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  • Pablo Escobar And Colombian Narcoculture
    Pablo Escobar And Colombian Narcoculture
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    “In the years since his death in 1993, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has become a globally recognized symbol of crime, wealth, power, and masculinity. In this long-overdue exploration [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Thomas Bernhard – Correction
    Thomas Bernhard – Correction
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    “The scientist Roithamer has dedicated the last six years of his life to “the Cone,” an edifice of mathematically exact construction that he has erected in the center of his […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Time Bomb: A Nuclear Reader From The Progressive
    Time Bomb: A Nuclear Reader From The Progressive
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    An awareness and preparedness guide from the anti-nuclear Progressive Foundation. Progressive Foundation, 1980. Some rubbing & cornerwear to wraps, along with some foxing to pages.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jukebox: Photographs 1967-2023
    Jukebox: Photographs 1967-2023
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Disturbing The Peace: 415 Records And The Rise Of New Wave
    Disturbing The Peace: 415 Records And The Rise Of New Wave
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    In the late ‘70s and early to mid 1980s, San Francisco was a creative incubator, bringing forth all manner of new music acts. Ground zero for the scene was the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • An Ideal For Living: A Celebration Of The EP
    An Ideal For Living: A Celebration Of The EP
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    “Hozac Books is proud to present An Ideal For Living- A Celebration of the E.P. (Extended Play) by Corey du Browa & friends. An impressive first overview & history of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Sal Maida – Four Strings, Phony Proof, 300 45s & Bottom’s Up
    Sal Maida – Four Strings, Phony Proof, 300 45s & Bottom’s Up
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    “HoZac Books is proud to present Four Strings, Phony Proof, 300 45s, & Bottom’s Up, written by Sal Maida, one of the most interesting 1970s rock figures you just don’t […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • All Over The Place: The Rise Of The Bangles From The L.A Underground
    All Over The Place: The Rise Of The Bangles From The L.A Underground
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    “This monumental project, started by author and unofficial band historian Eric Shade back in the 1990s has had quite a journey from start to finish. This insane overview of the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Paul Collins – I Don’t Fit In: My Wild Ride Through The Punk & Power-Pop Trenches
    Paul Collins – I Don’t Fit In: My Wild Ride Through The Punk & Power-Pop Trenches
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    “After two long years of painstaking research and development, we present to you, the first major memoir covering the birth of DIY Power Pop, from Paul Collins. From it’s initial […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • 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
  • Dali – Les Diners De Gala
    Dali – Les Diners De Gala
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    “Les diners de Gala is uniquely devoted to the pleasures of taste … If you are a disciple of one of those calorie-counters who turn the joys of eating into […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Brian Doherty – Dirty Pictures
    Brian Doherty – Dirty Pictures
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    “In 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 of [...]

    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
  • Touch And Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine ’79-’83
    Touch And Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine ’79-’83
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    Touch and Go fanzine was the brainchild of Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson and was launched in Lansing, Michigan, in 1979. Major fanatics of the new punk happenings in the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction, Punk / Hardcore
  • 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
  • M.S Coe – The Formation of Calcium
    M.S Coe – The Formation of Calcium
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    Middle-aged Mary Ellen Washie has finally freed herself of her stultified past life in western New York state and moved to Florida. With the husband she’s grown to hate firmly […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Lynne Tillman – Weird Fucks
    Lynne Tillman – Weird Fucks
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    A brilliant novella from a legendary figure in American fiction A young woman drifts through dimly lit bars and rented rooms, reporting from the erogenous zones of New York and […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • 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
  • Mike Corrao – Leopold’s Labyrinth
    Mike Corrao – Leopold’s Labyrinth
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    Leopold’s Labyrinth puts the reader at the center of a story where they take shape as a recluse residing in the digitally-constructed environments of the future—the cybergothic landscape of the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • 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
  • Pedro Almodóvar – The Last Dream
    Pedro Almodóvar – The Last Dream
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    Making his English language debut, the iconoclastic, two-time Academy award-winning writer and director reveals his singular mind as never before in this collection of twelve remarkable stories [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending, Revised and Expanded Edition: An Incredible String Band Compendium
    Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending, Revised and Expanded Edition: An Incredible String Band Compendium
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    A wide-ranging collection of interviews, anecdotes, essays, and ephemera concerning one of the most enigmatic bands to emerge from the 1960s hippy scene. “Encyclopaedic in scope, passionate [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • 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
  • Germano Celant – Witkin
    Germano Celant – Witkin
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    An overview of the work of American photographer Joel-Peter Witkin’s surreal collage photos. Not for the faint of heart. Scalo, 1995 Hardcover edition. Some tearing to dustjacket edges [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • 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
  • Bo Huston – Horse And Other Stories
    Bo Huston – Horse And Other Stories
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    “Bo Huston’s sensitive, stately prose translates gay underclass experience with such authenticity yet acumen that it seems the work of a first rate double agent. Horse brings to the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • 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
  • Gilbert & George
    Gilbert & George
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    Exhibition catalogue from The Baltimore Museum of Art’s 1984 exhibition, Gilbert & George. Baltimore Museum Of Art, 1984 Softcover edition. Discoloration & wear to front/back wraps. [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Breakthrough Fictioneers
    Breakthrough Fictioneers
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    “This massive anthology of works compiled by Kostelanetz, features artists from a range of disciplines who use both text and images to experiment with the formal and conceptual qualities of [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Kenneth Patchen – But Even So
    Kenneth Patchen – But Even So
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    A collection of Patchen’s “picture-poems”, which combine surreal childlike doodles and concrete poetry into a synthesized art form. New Directions Publishing, 1968 Softcover [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • 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
  • Marcel Duchamp
    Marcel Duchamp
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    “This remarkable book with its more than 1,300 illustrations covers 70 years of Duchamp’s artistic production and traces his elusive personae across that same span. texts by Jennifer [...]

    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
  • 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
  • Marcel Schwob – The Children’s Crusade
    Marcel Schwob – The Children’s Crusade
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    “I’ve just read Marcel Schwob’s The Children’s Crusade twice over, with deep admiration and reverence. I am profoundly moved: what a work! And to think I’d never heard the name […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Robert Barry – The Music Of The Future
    Robert Barry – The Music Of The Future
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    The Music of the Future is not a book of predictions or speculations about how to save the music business or the bleeding edge of technologies. Rather, it’s a history […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • October Files: Robert Rauschenberg
    October Files: Robert Rauschenberg
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    Critical 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 in [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, 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
  • Philippe Grandrieux: Sonic Cinema
    Philippe Grandrieux: Sonic Cinema
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    Philippe Grandrieux is one of cinema’s only living true radicals and feted as one of the most innovative and important film makers of his generation. His consistently controversial work [...]

    GENRE: 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