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1 2 3 >>>     sort list by author | publication date All Over Coffee Paul Madonna The Art of Noir The Posters and Graphics from the Classic Era of Noir Eddie Muller Film noir is all about style, even more than it is about crime. The poster art from the noir era has a bold look and an iconography all its own. During noir's golden age, studios commissioned these arresting illustrations for even the lowliest "B" thriller. Bibliodeath My Archives (With Life in Footnotes) Andrei Codrescu Award-winning author Andrei Codrescu's Bibliodeath: My Archives (With Life in Footnotes) surveys the evolutionary relationship between language and technology by examining his own career as a prolific American writer for more than four decades, Blind Spot Teju Cole Teju sees the world through a lens that captures the minutia of locale in fully intriguing ways—the way he articulates prose around these photos is completely immaculate. —Recommended by Jared, City Lights Bookstore Conversational Lexicon Volume 2 Pil-Cappelen Smith City Lights carrying Olso booksellers cult sensation "Conversational Lexicon." Dada East The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire Tom Sandqvist Dada -- perhaps the most famous and outrageous of modernism's artistic movements -- is said to have begun at the Cabaret Voltaire, a literary evening staged at the restaurant Meierei in Zurich on February 5, 1916. The evening featured stamping, roaring, banging on the lids of pots and pans, and the recitation of incomprehensible "poemes... Dada Painters and Poets An Anthology, Second Edition Robert Motherwell The Dada Painters and Poets offers the authentic answer to the question "What is Dada?" This incomparable collection of essays, manifestos, and illustrations was prepared by Robert Motherwell with the collaboration of some of the major Dada figures: Marcel Duchamp, Jean Arp, and Max Ernst among others. Dadaglobe Reconstructed Tristan Tzara Dadaglobe was to be the definitive anthology of the Dada movement. Had it been published in 1921 as planned, it would have constituted more than one hundred artworks by some thirty artists from seven countries, showing Dada to be an artistic and literary movement with truly global reach. Yet it remained unpublished. The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961... Destruction Was My Beatrice Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century Jed Rasula The perfect companion to Hugo Ball's Flight Out of Time, Huelsenbeck's Memoirs of a Dada Drummer, and Hans Richter's Art and Anti-Art. Jed Rasula has done a great service to Dada lovers everywhere. —Recommended by Peter, City Lights Books The Dream Colony A Life in Art Walter Hopps A panoramic look at art in America in the second half of the twentieth century, through the eyes of the visionary curator who helped shape it. An innovative, iconoclastic curator of contemporary art, Walter Hopps founded his first gallery in L.A. at the age of twenty-one. —Recommended by Paul, City Lights Bookstore The Duchamp Dictionary Thomas Girst "Girst elegantly unravels the skeins of Duchamp's thinking. . . . An essential compendium for puzzling out an essential artist." —Richard Armstrong, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation Among the most influential artists of the last hundred years, Marcel Duchamp holds great allure for many contemporary artists worldwide... The Ecstasy of St. Kara Kara Walker, New Work Kara Walker A VERY LIMITED EDITION!! Kara Walker's work astutely examines race, gender, and identity. Walker's newest series of large-scale drawings stem from her consideration of monuments and notions of permanence and impermanence following her massive public art project, A Subtlety, in Brooklyn. Everything Is Its Own Reward An All Over Coffee Collection Paul Madonna "The book is fantastic. Of time and tenderness. Beautiful drawings. Beautiful text. Ethereal and serious at once. The book is its own reward." -- Maira Kalman, author of "And the Pursuit of Happiness" 1 2 3 >>>