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William Kentridge : (October Files)
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsCritical 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 [...]
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Roy Lichtenstein : (October Files)
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe most comprehensive collection on Lichtenstein, from the earliest reviews to recent reassessments, including several hard-to-find and previously unpublished pieces. Roy Lichtenstein’s [...]
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Richard Hamilton : (October Files)
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsEssays 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 [...]
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Martin Boyce: When Now Is Night
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBest known for his powerful sculptures and installations, Scottish artist Martin Boyce reconfigures everyday elements into alternate realities. Garbage cans are lopsided, trees consist of [...]
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Chaos and Awe : Painting for the 21st Century
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFifty 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, […]
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Robert Rauschenberg : (October Files)
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsCritical 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 […]
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The Reason for the Darkness of the Night : Edgar Allan Poe and the For…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAn 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 [...]
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Chris Marker – Staring Back
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPhotographs 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 […]
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High Religion : A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAn 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 [...]
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Lucinda Williams – Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told Y…
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsLucinda 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 […]
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Dangerous Rhythms : Jazz and the Underworld
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDangerous 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 [...]
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In the Mind but Not from There : Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsArtists 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 [...]
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Vision Machines: Cinema, Literature and Sexuality in Spain and Cuba, 1…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOver 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 […]
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Robin Robertson – The Long Take : A Noir Narrative
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFrom 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 Trave…
$60.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAt 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 […]
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Bruce Grant – In the Soviet House of Culture : A Century of Pere…
$17.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAt 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 […]
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Revolution of the Eye : Modern Art and the Birth of American Televisio…
$13.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe 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 […]
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The Art of Participation, 1950 to Now
$13.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe 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 […]
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American Genre Painting : The Politics of Everyday Life
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDrawing 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 [...]
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Eileen Myles – A Working Life
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe 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
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIf 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 [...]
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Pathetic Literature
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“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
$13.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis 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 [...]
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Jack Burnham – Dissolve into Comprehension : Writings and Interv…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsInfluential 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 […]
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Disappearing-California C. 1970 : Bas Jan Ader, Chris Burden, Jack Gol…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 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 [...]
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Dirty Pictures : How an Underground Network of Nerds, Feminists, Misfi…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 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 […]
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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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V/A – The Quick Neat Job (Crépuscule Collection 1)
$25.00 | LP, Used Items, VinylCrépuscule 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+
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James White & The Blacks – Off White (1980 Japanese Pressing)
$50.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl“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 […]
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Boris Vian – Trouble In The Swaths
$15.00 | Book, PrintA 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
$19.00 | Book, PrintIn 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
$18.00 | Book, PrintHero 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
$14.00 | Book, PrintA 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
$18.00 | Book, Print“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
$15.00 | Book, PrintWhen 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
$18.00 | Book, PrintHow 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
$17.00 | Book, PrintThe 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
$14.00 | Book, PrintThe 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
$12.00 | Book, PrintA 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
$23.00 | Book, PrintIn 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
$18.00 | Book, PrintHoney 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
$20.00 | Book, PrintCarol 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
$18.00 | Book, PrintThe 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
$19.00 | Book, PrintThe 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