel Schwob – Spicilege
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartExquisitely crafted essays on medieval criminal slang, ancient Greek prostitution, laughter, anarchy and more from the endlessly influential Marcel Schwob “All over the world,” wrote [...]
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Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington
$31.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn illustrated biography of the pioneering British artist and writer, tracing her life and work through the many places around the world where she lived The British-born artist and writer […]
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Lucy Sante – Maybe the People Would Be the Times
$22.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn her second collection (after Kill All Your Darlings, 2007), Lucy Sante pays homage to Patti Smith, Rene Ricard, and Georges Simenon; traces the history of tabloids; surveys the landscape […]
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Remedios Varo – On Homo Rodans and Other Writings
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWith the 2018 publication of Letters, Dreams, and Other Writings, Wakefield Press introduced the writings of Surrealist painter Remedios Varo into English for the first time. These texts, never [...]
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Ray Johnson – The Paper Snake
$32.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA sumptuous facsimile of a vertiginous artist’s book from the founder of the mail-art movement Long out of print and unavailable to wider audiences, The Paper Snake is an essential […]
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Propaganda and the Holy Writ of the Process Church of the Final Judgment: Process Sex Issue-Fear Issue-Death Issue
$32.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe rare and collectible Process Church magazines are back in print. Do you dare find out who rules you? The Process Church of the Final Judgement inspired fear and devotion […]
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Amy Sillman: Faux Pas: Selected Writings and Drawings
$24.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis new edition of Faux Pas, the acclaimed collection of writings by Amy Sillman, comes as an expanded edition, with the addition of new essays, including recent texts on Paul […]
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Kate Zambreno – To Write As If Already Dead
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartTo Write As If Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno’s failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In this […]
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Charlie Fox – This Young Monster
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis Young Monster is a hallucinatory celebration of artists who raise hell, transform their bodies, anger their elders and show their audience dark, disturbing things. What does it mean to […]
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Jamie Stewart – Anything That Moves
$24.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFrom being caught having their first orgasm by their mom’s best friend to being stalked and propositioned by a fundamentalist pastor; from soliciting spanking dates over the Internet to scoring [...]
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Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe now-classic exploration of the role of women and the feminine in Buddhist Tantra The crowning cultural achievement of medieval India, Tantric Buddhism is known in the West primarily for […]
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Wojciech Tochman – Roosters Crow, Dogs Cry
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartEquipped with the sensitivity known from his earlier reportages, in Roosters Crow, Dogs Whine, Wojciech Tochman addresses people with mental illnesses in Cambodia who are imprisoned in kennels, [...]
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Maryanne Amacher: Selected Writings and Interviews
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe life and work of Maryanne Amacher are as vast as they are little known. In this volume, Amy Cimini and Bill Dietz offer a heterodox and idiosyncratic selection of […]
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Erik Davis – Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn these wide-ranging essays, Erik Davis explores the codes — spiritual, cultural, and embodied — that people use to escape the limitations of their lives and enrich their experience of […]
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Jonas Mekas: Scrapbook of the Sixties: Writings 1954-2010
$32.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAndy Warhol, Susan Sontag, John Lennon & Yoko Ono ― Jonas Mekas was well acquainted with a great many New York artists. Born in Lithuania, he came to Brooklyn via […]
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Jimmy Desana: Salvation
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSalvation is a previously-unpublished artist book by Jimmy DeSana that he conceptualized shortly before his death in 1990. The publication contains 44 of the artist’s late photographic [...]
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Emmett Williams – Sweethearts
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA founding member of Fluxus and the concrete poetry movement, Emmett Williams (1925-2007) made several performances and poems that stand today as defining gems of those genres. Among them is […]
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Rene Daumal – Pataphysical Essays
$14.00 | Book, Print Add to cartEssays reflecting on the science of imaginary solutions, from an influential figure in pataphysical thought Pataphysics: the science of imaginary solutions, of laws governing exceptions and of [...]
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Stefan Aune – Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartReferences to the Indian Wars, those conflicts that accompanied US continental expansion, suffuse American military history. From Black Hawk helicopters to the exclamation “Geronimo” used by [...]
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Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA landmark work that demystifies the rich tradition of Indian art, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization analyzes key motifs found in legend, myth, and folklore taken directly […]
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Daniel Oberhaus – Extraterrestrial Languages
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIf we send a message into space, will extraterrestrial beings receive it? Will they understand? The endlessly fascinating question of whether we are alone in the universe has always been […]
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Dance of Death: The Life of John Fahey, American Guitarist
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartJohn Fahey is to the solo acoustic guitar what Jimi Hendrix was to the electric: the man whom all subsequent musicians had to listen to. Fahey made more than 40 […]
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Fernando Pessoa – Philosophical Essays
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFernando Pessoa claimed to be inhabited by “thousands of philosophies,” all of which he intended to develop in his unfinished project of English-language Philosophical Essays. The resulting [...]
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Pharmako/Gnosis, Revised and Updated: Plant Teachers and the Poison Path
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDelving deep into the world of psychoactive plants, including ayahuasca, Pharmako/Gnosis serves as a comprehensive and standalone guide. Celebrated by readers as a modern classic, this is a [...]
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The Mysticism of Sound and Music: The Sufi Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan
$28.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“A modern classic of Universal Sufism that explores the mystical dimensions of music-and the musical dimensions of mysticism. Music, according to Sufi teaching, is really a small expression [...]
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Mike Collino – Come The Maker Carcass
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartJanuary 6, 2024 Edition of 100 Alien Passengers #97
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The Writings of Austin Osman Spare: Anathema of Zos, The Book of Pleasure, and The Focus of Life
$8.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Writings of Austin Osman Spare is a collection of three books written by the famous artist and occult author. The three books included in this publication are Anathema of […]
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Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith
$31.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “The Harry Smith resurgence is upon us.” – Jack He was an anthropologist, filmmaker, painter, folklorist, mystic, and walking encyclopedia. He taught [...]
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Michel Leiris – Aurora and Cardinal Point
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis volume collects two classics of Surrealist fiction, both long out of print, by the writer and ethnographer Michel Leiris (1901–1990). Close to Georges Bataille, Picasso, Jean-Paul Sartre and [...]
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Trinh T. Minh-Ha: The Twofold Commitment
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAt once an artist’s book and an interview collection by Vietnamese filmmaker, writer and feminist and postcolonial theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha (born 1952), The Twofold Commitment centers on [...]
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Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Live Audio Essays
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn anthology of Abu Hamdan’s disquieting audio-essay monologues on the soundscape of political life This volume compiles transcripts from performances and films by Beirut-based Lawrence Abu [...]
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Susan Neiman – Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartEvil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter […]
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A Mammal’s Notebook: The Writings of Erik Satie
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis is the largest selection, in any language, of the writings of Erik Satie (1866-1925). Although once dismissed as an eccentric, Satie has come to be seen as a key […]
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Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid and Pyschedelic Folk
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn the late 60s and early 70s the inherent weirdness of folk met switched-on psychedelic rock and gave birth to new, strange forms of acoustic-based avant-garde music. Artists on both […]
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Erich Neumann – The Origins and History of Consciousness
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Origins and History of Consciousness draws on a full range of world mythology to show how individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypal stages of development as human consciousness [...]
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Renata Salecl – Perversions of Love and Hate
$22.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhy, when we are desperately in love, do we endlessly block union with our love object? Why do we often destroy what we love most? Why do we search out […]
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William Seabrook – Astounding Secrets of the Devil Worshippers’ Mystic Love Cult
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“Beast or poet? Monster or moralist? Charlatan or magician? Genius or madman?” These are the questions William Seabrook, the great writer on such things as zombies and witchcraft, [...]
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Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader
$28.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSince launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and […]
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Giovanni Intra – Clinic of Phantasms: Writings 1994-2002
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartArtist, gallerist, and writer Giovanni Intra’s inventive approach to art writing provides a guide to the New Zealand and Los Angeles art scenes of his era. Everything you read about […]
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Sun Ra: Collected Works Vol. 1 – Immeasurable Equation
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSun Ra was a master jazz musician unlike any before or after him. Here is a stunning collection of 260 of his cosmic poems and selected prose.
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An Anecdoted Topography of Chance: By Daniel Spoerri, Robert Filliou, Emmett Williams, Dieter Roth, Roland Topor.
$35.00 | Book, Print Add to cartOriginally published by Something Else Press in 1966 and now acknowledged as one of the most important and entertaining artists’ books of the postwar period, An Anecdoted Topography of [...]
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The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartMurder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s [...]
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Try to Tell a Fish about Water: The Art, Music, and Third Life of Norma Tenega
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn addition to her accomplishments as a gifted musician and songwriter, Norma Tanega was a noted gallerist, teacher, and a central figure in the vibrant and homegrown creative scene of […]
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Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, Beatrice Wood
$26.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThree 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 […]
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Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperback Shamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of [...]
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Ibn Khaldûn – The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Muqaddimah, often translated as “Introduction” or “Prolegomenon,” is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century [...]
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Joseph Cornell – Dreams
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA selection of dream epiphanies and reveries from Joseph Cornell’s voluminous diaries Joseph Cornell is well known for the oneiric quality of his art and films. Many have tried, often […]
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A Something Else Reader
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA previously unpublished anthology of classic texts from Something Else Press, assembled in the 1970s by Dick Higgins, with works by John Cage, Al Hansen, Claes Oldenburg and many more […]
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Love, Icebox: Letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartCage’s passionate, distraught and affectionate letters to Cunningham provide a vivid portrait of the start of their life together These early letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham will [...]
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Constance DeJong – Reader
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe first anthology of the multivocal, narrational, performative writings of the intermedia pioneer, who has quietly influenced generations of New York artists and writers from Kathy Acker to [...]
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Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAvant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions examines the variety of concerns and practices that have comprised the long history of avant-garde film at a level appropriate for undergraduate [...]
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Walter Benjamin – Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA selection of works from one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century–as selected by Hannah Arendt and including a classic essay of her own about Walter […]
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Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound
$28.00 | Book, Print Add to cartPink Noises brings together twenty-four interviews with women in electronic music and sound cultures, including club and radio DJs, remixers, composers, improvisers, instrument builders, and [...]
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Greil Marcus – Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century (Anniversary)
$33.00 | Book, Print Add to cartGreil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a […]