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The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy Consumptionby Georges BatailleISBN 0942299116 (0-942299-11-6)
Softcover, Zone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy Consumption'Book summary:Most Anglo-American readers know Bataille as a novelist. The Accursed Share provides an excellent introduction to Bataille the philosopher. Here he uses his unique economic theory as the basis for an incisive inquiry into the very nature of civilization. Unlike conventional economic models based on notions of scarcity, Bataille's theory develops the concept of excess: a civilization, he argues, reveals its order most clearly in the treatment of its surplus. The result is a brilliant blend of ethics, aesthetics, and cultural anthropology that challenges both mainstream economics and ethnology.
Georges Bataille (1897-1962), founder of the French review Critique, wrote fiction and essays on a wide range of topics. His books in English translation include Story of the Eye, Blue of Noon, Literature and Evil, Manet, and Erotism.
Robert Hurley is the translator of History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault and cotranslator of Anti-Oedipus by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. [via]More editions of The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy Consumption:
Andre Kerteszby Carole KismaricISBN 0893817406 (0-89381-740-6)
Hardcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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An Anecdoted Topography of Chanceby Robert Filliou, Dieter Roth, Daniel Spoerri, Topor, Emmett WilliamsISBN 0947757880 (0-947757-88-0)
Softcover, Atlas Pr
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Angel Dust Apocalypseby Jeremy Robert JohnsonISBN 0976249839 (0-9762498-3-9)
Softcover, Eraserhead Pr
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Antonin Artaud: Four Textsby ArtaudISBN 0915572567 (0-915572-56-7)
Softcover, Panjandrum
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The Architect's Brotherby W.S. Merwin, Robert ParkeharrisonISBN 0944092845 (0-944092-84-5)
Hardcover, Twin Palms Pub
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Arsenal: Surrealist Subversion, No. 2by Franklin RosemontISBN 094119406X (0-941194-06-X)
Softcover, Black Swan Books
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Blue of Noonby Georges BatailleISBN 0893960047 (0-89396-004-7)
Hardcover, Urizen Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue of Noon'Book summary:The writing is superlative ... daringly imaginative, intended only for those awake and aware of the possibilities of excess - in literature and in life. Along with Cline and Breton, Bataille writes as if he were dropping a bomb; in a fore-flash he creates a world of demented funereal sexuality.?Detroit Free Press
Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is one of Bataille's most overtly political works, exploring the ambiguity of sex as a subversive force and synthesizing the fetishes of violence, power and death that mesmerized an age.
In this classic of twentieth century eroticism, the reader is taken on a dark journey through the psyche of the pre-war French intelligensia, torn between identification with the victims of history and the glamour of its victors.
Georges Bataille was born in 1897 and died in 1962. His combination of scholarship and creative genius assured his pre-eminence among his generation of French intellectuals.
Other books by Georges Bataille also published by Marion Boyars are Eroticism, Story of the Eye, Literature and Evil, L'Abbe C, and My Mother, Madame Edwarda and the Dead Man. [via]More editions of Blue of Noon:
Bruges-la-Morteby Georges RodenbachISBN 0905075234 (0-905075-23-4)
Softcover, Dufour Editions
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The Castle of Argolby Julien Gracq, Louise VareseISBN 0932499678 (0-932499-67-8)
Hardcover, Texas Bookman
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The Childhood of Nivasio Dolcemareby Alberto SavinioISBN 0941419053 (0-941419-05-3)
Softcover, Marsilio Pub
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Cleaby Lawrence DurrellISBN 1400000327 (1-4000-0032-7)
Softcover, Sudamericana
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Codex Seraphinianusby Luigi SerafiniISBN 0896594289 (0-89659-428-9)
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The Complete Works of Marcel Duchampby Arturo SchwarzISBN 0929445066 (0-929445-06-6)
Softcover, Greenidge Editions, Delano
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Concise Encyclopedia of Surrealismby Rene PasseronISBN 0890096643 (0-89009-664-3)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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Dada and Surrealist FilmISBN 0930279115 (0-930279-11-5)
Softcover, Willis Locker & Owens Pub
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Daliby Luis RomeroISBN 089009229X (0-89009-229-X)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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Dancin' in the Streets!: Anarchists, Surrealists, Situationists & Provos in the 1960s as recorded in the pages of The Rebel Worker & Heatwaveby Franklin Rosemont, Charles RadcliffeISBN 0882863010 (0-88286-301-0)
Softcover, Charles H Kerr Pub Co
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Dead Soulsby Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, Nikolai Vasilevich GogolISBN 1400043190 (1-4000-4319-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Souls'Book summary:A socially adept newcomer fluidly inserts himself into an unnamed Russian town, conquering first the drinkers, then the dignitaries. All find him amiable, estimable, agreeable. But what exactly is Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov up to?--something that will soon throw the town "into utter perplexity."
