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  • Ustad Amjad Ali Khan* ‎– Raga Priyadarshini – A Tribute
    Ustad Amjad Ali Khan* ‎– Raga Priyadarshini – A Tribute
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    Wonderful sarod & tabla raga. Label: His Master’s Voice – ECSD. 3117, His Master’s Voice – ECSD 3117 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: India Released: 1984 VG+/VG

    GENRE: Hindustani, Indian
  • Debu Chaudhuri – Debu’s Sitar – India’s Debu – Sitar Maestro
    Debu Chaudhuri – Debu’s Sitar – India’s Debu – Sitar Maestro
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    A impressionistic sitar album. Fantastic and immersive. Label: ABK Productions – ABK2001 Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo Country: US VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Hindustani, Indian
  • Pandit Narayanrao Vyas – Enchanting Music From Pandit Narayanrao Vyas
    Pandit Narayanrao Vyas – Enchanting Music From Pandit Narayanrao Vyas
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    Melodious and serene vocal ragas. Label: All India Radio – PMLP 3023, His Master’s Voice – PMLP. 3023 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: India Released: 1984 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Hindustani, Indian
  • Ustad Ali Akbar Khan ‎– Soul Of The Sarod
    Ustad Ali Akbar Khan ‎– Soul Of The Sarod
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    Very rare 80s recording – The sarod, tabla & tanpura together in a playful and somber 2 side length pieces. Label: Oriental Records – BGRP 1041 Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo […]

    GENRE: Hindustani, Indian
  • Parween Sultana ‎– Sings Rare Melodies
    Parween Sultana ‎– Sings Rare Melodies
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    “Parween Sultana’s voice soars, and this album of two ragas is great evidence. If you love Hindustani vocal acrobatics, Sultana will not disappoint!” – Adam_A, discogs [...]

    GENRE: Hindustani, Indian
  • Himangshu Biswas ‎– Santoor
    Himangshu Biswas ‎– Santoor
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    Santoor & tabla LP – wonderful pieces here. The santoor playing is incredible! Label: Music India – 2393 812 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: India Released: 1981 VG+/VG

    GENRE: Hindustani, Indian
  • Ustad Ali Akbar Khan* – Raga: Ahir Bhairav / Raga: Durgeshwari
    Ustad Ali Akbar Khan* – Raga: Ahir Bhairav / Raga: Durgeshwari
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    A beautiful and ethereal album of sarod & tabla. Label: His Master’s Voice – EASD 1391, His Master’s Voice – EASD.1391 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: India Released: [...]

    GENRE: Hindustani, Indian
  • Jagannath & Party ‎– Shehnai
    Jagannath & Party ‎– Shehnai
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    Large band album, shehnai led. Label: Music India – 2393 833 Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo Country: India Released: 1982 VG+/VG

    GENRE: Hindustani, Indian
  • Maestro Ali Akbar Khan*, Swapan Chaudhuri ‎– Artistic Sound Of Sarod
    Maestro Ali Akbar Khan*, Swapan Chaudhuri ‎– Artistic Sound Of Sarod
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    Sarod masterwork from Ali Akbar Khan along with tabla from Swapan Chaudhuri & tambouras from Shefali Nag & Daniel Paul Karp. Label: Chhanda Dhara – SP 10685 Format: Vinyl, LP […]

    GENRE: Indian
  • V/A – Guru Ramdas Rakho Sarnaee
    V/A – Guru Ramdas Rakho Sarnaee
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    Sikh LP that commemorates the 400th anniversary of the founding of the holy city of Amritsar. Label: His Master’s Voice – ECSD 3009 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: India Released: 1977 […]

    GENRE: Indian
  • Chitti Babu – The Sound Of Veena
    Chitti Babu – The Sound Of Veena
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    A bit of a sad sounding one from Chitti Babu… “A much more plaintive album for the most part than we usually get from Chitti Babu. And again, there are […]

    GENRE: Hindustani, Indian
  • Ustad Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan* ‎– Sitar Ecstasy (Indian Pressing)
    Ustad Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan* ‎– Sitar Ecstasy (Indian Pressing)
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    “Khan’s second-last LP and one of the last recordings he’d make for almost two decades, it’s a very good of his skills with the sitar. His renditions of two ragas […]

    GENRE: Indian
  • V/A – Folk Music Of India
    V/A – Folk Music Of India
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    Various Indian music styles highlighted by the USA’s greatest gov agency – FOLKWAYS. Label: Folkways Records – FE 4409 Series: Ethnic Folkways Library Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, [...]

    GENRE: Hindustani, Indian
  • Kumar Gandharva – Kumar Gandharva
    Kumar Gandharva – Kumar Gandharva
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    Vocal album of the prolific Kumar Gandharva. Label: His Master’s Voice – ECSD. 2734 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: India Released: 1974 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Indian
  • Ustad Munir Khan & Zamir Ahmad Khan ‎– Raga Darbari Kanada – Raga Shahana / Raga Bhimpalashri – Raga Des
    Ustad Munir Khan & Zamir Ahmad Khan ‎– Raga Darbari Kanada – Raga Shahana / Raga Bhimpalashri – Raga Des
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    Sarangi, tabla & tanpura ragas. Label: Ime Records – IME 1002 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Netherlands Released: 1980 VG+/VG

    GENRE: Hindustani, Indian
  • Gurbachan Singh Sachdev* ‎– Incantations
    Gurbachan Singh Sachdev* ‎– Incantations
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    Bansuri champion, Gurbachan Singh Sachdev with a wonderful flute album. Label: Arion – ARN 33 745 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: France Released: 1983 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Indian
  • Gyorgy Galantai – Space & Time (Hungarian Mail Art / Fluxus Artist)
    Gyorgy Galantai – Space & Time (Hungarian Mail Art / Fluxus Artist)
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    Here’s another one with the Fluxus vibes. Sounds like a dude scraping a piece of metal in a circular motion sometimes softly, sometimes more aggressively. György Galántai (born June 17, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Master/Slave Relationship – Soundtrack To Black Leather Bondage
    Master/Slave Relationship – Soundtrack To Black Leather Bondage
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    Label: Cause And Effect Format: Cassette, Album, C60 Country: US Released: 1987 Genre: Electronic Style: Industrial Does not include re-sealable pouch with a 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ booklet.  

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Andy Warhol: The Factory Years
    Andy Warhol: The Factory Years
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • The Body – I Shall Die Here
    The Body – I Shall Die Here
    $22.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Sharing their heathen vision with The Haxan Cloak, The Body’s tried and true sound is cut to pieces, mutilated by process and re-animated in a spectral state for their fourth […]

    GENRE: Metal
  • 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
  • DDAA – Ronsard
    DDAA – Ronsard
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    French experimental/art-music that crosses into industrial at certain points. Label: Electrip – ELECTRIP 01 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country:Belgium Released: 1988 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Derek Bailey – Duo & Trio Improvisation
    Derek Bailey – Duo & Trio Improvisation
    $120.00 | , , Add to cart

    “This 1978 recording finds the estimable British guitarist in the musical company of several members of the cutting edge of the Japanese jazz avant-garde of the time. These musicians, [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Kel. Putra Bali Purantara Jogjakarta* – Gending2 Tarian Bali
    Kel. Putra Bali Purantara Jogjakarta* – Gending2 Tarian Bali
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    Ethnographic field recordings of Balinese cultural ceremonial music. Label: Lokananta Records – BRD-020 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Indonesia Released: 1969 VG+/VG with Old store sticker. Some [...]

    GENRE: International
  • The Damned – The Black Album
    The Damned – The Black Album
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    The Damned embrace goth & art-rock leanings on their fourth album Label: Chiswick Records – CWK 3015 Format: 2xVinyl, LP, Album Country: UK Released: 1980 VG+/VG+ with light marks & […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Flesh Eaters ‎– Forever Came Today
    The Flesh Eaters ‎– Forever Came Today
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    “In the wake of the star-filled A Minute To Pray A Second To Die, The Flesh Eaters’ frontman Chris D. assembled a leaner, meaner band to deliver his next unbound […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Butthole Surfers – Psychic… Powerless… Another Man’s Sac (clear 1984 pressing)
    Butthole Surfers – Psychic… Powerless… Another Man’s Sac (clear 1984 pressing)
    $90.00 | , , Add to cart

    “By the time they started touring to preview and then support the revamped version of ‘Psychic… Powerless… Another Man’s Sac,’ the Buttholes’ live show was a berserk, evolving [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Velvet Underground – White Light / White Heat (80’s Japanese Pressing)
    Velvet Underground – White Light / White Heat (80’s Japanese Pressing)
    $85.00 | , , Add to cart

    It’s all about Sister Ray. Label: Verve Records – 23MM 0190 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: Japan Released: 1982 VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Epicycle – Special First Edition
    Epicycle – Special First Edition
    $50.00 | , , Add to cart

    Psych tinged power-pop from Chicago. Label:Cirkle Records – CST 1111 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: US Released: 1981 VG+/VG with some noticeable sleevewear & staining. Start of split at upper [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Chick Corea – Tones For Joan’s Bones (’76 Japanese Pressing)
    Chick Corea – Tones For Joan’s Bones (’76 Japanese Pressing)
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    “Tones for Joan’s Bones, Chick Corea’s first session as a leader, is a blazing, advanced hard bop set from late 1966, with writing that reveals an affinity with McCoy [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Ornette Coleman & Charlie Haden – Soap Suds
    Ornette Coleman & Charlie Haden – Soap Suds
    $48.00 | , , Add to cart

    “The most significant dividing line in Ornette’s chronology might be Charlie Haden’s leaving the group in the mid-’70s. This set of duos from a few years later highlights the [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Iggy And The Stooges* ‎– Metallic ‘KO
    Iggy And The Stooges* ‎– Metallic ‘KO
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    Documentation of The Stooges final live performance. Heavy & hostile. Label: Import Records – IMP 1015 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country:US Released: 1977 VG+/VG+ with light marks & some [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • 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
  • King Crimson ? Larks’ Tongues In Aspic (1977 UK)
    King Crimson ? Larks’ Tongues In Aspic (1977 UK)
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    The best prog record of all time. Label: Polydor – 2302 061 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country:UK Released:1977 VG+/VG+. Label has some tearing. Edgewear & general light sleevewear

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • High Rise ? Speed Free Sonic
    High Rise ? Speed Free Sonic
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    High flying and hard hitting noisy psych rock from Japan. Blue Cheer x100. Label: Paratactile – PLE 1104-2 Format: CD, Album Country: UK Released: 1999 VG+/VG+ with light marks & […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Streets (Select Highlights From Independent British Labels)
    Streets (Select Highlights From Independent British Labels)
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    Killer compilation documenting the British punk scene of 1977, featuring tracks from John Cooper Clarke, The Lurkers & more. Label: Beggars Banquet – BEGA 1 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Gun Club ? Mother Juno (1987 UK)
    The Gun Club ? Mother Juno (1987 UK)
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    “The Gun Club collapsed within a year of the release of 1984’s The Las Vegas Story, so more than a few fans were surprised in 1987 when Jeffrey Lee Pierce […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • 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
  • Special Ed – I Got It Made (promo)
    Special Ed – I Got It Made (promo)
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    Label: Profile Records – PRO-5245 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Promo Country: US Released: 1989 Genre: Hip Hop VG+ / Gen WOL

    GENRE: Hip Hop / Rap / Neo Soul
  • 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
  • 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 [...]

    GENRE:
  • 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
  • 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