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Sly Stone – Sly! Thank You
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartNot many memoirs are generational events. But when Sly Stone, one of the few true musical geniuses of the last century, decides to finally tell his life story, it can’t […]
GENRE: Memoir -
Joyce Johnson – Minor Characters
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn 1954, Joyce Johnson’s Barnard professor told his class that most women could never have the kinds of experiences that would be worth writing about. Attitudes like that were not […]
GENRE: Memoir -
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 -
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. [...]
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#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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 […]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 […]
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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 -
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 [...]
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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 -
Pierre Guyotat – In The Deep
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn autobiographical incantation of adolescent shame, religious masturbation, and the salvation embodied in the creative act. I believe that destiny is the hesitation between whorehouse writing [...]
GENRE: Memoir -
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 -
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 -
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 [...]
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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 -
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 -
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 -
Lucinda Williams – Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You : A Memoir
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartLucinda Williams’s rise to fame was anything but easy. Raised in a working-class family in the Deep South, she moved from town to town each time her father–a poet, a […]
GENRE: Folk / Country, Memoir -
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 -
Vision Machines: Cinema, Literature and Sexuality in Spain and Cuba, 1983-1993
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartOver the last decade, visibility and sexuality have become a major theme in Spanish and Cuban cinema, literature and art. This book explores this development in the light of contemporary […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Dimensionism : Modern Art in the Age of Einstein
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe first book to document how artists of the early twentieth century responded to new scientific conceptions of reality. In the early twentieth century, influenced by advances in science that [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
Bruce Grant – In the Soviet House of Culture : A Century of Perestroikas
$17.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAt the outset of the twentieth century, the Nivkhi of Sakhalin Island were a small population of fishermen under Russian dominion and an Asian cultural sway. The turbulence of the […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Richard Prince: Untitled (Couple)
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA year after Richard Prince’s Untitled (cowboy) photograph set a record for the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction, a study of a work from Richard Prince’s series of […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
Dan Graham – Rock My Religion : Writings and Projects 1965-1990
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartRock My Religion collects eighteen of Graham’s essays from all periods of his work, beginning with his essays on minimalist artists such as Dan Flavin and Donald Judd, continuing with […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
Revolution of the Eye : Modern Art and the Birth of American Television
$13.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe aesthetics and concepts of modern art have influenced American television ever since its inception in the 1930s. In return, early television introduced the public to the latest trends in […]
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The Art of Participation, 1950 to Now
$13.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe first fully illustrated survey of participatory art and its key practitioners, published in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This new survey covers the rich and […]
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American Genre Painting : The Politics of Everyday Life
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartDrawing on contemporary literature, popular culture, news, and census reports, Johns convincingly shows that antebellum American genre painting was not a simple recording of an Edenic American [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction