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  • 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
    $9.00 | , ,

    “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 Cine…
    $10.00 | , ,

    “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
    $12.00 | , ,

    “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
  • Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry
    Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry
    $10.00 | , ,

    “Letters profiles Canadian artist Michael Morris during the period between 1964 and 1971 with a particular focus on his relationship with concrete poetry, considered to be among the first [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Gerhard Richter: Images of an Era
    Gerhard Richter: Images of an Era
    $25.00 | , ,

    “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
  • Blurring The Boundaries: Installation Art 1969-1996
    Blurring The Boundaries: Installation Art 1969-1996
    $12.00 | , ,

    “A classic documentation of site-specific and multi-media installation artwork, Blurring the Boundaries surveys twenty-five years of the genre’s finest accomplishments. Included are [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Abstracts of Karl Rahner’s Unserialized Essays
    Abstracts of Karl Rahner’s Unserialized Essays
    $10.00 | , ,

    “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
    $10.00 | , ,

    “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
    $30.00 | , ,

    “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-Ce…
    $12.00 | , ,

    “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
  • In the Atelier: Erik Desmazières Printmaker René Tazé Printer: An Artistic collaboration 1978-2018
    In the Atelier: Erik Desmazières Printmaker René Tazé Printer: An Arti…
    $15.00 | , ,

    “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
    $10.00 | , ,

    “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
  • The Big Idea: Criticality and Practice in Contemporary Architecture
    The Big Idea: Criticality and Practice in Contemporary Architecture
    $12.00 | , ,

    “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
  • An Introduction To Modern Architecture (as-is)
    An Introduction To Modern Architecture (as-is)
    $5.00 | , ,

    “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
  • Chain 6: Letters
    Chain 6: Letters
    $15.00 | , ,

    Issue six of Chain, featuring contributions from William Burroughs, Ron Silliman, Norma Cole and more. Chain, 1999 Softcover edition. Some discoloration/wear to wraps.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Cinema And Art As Archive: Form, Medium, Memory
    Cinema And Art As Archive: Form, Medium, Memory
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    As 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Early Cinema: Space, Frame Narrative
    Early Cinema: Space, Frame Narrative
    $8.00 | , ,

    In 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Marc Saporta – Composition No.1 (Very rare)
    Marc Saporta – Composition No.1 (Very rare)
    $150.00 | , ,

    “VE3 is a re-imagining of a book originally published in the 1960s. The book is the first ever “book in a box”, called Composition No.1 by Marc Saporta. When we […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jenny Saville: Catalog (English/Italian Edition)
    Jenny Saville: Catalog (English/Italian Edition)
    $50.00 | , ,

    A monograph containing a selection of Jenny Saville’s paintings, along with writings on her work in English & Italian. MACRO, 2005 Softcover edition. Light general wear.

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Matt Furie – Boy’s Club #2 (Very Rare)
    Matt Furie – Boy’s Club #2 (Very Rare)
    $300.00 | , ,

    Issue #2 of Matt Furie’s comic strip of anthropomorphic animals. Buenaventura Press, 2008 Comic magazine edition. Light wear to spine and corners.

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Sam Rohdie – Fellini Lexicon
    Sam Rohdie – Fellini Lexicon
    $15.00 | , ,

    “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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Susan Sontag: Mind As Passion
    Susan Sontag: Mind As Passion
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
    Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
    $10.00 | , ,

    Masculine 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
    After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
    $10.00 | , ,

    Over 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. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Mel Bochner – Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings & Interviews.
    Mel Bochner – Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings & Inte…
    $12.00 | ,

    Reviews, art criticism, theoretical texts, interviews, catalog statements, notecards, magazine interventions, and other writings on art and art in the form of writing by a leading conceptual [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Dieter Roth: Souvenirs. (Text in English & German)
    Dieter Roth: Souvenirs. (Text in English & German)
    $30.00 | , ,

    Art polymath extraordinaire, Dieter Roth (1930-1998) maintained throughout his career an output so prodigious and various that art historians and fans are still struggling to keep up. Bringing [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Altered States: The Library of Julio Santo Domingo.
    Altered States: The Library of Julio Santo Domingo.
    $30.00 | , ,

    Julio Mario Santo Domingo (1957-2009) was a collector and visionary who filled his homes and warehouses with the world’s greatest private collection related to the subjects of drugs, sex, magic, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Dennis Covington – Salvation On Sand Mountain
    Dennis Covington – Salvation On Sand Mountain
    $6.00 | , ,

    “For New York Times reporter Dennis Covington, what began as a journalistic assignment-covering the trial of an Alabama pastor convicted of attempting to murder his wife with poisonous [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Art & Power: The Avant-garde & the Soviet State, 1917-1928
    Art & Power: The Avant-garde & the Soviet State, 1917-1928
    $12.00 | , ,

    In Art and Power, Andrei Sarabyanov and Natalia Strizhkova explore the historical period between 1917 to the early 1930s, when avant-garde artists and Bolshevik leaders worked hand in hand to [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé
    Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mall…
    $12.00 | , ,

    At the outset of the twentieth century, language became a visual medium and a philosophical problem for European avant-garde artists. In Total Expansion of the Letter, art historian Trevor Stark [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Running the Voodoo Down: The Electric Music of Miles Davis
    Running the Voodoo Down: The Electric Music of Miles Davis
    $12.00 | , ,

    This book reassesses Miles Davis’ “electric period” and analyzes its continuing influence on contemporary music. While jazz purists often revile this phase – which encompasses the entire [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery
    Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery
    $12.00 | , ,

    Years after its release, Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea remains one of the most beloved and best-selling albums in all of indie music, hailed as a […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Non-Fiction
  • Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex & Infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 1557-1789
    Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex & Infanticide in…
    $10.00 | , ,

    This captivating history exposes a clandestine world of family and community secrets―incest, abortion, and infanticide―in the early modern Venetian republic. With the keen eye of a detective, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Michel Leiris – Fibrils: The Rules of the Game, Volume 3
    Michel Leiris – Fibrils: The Rules of the Game, Volume 3
    $10.00 | , ,

    A beloved and versatile author and ethnographer, French intellectual Michel Leiris is often ranked in the company of Proust, Gide, Sartre, and Camus, yet his work remains largely unfamiliar to [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction
    Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction
    $10.00 | , ,

    Early science fiction has often been associated almost exclusively with Northern industrialized nations. In this groundbreaking exploration of the science fiction written in Latin America prior [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century
    Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century
    $10.00 | , ,

    Women’s contributions to science fiction over the past century have been lasting and important, but critical work in the field has only just begun to explore its full range. Justine […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Michel Leiris – Scratches: Rules of the Game – Volume 1
    Michel Leiris – Scratches: Rules of the Game – Volume 1
    $12.00 | , ,

    “For me his work is not only a document that enriches our knowledge of man, but also a personal testament that touches me deeply.”–Francis BaconScratches is the first volume in [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Marcus Rainsford – Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti
    Marcus Rainsford – Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hay…
    $12.00 | , ,

    As the first complete narrative in English of the Haitian Revolution, Marcus Rainsford’s An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti was highly influential in establishing [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Dream Factory on the Nile: Pierre Sioufi Collection of Egyptian Cinema Lobby Cards.
    Dream Factory on the Nile: Pierre Sioufi Collection of Egyptian Cinema…
    $12.00 | , ,

    Egyptian lobby cards combined a film’s poster art, still photographs from the set, and a credit list that usually included the production company, cast and crew, director, screenwriter, and music [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Trip: Andy Warhol’s Plastic Fantastic Cross-Country Adventure.
    Trip: Andy Warhol’s Plastic Fantastic Cross-Country Adventure.
    $10.00 | , ,

    From the author of Strapless and Guest of Honor, a book about a little-known road trip Andy Warhol took from New York to LA in 1963, and how that journey—and […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Adjusted Margin: Xerography, Art, & Activisim in the Late Twentieth Century.
    Adjusted Margin: Xerography, Art, & Activisim in the Late Twentie…
    $10.00 | , ,

    This is the story of how the xerographic copier, or “Xerox machine,” became a creative medium for artists and activists during the last few decades of the twentieth century. Paper […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Absence of Clutter: Minimal Writing as Art & Literature.
    Absence of Clutter: Minimal Writing as Art & Literature.
    $12.00 | , ,

    In the 1960s and 70s, minimal and conceptual artists stripped language down to its most basic components: the word and the letter. Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Carl Andre, Lawrence Weiner, […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Philip Pearlstein – Landscape Aquatints
    Philip Pearlstein – Landscape Aquatints
    $18.00 | ,

    A selection of Philip Pearlstein’s illustrations from 1978-1980 Staple-bound zine with dustjacket. Moisture damage/staining along upper edge

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Gallery Of Photography: Vision
    Gallery Of Photography: Vision
    $12.00 | ,

    A pamphlet featuring work from the Vision Gallery, based out of Boston, circa 1980s Staple-bound zine with some discoloration

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Jean Genet – May Day Speech
    Jean Genet – May Day Speech
    $20.00 | , ,

    Transcript of Jean Genet’s May Day Speech, given in support of Bobby Seale after his imprisonment. City Lights, 1970 staple-bound zine. Some light wear and discoloration.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Cornelia Parker – Verso
    Cornelia Parker – Verso
    $32.00 | , ,

    This diminutive artists book was specially commissioned by Ivorypress as part of an ongoing series. Verso is a previously unpublished work by British sculptor and installation artist Cornelia [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Ira Cohen – A Certain Kind of Wizard
    Ira Cohen – A Certain Kind of Wizard
    $28.00 | ,

    Poet, photographer, filmmaker, publisher, and dauntless world traveler, Ira Cohen was a mythic figure of boundless energy who was a catalyst for creative scenes in New York, Tangier, Kathmandu, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction
  • Rédoine Faïd – Outlaw
    Rédoine Faïd – Outlaw
    $18.00 | ,

    Memoirs of celebrated criminals purvey vivid personal stories while spawning sharp questions about the cultures that produced them. In Outlaw: Author Armed & Dangerous, Rédoine Faïd, of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction