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  • Jennifer Veillerobe ‎– Luftlöcher
    Jennifer Veillerobe ‎– Luftlöcher
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    “Recorded at home in Oreno di Vimercate (Italy), September 2012, using various kinds of sparkling liquids recorded through miniature holes on plastic bottles. No overdubs, postproduction or [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Flora Yin Wong* / Sébastien Roux ‎– Trigram For Earth / 50 Frequency And Amplitude Modulated Sine Waves Describing A Landscape
    Flora Yin Wong* / Sébastien Roux ‎– Trigram For Earth / 50 Frequency A…
    $20.00 | , ,

    “Flora YIN WONG ‘Trigram for Earth’ Trigram for Earth, by Flora Yin Wong, is inspired by traditional eight-sided Pakua mirrors and the trigrams inscribed on each of their edges. [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Cortex A9 ‎– Basic Housekeeping – Order.
    Cortex A9 ‎– Basic Housekeeping – Order.
    $20.00 | , ,

    Music By – Dan Johansson (sewer election) , Frederikke Hoffmeier (puce mary), Hugo Randulv Label: Förlag För Fri Musik – 013 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Sweden Released: 2019 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Judith Hamann ‎– Shaking Studies
    Judith Hamann ‎– Shaking Studies
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    “For her first album releases as a soloist, nomadic Australian cellist and composer Judith Hamann presents two collections of her sonic inquiries into shaking and humming. Her LP, [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • The Velvet Underground ‎– White Light/White Heat [early 70s Stereo/Mono]
    The Velvet Underground ‎– White Light/White Heat [early 70s Stereo/Mon…
    $75.00 | , ,

    “The world of pop music was hardly ready for The Velvet Underground’s first album when it appeared in the spring of 1967, but while The Velvet Underground and Nico sounded […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • William Kentridge : (October Files)
    William Kentridge : (October Files)
    $9.00 | , ,

    Critical texts and interviews that explore the drawings, animations, and theatrical work of the South African artist William Kentridge. Since the 1970s, the South African artist William Kentridge [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Roy Lichtenstein : (October Files)
    Roy Lichtenstein : (October Files)
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    The most comprehensive collection on Lichtenstein, from the earliest reviews to recent reassessments, including several hard-to-find and previously unpublished pieces. Roy Lichtenstein’s [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Richard Hamilton : (October Files)
    Richard Hamilton : (October Files)
    $9.00 | , ,

    Essays and articles about Richard Hamiton, “the intellectual father of Pop art.“ Still little-known in the United States, Richard Hamilton is a key figure in twentieth-century art. An original [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Martin Boyce: When Now Is Night
    Martin Boyce: When Now Is Night
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    Best known for his powerful sculptures and installations, Scottish artist Martin Boyce reconfigures everyday elements into alternate realities. Garbage cans are lopsided, trees consist of [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Chaos and Awe : Painting for the 21st Century
    Chaos and Awe : Painting for the 21st Century
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    Fifty paintings, reproduced in color, by an international array of contemporary artists, show the aptness and relevance of painting in an era of uncertainty. In an age of global instability, […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Robert Rauschenberg : (October Files)
    Robert Rauschenberg : (October Files)
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    Critical essays on the artist Robert Rauschenberg, focusing on the important period of his development in the 1950s and 1960s. From the moment art historian Leo Steinberg championed his work […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • The Reason for the Darkness of the Night : Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
    The Reason for the Darkness of the Night : Edgar Allan Poe and the For…
    $8.00 | , ,

    An innovative biography of Edgar Allan Poe―highlighting his fascination and feuds with science. Decade after decade, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of the most popular American writers. He is [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Chris Marker – Staring Back
    Chris Marker – Staring Back
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    Photographs by one of French cinema’s most influential and enigmatic artists. Any new film and any new book by French filmmaker Chris Marker is an event. Marker gave film lovers […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • High Religion : A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism
    High Religion : A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism
    $20.00 | , ,

    An eminent anthropologist examines the foundings of the first celibate Buddhist monasteries among the Sherpas of Nepal in the early 20th century — a religious development that was a major [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lucinda Williams – Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You : A Memoir
    Lucinda Williams – Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told Y…
    $9.00 | , ,

    Lucinda Williams’s rise to fame was anything but easy. Raised in a working-class family in the Deep South, she moved from town to town each time her father–a poet, a […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Memoir
  • Dangerous Rhythms : Jazz and the Underworld
    Dangerous Rhythms : Jazz and the Underworld
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    Dangerous Rhythms tells the symbiotic story of jazz and the underworld: a relationship fostered in some of 20th century America’s most notorious vice districts. For the first half of the [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • In the Mind but Not from There : Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art
    In the Mind but Not from There : Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art
    $8.00 | , ,

    Artists and critics explore the concept of Real Abstraction to help understand contemporary cultural production In the Mind, But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art considers [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Vision Machines: Cinema, Literature and Sexuality in Spain and Cuba, 1983-1993
    Vision Machines: Cinema, Literature and Sexuality in Spain and Cuba, 1…
    $8.00 | , ,

