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Rauschenberg: Art & Life (New Edition)
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA revised edition of a retrospective on the Venice Biennale grand prize-winning artist incorporates the last ten years of his career including his retrospective exhibition at the Guggenheim in [...]
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Dieter Roth: Souvenirs. (Text in English & German)
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartArt 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 [...]
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Altered States: The Library of Julio Santo Domingo.
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartJulio 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, [...]
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Art & Power: The Avant-garde & the Soviet State, 1917-1928
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn 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 [...]
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Dream Factory on the Nile: Pierre Sioufi Collection of Egyptian Cinema Lobby Cards.
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartEgyptian 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 [...]
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Trip: Andy Warhol’s Plastic Fantastic Cross-Country Adventure.
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFrom 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 […]
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Paper Revolutions: An Invisible Avant-Garde.
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn Paper Revolutions, Sarah James offers a radical rethinking of experimental art in the former East Germany (the GDR). Countering conventional accounts that claim artistic practices in the GDR [...]
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Donald Judd (October Files)
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartDonald Judd (1928-1994) is one of the most influential American artists of the postwar era. Beginning in the 1960s, he developed new ideas about art–in both his works and [...]
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Astro Noise: A Survival Guide for Living Under Total Surveillance
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe filmmaker, artist, and journalist Laura Poitras has explored the themes of mass surveillance, “war on terror,” drone program, Guantánamo, and torture in her work for more than ten years. […]
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Absence of Clutter: Minimal Writing as Art & Literature.
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn 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, […]
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Gerhard Richter – This Great Allegory: On World-Decay And World-Opening In The Work Of Art
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAn engagement with the relation between the world in which an artwork is created—a world that perishes or decays over time—and the new world that the artwork opens up. Gerhard […]
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Radical Virtuosity: Ana Mendieta & The Black Atlantic
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartReclaiming the artist Ana Mendieta as a formally innovative maker of performative art who forged connections to the marginalized around the world.The artist Ana Mendieta (1948–1985) is remembered [...]
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Philip Pearlstein – Landscape Aquatints
$18.00 | Print, Zine Add to cartA selection of Philip Pearlstein’s illustrations from 1978-1980 Staple-bound zine with dustjacket. Moisture damage/staining along upper edge
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Gallery Of Photography: Vision
$12.00 | Print, Zine Add to cartA pamphlet featuring work from the Vision Gallery, based out of Boston, circa 1980s Staple-bound zine with some discoloration
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Jean Genet: Alberto Giacometti (german text)
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartJean Genet’s essay on Giacometti paired with photos of his work and studio. TEXT ENTIRELY IN GERMAN Scheidegger & Spiess, 2004 Hardcover edition. Light general wear. TEXT ENTIRELY IN GERMAN
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Ken Schles – Night Walk
$15.00 | Book, Painting, Print, Used Items Add to cartTwenty-five years after the printing of his seminal 1988 book, Invisible City, Ken Schles revisits his archive and fashions a narrative of lost youth: a delirious, peripatetic walk in the […]
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Cornelia Parker – Verso
$32.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis 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 [...]
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N.H Pritchard – The Mundus
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartN.H. Pritchard’s magnum opus, The Mundus is a work that is both visual and poetic, literary and mystical. It was composed between 1965 until at least July 1971: a six-year […]
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Bravo 20: The Bombing of the American West
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“In 1952, the U.S. Navy began illegally testing high-explosive bombs on an enormous expanse of public land near Fallon, in northwestern Nevada. The land had long been sacred to the […]
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Sputtering And Distorted: A Reluctant History Of The BUFMS
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartHidden but not forgotten, hinted at through piecemeal reference after the fact, the creative efforts of the members of this West-Coast-centric cadre of art mutants first took shape in the […]
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Darkroom 2
$16.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Contributions by Judy Dater, Frank Gohlke, Emmet Gowin, Charles Harbutt, Lisette Model, Hans Namuth, Doug Prince, Aaron Siskind, Neal Slavin and Cole Weston,10 prominent photographers who [...]
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Action/Precision: The New Direction In New York
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartOverview of lesser known Abstract Expressionists, from 1955-1960. Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1984 Softcover edition. Noticeable wear to edges of dustjacket.
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Richard Ross – Waiting For The End Of The World
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Where will you go when the trouble starts? For countless people around the world, the answer is that bomb shelter down in the basement. In fact, people from around the […]
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Martin Gayford – Modernists & Mavericks
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Martin Gayford’s masterful account of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s, illustrated by documentary photographs and the works themselves. The development of [...]
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Michael Kirby – Happenings (1st Edition)
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Here is the first book about the most exciting new theatre-and-art form of this decade. It contains a comprehensive introduction; the working scripts of the fourteen most significant [...]
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Megamurals & Supergraphics
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The mural movement is one of the most positive and beautiful legacies of the spirit and change of the 60’s. Psychadelic art never survived, but street painting did, and now […]
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Thomas Macauly: Sculptural Views On Perceptual Ambiguity
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartExhibition catalog from the Dayton Art Institute’s exhibition on the minimal sculptural work of Thomas Macauly. Dayton Art Institute, 1986 Softcover edition. Light corner & edgewear.
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Andy Warhol: The Factory Years
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“New York City, the 1960s: Inside a ramshackle studio known as The Factory, the post-war art world encountered the industrial revolution. For more than two years, Nat Finkelstein was on [...]
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Jukebox: Photographs 1967-2023
$33.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“San Francisco rock’n roll bleeds through Michael Goldberg – an innovative, inspiring figure who always has been quietly pioneering something interesting for the past 50+ years. Hozac Books [...]
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Masterpieces Of American Modernism
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Modernism, referring to the period dating roughly from the late 19th century through 1970, is regarded as a crucial moment in the history of American art. Although Modernist artists [...]
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Emmet Gowin – Photographs
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“A magnificently produced retrospective of the work of distinguished photographer Emmet Gowin. Although Gowin’s work, spiritually charged and technically exquisite, is well known and [...]
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Expressions: New Art From Germany
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartExhibition catalog focusing on the German Expressionist movement 1960s-1980s. Saint Louis Museum Press & Prestel-Verlag, 1983 softcover edition. Light scuffing/wear to wraps
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United Forces: An Archive Of Brazil’s Raw Metal Attack 1986-1991
$48.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn 1986, São Paulo teenager Marcelo R. Batista channeled his love of pure, wild heavy metal into the self-produced fanzine United Forces. Over the next five years, his homemade publication […]
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Texas Is The Reason: The Mavericks Of Lone Star Punk
$35.00 | Book, Print Add to cartArriving in 1978, hitched to the back of the Sex Pistols tour bus, punk soon became as mythic in Texas as the state’s devotion to football, cattle, and prayer. Confrontational […]
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Crass: A Pictorial History 621984 – 4022024
$80.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAfter working on this book, on and off for over 30 years, trying to gather and piece together the Crass jigsaw puzzle, it finally became time to say ‘it’s finished’. […]
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Manon: Feathers
$33.00 | Book, Print Add to cartMemories and observations from the five-decade career of feminist installation artist Manon Swiss artist Manon (born 1940) came to prominence in the 1970s with her installation The Salmon [...]
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Childsplay: The Art Of Allan Kaprow
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Allan Kaprow has been described as an avant-garde revolutionary, a radical sociologist, a Zen(ish) monk, a progressive educator, and an anti-art theorist. But, above all, as this book [...]
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Gerald Jenkins – It’s After The End Of The World
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“A Picture novel study of the human spirit in the fantastic / magical and the human soul in the metaphorical and physical in Five Chapters – being Oppression, Rainbows, Mythology, […]
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Black Mountain College: Experiment In Art
$100.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“Although it lasted only twenty-three years (1933–1956) and enrolled fewer than 1,200 students, Black Mountain College was one of the most fabled experimental institutions in art education [...]
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England On Fire: A Visual Journey Through Albion’s Psychic Landscape
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis is a book about English art like no other. Forget the tired rogues’ gallery of lords and ladies, forget the tall ships and haywains. These images cut to the […]
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Surrealism At Play
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn Surrealism at Play Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy. For surrealist artists, […]
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From A Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art And Representation In France
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFrom a Nation Torn provides a powerful critique of art history’s understanding of French modernism and the historical circumstances that shaped its production and reception. Within art [...]
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Seeing The Unspeakable: The Art Of Kara Walker
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartOne of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur “genius” grant, Kara Walker, an African American artist, is best known for her iconic, often life-size, black-and-white silhouetted figures, arranged [...]
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Parallel Public: Experimental Art In Late East Germany
$16.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartHow East German artists made their country’s experimental art scene a form of (counter) public life. Experimental artists in the final years of the German Democratic Republic did not practice [...]
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A Slow Burning Fire: The Rise Of The New Art Practice In Yugoslavia
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe first comprehensive study of the former Yugoslavia’s diverse and groundbreaking alternative art scenes from the 1960s to the 1980s. This first comprehensive study of the former [...]
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Adam Pendleton – Pasts, Futures, and Aftermaths: Revisiting the Black Dada Reader
$45.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe sequel to Pendleton’s acclaimed Black Dada Reader, compiling an anti-canon of radical experimentation and thought In 2011, artist Adam Pendleton (born 1984) assembled Black Dada Reader, [...]
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John Cage – Notations
$200.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Notations is a book that was edited and compiled by American avant-garde composer John Cage (1912–1992) with Alison Knowles and first published in 1969 by Something Else Press. The book [...]
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Greer Lankton: Sketchbook, September 1977
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSketchbook, September 1977 is an early journal by Greer Lankton written during her time as an art student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It offers key […]
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Martin Wong: Footprints, Poems, and Leaves
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA rich and engaging facsimile of the artist’s first visual poetry book, self-published in 1968 The paintings of Chinese American artist Martin Wong (1946-99) are celebrated for their [...]
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Propaganda and the Holy Writ of the Process Church of the Final Judgment: Process Sex Issue-Fear Issue-Death Issue
$32.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe rare and collectible Process Church magazines are back in print. Do you dare find out who rules you? The Process Church of the Final Judgement inspired fear and devotion […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction