THE FINAL RELEASE ON TORN LIGHT RECORDS Null Mutants is the Chicago-based duo of Todd Irwin and Nick Butcher. Accomplished graphic artists, the project finds the pair mixing deep reverence […]
“NOTON is pleased to announce the release of Subterraneans, a collaborative EP featuring Alva Noto, Depeche Mode’s Martin L. Gore and William Basinski’s cover of David Bowie’s homonymous [...]
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, [...]
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 […]
In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First […]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 […]
The latest in Richard Hamilton’s series of publications on all aspects of printmaking. Four of Hamilton’s prints are shown here together with numerous stage proofs in order to [...]
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 […]
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 […]
Highly interesting split between composers, featuring the debut piece by Steven Birchall of Reality Gates fame. Label: Opus One – number 4 Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo Country: US Released: 1970 [...]
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 […]
Michel Chion’s landmark Audio-Vision has exerted significant influence on our understanding of sound-image relations since its original publication in 1994. Chion argues that sound film [...]
In Experimental Otherwise, Benjamin Piekut takes the reader into the heart of what we mean by “experimental” in avant-garde music. Focusing on one place and time―New York City, 1964―Piekut [...]
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 […]
The Treatise on Musical Objects is regarded as Pierre Schaeffer’s most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Schaeffer expands his earlier research in musique concrète to [...]
First published in French in 1998, revised in 2010, and appearing here in English for the first time, Michel Chion’s Sound addresses the philosophical, interpretive, and practical questions [...]
Established in the 1950s by musician and engineer Pierre Schaeffer, the Groupe de Recherches Musicales would become the nerve center for avant-garde artists experimenting with sound and [...]
“‘Relucent’ is Chicago composer and percussionist Tim Daisy’s latest solo effort. A collection of compositions and improvisations combining recent explorations with turntable manipulation [...]