    Over the last decade, visibility and sexuality have become a major theme in Spanish and Cuban cinema, literature and art. This book explores this development in the light of contemporary […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Robin Robertson – The Long Take : A Noir Narrative
    Robin Robertson – The Long Take : A Noir Narrative
    $7.00 | , ,

    From the award-winning British author–a poet’s noir narrative that tells the story of a D-Day veteran in postwar America: a good man, brutalized by war, haunted by violence and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Alexander Von Humboldt : The Complete Drawings from the American Travel Journals
    Alexander Von Humboldt : The Complete Drawings from the American Trave…
    $60.00 | , ,

    At the dawn of the 19th-century, the Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt was granted permission to charter an expedition to Spain’s colonies in the New World. Over the course of […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Bruce Grant – In the Soviet House of Culture : A Century of Perestroikas
    Bruce Grant – In the Soviet House of Culture : A Century of Pere…
    $17.00 | , ,

    At the outset of the twentieth century, the Nivkhi of Sakhalin Island were a small population of fishermen under Russian dominion and an Asian cultural sway. The turbulence of the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Revolution of the Eye : Modern Art and the Birth of American Television
    Revolution of the Eye : Modern Art and the Birth of American Televisio…
    $13.00 | , ,

    The aesthetics and concepts of modern art have influenced American television ever since its inception in the 1930s. In return, early television introduced the public to the latest trends in […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • The Art of Participation, 1950 to Now
    The Art of Participation, 1950 to Now
    $13.00 | , ,

    The first fully illustrated survey of participatory art and its key practitioners, published in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This new survey covers the rich and […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • American Genre Painting : The Politics of Everyday Life
    American Genre Painting : The Politics of Everyday Life
    $10.00 | , ,

    Drawing on contemporary literature, popular culture, news, and census reports, Johns convincingly shows that antebellum American genre painting was not a simple recording of an Edenic American [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Eileen Myles – A Working Life
    Eileen Myles – A Working Life
    $9.00 | , ,

    The first new collection since Evolution from the prolific poet, activist, and writer Eileen Myles, a “Working Life” unerringly captures the measure of life. Whether alone or in [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Alexandra Popoff – Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century
    Alexandra Popoff – Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century
    $8.00 | , ,

    If Vasily Grossman’s 1961 masterpiece, Life and Fate, had been published during his lifetime, it would have reached the world together with Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago and before [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Pathetic Literature
    Pathetic Literature
    $9.00 | , ,

    “Literature is pathetic.” So claims Eileen Myles in their provocative and robust introduction to Pathetic Literature, a breathtaking mishmash of pieces ranging from poems to theater [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Live or Die : Philippe Vandenberg and Bruce Nauman
    Live or Die : Philippe Vandenberg and Bruce Nauman
    $13.00 | , ,

    This publication combines the works of Belgian artist Philippe Vandenberg (1952-2009) and American artist Bruce Nauman (b. 1941). At first, it may seem startling to see Nauman’s small but [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Jack Burnham – Dissolve into Comprehension : Writings and Interviews, 1964-2004
    Jack Burnham – Dissolve into Comprehension : Writings and Interv…
    $12.00 | , ,

    Influential writings by the legendary art critic and theorist Jack Burnham-a pioneer in new media systems aesthetics and an early advocate of conceptualism. Jack Burnham is one of the few […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Disappearing-California C. 1970 : Bas Jan Ader, Chris Burden, Jack Goldstein
    Disappearing-California C. 1970 : Bas Jan Ader, Chris Burden, Jack Gol…
    $12.00 | , ,

    In 1971, Chris Burden disappeared for three days without a trace. This book, also entitled Disappearing, examines the theme of disappearance in the works of Burden and his contemporaries, Bas [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Dirty Pictures : How an Underground Network of Nerds, Feminists, Misfits, Geniuses, Bikers, Potheads, Printers, Intellectuals, and Art School Rebels Revolutionized Art and Invented Comix
    Dirty Pictures : How an Underground Network of Nerds, Feminists, Misfi…
    $10.00 | , ,

    In the 1950s, comics meant POW! BAM! superheroes, family-friendly gags, and Sunday funnies, but in the 1960s, inspired by these strips and the satire of MAD magazine, a new generation […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Thomas Crow – The Artist in the Counterculture : Bruce Conner to Mike Kelley and Other Tales from the Edge
    Thomas Crow – The Artist in the Counterculture : Bruce Conner to…
    $15.00 | , ,

    How 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg : Art, Happenings, and Cultural Politics
    Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg : Art, Happenings, and Cultural Polit…
    $15.00 | , ,

    This 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 […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • V/A – The Quick Neat Job (Crépuscule Collection 1)
    V/A – The Quick Neat Job (Crépuscule Collection 1)
    $25.00 | , ,

