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The Air-Conditioned Nightmareby Henry MillerISBN 0811201066 (0-8112-0106-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Air-Conditioned Nightmare'Book summary:"Henry Miller is the nearest thing to Céline America has produced.... He aims not at the ears, brains, or consciences, but at the viscera and solar plexus."The New Leader.
In 1939, after ten years as an expatriate, Henry Miller returned to the United States with a keen desire to see what his native land was really liketo get to the roots of the American nature and experience. He set out on a journey that was to last three years, visiting many sections of the country and making friends of all descriptions. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare is the result of that odyssey. [via]More editions of The Air-Conditioned Nightmare:
The American Yoga Association's New Yoga Challenge: Powerful Workouts for Flexibility, Strength, Energy, and Inner Discoveryby Alice ChristensenISBN 0809231751 (0-8092-3175-1)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Annotated Ultimate Alphabetby Mike WilksISBN 0805009183 (0-8050-0918-3)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Beetle Legby J. HawkesISBN 0811200620 (0-8112-0062-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Boschby Henry MillerISBN 0811201074 (0-8112-0107-4)
Softcover, New Directions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch'Book summary:In his great triptych "The Millennium" Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise.
Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller's life on the Big Sur, a section of California coast where he lived for fifteen years.
Big Sur is the portrait of a placeone of the most colorful in the U.S.and of the extraordinary people Miller knew there: writers (& writers who didn't write), mystics seeking truth in meditation (& the not-so-saintly looking for sex-cults or celebrity), sophisticated children & adult innocents; geniuses, cranks & the unclassifiable.
Henry Miller writes with a buoyancy & brimming energy that are infectious. He has a fine touch for comedy. But this is also a serious bookthe testament of a free spirit who has broken through the restraints & cliches of modern life to find within himself his own kind of paradise. [via]More editions of Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch:
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Black Pow-Wow: Jazz Poemsby Ted JoansISBN 0809000938 (0-8090-0093-8)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Pow-Wow: Jazz Poems'Book summary:Ted Joans was born on July 4, 1928 on a riverboat in Cairo, Illinois. His father, a riverboat entertainer, put him off the boat in Memphis at age twelve and gave him a trumpet. He is a painter, a trumpeter, and a jazz poet. His jazz poems are collected in a book called "Black Pow-Wow." He earned a degree in Fine Arts from Indiana University, and in 1951 joined "the Bohemia of Greenwich Village, USA." He has since recited his poems in coffeehouses in New York, in the middle of the Sahara, and in bookstores such as Recollection Used Books in Seattle. He has lived in Harlem, New York, Bloomington, Indiana, Haarlem, the Netherlands, and Timbuktu. [via]
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Blindsightby James Kirkup, Herve GuibertISBN 0807614149 (0-8076-1414-9)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Books in My Lifeby Henry MillerISBN 0811201082 (0-8112-0108-2)
Softcover, New Directions Publishing Corporation
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Books in My Life'Book summary:To the World Review London, for permission to reprint the chapter on Blaise Cendrars ;to Survival, New York, for the chapter on Rider Haggard. Grateful acknowledgment is herewith made to the following publishers and individuals for their kind permission to quote from the following works: Blackie Son Ltd., for Life of G. A. Henty by G. Melville Fenn. Borden Publishing Co., for The History of Magic by EH phas Levi. Coward-M c Cann, I nc., for Hill of Destiny by Jean Giono. C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., for The Absolute Collective by Erich Gudcind. James Ladd Delkin for Zen by A lan W. Watts. Doubleday Co., I nc., for The Story of My Life by Helen Keller. Druid Press for The Obstinate Cytnric by J. C. Powys. E. P. Dutton Co., I nc., for Cosmic Conscioustiess by R. M. Bunche and Magicians, Seers and Mystics by Maurice Magre. Editions Bernard Grasset for Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars. Falcon Press for Babu of Montpamasse by C. L. Phi Hppe. Harcourt, Brace Co., I nc., for In Search of the Miraadous by P. D. Ouspensky. Hermann Hesse for his article which appeared in Horizon, Sept., 1946. Houghton Mifflin Co., Constable Co., Ltd., for Mont Saint Michel and Chartres by Henry A dams. Henry Holt Co., I nc., for Nature and Man by Paul Weiss. Alfred A. Knopf, I nc., for Men of Good Will by Jules Romain. John Lane The Bodley Head for Autobiography by J. C. Powys. Frieda Lawrence for Studies in Classic American Literature, and Apocalypse hotk by D. H. Lawrence. Le Cercle Du Livre for Krishnamurti by Carlo Suar. Les Jtions Denoel for LeL otissement du Ciel and Bourlinguer-- both by Blaise Cendrars. Litde, Brown Co., for Schliemann by Emil Ludwig. Longmans, Green Co., Ltd., and A. P. Watt Son for The Days of My Life by H. Rider Haggard.
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Brassai: Images of Culture and the Surrealist Observerby Marja WarehimeISBN 0807122769 (0-8071-2276-9)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Break of Day: (Point Du Jour)by Andre Breton, Mark Polizzotti, Mary Ann CawsISBN 0803212593 (0-8032-1259-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Break of Day: (Point Du Jour)'Book summary:Originally published in France in 1934, Break of Day is André Bretons second collection of critical and polemical essays, following The Lost Steps (Nebraska 1996). In fewer than two hundred pages, it captures the first full decade of the surrealist movement. The collection opens with an essay composed in 1924 that examines key elements of surrealism and concludes with Bretons harsh revaluation in 1933 of automatic writing.Among the other essays in the volume are Burial Denied and In Self-Defense, two pieces that, in translator Mark Polizzottis words, mark surrealisms conscious break from the mainstream and the beginning of its attempts to work alongside the French Communist Party. Also included are Psychiatry Standing before Surrealism, which addresses Bretons complex, ambivalent views on mental illness and the emerging psychiatric establishment; Introduction to Achim von Arnim's Strange Tales, which reveals surrealisms debt to such precursors as the German romantics and delineates a surrealistic aesthetic of the macabre; and Picasso in His Element, in which Breton demonstrates his formidable talents as a critic of the visual arts.[via]More editions of Break of Day: (Point Du Jour):
Cat's Cradleby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0805013199 (0-8050-1319-9)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cat's Cradle'Book summary:Cat's Cradle, one of Vonnegut's most entertaining novels, is filled with scientists and G-men and even ordinary folks caught up in the game. These assorted characters chase each other around in search of the world's most important and dangerous substance, a new form of ice that freezes at room temperature. At one time, this novel could probably be found on the bookshelf of every college kid in America; it's still a fabulous read and a great place to start if you're young enough to have missed the first Vonnegut craze. [via]
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Chagallby Marc Chagall, Jose Maria Faerna, Elsa HaasISBN 0810946777 (0-8109-4677-7)
Hardcover, Abradale/Abrams
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chagall'Book summary:Find out what role Marc Chagall played in the history of 20th-century art. This fine volume captures the distinctive creativity of a painter whose images were heavily influenced by literature, religious symbols, and folk tales from his native Russia. You'll enjoy more than 60 reproductions of one of the most original and imaginative geniuses of 20th-century art. [via]
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Children of the Albatrossby Anais NinISBN 0804000395 (0-8040-0039-5)
Softcover, Ohio Univ Pr
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Cities of the Red Nightby William S. BurroughsISBN 0805017631 (0-8050-1763-1)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cities of the Red Night'Book summary:While young men wage war against an evil empire of zealous mutants, the population of this modern inferno is afflicted with the epidemic of a radioactive virus. An opium-infused apocalyptic vision from the legendary author of Naked Lunch is the first of the trilogy with The Places of the Dead Roads and his final novel, The Western Plains.
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The Collected Poems of Georges Batailleby Mark Spitzer, Georges BatailleISBN 0802313256 (0-8023-1325-6)
Softcover, Dufour Editions, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Poems of Georges Bataille'Book summary:This is the first collected English translation of Bataille's poems. Bataille's poetry is definitely the poetry of a philosopher, but it is also a poetry with an obsessively erotic, often scatological edge, frequently pushing the boundary of what is or isn't obscene. Bataille believed that everything relates to the workings of desire and death in sexuality, but he also believed that poetry was the product of ""hate"" (and other extreme emotions), just as much as erotic pleasure accedes to self-annihilation. But Bataille was interested in actual action, not just disengaged hypothesis concerning the sexual act. Dufour Editions is pleased to bring Bataille's poetry to print in English. ""This is the audacious, frightful side of surrealism.""-Library Journal ""Bataille produced some of the most transcendent, pointedly filthy literature of the century, and these poems, together in English for the first time, are no exception.""-Publishers Weekly [via]
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Colossus of Maroussiby Henry MillerISBN 0811201090 (0-8112-0109-0)
Softcover, New Directions
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A Confederacy of Duncesby John Kennedy TooleISBN 0807126063 (0-8071-2606-3)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Confederacy of Dunces'Book summary:"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs."
Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This 30-year-old medievalist lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relays to anyone who will listen the traumatic experience he once had on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bound for Baton Rouge. ("Speeding along in that bus was like hurtling into the abyss.") But Ignatius's quiet life of tyrannizing his mother and writing his endless comparative history screeches to a halt when he is almost arrested by the overeager Patrolman Mancuso--who mistakes him for a vagrant--and then involved in a car accident with his tipsy mother behind the wheel. One thing leads to another, and before he knows it, Ignatius is out pounding the pavement in search of a job.
Over the next several hundred pages, our hero stumbles from one adventure to the next. His stint as a hotdog vendor is less than successful, and he soon turns his employers at the Levy Pants Company on their heads. Ignatius's path through the working world is populated by marvelous secondary characters: the stripper Darlene and her talented cockatoo; the septuagenarian secretary Miss Trixie, whose desperate attempts to retire are constantly, comically thwarted; gay blade Dorian Greene; sinister Miss Lee, proprietor of the Night of Joy nightclub; and Myrna Minkoff, the girl Ignatius loves to hate. The many subplots that weave through A Confederacy of Dunces are as complicated as anything you'll find in a Dickens novel, and just as beautifully tied together in the end. But it is Ignatius--selfish, domineering, and deluded, tragic and comic and larger than life--who carries the story. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. His fragility cracks the shell of comic bluster, revealing a deep streak of melancholy beneath the antic humor. John Kennedy Toole committed suicide in 1969 and never saw the publication of his novel. Ignatius Reilly is what he left behind, a fitting memorial to a talented and tormented life. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr - A Confederacy of Dunces: ISBN 0807106577 (0-8071-0657-7)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr - A Confederacy of Dunces: ISBN 0807126063 (0-8071-2606-3)
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Dali by Daliby Salvador DaliISBN 0810900718 (0-8109-0071-8)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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De Chirico Cameoby Jose Maria FaernaISBN 0810946866 (0-8109-4686-6)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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Dead Soulsby Nikolai Vasilevich GogolISBN 0804901228 (0-8049-0122-8)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Descent into Hellby Charles WilliamsISBN 0802812201 (0-8028-1220-1)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portraitby Frida Kahlo, Sarah M. Lowe, Carlos FuentesISBN 0810959542 (0-8109-5954-2)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portraitby Carlos Fuentes, Sarah M. Lowe, Frida KahloISBN 0810981955 (0-8109-8195-5)
Hardcover, Abradale/Abrams
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Dorothea Tanningby Dorothea Tanning, Jean C. Bailly, Richard Howard, John RussellISBN 0807614025 (0-8076-1402-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dorothea Tanning'Book summary:From Library Journal The unique surrealist painter/sculptor/designer Dorothea Tanning (b. 1910) well deserves this sumptuous volume. Her innovative oeuvre is lyrically evoked and reviewed by French critic, playwright, and poet Bailly. For clarity, however, Tanning's own afterword and the comprehensive chronology should be read before the critical essays. Some 214 color plates, four color foldouts, and 191 black-and-white illustrations mark out the visions of a fertile art not well known to the public at large. American-born but for many years a resident of France, Tanning was eclipsed by her famous artist husband, Max Ernst. Following paintings in the manner of Ernst and Balthus, she arrived at a singular style that dissolves Surrealist fragments of eroticized bodies into a cosmic surge of life. Her soft sculptures of the 1970s are another revelation. She now lives and works in New York. Highly recommended for large collections and those specializing in modernism. Mary Hamel-Schwulst, Towson State Univ., Md. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. [via]
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The Encyclopedia of the Deadby Danilo Kis, Michael Henry HeimISBN 081011514X (0-8101-1514-X)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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Ernst Cameoby Alberto Curotto, Jose Maria FaernaISBN 0810946963 (0-8109-4696-3)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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The Fan-Maker's Inquisition : A Novel of the Marquis de Sadeby Rikki DucornetISBN 0805059261 (0-8050-5926-1)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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The Four-Chambered Heartby Anais NinISBN 0804001219 (0-8040-0121-9)
Softcover, Ohio Univ Pr
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Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imaginationby Robin D. G. KelleyISBN 0807009776 (0-8070-0977-6)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination'Book summary:This exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora throughout the twentieth century begins with the premise that the catalyst for political engagement has rarely been misery, poverty, or oppression. People are drawn to social movement because of hope: their dreams of a new world radically different from the one they inherited.
Our imagination may be the most revolutionary tool available to us, and yet we have failed to understand its political importance and recognize it as a powerful social force.
From Paul Robeson to Aime Cesaire to Jayne Cortez, Kelley unearths freedom dreams in African and Third World liberation movements, in the hope that Communism offered, in the imaginative mindscapes of Surrealism, in the transformative potential of radical feminism, and in the four-hundred-year-old dream of reparations for slavery and Jim Crow.
With Freedom Dreams, Kelley affirms his place as "a major new voice on the intellectual left" (Frances Fox Piven) and shows us that any serious movement toward freedom must begin in the mind. [via]More editions of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination:
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Guernica and Other Playsby Fernando ArrabalISBN 0802151221 (0-8021-5122-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guernica and Other Plays'Book summary:The celebrated Spanish playwright Fernando Arrabal, who lived in Madrid under the oppression of the Franco regime, writes passionately of human atrocity and of hope. This collection of plays embodies Arrabals theatre of panic, named after the god Pan. The homme panique is a man who refuses to take risks, who avoids danger and therefore heroism, who avoids the irreparable act, but who, ironically, is caught up in a world of chance that forces him to make choices.[via]More editions of Guernica and Other Plays:
Hesitant Fireby Max Jacob, Moishe Black, Maria GreenISBN 0803225741 (0-8032-2574-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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A House of Her Own: Kay Sage, Solitary Surrealistby Judith D. SutherISBN 0803242344 (0-8032-4234-4)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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House of Incestby Anais NinISBN 0804001480 (0-8040-0148-0)
Softcover, Ohio Univ Pr
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Joan Miroby Carolyn LanchnerISBN 0810961237 (0-8109-6123-7)
Hardcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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Joseph Cornellby Ingrid SchaffnerISBN 0810958333 (0-8109-5833-3)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Joseph Cornell'Book summary:Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) is considered a visionary figure in the history of American art of the twentieth century. Starting in the 1930s, he invented a personal approach to making art that consisted of assembling things that he collected and found in the streets and shops of New York City. He is famous for work like Untitled (The Hotel Eden), c. 1945, which takes the form of a shallow box filled with odds and ends. In this case: printed scraps of paper, a picture of a parrot perched on an actual twig, a spring, a little yellow ball, a tiny bottle filled with who-knows-what. Readers of The Essential Joseph Cornell will learn that: Cornell's genius lay in his transformation of everyday objects into enchanting realms; Cornell's infatuation with movie stars inspired some of his most famous works, which he created as tributes to the women he adored from afar: Lauren Bacall, Greta Garbo, and Marilyn Monroe; Cornell's loyalty to family led to his lifetime support of his mother and invalid brother, with whom he shared a modest house on Utopia Parkway in Queens, New York. [via]
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Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreamsby Diane WaldmanISBN 0810992523 (0-8109-9252-3)
Softcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams'Book summary:Recent books on Cornell have brought new attention to the artist and increased his popularity, introducing his art to new audiences. These recent books, however, only deal with specific areas of Cornell's oeuvre or are not illustrated. This book by Diane Waldman covers Cornell's entire career- and it will be sought out by old and new fans of his work. Out of the fantasies that enriched a private, often reclusive life, Joseph Cornell created, in his famed shadow boxes and collages, a "poetic theater of memory" in which fables of the unconscious were played out by characters as varied as a Medici princess, a blue swan, and a supporting company of angels, parrots, and ballerinas. Using the same seemingly commonplace materials that compose the classic fairy tale and our daily lives- thimbles, eggshells, mirrors, and maps among them- Cornell beckons us into a world at once distantly magical and tantalizingly, nostalgically "home." Uniquely Cornell's, yet very much our own, this private universe of objects and images, vivid with half-remembered fantasies, reminds us ultimately of the strangeness of the familiar, the odd familiarity of the strange, the final mysteriousness of the world we thought we knew. Diane Waldman probes Cornell's elusive imagery and traces the development from his earliest Surrealist-inspired collages of the 1930s, through the masterful constructions of the 1940s and 1950s, and the artist's lifelong experimentation with film, to his return to collage in the years before his death in 1972. [via]
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Kiki's Paris: Artists and Lovers 1900-1930by Billy Kluver, Julie MartinISBN 0810925915 (0-8109-2591-5)
Softcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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Krazy Kat: The Comic Art Of George Herrimanby Patrick McDonnell, Karen O'Connell, Georgia Riley De HavenonISBN 0810991853 (0-8109-9185-3)
Softcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Ladders to Fireby Anais Nin, Gunther StuhlmannISBN 0804001812 (0-8040-0181-2)
Softcover, Ohio Univ Pr
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Lanarkby Alasdair GrayISBN 0807611085 (0-8076-1108-5)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lanark'Book summary:Alasdair Gray's first novel Lanark (first published in 1981) immediately established him as one of the most important Scottish voices of his generation and this astounding work as one of the key British novels of the last century. Magnificent in its reach and unequalled in the adulation of its critical response, Lanark is a massive book.
Perversely we start our reading with Book 3--the hero of this and the last book in the quartet, the eponymous Lanark, lives in a bizarre and fantastical future in a grey, dreary city called Unthank. He doesn't remember how he got there nor who he really is. He hangs around a local cafe with some other young people whose values and mores he can't quite figure. All around people are disappearing. Then he contracts dragonhide... and disappears too. He wakes in an institute and is told the sad but instructional tale of Duncan Thaw (the boy he used to be, the boy, in a sense, Alasdair Gray used to be).
Duncan, unknowingly speaking of the epic of which he is the centre, who we meet as a child and watch grow into an artist , says "I want to write a modern Divine Comedy with illustrations in the style of William Blake." And it is Duncan's story that is the heart of Lanark--and what a poignant, heart-breaking tale it is. From a boy who can never accept or offer or understand love, who cannot connect, to an artist who cannot accept that he cannot have the final word--both in his own life and in his art--Duncan's tale is a beautifully crafted coming-of-age story.
Lanark is a work of huge imagination and wonderful range; it is about all of our selves, how we make them and make them up; it is about place and what that means for identity and it is about love--how we can learn to love our selves, or fail to, how we need to love, both ourselves and others, to create communities in which we can create art that will promote a continuing project of place in which we can love each other better. Lanark is peerless. --Mark Thwaite [via]
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Lanark: A Life in Four Booksby Alasdair GrayISBN 080761162X (0-8076-1162-X)
Softcover, Braziller Incorporated, George
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Lautreamont and Sadeby Maurice Blanchot, Stuart Kendall, Michelle KendallISBN 0804750351 (0-8047-5035-1)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Lilithby George MacDonaldISBN 0802860613 (0-8028-6061-3)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lilith'Book summary:"Lilith is equal if not superior to the best of Poe," the great 20th-century poet W.H. Auden said of this novel, but the comparison only begins to touch on the richness, density, and wonder of this late 19th-century adult fantasy novel. First published in 1895 (inhabiting a universe with the early Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde--not to mention Thomas Hardy), this is the story of the aptly named Mr. Vane, his magical house, and the journeys into another world into which it leads him.
Meeting up with one mystery after another, including Adam and Eve themselves, he slowly but surely explores the mystery of the human fall from grace, and of our redemption. Instructed into the ways of seeing the deeper realities of this world--seeing, in a sense, by the light of the spirit--the reader and Mr. Vane both sense that MacDonald writes from his own deep experience of radiance, from a bliss so profound that death's darkness itself is utterly eclipsed in its light. --Doug Thorpe [via]
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Lost Body/Corps Perduby Aime CesaireISBN 0807611484 (0-8076-1148-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Lost Steps: Les Pas Perdusby Andre Breton, Mark PolizzottiISBN 0803212429 (0-8032-1242-9)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Magnifying Mirrors: Women, Surrealism, & Partnershipby Renee Riese HubertISBN 0803223706 (0-8032-2370-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Magritteby Rene Magritte, Jose Maria Faerna, Alberto CurottoISBN 0810946807 (0-8109-4680-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Magritte'Book summary:This installation of the Modern Master series surveys the work of Rene Magritte, one of the most enigmatic artists of the 20th century and an important figure in the surrealist movement. He combined the commonplace with the fantastic to become the master of "magic realism." Cloud-filled skies, bowler-hatted men, and oversized household objects are in abundance in the more than 60 full-color reproductions included in this volume. [via]
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Magritteby Siegfried GohrISBN 0810967006 (0-8109-6700-6)
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The Man in the Black Coat: Russia's Literature of the Absurdby George GibianISBN 081010735X (0-8101-0735-X)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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Man Ray, 1890-1976by Man RayISBN 0810942771 (0-8109-4277-1)
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Marcel Duchampby Francis M. Naumann, Marcel DuchampISBN 0810963345 (0-8109-6334-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marcel Duchamp'Book summary:The nineteenth century ends in 1914 with Picasso, the twentieth begins with Marcel Duchamp.' This statement by the art critic Pierre Cabanne characterizes the French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1967) as a radical innovator, whose influence on the development of present-day art can hardly be overestimated. Almost all the avant-garde movements since 1945 - pop art, arte povera, conceptual art, performance art, multi-media art, and almost all post-modernist trends - are derived in one way or another from his artistic studies. Although Duchamp also left a limited number of paintings - including the cubist Nude Descending a Staircase of 1912 and his masterpiece, the painting on glass of The Bride stripped bare by her Bachelors, even - he is above all known as the creator of the 'ready-mades', everyday objects such as a snow shovel, a bicycle wheel, a bottle rack or a urinal, which Duchamp promoted into works of art by adding his signature and a title. In this way he put up resistance to what he called 'retinal art', art which had no other object than to please the eye. He did not think the unique, handmade and visually pleasing aspect of a work of art important, but rather the meaning and the value which the observer gave to the object. From this point of view, which in fact also contained an element of humour, Duchamp realigned the frontiers of art, and his radical new ideas inspired whole generations of artists. In his life-long search for alternatives to traditional artistic practice, Duchamp was fascinated by the art of mechanical reproduction, which was expressed not only in his ready-mades, boites-en-valise and his etchings, but also in the many copies, replicas, multiples and photographic reproductions, which were made of his work during and after his lifetime. This aspect forms the central theme of this richly illustrated study, which offers a new and often unexpected look at the life and oeuvre of one of the most remarkable artists of the twentieth century. Francis M. Naumann is an expert on Duchamp and Man Ray. He has previously published Marcel Duchamp: Artist of the Century and New York Dada [via]
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Max Ernst Collages: The Invention of the Surrealist Universeby Werner Spies, John William GabrielISBN 0810932512 (0-8109-3251-2)
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Miroby Guy Weelan, Robert Erich WolfISBN 0810915367 (0-8109-1536-7)
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Miroby Roland PenroseISBN 0810903040 (0-8109-0304-0)
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Non-Vicious Circleby Gregson DavisISBN 0804712077 (0-8047-1207-7)
Hardcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Oscar De Mejo: The Naive Surrealistby Oscar De MejoISBN 0810932091 (0-8109-3209-1)
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The Owl Serviceby Alan GarnerISBN 0809830736 (0-8098-3073-6)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Owl Service'Book summary:Something is scratching around in the attic above Alison's room. Yet the only thing up there is a stack of grimy old plates. Alison and her stepbrother, Roger, discover that the flowery patterns on the plates, when traced onto paper, can be fitted together to create owls--owls that disappear when no one is watching. With each vanished owl, strange events begin to happen . As the kids uncover the mystery of the owl service, they become trapped within a local legend, playing out roles in a tragic love story that has repeated itself for generations . . . and has always ended in disaster.[via]More editions of The Owl Service:
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Paris Spleenby Charles BaudelaireISBN 0811200078 (0-8112-0007-8)
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Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city and its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and mortality, and the liberation provided by the sensual delights of intoxication, art, and women. Published posthumously in 1869, Paris Spleen was a landmark publication in the development of the genre of prose poetrya format which Baudelaire saw as particularly suited for expressing the feelings of uncertainty, flux, and freedom of his ageand one of the founding texts of literary modernism. [via]More editions of Paris Spleen:
Performance Art: From Futurism to the Presentby Roselee GoldbergISBN 0810923718 (0-8109-2371-8)
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Phantastesby George MacDonaldISBN 0805207228 (0-8052-0722-8)
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Phantastes: A Faerie Romanceby George MacDonaldISBN 0802860605 (0-8028-6060-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Phantastes: A Faerie Romance'Book summary:"I was dead, and right content," the narrator says in the penultimate chapter of Phantastes. C.S. Lewis said that upon reading this astonishing 19th-century fairy tale he "had crossed a great frontier," and numerous others both before and since have felt similarly. In MacDonald's fairy tales, both those for children and (like this one) those for adults, the "fairy land" clearly represents the spiritual world, or our own world revealed in all of its depth and meaning. At times almost forthrightly allegorical, at other times richly dreamlike (and indeed having a close connection to the symbolic world of dreams), this story of a young man who finds himself on a long journey through a land of fantasy is more truly the story of the spiritual quest that is at the core of his life's work, a quest that must end with the ultimate surrender of the self. The glory of MacDonald's work is that this surrender is both hard won (or lost!) and yet rippling with joy when at last experienced. As the narrator says of a heavenly woman in this tale, "She knew something too good to be told." One senses the same of the author himself. --Doug Thorpe [via]
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 0809599945 (0-8095-9994-5)
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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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Rubicon Beachby Steve EricksonISBN 080505071X (0-8050-5071-X)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Seduction of the Minotaurby Anais NinISBN 0804002681 (0-8040-0268-1)
Softcover, Ohio Univ Pr
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Selected Poemsby K. PatchenISBN 0811201465 (0-8112-0146-5)
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Sexusby Henry MillerISBN 0802151809 (0-8021-5180-9)
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Solaris: Romanby Stanisaw LemISBN 0802755267 (0-8027-5526-7)
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A Spy in the House of Loveby Anais NinISBN 0804002800 (0-8040-0280-0)
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Surrealist Printsby Riva Castleman, Timothy Baum, Robert Rainwater, Gilbert KaplanISBN 0810963396 (0-8109-6339-6)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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This Fish Is Loaded! the Book of Surreal and Bizarre Humour: The Book of Surreal and Bizarre Humorby Richard Glyn JonesISBN 0806512709 (0-8065-1270-9)
Softcover, Carol Pub Group
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Three Tragediesby Federico Lorca GarciaISBN 0811200922 (0-8112-0092-2)
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Time of the Assassins a Study of Rimbaudby Henry MillerISBN 0811201155 (0-8112-0115-5)
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The social function of the creative personality is a recurrent theme with Henry Miller, and this book is perhaps his most poignant and concentrated analysis of the artist's dilemma. [via]More editions of Time of the Assassins a Study of Rimbaud:
Tokyo Cancelledby Rana DasguptaISBN 0802170099 (0-8021-7009-9)
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Tropic of Capricornby Henry MillerISBN 0802151825 (0-8021-5182-5)
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Twilightby Rick Moody, Gregory CrewdsonISBN 0810910039 (0-8109-1003-9)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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The Word 'Desire'by Rikki DucornetISBN 0805051740 (0-8050-5174-0)
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The World of Edward Goreyby Clifford Ross, Karen WilkinISBN 0810990830 (0-8109-9083-0)
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You'Ve Always Been Wrongby Rene DaumalISBN 0803216998 (0-8032-1699-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Zenobiaby Gellu Naum, James Brook, Sasha VladISBN 0810112558 (0-8101-1255-8)
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El Diario De Frida Kahlo/ The Diary of Frida Kahlo: Un Intimo Autorretrato/ An Intimate Self-portraitby Sarah M. Lowe, Frida Kahlo, Carlos FuentesISBN 0810959437 (0-8109-5943-7)
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The text entries, written in Frida's round, full script in brightly colored inks, make the journal as captivating to look at as it is to read. Her writing reveals the artist's political sensibilities, recollections of her childhood, and her enormous courage in the face of more than 35 operations to correct injuries she had sustained in an accident at the age of 18. This intimate portal into her life is sure to fascinate fans of the artist, art historians, and women's culturalists alike. [via]More editions of El Diario De Frida Kahlo/ The Diary of Frida Kahlo: Un Intimo Autorretrato/ An Intimate Self-portrait:
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