After more than a week of entertainment and "passing the time, as they say, very pleasantly," he gets down to business--heading off to call on some landowners. More pleasantries ensue before Chichikov reveals his bizarre plan. He'd like to buy the souls of peasants who have died since the last census. The first landowner looks carefully to see if he's mad, but spots no outward signs. In fact, the scheme is innovative but by no means bonkers. Even though Chichikov will be taxed on the supposed serfs, he will be able to count them as his property and gain the reputation of a gentleman owner. His first victim is happy to give up his souls for free--less tax burden for him. The second, however, knows Chichikov must be up to something, and the third has his servants rough him up. Nonetheless, he prospers.
Dead Souls is a feverish anatomy of Russian society (the book was first published in 1842) and human wiles. Its author tosses off thousands of sublime epigrams--including, "However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man," and is equally adept at yearning satire: "Where is he," Gogol interrupts the action, "who, in the native tongue of our Russian soul, could speak to us this all-powerful word: forward? who, knowing all the forces and qualities, and all the depths of our nature, could, by one magic gesture, point the Russian man towards a lofty life?" Flannery O'Connor, another writer of dark genius, declared Gogol "necessary along with the light." Though he was hardly the first to envision property as theft, his blend of comic, fantastic moralism is sui generis.--Kerry Fried [via]
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Dime Store Alchemyby Charles SimicISBN 0880013036 (0-88001-303-6)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Dime Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornellby Charles SimicISBN 0880013486 (0-88001-348-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Doctor Sax and the Great World Snakeby Jack KerouacISBN 0972973303 (0-9729733-0-3)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Doctor Sax and the Great World Snake'Book summary:Jack Kerouac gives free reign to the powers of his soaring imagination in this previously unpublished screenplay adaptation of his mystical, vision-novel Doctor Sax. Basing the haunting tale in true reflections of his 1930's childhood growing up in the industrial milltown of Lowell, Massachusetts. Kerouac spins out a dark cosmology as "concentrations of evil" gather -- vampires, gnomes, spiders, werewolves of the soul, "leerers at the glad heart of others" -- aspiring to destroy mankind. Doctor Sax -- alchemist of the night and friend of the children -- is the caped crusader who stands against the darkness.
Come along on an audio adventure, as young Jacky Duluoz leads you on an apocalyptic journey to confront the Wizard and the Great World Snake.
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- 2 CDS audio version of screenplay
- Unabridged original screenplay text
- 74 illustrations by Richard Sala
- Readers Include: . Jim Carroll . Graham Parker
. Ellis Paul . Lawrence Ferlinghetti
. Kate Pierson . Bill Janovitz
. Robert Creeley . Robert HunterMusic by Blue Note recording artist John Medeski [via]
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Electric Jesus Corpseby Carlton MellickISBN 0971357285 (0-9713572-8-5)
Softcover, Eraserhead Pr
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England's Hidden Reverse: A Secret History of the Esoteric Undergroundby David KeenanISBN 0946719675 (0-946719-67-5)
Softcover, S A F Pub Ltd
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England's Hidden Reverse: Coil-Current 93-Nurse With Woundby David KeenanISBN 0946719403 (0-946719-40-3)
Hardcover, S A F Pub Ltd
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Everything Can Be Beatenby Jhonen Vasquez, Brad Candy, Chancre Scolex, Crab Scrambly, Sean Kelly McKeeverISBN 0943151651 (0-943151-65-1)
Softcover, Slave Labor Books
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Fata Morganaby Andre Breton, Clark Mills, Morgana FataISBN 0941194019 (0-941194-01-9)
Softcover, Black Swan Pr
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Foam of the Dazeby Boris VianISBN 0966234634 (0-9662346-3-4)
Softcover, Tamtam Books
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The Forecast Is Hot!: Tracts & Other Collective Declarations of the Surrealist Movement in the United States 1966-1976by Paul Garon, Franklin Rosemont, Penelope RosemontISBN 0941194302 (0-941194-30-2)
Hardcover, Black Swan Pr
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From Bughouse Square to the Beat Generation: Selected Ravingsby Franklin Rosemont, Slim BrundageISBN 0882862324 (0-88286-232-4)
Softcover, Charles H Kerr Pub Co
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From Surrealism to Orientalism: Influence of Arabia on the Work of an Artistby Philip BouchardISBN 0907151159 (0-907151-15-9)
Hardcover, Intl Specialized Book Service Inc
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From the Hidden Storehouse: A Selection of Poemsby Benjamin PeretISBN 0932440118 (0-932440-11-8)
Softcover, Oberlin College Pr
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From the Hidden Storehouse: Selected Poems. Tr by Keith Hollaman#by Benjamin PeretISBN 093244010X (0-932440-10-X)
Hardcover, Oberlin College Pr
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George Marinko: Pioneer American Surrealistby Peter H. FalkISBN 0932087108 (0-932087-10-8)
Softcover, Sound View Pr
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Giger's Alienby H.R. GigerISBN 0962344702 (0-9623447-0-2)
Hardcover, Morpheus Intl
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Giger's Alien'Book summary:A complete record of the months of work that went into the design of the alien in the popular film. The book is written by the horror designer himself and illustrated throughout in integrated full colour with sketches, original paintings, photographs and scenes from the film. [via]
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Hans Bellmer; with an Introduction by Constantin Jelenski [translated from the French]by Hans Bellmer, Alex GrallISBN 0902620606 (0-902620-60-6)
Hardcover, Academy Editions Ltd
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History Against Miseryby David RoedigerISBN 0882863053 (0-88286-305-3)
Softcover, Charles H Kerr Pub Co
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The House of the Spiritsby Isabel Allende, Magda Bogin, Christopher Hitchens, Madga BoginISBN 1400043182 (1-4000-4318-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Chilean writer Isabel Allendes classic novel is both a richly symbolic family saga and the riveting story of an unnamed Latin American countrys turbulent history.
In a triumph of magic realism, Allende constructs a spirit-ridden world and fills it with colorful and all-too-human inhabitants. The Trueba familys passions, struggles, and secrets span three generations and a century of violent social change, culminating in a crisis that brings the proud and tyrannical patriarch and his beloved granddaughter to opposite sides of the barricades. Against a backdrop of revolution and counterrevolution, Allende brings to life a family whose private bonds of love and hatred are more complex and enduring than the political allegiances that set them at odds. The House of the Spirits not only brings another nations history thrillingly to life, but also makes its peoples joys and anguishes wholly our own. [via]More editions of The House of the Spirits:
I'm Lying: Selected Translations of Philippe Soupaultby Philippe Soupault, Paulette SchmidtISBN 0918786304 (0-918786-30-4)
Softcover, Lost Roads Pub
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In Focus: Man Ray Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museumby Man RayISBN 0892365110 (0-89236-511-0)
Softcover, J Paul Getty Museum Pubns
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Journeys to the Twilight Zoneby Carol SerlingISBN 0886775256 (0-88677-525-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Lari Pittman: Drawingsby Laurence A. Rickels, Elizabeth A. Brown, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Santa Barbara University Art Museum University of CaliforniaISBN 0942006291 (0-942006-29-1)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snarkby Martin Gardner, Lewis Carroll, Charles Mitchell, Henry Holiday, James Tanis, Selwyn Hugh Goodacre, John DooleyISBN 091323236X (0-913232-36-X)
Hardcover, William Kaufmann, in cooperation with Bryn Mawr College Library
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The Lives of the Godsby Alberto Savinio, James Brook, Susan EtlingerISBN 0947757287 (0-947757-28-7)
Hardcover, Atlas Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lives of the Gods'Book summary:A selection of Savinios early stories, many of which appeared in Surrealist magazines in the thirties. Savinio was the brother of the artist Giorgio de Chirico and an associate of Apollinaire.
The moments of personal mythology we create from the apprehensions and misapprehensions of everyday waking life are captured with bizarre charm and delicacy in this collection of stories from an author who is rapidly being recognised as one of the stars of the pre-war Italian literature. the collection is united by a common theme the re-telling of the most famous stories of all time.
"The whole of the modern myth still in process of formation is founded on two bodies of work Alberto Savinios and his brother Giorgio de Chiricos that are almost indistinguishable in spirit and that reached their zenith on the eve of the war of 1914." André Breton, Anthology of Black Humour [via]
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Looking For Snails On A Sunday Afternoonby Rudolf KurzISBN 0889842566 (0-88984-256-6)
Softcover, Porcupines Quill
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The Magic Mirror of M.C. Escher/a Revealing Look into the Life and Work of the Most Astonishing Artist of Our Timeby Bruno ErnstISBN 0906212456 (0-906212-45-6)
Softcover, Parkwest Pubns
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The Man of Jasmine and Other Texts : Impressions from a Mental Illnessby Unica Zurn, Malcolm GreenISBN 0947757805 (0-947757-80-5)
Hardcover, Atlas Press
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Man Rayby Jed PerlISBN 0893813079 (0-89381-307-9)
Softcover, Aperture Foundation, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man Ray'Book summary:"I do not photograph nature, I photograph my fantasy," Man Ray proclaimed, and he found in the camera's eye and in light's magical chemistry the mechanisms for dreaming. Schooled as a painter and designer in New York, Man Ray turned to photography after discovering the 291 Gallery and its charismatic founder, Alfred Stieglitz. As a young expatriate in Paris during the twenties and thirties, Man Ray embraced surrealism and Dadaism, creeds that emphasized chance effects, disjunction, and surprise. Tireless experimentation with technique led him to employ solarization, grain enlargement, mixed media, and cameraless prints (photograms)--which he called "Rayographs". These successful manipulations for which he was dubbed "the poet of the darkroom" by fellow surrealist Jean Cocteau, were a major contribution to twentieth-century photography. Man Ray presents forty-three of the greatest images from the artist's career. The essay by Jed Perl describes the influences on Man Ray's career and his enduring contribution to photography. [via]
Man Ray: In Fashionby Merry A. Foresta, HartshornISBN 0933642148 (0-933642-14-8)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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Marcel Duchamp/man Ray: 50 Years Of Alchemyby Marcel Duchamp, Man RayISBN 0966215826 (0-9662158-2-6)
Hardcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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Matta in America: Paintings and Drawings of the 1940sby Elizabeth A.T. Smith, Colette Dartnall, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.), Roberto Sebastian Matta Echaurren, Miami Art MuseumISBN 0933856717 (0-933856-71-7)
Hardcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Matta in America: Paintings and Drawings of the 1940s'Book summary:This catalogue focuses on work produced by the Chilean-born artist Roberto Sebastian Matta from 1939-1948 when he lived in exile in New York. Matta, who has spent most of his life living and working in Europe, occupies a unique and pivotal place in the history of American art of this period. Of all the surrealists in exile in New York during these years, Matta formed the closest links with American artists of his own generation and served as a catalytic force in communicating ideas about surrealist processes and relating to the development of a new language of abstract painting. Matta in America includes full-color illustrations of approximately twenty paintings and twenty drawings made during the artist's American sojourn. An essay tracing the development in the 1940s of Matta's work and highlighting his interactions with other artists of the period is complemented by an essay by art historian William Rubin. Originally written for the Centre Georges Pompidous's 1985 Matta monograph, Rubin's essential text, "Matta in the United States: A Personal Note," has never before been published in English. [via]
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Mind Fieldsby Harlan Ellison, Jacek 1952 Yerka, Jacek YerkaISBN 0962344796 (0-9623447-9-6)
Softcover, Pgw
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My Tired Fatherby Gellu NaumISBN 0934301077 (0-934301-07-7)
Softcover, Inkblot Pubns
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Mythopoeikonby Patrick WoodroffeISBN 0905895223 (0-905895-22-3)
Softcover, Avery Pub Group
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Mythopoeikon: Fantasies, Monsters, Nightmares, Daydreams the Paintings, Book-Jacket Illustrations, and Record-Sleeve Designs of Patrick Woodroffeby Patrick WoodroffeISBN 0905071085 (0-905071-08-5)
Hardcover, Dragon's World
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Nights As Day, Days As Nightby Michael Leiris, Roger Shattuck, Maurice Blanchot, Richard SieburthISBN 094141907X (0-941419-07-X)
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Ocean of Lardby Carlton Mellick, Kevin L. Donihe, Terrasa UlmISBN 0976249820 (0-9762498-2-0)
Softcover, Eraserhead Pr
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Odileby Raymond QueneauISBN 0916583341 (0-916583-34-1)
Hardcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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The Oval Lady, Other Storiesby Leonora CarringtonISBN 0884960366 (0-88496-036-6)
Hardcover, Capra Press
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Paul Delvaux : Surrealizing the Nudeby David ScottISBN 0948462396 (0-948462-39-6)
Softcover, Reaktion Books, Limited
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The Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Rayby Merry A. Foresta, Francis M. Naumann, Stephen Foster, Roger Shattuck, Elizabeth H. TurnerISBN 0896598705 (0-89659-870-5)
Hardcover, Abbeville Press, Incorporated
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Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Rayby Stephen C. Foster, Francis Naumann, Julie Martin, Merry Foresta, Billy LkuverISBN 0896598713 (0-89659-871-3)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire, Christina TumminelloISBN 0971336334 (0-9713363-3-4)
Softcover, Chatterley Pr Intl
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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Poems of Andre Breton: A Bilingual Anthologyby Andre Breton, Mary Ann CawsISBN 0976844923 (0-9768449-2-3)
Softcover, Black Widow Pr
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Salvador Dali's Tarotby Salvador DaliISBN 0881620769 (0-88162-076-9)
Hardcover, Granite Impex Ltd
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A Scanner Darklyby Philip K. DickISBN 0879979232 (0-87997-923-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Screamsby Serge Gavronsky, Joyce MansourISBN 0942996259 (0-942996-25-9)
Softcover, Post Apollo Pr
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Selected Poemsby Francis PongeISBN 0916390586 (0-916390-58-6)
Softcover, Wake Forest Univ Pr
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The Selected Poems of Robert Desnosby William Kulik, Carolyn ForcheISBN 0880012617 (0-88001-261-7)
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Sex And Death in Television Townby Carlton MellickISBN 0976249855 (0-9762498-5-5)
Softcover, Eraserhead Pr
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Shall We Gather at the Gardenby Kevin L. DoniheISBN 0971357250 (0-9713572-5-0)
Softcover, Eraserhead Pr
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Situationist International Anthologyby Ken KnabbISBN 0939682044 (0-939682-04-4)
Softcover, Bureau of Public Secrets
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Solaris: Romanby Stanisaw LemISBN 0899683517 (0-89968-351-7)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Some Things Are Better Left Unpluggedby Vincent W. SakowskiISBN 0971357226 (0-9713572-2-6)
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The Strangerby Albert CamusISBN 0881032476 (0-88103-247-6)
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The plot is simple. A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. The trial's proceedings are absurd, a parsing of incidental trivialities--that Meursault, for instance, seemed unmoved by his own mother's death and then attended a comic movie the evening after her funeral are two ostensibly damning facts--so that the eventual sentence the jury issues is both ridiculous and inevitable.
Meursault remains a cipher nearly to the story's end--dispassionate, clinical, disengaged from his own emotions. "She wanted to know if I loved her," he says of his girlfriend. "I answered the same way I had the last time, that it didn't mean anything but that I probably didn't." There's a latent ominousness in such observations, a sense that devotion is nothing more than self-delusion. It's undoubtedly true that Meursault exhibits an extreme of resignation; however, his confrontation with "the gentle indifference of the world" remains as compelling as it was when Camus first recounted it. --Ben Guterson [via]
Surrealism Pro and Conby Kenneth Burke, Nicolas Calas, Herbert Joseph MullerISBN 0910664269 (0-910664-26-9)
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Surrealism: Two Private Eyesby Edward WeisbergerISBN 0892072199 (0-89207-219-9)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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Throyby Jack VanceISBN 0971237514 (0-9712375-1-4)
Hardcover, Vance Integral Edition
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The Torture Gardenby Octave Mirbeau, Andrea Juno, V. Vale, Francisco De Oliveira Mattos, Alvah Cecil BessieISBN 0940642131 (0-940642-13-1)
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Victor Brauner: Surrealist Hierogylphsby Victor BraunerISBN 0939594528 (0-939594-52-8)
Softcover, Menil Foundation
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Viva Posada: A Salute to the Great Printmaker of the Mexican Revolutionby Carlos Cortez, Jose Guadalupe Posada, Arsacio Vanegas Arroyo, Gale AhrensISBN 0882862618 (0-88286-261-8)
Softcover, Charles H Kerr Pub Co
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Viva Posada: A Salute to the Great Printmaker of the Mexican Revolutionby Jose Guadalupe PosadaISBN 0882862626 (0-88286-262-6)
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What Is Surrealism: Selected Writings [of] Andre Bretonby Andre Breton, Franklin RosemontISBN 0904383288 (0-904383-28-8)
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The World of Null-Aby A. E. Van VogtISBN 0898041538 (0-89804-153-8)
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