    Crépuscule Collection No.1. Features tracks by Anna Domino, Be Music & Paul Haig Label: Les Disques Du Crépuscule – VIL-28048 Format: Vinyl, Compilation, LP Country: Japan Released: 1986 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • James White & The Blacks – Off White (1980 Japanese Pressing)
    James White & The Blacks – Off White (1980 Japanese Pressing)
    $50.00 | , ,

    “For Off White, James Chance, a veteran of New York’s avant-garde no wave scene, recast his seminal band the Contortions as a parody of a soul band, albeit one incorporating […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Boris Vian – Trouble In The Swaths
    Boris Vian – Trouble In The Swaths
    $15.00 | ,

    A rollicking adventure caper satirizing the soon-to-be ubiquitous aspects of spy sagas First published posthumously in 1966, Trouble in the Swaths was written by Boris Vian for a small audience [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • John Bowen – The Girls: A Story of Village Life
    John Bowen – The Girls: A Story of Village Life
    $19.00 | ,

    In their lovely old Cotswolds village, Janet and Susan are known to all the other villagers as “the girls”—a fixture. Partners in love and work, co-proprietors of a picturesque shop […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Elizabeth Mavor – A Green Equinox
    Elizabeth Mavor – A Green Equinox
    $18.00 | ,

    Hero Kinoull is an antiquarian bookseller whose sedate life in the picturesque English town of Beaudesert is turned upside down between the spring and autumn equinoxes of a single year. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Pierre Louys – Pybrac
    Pierre Louys – Pybrac
    $14.00 | ,

    A manuscript of obscenely erotic poetry from Pierre Louÿs, written in secret and published after his death By turns amusing and offensive, Pierre Louÿs’ Pybrac is possibly the filthiest [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Edmund White – Nocturnes for the King of Naples
    Edmund White – Nocturnes for the King of Naples
    $18.00 | ,

    “Can’t sleep tonight. Was lying in bed reading the biography of a great man whose genius deserted him . . . The genius who deserted me was you.” In a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Leon-Paul Fargue – Vulturnus
    Leon-Paul Fargue – Vulturnus
    $15.00 | ,

    When published in 1928, Vulturnus represented a new direction in Léon-Paul Fargue’s writing: a shift from the lyrical post-Symbolist melancholy of his early poetry to something more grandiose, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Michael W. Clune – White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin
    Michael W. Clune – White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin
    $18.00 | ,

    How do you describe an addiction in which your drug of choice creates a hole in your memory, a “white out,” so that every time you use it is the […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Juan Rulfo – Pedro Paramo
    Juan Rulfo – Pedro Paramo
    $17.00 | ,

    The highly influential masterpiece of Latin American literature, now published in a new, authoritative translation, and featuring a foreword by Gabriel García Márquez A masterpiece of the surreal [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Bess Brenck Kalischer – The Mill: A Cosmos
    Bess Brenck Kalischer – The Mill: A Cosmos
    $14.00 | ,

    The hallucinatory English-language debut of an overlooked German Expressionist poet Bess Brenck Kalischer’s only work of prose was first published in German in 1922. Narrated by a woman being [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Alain-Paul Mallard – An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg
    Alain-Paul Mallard – An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg
    $12.00 | ,

    A miniature Borgesian portrait in misanthropy In a sequence of anecdotes imbued with haughty melancholy and nihilistic irony, Alain-Paul Mallard assembles a puzzle of an Austrian writer who [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Gertrude Stein – The Making of Americans
    Gertrude Stein – The Making of Americans
    $23.00 | ,

    In The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein sets out to tell “a history of a family’s progress,” radically reworking the traditional family saga novel to encompass her vision of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Camille Roy – Honey Mine: Collected Stories
    Camille Roy – Honey Mine: Collected Stories
    $18.00 | ,

    Honey Mine unfolds as both excavation and romp, an adventure story that ushers readers into a lesbian writer’s coming of age through disorienting, unsparing, and exhilarating encounters with sex, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Moon Songs: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller
    Moon Songs: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller
    $20.00 | ,

    Carol Emshwiller’s pioneering stories have been praised by and influenced a wide variety writers including Ursula K. Le Guin, Grace Paley, Samuel R. Delany, Harlan Ellison, Karen Joy Fowler, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Leon Feuchtwanger – The Oppermanns
    Leon Feuchtwanger – The Oppermanns
    $18.00 | ,

    The Oppermann brothers consider themselves exemplary German citizens: cultured, liberal, proud contributors to society. One runs the trusted Oppermann furniture chain. One is an eminent surgeon. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Charles Neider – The Authentic Death Of Hendry Jones
    Charles Neider – The Authentic Death Of Hendry Jones
    $19.00 | ,

    The 1950s classic that rewrote the myth of the American West and inspired its subsequent chroniclers from Sam Peckinpah to Marlon Brando to Cormac McCarthy. Hendry Jones isn’t quite Billy […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive