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Hans Belting – Likeness and Presence: A History of the Image bef…
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBefore the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as “art” but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presence of the Holy. In this magisterial book, [...]
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Photography and Painting in the Work of Gerhard Richter: Four Essays o…
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsEssays by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Jean-Francois Chevrier, Armin Zweite, and Rainer Rochlitz. This publication brings together four texts which analyze Gerhard Richter’s monumental project [...]
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Wilson Bryan Key – Subliminal Seduction
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsExplains the ways in which the media uses sex and violence to manipulate human behavior, citing specific examples from Playboy, Vogue, and Cosmopolitan magazines. This book is in Good readable [...]
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Stella Kramrisch – The Hindu Temple Vol II
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis two-volume work explains in detail the religious and spiritual significance of the temple by means of copious references to Sanskrit texts–both sacred and scientific. It depicts the [...]
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Stella Kramrisch – The Hindu Temple Vol I
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis two-volume work explains in detail the religious and spiritual significance of the temple by means of copious references to Sanskrit texts–both sacred and scientific. It depicts the [...]
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The New Art–the New Life: The Collected Writings Of Piet Mondria…
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWhen the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) made his first ventures into the realm of nonrepresentational art, he could hardly have imagined the impact his vision would have on [...]
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Art & Today
$28.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsTargeting the same audience as Phaidon’s highly successful and long-selling Art Today by Edward Lucie-Smith, Art & Today surveys contemporary art from 1980 to today, discussing over 450 [...]
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Henri Matisse: Modernist Against the Grain
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWhat makes Henri Matisse a “modernist,” when so much of his work harks back to older French traditions and the artist himself never seems entirely at home in the twentieth […]
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Charles & Ray Eames – Powers Of Ten: A Flipbook
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsHold the universe in your hands with the Powers of Ten flipbook. This spectacular adventure in space and time takes the reader from the edge of the cosmos to a […]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
A Collecting Odyssey: The Alsdorf Collection of Indian and East Asian …
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA major contribution to the scholarship of South and Southeast Asian art. A major survey of South and Southeast Asian art drawn from the Alsdorf Collection, one of the finest […]
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Michael Fried – The Moment of Caravaggio
$32.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis is a groundbreaking examination of one of the most important artists in the Western tradition by one of the leading art historians and critics of the past half-century. In […]
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Alfred Jensen: Concordance
$35.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn an imaginative merging of abstraction and personalized iconography, Alfred Jensen’s bright paintings elaborate his comsological speculations, drawing on astronomy, physics and [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
Manuel Lima – Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information
$40.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOur ability to generate information now far exceeds our capacity to understand it. Finding patterns and making meaningful connections inside complex data networks has emerged as one of the [...]
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Guy Davenport – The Geography Of Imagination (as-is, no dustjack…
$45.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn the 40 essays that constitute this collection, Guy Davenport, one of America’s major literary critics, elucidates a range of literary history, encompassing literature, art, philosophy [...]
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Claude Cahun – Disavowals
$90.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMemories? Choice morsels. My soul is fragmentary.–from Disavowals Claude Cahun (1894-1954), born Lucy Schwob, was a poet, performer, resistance fighter, prisoner, Surrealist, [...]
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Bitchin Bajas – Bitchin Bajas
$25.00 | 2xCS, Cassette, Used ItemsFour faces to the sky, stretched to the max to finally allow us to be free. Condition: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.
GENRE: Experimental / Noise -
Diastereomer – Demo And Live Tracks, Vol. 1
$15.00 | Cassette, CS, Used ItemsDiastereomer was a new wave two-piece formed in Tokyo by high school friends Katsuya Shoman and Yoshio Tanaka in 1986. After releasing a private press 7″ single in 1989 in […]
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A Certain Ratio – ACR:BOX
$40.00 | 4xCD, CD, Used Items“A CERTAIN RATIO – who celebrate their 40th anniversary this year – release a new box set, acr:box, out on Mute. acr:box launches with a brand new acoustic version of […]
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BJ Nilsen* – True Than Nature
$10.00 | CD, CD, Used ItemsTrue than Nature encourages active listening. There is sound that exists seemingly for its own sake – a continuing drone that slowly evolves, sound of nature – and there are […]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise -
Lettera 22 – Dieter Tapes
$10.00 | Cassette, CS, Used ItemsLettera 22 is the duo of Matteo Castro and Riccardo Mazza, two men on the forefront of the flourishing Italian noise & experimental scene. “Dieter Tapes” is a sordid collage […]
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V/A – Brazuca! Samba Rock & Brazilian Groove From The Golden Ye…
$8.00 | CD, CD, Used ItemsRare groove and samba classics alike on this beautiful compilation. Condition: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.
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Jaimie Branch – Fly Or Die Live
$17.00 | 2xCD, CD, Used ItemsFull flight capture of the full Fly or Die suite, parts 1 & 2 compounded & flawlessly communicated in a singular epic of raw cosmic brilliance Condition: VG+/VG+ *Image in […]
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Dreaming Their Way : Australian Aboriginal Women Painters
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDreaming Their Way’ accompanies the first major US presentation of art by indigenous women in Australia. It showcases 33 artists’ important contributions to contemporary painting and [...]
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Shamans Of The 20th Century
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn Shamans of the 20th Century, anthropologist Ruth-Inge Heinze takes a critical look at the global re-emergence of the shaman in the late twentieth century, redefiing the role of the […]
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Tomb of the Eagles: A Window on Stone Age Tribal
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIsbister in the Orkneys is one of those extraordinary archaeological sites where the remains of Neolithic man and his works have been so well preserved that they give us an […]
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The Secret Doctrine of the Kabbalah: Recovering the Key to Hebraic Sac…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFor centuries the Kabbalah has fascinated devotees of mysticism while its origins have remained obscure. Now, in her brilliant new work, Leonora Leet reveals that the Kabbalah was the product [...]
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Heinz Westman – Structure of Biblical Myths: The Ontogenesis of …
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA fascinating journey through one of the most important myths of Western culture-the Bible. Citing parallels from classical and oriental sources, Westman interprets biblical stories from the [...]
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Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion: An Anthropological Study of the Super…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA comparative reader that takes an anthropological approach to the study of religious beliefs, both strange and familiar. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read […]
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Sanctuaries of the Goddess: The Sacred Landscapes and Objects
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPeg Streep’s Sanctuaries of the Goddess is a journey into the past, a spiritual adventure into a long-buried time, that captures in glorious images and words the peaceable, generative deity [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
Death, Ecstasy, and Other Worldly Journeys
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBelief in a spirit world, and a blissful or agonizing afterlife, is one of the most pervasive and deeply-rooted characteristics of religion. This volume offers a wide-ranging exploration of this [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Constance Classen – The Colour of Angels: Cosmology, Gender and …
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe Colour of Angels uncovers the gender politics behind our attitude to the senses. Using a wide variety of examples, ranging from the sensuous religious visions of the middle ages […]
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Spirit in Ashes: Hegel, Heidegger, and Man-Made Mass Death
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsContemporary phenomena of mass death―such as Hiroshima and Auschwitz―have brought with them the threat of annihilation of human life. In this provocative and disturbing book, Edith Wyschogrod [...]
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Ninian Smart – Dimensions of the Sacred: An Anatomy of the World…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis work explores the underlying features of the world’s major religions and comparable secular systems of thought. It considers Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, [...]
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William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsModern scholars often find it difficult to account for the profound eccentricities in the work of William Blake, dismissing them as either ahistorical or simply meaningless. But with this [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Vincent Scully – Pueblo: Mountain, Village, Dance
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe vast and beautiful landscape of the American Southwest has long haunted artists and writers seeking to understand the mysteries of the deep affinity between the land and the Native […]
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The Book of Mystical Chapters: Meditations on the Soul’s Ascent,…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe early Christian monks of Egypt, Syria, and Palestine were the spiritual heroes of their age—fleeing the security of civilization for the desert, where they sought God in lives of […]
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Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 1912 Paul Klee declared that the art of the mentally ill, as well as the art of children, “really should be taken far more seriously than are the collections […]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
Leon Kass – The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsExamining Genesis in a philosophical light, Leon Kass presents it not as a story of what happened long ago, but as the enduring story of humanity itself. He asserts that […]
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Kasimir Malevich: 1878-1935
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMonograph covering Malevich’s entire career. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear to the wraps/boards, or light creasing/wear to […]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
An Album of Maya Architecture
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWith the imagination of an artist and the precision of a scientist, Tatiana Proskouriakoff has captured in pictures thirty-six restorations of magnificent Maya buildings as their builders saw the [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
Jim Dine: This Goofy Life of Constant Mourning
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis Goofy Life of Constant Mourning is the sincere title of a long visual poem by artist Jim Dine. The result of years of photographing poems after he has written […]
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Robert Masters – The Goddess Sekhmet (scarce, as-is, markings)
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsRobert Masters presents the wisdom of ancient Egypt through the perspective of contemporary research in psychology and religious studies in his profound study of The Goddess Sekhmet: [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
The Beauty of the Primitive: Shamanism and Western Imagination
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFor the past forty years shamanism has drawn increasing attention among the general public and academics. There is an enormous literature on shamanism, but no one has tried to understand […]
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Anselm Kiefer and the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger
$40.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAnselm Kiefer and the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger is a work of cultural history that situates the art works of one of the most important contemporary painters in relation to […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Fairport Convention – The Airing Cupboard Tapes ’71 – …
$30.00 | 2xLP, Used Items, Vinyl“The Airing Cupboard Tapes first appeared in 1981 as a mail-order cassette from Wormwood Records. Recorded live at various Fairport Convention shows between 1971 and 1974, the tape was [...]
GENRE: Folk / Country -
Woods – At Echo Lake
$30.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl“With a title like At Echo Lake the fifth album from New Yorks Woods intimates a modern rock aesthetic fully informed by historical manifestations of teenage along with a concomitant […]
GENRE: Indie / Alternative -
Universal Indians W/ Joe McPhee – Skullduggery
$30.00 | 2xLP, Used Items, VinylJohn Dikeman, Jon Rune Strøm and Tollef Østvang choose as the name of their trio the title of an Albert Ayler’s composition, “Universal Indians”, because of its double symbolism. The […]
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The Rats – The Rise And Fall Of Bernie Gripplestone And The Rats From…
$16.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl“Both sides of their two mid-1960s singles, and six previously unreleased tracks laid down in approximately 1967-69, form the bulk of this archival release. The Rats didn’t have an [...]
GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk -
John Wiese – Soft Punk (Pink Vinyl)
$30.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl“After almost ten years of performing solo and over fifty releases in every conceivable format, Wiese finally unleashes his debut full-length. Twelve songs of harsh yet beautiful [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise -
The George-Edwards Group – 38:38
$18.00 | LP, Used Items, VinylWe’ve been telling everyone these are bedroom recordings of two young men from 1977 and it’s brought in a sketchy new crowd to Drag City. I’m not sure why, but […]
GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych