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Thomas Crow – The Artist in the Counterculture : Bruce Conner to…
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsHow California’s counterculture of the 1960s to 1980s profoundly shaped–and was shaped by–West Coast artists The 1960s exert a special fascination in modern art. But most [...]
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Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg : Art, Happenings, and Cultural Polit…
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis new interpretation of the structure and meaning of the Happenings produced by Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg in the late 1950s and 1960s sheds light on the context, theoretical […]
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Stephane Mallarme – The Book
$16.00 | Book, PrintFrequently quoted but never before translated in its entirety, The Book is a visual poem about its own construction The French poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–98) was modernism’s great [...]
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Milo Rigaud – Secrets Of Voodoo
$17.00 | Book, PrintSecrets of Voodoo traces the development of this complex religion (in Haiti and the Americas) from its sources in the brilliant civilizations of ancient Africa. This book presents a [...]
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Mises – Stapelia Mixta
$17.00 | Book, PrintA compilation of 16 rigorous, eccentric essays commissioned by the German founder of psychophysics The original 1824 German publication of Stapelia Mixta united a bevy of eccentric proposals, [...]
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Marcel Benabou – Why I Have Not Written Any Of My Books
$14.00 | Book, PrintMarcel Bénabou is quick to acknowledge that his own difficulty in writing has plenty of company. Words stick and syntax is stubborn, meaning slips and synonyms cluster. A blank page […]
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Knife-Woman: The Life of Louise Bourgeois
$35.00 | Book, PrintThe first major biography on artist Louise Bourgeois brings the life and work of an iconic twentieth-century artist into sharp focus Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) was one of the most important [...]
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Pierre Guyotat – Idiocy
$18.00 | Book, PrintPierre Guyotat was one of the most radical and uncompromising writers of the twentieth century, a literary successor to Sade, Bataille, and Genet whose visceral fictions and bold experiments with [...]
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Synths, Sax and Situationists: The French Musical Underground 1968-197…
$31.00 | Book, PrintAt the dawn of the ’70s, in a country still reeling from the aftershocks of World War 2, an underground movement of rock musicians resolved to tear it all up […]
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Norbert Wiener – The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and …
$19.00 | Book, PrintFor the 75th anniversary, a new edition of The Human Use of Human Beings–the landmark book that delves into the relationship between humans and computers, and presciently anticipates many [...]
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Annie Jacobsen – Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of C…
$24.00 | Book, Print“When diplomacy fails, and war is unwise, the president calls on the CIA’s Special Activities Division, a highly-classified branch of the CIA and the most effective, black operations [...]
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Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen
$34.00 | Book, Print“The definitive, authorized, and first-ever biography of Terry Allen, the internationally acclaimed visual artist and iconoclastic songwriter who occupies an utterly unique position [...]
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Simon Critchley – Mysticism
$19.00 | Book, PrintA probing, inspiring exploration of mysticism not as religious practice but as a mode of experience and way of life by one of the most provocative philosophical thinkers of our […]
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Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy M…
$25.00 | Book, PrintPresenting startling new biographical details about Timothy McVeigh and exposing stark contradictions and errors contained in previous depictions of the “All-American Terrorist,” this [...]
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Donna Haraway – Manifestly Haraway
$20.00 | Book, PrintElectrifying, provocative, and controversial when first published thirty years ago, Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto” is even more relevant today, when the divisions that she so eloquently [...]
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Gershom Scholem – Origins of the Kabbalah
$30.00 | Book, PrintWith the publication of The Origins of the Kabbalah in 1950, one of the most important scholars of our century brought the obscure world of Jewish mysticism to a wider […]
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Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake
$25.00 | Book, PrintThe landmark book that situates Blake’s poetry within the intellectual movements of his day and unlocks his symbolism for modern readers. Since it was first published, Northrop Frye’s [...]
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Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman’s Hyperrealist Everyday
$28.00 | Book, PrintThrough films that alternate between containment, order, and symmetry on the one hand, and obsession, explosiveness, and a lack of control on the other, Chantal Akerman has gained a reputation [...]
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Nicolas Devil & Jean Rollin – Saga de Xam
$55.00 | Book, PrintIn the annals of alternative comics, few works are as venerated, or as underseen, as Saga de Xam, the legendary French graphic novel by Nicholas Devil and Jean Rollin. Originally […]
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Deforrest Brown – Assembling A Black Counter-Culture
$20.00 | Book, PrintIn Assembling a Black Counter Culture, writer and musician DeForrest Brown, Jr, provides a history and critical analysis of techno and adjacent electronic music such as house and electro, showing [...]
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Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons
$20.00 | Book, PrintIn his short 37 years, John Whiteside “Jack” Parsons embodied at least several different roles in one tormented but glorious life. By day, Parsons’ unorthodox genius created a [...]
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Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections
$16.00 | Book, PrintWith mass poisonings, global warming and other tidings of contemporary civilization threatening the planet, shouldn’t we begin to reconsider our unthinking attachment to it? Feral House’s new [...]
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Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House
$16.00 | Book, PrintAltered State–now updated—is the definitive text on ecstasy culture, using a cast of characters to track the origins of the scene through psychedelic subcults, underground gay discos, [...]
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Chris Marker: Immemory: Gutenberg Version
$34.00 | Book, PrintFilmmaker, photographer and writer Chris Marker never adhered to the conventions of a particular art form. Each of his films, from La Jetée to Sans Soleil, pushes the boundaries of […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Memoir -
Claude Cahun: Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals)
$34.00 | Book, PrintFirst published in 1930 by anti-fascist, avant-garde publisher Éditions du Carrefour in Paris as Aveux non Avenus, Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals) is Claude Cahun’s wildly radical answer to [...]
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A Most Dangerous Method: The Story Of Jung, Freud And Sabina Spielrein
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsIn 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man’s life. Six years later they were bitter […]
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Patrick Brantlinger – Bread & Circuses
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsLively and well written, Bread and Circuses analyzes theories that have treated mass culture as either a symptom or a cause of social decadence. Discussing many of the most influential […]
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David J. Getsy – Queer Behavior
$25.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsScott Burton (1939–89) created performance art and sculpture that drew on queer experience and the sexual cultures that flourished in New York City in the 1970s. David J. Getsy argues […]
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Frederic W. Goudy – The Alphabet
$15.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsTraces the developments of the alphabet and lettering from ancient times, and presents a variety of lettering styles which have evolved Dorset Press, 1989 Hardcover Edition. Light general wear.
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Fluxus And The Essential Questions Of Life
$35.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsFluxus—from the Latin, meaning “to flow”—was a radical, international network of artists, composers, and designers in the 1960s and 1970s noted for blurring the boundaries between what we term [...]
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Dennis Bernstein & Warren Lehrer – French Fries
$600.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsExhibited internationally including at the Georges Pompidue Centre’s L’image Des Mots exhibition, and as a solo exhibit at the Pieter Brattinga Gallery in Amsterdam. Copies of French Fries are [...]
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Animism In Art And Performance
$45.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsThis book explores Māori indigenous and non-indigenous scholarship corresponding with the term ‘animism’. In addressing visual, media and performance art, it explores the dualisms of people and [...]
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Giovanni Lista – Theatre Futuriste Italien Vol I & II (as-i…
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsAn anthology of Futurist theater works, wonderfully illustrated. La Cite, 1976 Softcover Edition. Noticeable discoloration to wraps of both volumes and edges of pages. Substantial glue breaks at [...]
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Giovanni Lista – L’Art Postal Futuriste (TEXT IN FRENCH)
$20.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsGiovanni Lista’s survey of mail art within the Futurist movement. Lavishly illustrated. Jean-Michel Place Publishers, 1979 Hardcover Edition. Light discoloration to edges of pages/boards. [...]
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Justin Green – Binky Brown Meets The Holy Virgin Mary
$70.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsA lost classic of underground cartooning, Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary is Justin Green’s autobiographical portrayal of his struggle with religion and his own neuroses. Binky Brown is [...]
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William Wegman
$40.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsLarge softcover catalogue published on the occasion of the William Wegman exhibition in the Rooseum – Center For Contemporary art, Malmo March 7 – May 10 1998. Rooseum, 1998 Softcover [...]
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Thomas Hine – Populuxe
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items“The decade from 1954 to 1964 was one of America’s great shopping sprees: never before were so many people able to acquire so many things, and never before was there […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Now Jump: Inaugural Festival of the Nam June Paik Art Center
$45.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items“This catalogue was published to commemoration of the inaugural Festival of the Nam June Paik Art Center that took place on October 9, 2008. NOW JUMP, the title of the […]
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Luigi Russolo – L’Arte Dei Rumori (TEXT IN ITALIAN)
$30.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsLuigi Russolo’s seminal manifesto/essay on the art of noise. Carucci Reprint of 1916 Softcover Edition. Writing on front wrap. Noticeable foxing/discoloration to both wraps and pages. TEXT [...]
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Daryl Easlea – Everybody Dance: Chic and the Politics of Disco
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsFew narratives in pop encompass Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Madonna, Duran Duran, Diana Ross, Johnny Mathis and Led Zeppelin. This story is one of them. Chic, led by […]
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The Electric Muse Revisited
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsFolk music has been evolving and adapting for centuries, but in the 1960s and 70s came an extraordinary period of change and innovation. Rock musicians borrowed from traditional songs, while […]
GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction -
The Arab Avant-Garde: Music, Politics, Modernity
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsFrom jazz trumpeters drawing on the noises of warfare in Beirut to female heavy metallers in Alexandria, the Arab culture offers a wealth of exciting, challenging, and diverse musics. The […]
GENRE: International, Non-Fiction -
Catherine Zimmer – Surveillance Cinema
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsIn Paris, a static video camera keeps watch on a bourgeois home. In Portland, a webcam documents the torture and murder of kidnap victims. And in clandestine intelligence offices around […]
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Jacques Boyreau – Supertrash
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsSuperTrash is the mutagenic sequel to Trash: The Graphic Genius of Xploitation Movie Posters (2002, Chronicle), the book that became a prophecy of the lasting influence of grindhouse and a […]
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Perpetrator Cinema: Confronting Genocide in Cambodian Documentary
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsPerpetrator Cinema explores a new trend in the cinematic depiction of genocide that has emerged in Cambodian documentary in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. While past films [...]
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Orson Welles’s Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the W…
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsIn the summer of 1970, legendary but self-destructive director Orson Welles returned to Hollywood from years of self-imposed exile in Europe and decided it was time to make a comeback […]
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Nicholas Ray: An American Journey
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsPerhaps best known for Rebel without a Cause, American filmmaker Nicholas Ray directed dozens of movies in the film noir genre, including In a Lonely Place, Johnny Guitar, and They […]
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Neither God nor Master: Robert Bresson and Radical Politics
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsThe French auteur Robert Bresson, director of such classics as Diary of a Country Priest (1951), The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962), The Devil, Probably (1977), and L’Argent (1983), […]
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Viktor Shklovsky – Literature and Cinematography
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsIn this short, brilliant book, Viktor Shklovsky enunciates the function of the arts: what they are and, just as importantly, what they are not. In the course of defining what […]
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Surrealism in Latin America: Vivísimo Muerto
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsThis collection of essays—the first major account of surrealism in Latin America that covers both literary and visual production—explores the role the movement played in the construction and [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography