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  • Gallery Of Photography: Vision
    Gallery Of Photography: Vision
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    A pamphlet featuring work from the Vision Gallery, based out of Boston, circa 1980s Staple-bound zine with some discoloration

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Ken Schles – Night Walk
    Ken Schles – Night Walk
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    Twenty-five years after the printing of his seminal 1988 book, Invisible City, Ken Schles revisits his archive and fashions a narrative of lost youth: a delirious, peripatetic walk in the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Cornelia Parker – Verso
    Cornelia Parker – Verso
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    This diminutive artists book was specially commissioned by Ivorypress as part of an ongoing series. Verso is a previously unpublished work by British sculptor and installation artist Cornelia [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • N.H Pritchard – The Mundus
    N.H Pritchard – The Mundus
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    N.H. Pritchard’s magnum opus, The Mundus is a work that is both visual and poetic, literary and mystical. It was composed between 1965 until at least July 1971: a six-year […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason – Recurrence
    Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason – Recurrence
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    The Iceland Symphony Orchestra is widely praised for its performances and recordings and concerts devoted to modern music. Since 2011, the orchestra’s home has been Harpa Concert Hall in [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Gyða Valtýsdóttir – Epicycle II
    Gyða Valtýsdóttir – Epicycle II
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    Icelandic cellist, singer, and composer Gyda Valtysdottir, a founder of the band múm and 2019 winner of the prestigious Nordic Council Music Prize, releases Epicycle II on her label DiaMond in [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Kjartan Sveinsson – Der Klang Der Offenbarung Des Göttlichen
    Kjartan Sveinsson – Der Klang Der Offenbarung Des Göttlichen
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    Der Klang der Offenbarung des Göttlichen is an opera in four acts conceived by Kjartan Sveinsson and artist Ragnar Kjartansson, which was commissioned by and originally performed in Volksbühne am [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason – Concurrence
    Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason – Concurrence
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    “I am both very proud and excited to bring out the second volume of this recording project dedicated to bringing the orchestral sound world of Icelandic composers to the ears […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Anna Thorvaldsdottir – Rhízōma
    Anna Thorvaldsdottir – Rhízōma
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    Rhízōma, composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s debut album of recorded works, is steeped in the beautiful strangeness and exhilaration of that which is simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar. The [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Eovaro Egilsson & Pall Ragnar Palsson – Skjalfti
    Eovaro Egilsson & Pall Ragnar Palsson – Skjalfti
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    When two Icelandic composers Páll Ragnar Pálsson and Eðvarð Egilsson finished scoring Quake, a psychological family drama, they were not ready to stop just there. What followed was a voyage […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Bára Gísladóttir & Skúli Sverrisson – Caeli
    Bára Gísladóttir & Skúli Sverrisson – Caeli
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    Caeli is spun out of the idea of skies and dimensions merging into a borderless being, boasting of a rich and vivid texture, at times carrying numerous worlds inside at […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Enklav – 2.
    Enklav – 2.
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    “On their second Lp Enklav presents two longer tracks of raw tape manipulations of concrete sounds. With an uncompromising attitude and a sound that seems to be carved out of […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Darkroom 2
    Darkroom 2
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    “Contributions by Judy Dater, Frank Gohlke, Emmet Gowin, Charles Harbutt, Lisette Model, Hans Namuth, Doug Prince, Aaron Siskind, Neal Slavin and Cole Weston,10 prominent photographers who [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Action/Precision: The New Direction In New York
    Action/Precision: The New Direction In New York
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    Overview of lesser known Abstract Expressionists, from 1955-1960. Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1984 Softcover edition. Noticeable wear to edges of dustjacket.

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Stephen Lee Clark – Modesty
    Stephen Lee Clark – Modesty
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    “JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents “Modesty”, official return of long-time JG friend and collaborator Stephen Lee Clark! Conceived during a time of major change and personal growth, [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Mac Blackout, Landon Caldwell & Nicholas Yeck-Stauffer  – Between Infinities
    Mac Blackout, Landon Caldwell & Nicholas Yeck-Stauffer – Between Infinities
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    “Somewhere there is the unhappened. Somewhere, if there is a somewhere. Unhappened – as in – on the way. There was a path to get there. We don’t magically emerge […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Martin Gayford – Modernists & Mavericks
    Martin Gayford – Modernists & Mavericks
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    “Martin Gayford’s masterful account of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s, illustrated by documentary photographs and the works themselves. The development of [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Megamurals & Supergraphics
    Megamurals & Supergraphics
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    “The mural movement is one of the most positive and beautiful legacies of the spirit and change of the 60’s. Psychadelic art never survived, but street painting did, and now […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Thomas Macauly: Sculptural Views On Perceptual Ambiguity
    Thomas Macauly: Sculptural Views On Perceptual Ambiguity
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    Exhibition catalog from the Dayton Art Institute’s exhibition on the minimal sculptural work of Thomas Macauly. Dayton Art Institute, 1986 Softcover edition. Light corner & edgewear.

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Personal Best 9
    Personal Best 9
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    Lasse Marghaug’s magazine Personal Best is back! Issue number 9 will be in hand and shipping mid to late June. Still my favorite magazine around. Issue 9 features interviews with […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Brendan Eder Ensemble – Therapy
    Brendan Eder Ensemble – Therapy
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    Following 2021’s Cape Cod Cottage — Eder’s concept album under the guise of Edward Blankman, a retired dentist who wrote elegant jazz in the1970s — on Therapy, Eder drops the […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Ananya Ganesh – Precis-Loving
    Ananya Ganesh – Precis-Loving
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    Ananya Ganesh (b. 1997) is an improviser from Madras based in North America. Their idiosyncratically simultaneous improvisation of the voice and piano lies between the unrealizable and what could [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Jukebox: Photographs 1967-2023
    Jukebox: Photographs 1967-2023
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    “San Francisco rock’n roll bleeds through Michael Goldberg – an innovative, inspiring figure who always has been quietly pioneering something interesting for the past 50+ years. Hozac Books [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Masterpieces Of American Modernism
    Masterpieces Of American Modernism
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    “Modernism, referring to the period dating roughly from the late 19th century through 1970, is regarded as a crucial moment in the history of American art. Although Modernist artists [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Emmet Gowin – Photographs
    Emmet Gowin – Photographs
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    “A magnificently produced retrospective of the work of distinguished photographer Emmet Gowin. Although Gowin’s work, spiritually charged and technically exquisite, is well known and [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Expressions: New Art From Germany
    Expressions: New Art From Germany
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    Exhibition catalog focusing on the German Expressionist movement 1960s-1980s. Saint Louis Museum Press & Prestel-Verlag, 1983 softcover edition. Light scuffing/wear to wraps  

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • United Forces: An Archive Of Brazil’s Raw Metal Attack 1986-1991
    United Forces: An Archive Of Brazil’s Raw Metal Attack 1986-1991
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    In 1986, São Paulo teenager Marcelo R. Batista channeled his love of pure, wild heavy metal into the self-produced fanzine United Forces. Over the next five years, his homemade publication […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Metal, Non-Fiction
  • Manon: Feathers
    Manon: Feathers
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    Memories and observations from the five-decade career of feminist installation artist Manon Swiss artist Manon (born 1940) came to prominence in the 1970s with her installation The Salmon [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Severed + Said – End Time Loop
    Severed + Said – End Time Loop
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    Floridian synthesist John Touchton aka Severed+Said returns with his most cinematic suite yet of witching hour electronics, spidery rhythm, and macabre clockwork: End Time Loop. A 10-track [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • David Edren – Relativiteit Van de Omgeving
    David Edren – Relativiteit Van de Omgeving
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    Antwerp synthesist David Edren describes his latest solo collection in conceptual terms: a harmony of space and time, elements and environments, perception and impermanence. Conceived in the [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • White Poppy – Ataraxia
    White Poppy – Ataraxia
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    The concept for and palette of Crystal Dorval aka White Poppy’s ‘Paradise Gardens’ trilogy first germinated in 2016 as a notion of “paradise music” combining new age, bedroom shoegaze, and […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Suzanne Doucet – Reflecting Light Vol. II
    Suzanne Doucet – Reflecting Light Vol. II
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    Suzanne Doucet was born in Tuebingen, Germany where as a three year old, Doucet discovered her innate artistic gifts. Instinctively, she was always drawing, playing music, singing, and writing. [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • William Wichman – Suzanne Doucet – Brilliance
    William Wichman – Suzanne Doucet – Brilliance
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    Suzanne Doucet was born in Tuebingen, Germany where as a three year old, Doucet discovered her innate artistic gifts. Instinctively, she was always drawing, playing music, singing, and writing. [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Ghostwriters – Objects In Mirrors Are Closer Than They Appear
    Ghostwriters – Objects In Mirrors Are Closer Than They Appear
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    Dark Entries calls on Philadelphia experimental duo The Ghostwriters to resurrect their 1981 LP of minimalist mayhem, Objects In Mirrors Are Closer Than They Appear. The late Buchla maestro [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • The Ghostwriters – Remote Dreaming
    The Ghostwriters – Remote Dreaming
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    Dark Entries summons Philadelphia synthesizer scribes The Ghostwriters to rouse their ambient masterwork Remote Dreaming. The late Buchla maestro Charles Cohen and multi-instrumentalist Jeff Cain [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Jill Fraser – Earthly Pleasures
    Jill Fraser – Earthly Pleasures
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    Veteran electronic music composer Jill Fraser’s new work takes stock of generations and lifetimes of memory, speculating on how the spirit of our songs might be interpreted after we’re gone. […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Childsplay: The Art Of Allan Kaprow
    Childsplay: The Art Of Allan Kaprow
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    “Allan Kaprow has been described as an avant-garde revolutionary, a radical sociologist, a Zen(ish) monk, a progressive educator, and an anti-art theorist. But, above all, as this book [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Gerald Jenkins – It’s After The End Of The World
    Gerald Jenkins – It’s After The End Of The World
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    “A Picture novel study of the human spirit in the fantastic / magical and the human soul in the metaphorical and physical in Five Chapters – being Oppression, Rainbows, Mythology, […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Next World Sound Vol. 3
    Next World Sound Vol. 3
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    *Continuing the Hyperspace instrumental ambient series are two sides of delicious futuristic ambiance from three artists, renowned for studio work on both coasts. Frank Eaton and Kevin Fullen [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • England On Fire: A Visual Journey Through Albion’s Psychic Landscape
    England On Fire: A Visual Journey Through Albion’s Psychic Landscape
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    This is a book about English art like no other. Forget the tired rogues’ gallery of lords and ladies, forget the tall ships and haywains. These images cut to the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • From A Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art And Representation In France
    From A Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art And Representation In France
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    From a Nation Torn provides a powerful critique of art history’s understanding of French modernism and the historical circumstances that shaped its production and reception. Within art [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Seeing The Unspeakable: The Art Of Kara Walker
    Seeing The Unspeakable: The Art Of Kara Walker
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    One of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur “genius” grant, Kara Walker, an African American artist, is best known for her iconic, often life-size, black-and-white silhouetted figures, arranged [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Parallel Public: Experimental Art In Late East Germany
    Parallel Public: Experimental Art In Late East Germany
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    How East German artists made their country’s experimental art scene a form of (counter) public life. Experimental artists in the final years of the German Democratic Republic did not practice [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • A Slow Burning Fire: The Rise Of The New Art Practice In Yugoslavia
    A Slow Burning Fire: The Rise Of The New Art Practice In Yugoslavia
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    The first comprehensive study of the former Yugoslavia’s diverse and groundbreaking alternative art scenes from the 1960s to the 1980s. This first comprehensive study of the former [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • The Sphinx and the Milky Way: Selections from the Journals of Charles Burchfield
    The Sphinx and the Milky Way: Selections from the Journals of Charles Burchfield
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    Mystical and everyday reveries from the visionary American modernist In the early years of the 20th century, Charles Burchfield painted mystic and visionary landscapes, and with some of his [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Oneohtrix Point Never ? Age Of
    Oneohtrix Point Never ? Age Of
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    Oneohtrix Point Never’s Age Of is an album of new music from the renowned musician, out June 1st on Warp Records. It’s Daniel Lopatin’s most cohesive and richly composed work […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Adam Pendleton – Pasts, Futures, and Aftermaths: Revisiting the Black Dada Reader
    Adam Pendleton – Pasts, Futures, and Aftermaths: Revisiting the Black Dada Reader
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    The sequel to Pendleton’s acclaimed Black Dada Reader, compiling an anti-canon of radical experimentation and thought In 2011, artist Adam Pendleton (born 1984) assembled Black Dada Reader, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • John Cage – Notations
    John Cage – Notations
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    “Notations is a book that was edited and compiled by American avant-garde composer John Cage (1912–1992) with Alison Knowles and first published in 1969 by Something Else Press. The book [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Amelia Courthouse – Broken Things LP
    Amelia Courthouse – Broken Things LP
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    On her first album since ruby glass (SPINSTER, 2019), sound artist and composer amelia courthouse (aka Leah Toth) builds on her previous album’s textures, moods, and evocations of memory, adding [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Aki Onda – Transmissions From The Radio Midnight
    Aki Onda – Transmissions From The Radio Midnight
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    This project, entitled Transmissions From The Radio Midnight, started around 2006, when I acquired a Sony TCM F59 — an AM/FM radio and cassette recorder combined in a slim, handheld […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic