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Peter McGough – I’ve Seen the Future and I’m Not Going: The Art Scene and Downtown New York in the 1980s
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartBrilliantly funny, frank, and shattering, this is the bittersweet memoir by Peter McGough of his life with artist David McDermott. Set in New York’s Lower East Side of the 1980s […]
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Constructing an Avant-Garde: Art in Brazil, 1949-1979
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartBrazilian avant-garde artists of the postwar era worked from a fundamental but productive out-of-jointness. They were modernist but distant from modernism. Europeans and North Americans may feel [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
David Carrier – Aesthetics of the Margins / The Margins of Aesthetics: Wild Art Explained
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Wild Art” refers to work that exists outside the established, rarified world of art galleries and cultural channels. It encompasses uncatalogued, uncommodified art not often recognized as such, [...]
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Fredric Jameson – The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA collection of Jameson’s essays related to literary theory. Book is in “Like New” condition. Some light superficial wear and/or remainder mark might be present.
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
William T. Vollmann – The Book of Dolores
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWilliam T. Vollmann has travelled to Soviet-occupied Afghanistan with Islamic commandos, shivered out a solitary stretch at the North Magnetic Pole in winter, hopped freight trains, studied the [...]
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Kamala Tiyavanich – In the Cool Shade of Compassion: The Enchanted World of the Buddha in the Jungle
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA fascinating collection of stories of the Thai forest monks that illuminates the Thai Forest tradition as a vibrant, compassionate, and highly appealing way of life. This work ingeniously [...]
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Liz Phair – Horror Stories: A Memoir
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWhen Liz Phair shook things up with her musical debut, Exile in Guyville—making her as much a cultural figure as a feminist pioneer and rock star—her raw candor, uncompromising authenticity, […]
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Stephen Greenblatt – The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartBolder, even, than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve explores the enduring story of humanity’s first parents. Comprising […]
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Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test & The Power Of Seeing
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA popular misconception of the controversial Rorschach test, which requires subjects to interpret a series of ten inkblots, is that there are no wrong answers. For professional psychologists, [...]
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Morrissey – Autobiography
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAutobiography covers Morrissey’s life from his birth until the present day. Book is in “Like New” condition. Some light superficial wear and/or remainder mark might be present.
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Apocalypse Jukebox: The End of the World in American Popular Music
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFrom its indefinite beginnings through its broad commercialization and endless reinterpretation, American rock-and-roll music has been preoccupied with an end-of-the-world mentality that extends [...]
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The Power of Ecstatic Trance: Practices for Healing, Spiritual Growth, and Accessing the Universal Mind
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartOver the millennia shamanic trance journeying has been used as a way of healing, of providing answers to questions, and of offering solutions to individual, family, and community problems. Though [...]
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Monstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartMulti-disciplinary in approach and cross-European in scope, this richly illustrated book features new links between the political and the monstrous in the early modern period. Emphasizing the [...]
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Nightmare Factories: The Asylum in the American Imagination
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartMadhouse, funny farm, psychiatric hospital, loony bin, nuthouse, mental institution: no matter what you call it, the asylum has a powerful hold on the American imagination. Stark and foreboding, [...]
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Paul Davies – The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFifty years ago, a young astronomer named Frank Drake first pointed a radio telescope at nearby stars in the hope of picking up a signal from an alien civilization. Thus […]
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Writing the Orgy: Power and Parody in Sade
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWriting the Orgy provides an innovative, highly persuasive interpretation of eroticism in the Marqui de Sade’s writing. Combining literary theory with methodologies borrowed from [...]
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Underground Movements: Modern Culture on the New York City Subway
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“For more than a century the New York City subway system has been a vital part of the city’s identity, even as judgments of its value have varied. It has […]
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Jonathan Strauss – Human Remains: Medicine, Death, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Paris
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The living and the dead cohabited Paris until the late eighteenth century, when, in the name of public health, measures were taken to drive the latter from the city. Cemeteries […]
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Verena A Conley – Helene Cixous
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Reflecting the broad spectrum of modern European and American theory, this introductory series focuses on those cultural theorists who have had the most significant impact in the twentieth [...]
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Hard to Be a Saint in the City: The Spiritual Vision of the Beats
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“It’s been said that Jack Kerouac made it cool to be a thinking person seeking a spiritual experience. And there is no doubt that the writers he knew and inspired—iconic […]
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Andrew J. Webber – The European Avant-garde: 1900-1940
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“This book offers an informative and accessible cultural history of the European avant-garde in its early twentieth-century heyday. It provides comparative coverage of cultural [...]
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Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo’s America
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo’s America is a fresh and engaging study of “last things” in Don DeLillo’s works-things like death, mourning, and the decline [...]
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Algerian Imprints: Ethical Space in the Work of Assia Djebar and Hélène Cixous
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Born and raised in French Algeria, Assia Djebar and Hélène Cixous represent in their literary works signs of conflict and enmity, drawing on discordant histories so as to reappraise the [...]
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An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Paul Bowles’s seductive, terrifying, exquisitely detached fictions have inspired writers and iconoclasts from the Beats to the present day. In this brilliant and definitive [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Pieces of Sound: German Experimental Radio
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Since the rise of film and television, radio has continued to evolve, with satellite radio and podcasts as its latest incarnations. Any understanding of the development of radio, like its [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Carol Off – Bitter Chocolate: Anatomy of an Industry
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Bitter Chocolate is both an absorbing social history and a passionate investigation into an industry that has institutionalized abuse as it indulges our whims. Award-winning journalist [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Over the last decade, blockchains and crypto have opened up a new terrain for political action. It is not surprising, however, that the crypto space has also become overrun by […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cinema
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“In Picturing American Modernity, Kristen Whissel investigates the relationship between early American cinema and the experience of technological modernity. She demonstrates how between the [...]
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Kembrew McLeod – Downtown Pop Underground
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The 1960s to early ’70s was a pivotal time for American culture, and New York City was ground zero for seismic shifts in music, theater, art, and filmmaking. The Downtown […]
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Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“In this lively narrative, award-winning author Michael Kammen presents a fascinating analysis of cutting-edge art and artists and their unique ability to both delight and provoke us. He [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“This publication explores the complex relationship between American art and early film. Depicting turn-of-the-century photographs, film stills, posters, prints and paintings, the struggle [...]
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Gerhard Richter: Images of an Era
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Among German painter Gerhard Richter’s best-known works are his large-scale paintings based on—and sometimes applied directly to—photographs. A transplant to West Germany mere months [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
Abstracts of Karl Rahner’s Unserialized Essays
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Excellent reference work to finding specific topics within the vast range of the writings of Karl Rahner. Using this book in tandem with the authors earlier Abstracts of Karl Rahners […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Ivan Chistyakov – The Day Will Pass Away: The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard: 1935-1936
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Originally written in a couple of humble exercise books, which were anonymously donated to the Memorial Human Rights Centre in Moscow, this remarkable diary is one of the few first-person [...]
GENRE: Memoir -
Music of Azerbaijan: From Mugham to Opera
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“This book traces the development of Azerbaijani art music from its origins in the Eastern, modal, improvisational tradition known as mugham through its fusion with Western classical, jazz, [...]
GENRE: International, Non-Fiction -
The Henry Davis Gift: A Collection of Bookbindings
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“This much anticipated third and final volume of The Henry Davis Gift focuses on South and East European fine bindings, with additional sections on Oriental and American bindings. It [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
Gao Minglu – Total Modernity and the Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Chinese Art
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“To the extent that Chinese contemporary art has become a global phenomenon, it is largely through the groundbreaking exhibitions curated by Gao Minglu: “China/Avant-Garde” [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
Koretsky: The Soviet Photo Poster: 1930-1984
$28.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Viktor Koretsky (1909-1998) was a leading Soviet artist and the acknowledged master of the Soviet photographic poster. With a long and prolific career that spanned the early Stalin era [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
In the Atelier: Erik Desmazières Printmaker René Tazé Printer: An Artistic collaboration 1978-2018
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Erik Desmazières’s first love was drawing and he began engraving in the Ville de Paris studios from 1971. René Tazé joined the Leblanc studio, a famous and ancient Parisian intaglio [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
American Modernism at Mid-Century: The Work of Morris Davidson
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“This volume presents the first scholarly consideration of Morris Davidson (1898–1979), an influential painter and educator whose work has been neglected in the art history of [...]
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Michael Auping – 40 Years: Just Talking About Art
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Michael Auping, one of America’s foremost curators of contemporary art, explores process and technique through conversations he has had over the past four decades with the most [...]
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The Big Idea: Criticality and Practice in Contemporary Architecture
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Scott Johnson is the highly acclaimed designer of some of L.A.’s most recognized architecture. As partner in the award-winning Los Angeles architecture firm Johnson Fain he was the [...]
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Lydia Lunch – So Real It Hurts
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Through personal essays and interviews, punk musician and cultural icon Lydia Lunch claws and rakes at the reader’s conscience in this powerful, uninhibited feminist collection. [...]
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Constance A Newland – Myself and I (as-is)
$5.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The psychic syndrome of Constance Newland — a young widow, mother, and highly successful slick writer — was not particularly extraordinary. She had always been sexually frigid [...]
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R.Crumb’s Dream Diary (scarce)
$60.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“For more than 40 years, legendary American artist Robert Crumb has documented his nightly dreams in a meticulously kept private journal. This material has stood as a guarded secret in […]
GENRE: Memoir -
Janet Malcolm – Iphigenia In Forest Hills
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“She couldn’t have done it and she must have done it.” This is the enigma at the heart of Janet Malcolm’s riveting book about a murder trial in the insular […]
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DJ Screw – Lance Scott Walker (Signed)
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSigned by the author DJ Screw, a.k.a. Robert Earl Davis Jr., changed rap and hip-hop forever. In the 1990s, in a spare room of his Houston home, he developed a […]
GENRE: Hip Hop / Rap / Neo Soul, Non-Fiction -
An Introduction To Modern Architecture (as-is)
$5.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“An explanation of what ‘modern’ architecture is all about, describing also the stages by which it has reached its present degree of development. With plans and diagrams and 48 [...]
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Mary Sagatoo – Wah Sash Kah Moqua
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Wah Sash Kah Moqua: Or Thirty-Three Years Among The Indians is a book written by Mary Sagatoo and published in 1897. The book is a memoir of Sagatoo’s life as […]
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Peter Burger – Theory Of The Avant-Garde
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Suggests a theory of art, tests against the French and German avant-garde movements of the twenties, and discusses hermeneutics, ideology, aesthetic categories, and the autonomy of [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction