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  • Masterpieces Of American Modernism
    Masterpieces Of American Modernism
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Emmet Gowin – Photographs
    Emmet Gowin – Photographs
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Expressions: New Art From Germany
    Expressions: New Art From Germany
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    Exhibition catalog focusing on the German Expressionist movement 1960s-1980s. Saint Louis Museum Press & Prestel-Verlag, 1983 softcover edition. Light scuffing/wear to wraps  

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Hacking The Earthship: In Search Of An Earth-Shelter That Works For Everyone
    Hacking The Earthship: In Search Of An Earth-Shelter That Works For Everyone
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    “Hacking the Earthship: In Search of an Earth-Shelter that Works for EveryBody is a collection of academic and in-the-field research on Earthships combined with practical advice for [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • United Forces: An Archive Of Brazil’s Raw Metal Attack 1986-1991
    United Forces: An Archive Of Brazil’s Raw Metal Attack 1986-1991
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    In 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 […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Metal, Non-Fiction
  • Texas Is The Reason: The Mavericks Of Lone Star Punk
    Texas Is The Reason: The Mavericks Of Lone Star Punk
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    Arriving 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 […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Punk / Hardcore
  • Zero Magazine – Volume One (Japanese HC Photo book)
    Zero Magazine – Volume One (Japanese HC Photo book)
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    What our staff has to say: “Insane document of Japanese 80s punk & hardcore. Unreal spreads of punks & skins and grind freaks. Flyers & photos that will make you […]

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  • Crass: A Pictorial History 621984 – 4022024
    Crass: A Pictorial History 621984 – 4022024
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    After 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’. […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Punk / Hardcore
  • Joyce Mansour – In the Glittering Maw
    Joyce Mansour – In the Glittering Maw
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    The first English-language collection focused on the later works of Joyce Mansour, an Arab-Jewish Surrealist poet who was exiled from Egypt in the 1950s and settled in Paris. Mansour’s late […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Written in the Dark: Five Poets in the Siege of Leningrad
    Written in the Dark: Five Poets in the Siege of Leningrad
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    This anthology presents a group of writers and a literary phenomenon that has been unknown even to Russian readers for 70 years, obfuscated by historical amnesia. Gennady Gor, Pavel Zaltsman, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Matt Longabucco – M/W: An Essay on Jean Eustache’s “La maman et la putain”
    Matt Longabucco – M/W: An Essay on Jean Eustache’s “La maman et la putain”
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    Jean Eustache came of age as a director in the aftermath of the French New Wave, and made La maman et la putain (The Mother and the Whore) already disillusioned […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Constant Stranger: After Frank Stanford
    Constant Stranger: After Frank Stanford
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    Constant Stranger spotlights the accomplishments and enduring influence of the poet Frank Stanford (1948-1978). The book comprises a mix of republished and brand-new tributes, translations, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Downstream from Trout Fishing in America: A Memoir Of Richard Brautigan
    Downstream from Trout Fishing in America: A Memoir Of Richard Brautigan
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    In Downstream From Trout Fishing In America: A Memoir of Richard Brautigan, Keith Abbott paints a portrait of Richard Brautigan as a lovable and whimsical friend. Abbott explains the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Bruno K. Ӧijer – The Trilogy
    Bruno K. Ӧijer – The Trilogy
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    Bruno K. Öijer, bestselling author and fierce social critic, has reached an iconic status in Sweden. He broke through as a rebellious young poet in the early 1970s with a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Manon: Feathers
    Manon: Feathers
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    Memories 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Golden Bough: A Study In Magic And Religion
    The Golden Bough: A Study In Magic And Religion
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    The landmark study of world myth and culture Draws on myths, rituals, totems and taboos of ancient European and primitive cultures throughout the world. The third edition of this monumental […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Childsplay: The Art Of Allan Kaprow
    Childsplay: The Art Of Allan Kaprow
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Gerald Jenkins – It’s After The End Of The World
    Gerald Jenkins – It’s After The End Of The World
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    “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, […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Black Mountain College: Experiment In Art
    Black Mountain College: Experiment In Art
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Annette Michelson – On The Wings Of Hypothesis: Collected Writings On Soviet Cinema
    Annette Michelson – On The Wings Of Hypothesis: Collected Writings On Soviet Cinema
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    Annette Michelson’s erudite and incisive readings of the revolutionary films of Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, collected for the first time.This posthumous volume gathers Annette [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Matilde Marcolli – Lumen Nature: Visions Of The Abstract In Art And Mathematics
    Matilde Marcolli – Lumen Nature: Visions Of The Abstract In Art And Mathematics
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    Exploring common themes in modern art, mathematics, and science, including the concept of space, the notion of randomness, and the shape of the cosmos.This is a book about art—and a […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Joel Warner – The Curse Of The Marquis De Sade
    Joel Warner – The Curse Of The Marquis De Sade
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    Described as both “one of the most important novels ever written” and “the gospel of evil,” 120 Days of Sodom was written by the Marquis de Sade, a notorious eighteenth-century […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Hard Travelin’: The Life And Legacy Of Woody Guthrie
    Hard Travelin’: The Life And Legacy Of Woody Guthrie
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    For the first ever American Music Masters event sponsored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, musicians and folkies came together to salute the life and legacy […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Stereophonica: Sound And Space In Science, Technology And The Arts
    Stereophonica: Sound And Space In Science, Technology And The Arts
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    Episodes in the transformation of our understanding of sound and space, from binaural listening in the nineteenth century to contemporary sound art. The relationship between sound and space has [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Derek Jarman – Jubilee: Six Film Scripts
    Derek Jarman – Jubilee: Six Film Scripts
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    From the early seventies until his death in 1994, Derek Jarman made scores of films. Assembled here are six of his unforgettable film scripts: Akenaten, Jubilee, Bob-Up-A-Down, B Movie: Little [...]

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  • Marjorie Perloff – The Futurist Moment
    Marjorie Perloff – The Futurist Moment
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    Marjorie 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Laura Mulvey – Fetishism And Curiosity (Silver Edition)
    Laura Mulvey – Fetishism And Curiosity (Silver Edition)
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    Writer 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • England On Fire: A Visual Journey Through Albion’s Psychic Landscape
    England On Fire: A Visual Journey Through Albion’s Psychic Landscape
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    This 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 […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Surrealism At Play
    Surrealism At Play
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    In 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, […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Semiotext(e): The German Issue
    Semiotext(e): The German Issue
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    A 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • From A Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art And Representation In France
    From A Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art And Representation In France
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    From 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • The Fierce Urgency Of Now: Improvisation, Rights And The Ethics Of Cocreation
    The Fierce Urgency Of Now: Improvisation, Rights And The Ethics Of Cocreation
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    The 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
    Seeing The Unspeakable: The Art Of Kara Walker
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    One 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Parallel Public: Experimental Art In Late East Germany
    Parallel Public: Experimental Art In Late East Germany
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    How 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • A Slow Burning Fire: The Rise Of The New Art Practice In Yugoslavia
    A Slow Burning Fire: The Rise Of The New Art Practice In Yugoslavia
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    The 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Out Of Sight: The Los Angeles Art Scene Of The Sixities
    Out Of Sight: The Los Angeles Art Scene Of The Sixities
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    A 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • On & By: Andy Warhol
    On & By: Andy Warhol
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    Writings 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • October Files: John Cage
    October Files: John Cage
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    An 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
  • Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology
    Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology
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    Now in paperback, a significant new collection of concrete poetry that redefines what this unique literary movement means today. Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology is the first overview of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms
    Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms
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    A major contribution for American readers and students of Russian literature and an exciting discovery for fans of contemporary writers as eclectic as George Saunders, John Ashbery, and Martin [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Cannibal Error (Revised)
    Cannibal Error (Revised)
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    A 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Antonin Artaud – Journey To Mexico
    Antonin Artaud – Journey To Mexico
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    On 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Troy James Weaver – Visions
    Troy James Weaver – Visions
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    “Troy James Weaver’s novel unravels the typical coming-of-age story. It erases the distinction between finding and losing your voice, becoming enlightened by a vision and swallowed by [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Pierre Senges – Ahabs (Sequels)
    Pierre Senges – Ahabs (Sequels)
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    The reader will find here the true aftermath of the adventures of Ahab, self-described captain, survivor of his last fight against a giant fish. We will see how this retiree […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Louis-Auguste Blanqui – Eternity by the Stars: An Astronomical Hypothesis
    Louis-Auguste Blanqui – Eternity by the Stars: An Astronomical Hypothesis
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    In 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Gabriele Tinti – Bleedings – Incipit Tragoedia
    Gabriele Tinti – Bleedings – Incipit Tragoedia
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    Bleedings – Incipit Tragoedia is a series of poems Tinti composed in the spring of 2020. The epigraphic collections of the National Roman Museum, the Capitoline Museums, and the National [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jan Wolkers – Turkish Delight
    Jan Wolkers – Turkish Delight
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    Upon its original publication in 1969, Turkish Delight was a sensation and a scandal. Its graphic language and explicit sex scenes had an explosive effect, but just as revolutionary was […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Mathias Enard – Zone
    Mathias Enard – Zone
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    “The novel of the decade, if not of the century.”–Christophe Claro Francis Servain Mirkovic, a French-born Croat who has been working for the French Intelligence Services for [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Alice Notley – Telling the Truth as It Comes Up: Selected Talks & Essays 1991-2018
    Alice Notley – Telling the Truth as It Comes Up: Selected Talks & Essays 1991-2018
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    “Once again, we encounter Notley as one the great interlocutors of the world, a dedicated advocate for what is between and beyond definition.” –Tess Michaelson, Full Stop Alice [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the Fbi, the Kkk, and the Bombers Beyond Their Control
    Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the Fbi, the Kkk, and the Bombers Beyond Their Control
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    New 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction