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  • Ken Hollings – Welcome to Mars: Fantasies of Science in the American Century 1947–1959
    Ken Hollings – Welcome to Mars: Fantasies of Science in the American Century 1947–1959
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    Welcome to Mars is an iconoclastic, penetrating and darkly humorous history of America from 1947-1959, the decade in which the nation defined its image and created the blueprint for the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Camille Paglia – Provocations: Collected Essays on Art, Feminism, Politics, Sex, and Education
    Camille Paglia – Provocations: Collected Essays on Art, Feminism, Politics, Sex, and Education
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    Much has changed since Camille Paglia first burst onto the scene with her groundbreaking Sexual Personae, but the laser-sharp insights of this major American thinker continue to be ahead of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Stan Brakhage: The Realm Buster
    Stan Brakhage: The Realm Buster
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    Stan Brakhage’s body of work counts as one of the most important within post-war avant-garde cinema, and yet it has rarely been given the attention it deserves. Over the years, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • NSK from Kapital to Capital: Neue Slowenische Kunst-an Event of the Final Decade of Yugoslavia
    NSK from Kapital to Capital: Neue Slowenische Kunst-an Event of the Final Decade of Yugoslavia
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    The generously illustrated, lavishly documented story of NSK (Neue Slowenische Kunst), the eastern European art collective present at the last revolution of the twentieth century. This book is [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics, Non-Fiction
  • Peter McGough – I’ve Seen the Future and I’m Not Going: The Art Scene and Downtown New York in the 1980s
    Peter McGough – I’ve Seen the Future and I’m Not Going: The Art Scene and Downtown New York in the 1980s
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    Brilliantly 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Constructing an Avant-Garde: Art in Brazil, 1949-1979
    Constructing an Avant-Garde: Art in Brazil, 1949-1979
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    Brazilian 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
    David Carrier – Aesthetics of the Margins / The Margins of Aesthetics: Wild Art Explained
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    “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, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Fredric Jameson – The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986
    Fredric Jameson – The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986
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    A 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
    William T. Vollmann – The Book of Dolores
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    William 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Stephen Greenblatt – The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
    Stephen Greenblatt – The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
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    Bolder, 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test & The Power Of Seeing
    Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test & The Power Of Seeing
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    A 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, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Apocalypse Jukebox: The End of the World in American Popular Music
    Apocalypse Jukebox: The End of the World in American Popular Music
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    From 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Monstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe
    Monstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe
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    Multi-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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Paul Davies – The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence
    Paul Davies – The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence
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    Fifty 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Writing the Orgy: Power and Parody in Sade
    Writing the Orgy: Power and Parody in Sade
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    Writing the Orgy provides an innovative, highly persuasive interpretation of eroticism in the Marqui de Sade’s writing. Combining literary theory with methodologies borrowed from [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Underground Movements: Modern Culture on the New York City Subway
    Underground Movements: Modern Culture on the New York City Subway
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    “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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jonathan Strauss – Human Remains: Medicine, Death, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Paris
    Jonathan Strauss – Human Remains: Medicine, Death, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Paris
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    “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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Verena A Conley – Helene Cixous
    Verena A Conley – Helene Cixous
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Hard to Be a Saint in the City: The Spiritual Vision of the Beats
    Hard to Be a Saint in the City: The Spiritual Vision of the Beats
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    “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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo’s America
    Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo’s America
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Algerian Imprints: Ethical Space in the Work of Assia Djebar and Hélène Cixous
    Algerian Imprints: Ethical Space in the Work of Assia Djebar and Hélène Cixous
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles
    An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles
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    “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
    Pieces of Sound: German Experimental Radio
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    “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
    Carol Off – Bitter Chocolate: Anatomy of an Industry
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    “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
    Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It
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    “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
    Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cinema
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    “In Picturing American Modernity, Kristen Whissel investigates the relationship between early American cinema and the experience of technological modernity. She demonstrates how between the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Kembrew McLeod – Downtown Pop Underground
    Kembrew McLeod – Downtown Pop Underground
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    “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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture
    Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture
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    “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
    Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Gerhard Richter: Images of an Era
    Gerhard Richter: Images of an Era
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    “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
    Abstracts of Karl Rahner’s Unserialized Essays
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    “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
  • Music of Azerbaijan: From Mugham to Opera
    Music of Azerbaijan: From Mugham to Opera
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    “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
    The Henry Davis Gift: A Collection of Bookbindings
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    “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
    Gao Minglu – Total Modernity and the Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Chinese Art
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    “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
    Koretsky: The Soviet Photo Poster: 1930-1984
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    “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
    In the Atelier: Erik Desmazières Printmaker René Tazé Printer: An Artistic collaboration 1978-2018
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    “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
    American Modernism at Mid-Century: The Work of Morris Davidson
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Michael Auping – 40 Years: Just Talking About Art
    Michael Auping – 40 Years: Just Talking About Art
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • The Big Idea: Criticality and Practice in Contemporary Architecture
    The Big Idea: Criticality and Practice in Contemporary Architecture
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Constance A Newland – Myself and I (as-is)
    Constance A Newland – Myself and I (as-is)
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Janet Malcolm – Iphigenia In Forest Hills
    Janet Malcolm – Iphigenia In Forest Hills
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    “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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • DJ Screw – Lance Scott Walker (Signed)
    DJ Screw – Lance Scott Walker (Signed)
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    Signed 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
  • Cube – Lucky Numbers & True Weight
    Cube – Lucky Numbers & True Weight
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    Lucky Numbers & True Weight, the fourth full-length by the New York City artist Cube, continues to push to the surface what has been hiding in plain sight all along: […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Cold Cave – Fate In Seven Lessons (Blood Vinyl)
    Cold Cave – Fate In Seven Lessons (Blood Vinyl)
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    “Fate In Seven Lessons” is the new release by Cold Cave encompassing all of their past while moving deeper into the future. It’s their heaviest and most romantic yet with […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Cold Cave – Cherish The Light Years (Black Smoke Vinyl)
    Cold Cave – Cherish The Light Years (Black Smoke Vinyl)
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    “”Cherish The Light Years” was originally released in 2010 by Matador Records. Recorded at Electric Lady and DFA’s Plantain Studios in NYC, “Cherish The Light [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Ramones – Leave Home (180g Reissue)
    Ramones – Leave Home (180g Reissue)
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    “Second verse, not quite like the first…. Released a mere nine months after the Ramones’ groundbreaking debut, 1977’s Leave Home was in many respects a continuation of the [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Gang Of Four – A Brief History Of The Twentieth Century
    Gang Of Four – A Brief History Of The Twentieth Century
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    Album & EP tracks 1979-1983. Label: Warner Bros. Records – RCV1 26448 Series: Back To The 80s Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Reissue, Clear Country: US Released: Jul 27, […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Kozmetika – Kozmetika (Atlantide Reissue)
    Kozmetika – Kozmetika (Atlantide Reissue)
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    “Yugoslavia had a rich and colorful scene for rock and pop back from the ’60s to the ’80s. By 1983, at the peak of new wave and electronic rock, even […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Confuse – Old God Meet New God (Fan Club Reissue)
    Confuse – Old God Meet New God (Fan Club Reissue)
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    Contains the Indignation Demo and Live At Green Village Label: Absolute Power – JAPAN FOUR Format: Vinyl, LP, Unofficial Release Country: Europe Released: VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • An Introduction To Modern Architecture (as-is)
    An Introduction To Modern Architecture (as-is)
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction