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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 [...]
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 […]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 […]
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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 [...]
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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” [...]
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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 [...]
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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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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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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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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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Slavoj Zizek – How To Read Lacan (as-is)
$5.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe How to Read series provides a context and an explanation that will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon. These books use excerpts from the […]
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Chain 6: Letters
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIssue six of Chain, featuring contributions from William Burroughs, Ron Silliman, Norma Cole and more. Chain, 1999 Softcover edition. Some discoloration/wear to wraps.
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Cinema And Art As Archive: Form, Medium, Memory
$15.00 | Print, Used Items Add to cartAs Jacques Derrida wrote in 1995, while considering Archive Fever, nothing is less reliable or less clear today than the word “archive”. Nevertheless, the historic-cultural dimension of the [...]
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Early Cinema: Space, Frame Narrative
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn the twenty years preceding the First World War, cinema rapidly developed from a fairground curiosity into a major industry and social institution, a source of information and entertainment for [...]
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Patrick Farmer – Close Eclogues On Tiptoe, Vol 1.
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartClose Eclogues on Tiptoe is an epistolary experiment that recalls the author’s visit to Mass an exhibition by the artist Lotti V Closs in 2016. Drawing on the ‘character’ inherent in Closs’s [...]
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Princeton Field Guides: Caterpillars Of Eastern North America
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“This lavishly illustrated guide will enable you to identify the caterpillars of nearly 700 butterflies and moths found east of the Mississippi. The more than 1,200 color photographs and [...]
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The Cradle Of Erotica
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“This book examines African and Asian sexual behavior. It is a sequel to The Jewel in the Lotus, a survey of the sexual culture of the East. An immensely readable […]
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Michelle Remembers: The True Story Of A Year-Long Contest Between Innocence And Evil (as-is, rare)
$35.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Michelle Remembers is a book published in 1980 co-written by Canadian psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder and his psychiatric patient (and eventual wife) Michelle Smith. A best-seller, Michelle [...]
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Manson: In His Own Words
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“We have called him a devil and quarantined him behind such labels as “the most dangerous man alive.” But Charles Manson remains a shocking reminder of our own humanity gone […]
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Anal Pleasure & Health: A Guide For Men And Women
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“For many years the focus of fear and disgust, the anus is actually one of the human body’s most wondrous creations–elegant, efficient, and richly supplied with pleasure nerves. [...]
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Sam Rohdie – Fellini Lexicon
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Federico Fellini (1920-93) was one of the most inventive of film-makers and he remains one of the best loved. Director of a whole series of celebrated films – among them […]
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Susan Sontag: Mind As Passion
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Susan Sontag has been a major figure in American intellectual life for over thirty years. She has consistently broken fresh ground in cultural analysis and provocatively engaged a wide [...]
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Susan Sontag – Against Interpretation
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag’s first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced [...]
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Jean Baudrillard – Spirit of Terrorism
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn dealing all the cards to itself, the system forced the Other to change the rules of the game. And the new rules are ferocious, because the game is ferocious. […]
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More Fun in the New World: The Unmaking & Legacy of L.A. Punk
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartPicking up where Under the Big Black Sun left off, More Fun in the New World explores the years 1982 to 1987, covering the dizzying pinnacle of L.A.’s punk rock […]
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Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartMasculine Singular is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France’s leading feminist film scholars. While most criticism of the New Wave has concentrated on the […]
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After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartOver the past twenty-five years, Italy’s film industry has produced a remarkable number of award-winning international art-house hits, among them Cinema Paradiso and Life Is Beautiful. [...]
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Kate Brideau – Typographic Medium
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAn innovative examination of typography as a medium of communication rather than part of print or digital media. Typography is everywhere and yet widely unnoticed. When we read type, we […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction