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Marjorie Perloff – The Futurist Moment
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartMarjorie Perloff’s stunning book was one of the first to offer a serious and far-reaching examination of the momentous flourishing of Futurist aesthetics in the European art and literature of [...]
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Laura Mulvey – Fetishism And Curiosity (Silver Edition)
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWriter and film-maker Laura Mulvey is widely regarded as one of the most challenging and incisive contemporary cultural theorists, credited for incorporating film theory, psychoanalysis and [...]
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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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Semiotext(e): The German Issue
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major global mutation, bridging art and intellect, culture and politics, Europe and America.The German Issue (1982) was originally [...]
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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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The Fierce Urgency Of Now: Improvisation, Rights And The Ethics Of Cocreation
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe Fierce Urgency of Now links musical improvisation to struggles for social change, focusing on the connections between the improvisation associated with jazz and the dynamics of human rights [...]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction -
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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Out Of Sight: The Los Angeles Art Scene Of The Sixities
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA social and cultural history of Los Angeles and its emerging art scene in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s The history of modern art typically begins in Paris and ends […]
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On & By: Andy Warhol
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWritings about Andy Warhol by critics, artists, cultural theorists, and Factory associates together with archival material, interviews, and texts by Warhol himself. The impact of Andy Warhol on [...]
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October Files: John Cage
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAn extended trajectory of Cage literature, from early critical reaction to writing by contemporaries to current scholarship.John Cage (1912–1992) defined a radical practice of composition that [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction -
R. Buckminster Fuller – Intuition
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAccomplished polymath R.Buckminster Fuller impacted and influenced everyone from John Cage to early hippie movements. Intuition is his 12th book. “In this series of poem-essays, Fuller [...]
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Cannibal Error (Revised)
$32.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA social history of the ‘video nasty’. In the early 1980s, video technology forever changed the face of home entertainment. The videocassette – a handy-sized cartridge of [...]
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Antonin Artaud – Journey To Mexico
$34.00 | Book, Print Add to cartOn 10 January 1936, the poet, actor, and dramatic theorist, Antonin Artaud departed Europe on a journey to Mexico that would take him from the streets, cafés, and lecture halls […]
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Louis-Auguste Blanqui – Eternity by the Stars: An Astronomical Hypothesis
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn a century replete with radical politics, final liberations, historical codas, and dreams of eternity, the shadowy figure of Louis-Auguste Blanqui, the constant revolutionary, wrote Eternity by [...]
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Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the Fbi, the Kkk, and the Bombers Beyond Their Control
$22.00 | Book, Print Add to cartNew evidence in ‘Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the FBI, the KKK, and the Bombers Beyond their Control’ uncovers the origin of an organized group of racist terrorists committing [...]
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Lemuria: A True Story of a Fake Place
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIs Lemuria a real place or the fever dream of crackpots, mystics, conspiracy theorists, and Bigfoot hunters? Below the waters where the Pacific and Indian Oceans lies a lost continent. […]
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The Wire Primers: A Guide to Modern Music
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSince it was founded in 1982, The Wire magazine has covered a vast range of alternative, experimental, underground and non-mainstream music. Now some of that knowledge has been distilled into [...]
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A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe first major biography of the French filmmaker hailed by Martin Scorsese as “one of the Gods of cinema.” Over the course of her sixty-five-year career, the longest of any […]
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Kathy Acker & Paul Buck: Spread Wide
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn this collaborative volume, the writer and artist Paul Buck works with the late Kathy Acker. Using as source the raw materials of their correspondence from the early 80s, a […]
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The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death Of Danny Casolaro
$150.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartProbably the single greatest work of conspiracy literature. Needs to be read to be believed. Feral House, 2004 paperback edition. Some light corner & edgewear to the wraps. Writing on […]
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Terence McKenna – True Hallucinations
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“This mesmerizing, surreal account of the bizarre adventures of Terence McKenna, his brother Dennis, and a small band of their friends, is a wild ride of exotic experience and scientific [...]
GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction -
Get Even: The Complete Book Of Dirty Tricks
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“A hilarious overview of the methods people use to get even with big business, government and enemies. These dirty tricks range from the simple to the elaborate, including more [...]
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A Record Could Be Your Whole World: Vinyl Records as the Total Artwork Of The Late 20th Century
$50.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis is a book about records considered ‘in themselves’. It is not about musicians, or music, or design, or music history — though all those things are considered at various […]
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Marcel Schwob – Spicilege
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartExquisitely crafted essays on medieval criminal slang, ancient Greek prostitution, laughter, anarchy and more from the endlessly influential Marcel Schwob “All over the world,” wrote [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction, Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena -
Hamlet in Purgatory: Expanded Edition
$21.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn Hamlet in Purgatory, renowned literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt delves into his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet’s father, and his daring and ultimately gratifying journey [...]
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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 […]
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Kate Zambreno – To Write As If Already Dead
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartTo Write As If Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno’s failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In this […]
GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction -
Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe now-classic exploration of the role of women and the feminine in Buddhist Tantra The crowning cultural achievement of medieval India, Tantric Buddhism is known in the West primarily for […]
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Expanded Cinema: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
$34.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFiftieth anniversary reissue of the founding media studies book that helped establish media art as a cultural category. First published in 1970, Gene Youngblood’s influential Expanded Cinema was [...]
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Erik Davis – Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn these wide-ranging essays, Erik Davis explores the codes — spiritual, cultural, and embodied — that people use to escape the limitations of their lives and enrich their experience of […]
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Jonas Mekas: Scrapbook of the Sixties: Writings 1954-2010
$32.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAndy Warhol, Susan Sontag, John Lennon & Yoko Ono ― Jonas Mekas was well acquainted with a great many New York artists. Born in Lithuania, he came to Brooklyn via […]
GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction -
Stefan Aune – Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartReferences to the Indian Wars, those conflicts that accompanied US continental expansion, suffuse American military history. From Black Hawk helicopters to the exclamation “Geronimo” used by [...]
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Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA landmark work that demystifies the rich tradition of Indian art, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization analyzes key motifs found in legend, myth, and folklore taken directly […]
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Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith
$31.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “The Harry Smith resurgence is upon us.” – Jack He was an anthropologist, filmmaker, painter, folklorist, mystic, and walking encyclopedia. He taught [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Folk / Country, Non-Fiction -
Marjorie Muir Worthington – The Strange World Of Willie Seabrook
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartLiterary Nonfiction. This is an intimate, stunning look at the torturous relationship of two writers: Marjorie Worthington and William Seabrook. A renowned writer on the exotic and the occult, [...]
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Susan Neiman – Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy
$14.00 | Book, Print Add to cartEvil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter […]
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Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid and Pyschedelic Folk
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn the late 60s and early 70s the inherent weirdness of folk met switched-on psychedelic rock and gave birth to new, strange forms of acoustic-based avant-garde music. Artists on both […]
GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country, Non-Fiction -
Pierre Clastres – Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians
$22.00 | Book, Print Add to cartChronicle of the Guayaki Indians is Pierre Clastres’s account of his 1963–64 encounter with this small Paraguayan tribe, a precise and detailed recording of the history, ritual, myths, and [...]
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Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992
$28.00 | Book, Print Add to cartHold On to Your Dreams is the first biography of the musician and composer Arthur Russell, one of the most important but least known contributors to New York’s downtown music […]
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Giovanni Intra – Clinic of Phantasms: Writings 1994-2002
$13.00 | Book, Print Add to cartArtist, gallerist, and writer Giovanni Intra’s inventive approach to art writing provides a guide to the New Zealand and Los Angeles art scenes of his era. Everything you read about […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
William Cooper – Behold a Pale Horse (Revised)
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartBill Cooper, former United States Naval Intelligence Briefing Team member, reveals information that remains hidden from the public eye. This information has been kept in topsecret government [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction, Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena -
Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn the age of global capitalism, vaporwave celebrates and undermines the electronic ghosts haunting the nostalgia industry. Ours is a time of ghosts in machines, killing meaning and exposing the [...]
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The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition
$14.00 | Book, Print Add to cartMurder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s [...]
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Try to Tell a Fish about Water: The Art, Music, and Third Life of Norma Tenega
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn addition to her accomplishments as a gifted musician and songwriter, Norma Tanega was a noted gallerist, teacher, and a central figure in the vibrant and homegrown creative scene of […]
GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction -
Joseph Cornell – Dreams
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA selection of dream epiphanies and reveries from Joseph Cornell’s voluminous diaries Joseph Cornell is well known for the oneiric quality of his art and films. Many have tried, often […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Memoir, Non-Fiction -
Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roch?, Beatrice Wood
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThree New York Dadas and The Blind Man relates the story of the triangular relationship between Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché and Beatrice Wood, told in the words of two of […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction -
Ibn Khald?n – The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Muqaddimah, often translated as “Introduction” or “Prolegomenon,” is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century [...]
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Holy Ghost: The Life and Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartHoly Ghost is the first extended study of free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, who is seen today as one of the most important innovators in the history of jazz. Ayler […]
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Greil Marcus – Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century (Anniversary)
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartGreil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk, Punk / Hardcore -
Eileen Ormsby – The Darkest Web: Drugs, Death and Destroyed Lives . . . the Inside Story of the Internet’s Evil Twin
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDark… A kingpin willing to murder to protect his dark web drug empire. A corrupt government official determined to avoid exposure. The death of a dark web drugs czar in […]
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Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis is the first cultural history of the world’s most common sexual practice: masturbation. At a time when almost any victimless practice has its public advocates and almost every sexual […]
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The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Wicked Queen is not a biography of one of the most infamous queens in history. Rather, Chantal Thomas presents the history of the verbal and visual representations of Marie-Antoinette, […]
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Joanna Russ – How To Suppress Women’s Writing
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAre women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women’s Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle–and not so [...]
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Claudio Lomnitz – Death And The Idea Of Mexico
$26.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDeath and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Examining the history of […]
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Carol J. Clover – Men, Women & Chainsaws
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDo the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film assumes, and so film theory claims. Carol Clover argues, however, that these […]
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As Serious As Your Life: Black Music & The Free Jazz Revolution 1957-1977
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “A very good book about the scope of free jazz. The author being a music journalist has first hand accounts of viewing and interviewing […]
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On Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures: (And Other Secret-Flix of Cinemaroc)
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartReviled, rioted over and banned as pornographic even as it was recognized by many as an unprecedented visionary masterpiece, Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures is one of the most important and [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction