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Lucy R. Lippard on Pop Art
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsExplore 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, [...]
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Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of the Velvet Underground
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsRebellion always starts somewhere, and in the music world of the transgressive teen—whether it be the 1960s or the 2020s—the Velvet Underground represents ground zero. Crystallizing the idea of [...]
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Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDuring his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest geniuses of the twentieth century. As the architectural designer and futurist best known for the geodesic dome, he […]
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I Thought I Heard You Speak: Women at Factory Records
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFactory Records has become the stuff of legend. The histories of the label have been told from many perspectives, from visual catalogues and memoirs to exhibitions. Yet no in-depth history […]
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Francis Bacon: Unsichtbare Räume/Invisible Rooms
$16.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis 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 [...]
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Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsKathy Acker (1947–1997) was a rare and almost inconceivable thing: a celebrity experimental writer. Twenty-five years after her death, she remains one of the most original, shocking, and [...]
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Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn seven stunning original essays, Alice Bolin turns her gaze to the myriad ways femininity is remixed and reconstructed by the pop culture of the computer age. The unlikely, often […]
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Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA critical darling, Crumb is the first biography of Robert Crumb—one of the most profound and influential artists of the 20th century—whose frank and meticulously rendered cartoons and comics [...]
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Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of th…
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this genre-defying work of cultural history, the chief film critic of Slate places comedy legend and acclaimed filmmaker Buster Keaton’s unique creative genius in the context of his time. […]
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Peter Schjeldahl – The Art of Dying: Writings, 2019-2022
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWhen the New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl published his widely read autobiographical essay “The Art of Dying” in December 2019, he reported that he had lung cancer and his […]
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Lauren Elkin – Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this dazzlingly original reassessment of women’s stories, bodies, and art, Lauren Elkin―the celebrated author of Flâneuse―explores the ways in which feminist artists have taken up the [...]
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Vu: The Story of a Magazine
$30.00 | Book, PrintThe 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 [...]
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The Story of the Tekkieh Moaven: Kermanshah, Iran
$17.00 | Book, PrintThe 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 [...]
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Rock Against Racism: 1976–1981
$17.00 | Book, PrintAn 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 […]
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Lesley Chamberlain – Rilke: The Last Inward Man
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAn incisive and intimate account of the life and work of the great poet Rilke, exploring the rich interior world he created in his poetry When Rilke died in 1926, […]
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Jacques Ranciere – Modern Times
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe critique of modernist ideology from France’s leading radical theorist In this book Jacques Rancière radicalises his critique of modernism and its postmodern appendix. He contrasts their [...]
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Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA major biography—the first in three decades—of one of the most important artistic forces of the twentieth century, the legendary American dancer and choreographer who upended dance, propelling [...]
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The King of Kowloon: The Art of Tsang Tsou Choi
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAn 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 […]
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Gertrude Stein – Every Day is To-Day: Essential Writings
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA gorgeous new collection featuring 26 of Gertrude Stein’s most enrapturing and essential short writings–a carefully curated, accessible entry point into her best and most joyful [...]
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Lei Xue – Eulogy for Burying a Crane and the Art of Chinese Call…
$22.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsEulogy 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 […]
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Bénédicte Savoy – Africa’s Struggle for Its Art: History of a Po…
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powers For decades, African nations have fought for the […]
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Maria Tatar – The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: E…
$23.00 | Book, PrintMurder, 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 Nursery [...]
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James Van Der Zee – The Harlem Book of the Dead
$24.00 | Book, PrintAvailable 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 […]
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Michel Chion – Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen
$32.00 | Book, PrintMichel 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 [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction -
Joanne Kyger – There You Are: Interviews, Journals, and Ephemera
$25.00 | Book, PrintThe inaugural book of Wave’s new interview series, There You Are combines forty years of interviews, letters, poems, and journals to present a narrative of the remarkable poet Joanne Kyger, [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Samuel R. Delany – Times Square Red, Times Square Blue: 20th Ann…
$28.00 | Book, PrintTwentieth anniversary edition of a landmark book that cataloged a vibrant but disappearing neighborhood in New York City In the two decades that preceded the original publication of Times Square [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits
$35.00 | Book, PrintIn 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 [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction -
Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre R…
$27.00 | Book, PrintThree 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 […]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
Michel Chion – Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise
$35.00 | Book, PrintFirst 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 [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction -
Raul Ruiz – Notes, Recollections and Sequences of Things Seen: E…
$25.00 | Book, PrintMeditations on cinema and method from the acclaimed Chilean director of City of Pirates and Life Is a Dream This volume gathers excerpts from the diary of celebrated Chilean experimental […]
GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction -
A Revolution in Music: The History of the Groupe de Recherches Musical…
$45.00 | Book, PrintEstablished 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 [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction -
George Berger – Story Of Crass
$22.00 | Book, PrintCrass was the anarcho-punk face of a revolutionary movement founded by radical thinkers and artists Penny Rimbaud, Gee Vaucher, and Steve Ignorant. When punk ruled the waves, Crass waived the [...]
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Cecilia Konchar Farr – As I Was Saying
$30.00 | Book, PrintAn indispensable companion to Gertrude Stein’s masterpiece, The Making of Americans. One of the great works of 20th-century American fiction, Stein’s novel represents a peak of modernist [...]
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Elias Canetti – The Book Against Death
$17.00 | Book, PrintThe Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti all his life declared himself a “mortal enemy” of death―and here, in English at last, is his landmark book on the subject The Book […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Deleuze & Guattari – Anti-Oedipus
$23.00 | Book, PrintWhen it first appeared in France, Anti-Oedipus was hailed as a masterpiece by some and “a work of heretical madness” by others. In it, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari set […]
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Ken Hollings – Welcome to Mars
$13.00 | Book, PrintWelcome to Mars is a captivating look at the culture of postwar America and its dream of limitless technological and human development. Utilizing declassified government archives, newspaper [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Nothing and Everything – The Influence of Buddhism on the Americ…
$22.00 | Book, PrintIn America in the late 1950s and early 60s, the world—and life itself—became a legitimate artist’s tool, aligning with Zen Buddhism’s emphasis on “enlightenment at any moment” and living in […]
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses And The Fall Of New York
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOne of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, Robert Caro’s monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Max Planck – Scientific Autobiography And Other Papers
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this fascinating autobiography from the foremost genius of twentieth-century physics, Max Planck tells the story of his life, his aims, and his thinking. Published posthumously, the papers in [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Live Wires: A History of Electronic Music
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWe live in an electronic world, saturated with electronic sounds. Yet, electronic sounds aren’t a new phenomenon; they have long permeated our sonic landscape. What began as the otherworldly [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction -
S Alfonso Williams – The Interlocutor
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn The Interlocutor, S. Alfonso Williams takes the reader on an immersive journey through his unique blend of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and politics. His poetic style has a rhythm that breathes [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Do Not Sell At Any Price
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBefore MP3s, CDs, and cassette tapes, even before LPs or 45s, the world listened to music on fragile, 10-inch shellac discs that spun at 78 revolutions per minute. While vinyl […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Black Fire! New Spirits: Images Of A Revolution
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAt the start of the 1960s, jazz entered a unique period of revolution as African-American musicians redefined the art form in the context of the Civil Rights Movement, Afro-centric rhythm […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz -
Geoff Dyer – The Ongoing Moment
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsGreat photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both. Focusing on the ways in which canonical figures like Alfred Stieglitz, […]
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Robert Irwin: All The Rules Will Change
$50.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsRobert Irwin, one of the most influential postwar American artists and a pioneering figure of California Light and Space Art, is the subject of this book that traces his development […]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
Values Of Design
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDual-language (Chinese/English) investigation into the design of every-day objects. Lavishly illustrated. Design Society/Victoria & Albert, 2017 Softcover Edition. Dent to upper left corner [...]
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Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977 (scarce)
$80.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPhotography played a critical role in conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s, as artists turned to photography as both medium and subject matter. Light Years offers the first major […]
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Roni Horn: Going North Boxset (scarce)
$100.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDeveloped in collaboration with the artist, this two-volume monograph is a comprehensive survey of Roni Horn’s art. A leading figure in contemporary art, Roni Horn addresses wide ranging issues [...]
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Cheyney Thompson: Passages
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOne 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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Jaime Semprún – A Gallery of Recuperation
$19.00 | Book, PrintThe 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