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Secret Drugs of Buddhism: Psychedelic Sacraments and the Origins of the Vajrayana
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMike Crowley
Santa Fe & London: Synergetic Press, 2019.“Secret Drugs of Buddhism is the first book to explore the historical evidence for the use of entheogenic plants within the Buddhist tradition. Drawing on scriptural sources, botany, pharmacology, and religious iconography, this book calls attention to the central role which psychedelics played in Indian religions. It traces their history from the mysterious soma potion, celebrated in the most ancient Hindu scriptures, to amrita, the sacramental drink of Vajrayana Buddhism. Although amrita used in modern Vajrayana ceremonies lacks any psychoactivity, there is copious evidence that the amrita used by the earliest Vajrayana practitioners was a potent entheogen. It is the nature of this psychedelic form of the sacrament which is the central topic of this book. In particular, Secret Drugs of Buddhism attempts to identify the specific ingredients employed in amrita’s earliest formulations. To this end, the book presents evidence from many countries in which the Vajrayana movement flourished. These include Bhutan, Japan, Mongolia, and Tibet but special attention is given to India, the land of its origin.” (publisher’s blurb)
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TiHKAL: The Continuation
AU$55.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlexander Shulgin; Ann Shulgin
Berkeley: Transform Press, 2019. -
The Way of the Psychonaut: Encyclopedia for Inner Journeys (Volume Two)
AU$45.00 Read MoreAdd to cartStanislav Grof
Santa Cruz: Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, 2019.“The Way of the Psychonaut is one of the most important books ever written about the human psyche and the spiritual quest. The new understandings were made possible thanks to Albert Hofmann’s discovery of LSD–the microscope and telescope of the human psyche–as well as other psychedelic substances. This comprehensive work is a tour de force through the worlds of psychology and psychotherapy, Holotropic Breathwork, maps of the psyche, birth, sex, and death, psychospiritual rebirth, the roots of trauma, spiritual emergency and transpersonal experiences, karma and reincarnation, higher creativity, great art, and archetypes. Written in his late eighties, at the height of his magnificent career, The Way of the Psychonaut is possibly Grof’s greatest contribution.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Way of the Psychonaut: Encyclopedia for Inner Journeys (Volume One)
AU$45.00 Read MoreAdd to cartStanislav Grof
Santa Cruz: Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, 2019.“The Way of the Psychonaut is one of the most important books ever written about the human psyche and the spiritual quest. The new understandings were made possible thanks to Albert Hofmann’s discovery of LSD–the microscope and telescope of the human psyche–as well as other psychedelic substances. This comprehensive work is a tour de force through the worlds of psychology and psychotherapy, Holotropic Breathwork, maps of the psyche, birth, sex, and death, psychospiritual rebirth, the roots of trauma, spiritual emergency and transpersonal experiences, karma and reincarnation, higher creativity, great art, and archetypes. Written in his late eighties, at the height of his magnificent career, The Way of the Psychonaut is possibly Grof’s greatest contribution.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Peter Berlin: Icon, Artist, Photosexual
AU$900.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter Berlin
[Bologna]: Damiani, 2019.One of 50 copies of the deluxe edition with a signed and numbered silver gelatin photograph by Berlin housed in the publisher’s original mailing carton. “Featuring the work of Berlin along with images by Tom of Finland, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Andy Warhol, Peter Berlin: Icon pays tribute to the man who in the early to mid-1970s revolutionized the landscape of gay male eroticism and became an international sensation. His self-portrait photography graced the covers of gay magazines, and defined a look that re-imagined a new masculinity among gay men and an emerging gay male culture. Peter Berlin was a self-created. Tailoring his own clothes to accentuate an already naturally defined physique, every part of his anatomy became showcased. Cruising was his career, and with a background in photography, Peter embarked on recording thousands of self-portraits. The book is edited by Michael Bullock is a writer and publisher of BUTT, Pin-Up, Fantastic Man, Gentlewoman, and Apartamento magazines.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Around the Goldfields: A Study of Possibilities and Dreams
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnonymous
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2019.An Overview of the Goldfields During the Great Depression.
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La Biblioteca Infernal
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLeopoldo Lugones; Santiago Caruso
Buenos Aires: Insula Editora, 2019.The Infernal Library by Argentine writer Leopoldo Lurgones (1874-1938) with an illustrated frontispiece by symbolist and surreal artist Santiago Caruso (1982-). This is number 23 of the limited deluxe edition of 30 signed and numbered by the artist produced in plain wrappers with an original drawing on the cover together with a signed and numbered engraving and three facsimiles of vintage documents in a wax sealed folder. The text was first published in 1899 in the Tribuna newspaper, then as part of a collection, Las primeras letras de Leopoldo Lugones, in 1963, and here produced in book form in its own right for the first time. Neither the standard or deluxe edition recorded in OCLC.
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The Gay Seventies
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHal Fischer
San Francisco: Gallery 16, 2019.Collected edition of the photo-text works of Hal Fischer produced between between 1977 and 1979 including the highly important Gay Semiotics. Fischer’s works were major investigations of gay life in late 1970s San Francisco. Contains: Gay Semiotics; 18th near Castro St. x 24; Boy-Friends; A Salesman; Civic Center; Cheap Chic Homo; At the Center of the Gay Universe.
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Cosmic Sciences: A Scientific Approach to Numerology, Astrology and Hand Analysis
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJanis K. Butt
Canberra: Bluestar Print, 2019. -
Behold A Pale Horse
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMilton William Cooper
Flagstaff: Light Technology Publishing, 2019.The revised edition of this conspiracy theory classic, or is it…
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Monte Cassino (Con Amore)
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSteven Nestor
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2019.“Monte Cassino: Con Amore is an exploration by Steven Nestor of the destruction of a small Italian town Monte Cassino and its monastery in the Second World War. Surviving copies of The Illustrated London News from 1944 lead Nestor on a journey to discover and record the last remaining traces of the devastation of the town and the Benedictine monastery built on the site of the original Abbey chosen and founded by St Benedict in the 6th century. Blending original material from his research archive alongside his own images, Nestor encourages the viewer to cross into an elusive but violent past. The photographic windows throughout this book look out onto a buried past that continues to inform and shape our present through the fragments that have survived destruction, the passage of time and a human quest to overcome disaster. This is a journey across unremarkable contemporary places and into their dark history: forlorn graffiti semaphores in a space once littered with casualties of battle, a collapsed street sign lies unnoticed on the edge of town and autumns mulch burns on the road that snakes its way up to the summit of worship and war.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed by Nestor on the title page.
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Monte Cassino (Con Amore) w/ Print
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSteven Nestor
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2019.“Monte Cassino: Con Amore is an exploration by Steven Nestor of the destruction of a small Italian town Monte Cassino and its monastery in the Second World War. Surviving copies of The Illustrated London News from 1944 lead Nestor on a journey to discover and record the last remaining traces of the devastation of the town and the Benedictine monastery built on the site of the original Abbey chosen and founded by St Benedict in the 6th century. Blending original material from his research archive alongside his own images, Nestor encourages the viewer to cross into an elusive but violent past. The photographic windows throughout this book look out onto a buried past that continues to inform and shape our present through the fragments that have survived destruction, the passage of time and a human quest to overcome disaster. This is a journey across unremarkable contemporary places and into their dark history: forlorn graffiti semaphores in a space once littered with casualties of battle, a collapsed street sign lies unnoticed on the edge of town and autumns mulch burns on the road that snakes its way up to the summit of worship and war.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed by Nestor on the title page and with a signed photographic print in a paper folder laid in.
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Waiting Under Southern Skies
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartColin Abbott
Sydney: T&G Publishing, [2019].“Waiting Under Southern Skies is a selection of evocative, and previously unpublished, images from Colin Abbotts personal archive of over 50 years documenting Australian life, as it presented to him. It is an intimate narrative of people and places during a period of immense social change in Australia.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed by Abbott on the title page and with a signed photographic print in a paper folder laid in.
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T*
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGiordano Bonora
Milan: Mousse Publishing, 2019.“This book is inspired by the pictures that Giordano Bonora, a young streetcar operator and aspiring photographer, took of Bolognas small transgender community in 1980 (although it would be more correct to speak, in this case, of proto-Transgenderism). Reproduced here for the first time, these raw and gilded images reflect–during a period in Italy characterized by subversive movements and political revolts that were not just rooted in questions of identity–attempts made by T* people at a construction of the self outside the binary logic of the genotypically XY male/genotypically XX female.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy in the publisher’s plastic wrap.
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Yokoo Tadanori: Grand Theatre of Live Painting: Something’s Happening at the Museum Today
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartYokoo Tadanori
[Kobe]: Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art, 2019.Published to accompany the 2019 exhibition dedicated to works that Tadanori created in front of live audiences. Tadanori thrives on the focus, and the energy, that painting in public provides and this catalogue includes photos of audiences observing the artist.
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Materia Oscura
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDanilo De Rossi
[Madrid]: Studio Danilo de Rossi, 2019.Photographs, digital renderings and texts by Italian architect and designer Danilo De Rossi. A projection of the future as imagined by the intersection of humankind and technology. Limited artists’ book, 100 signed and numbered copies, of which this is number 31.
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The Black Captain
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTeo Treloar
Brisbane: Andrew Baker Art Dealer, 2019. -
The Araki Effect
AU$75.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFilippo Maggia; Nobuyoshi Araki
Milano: Skira, 2019.“Over 300 images by the most famous contemporary Japanese photographer from the 1960s to today. Nobuyoshi Araki (Tokyo, 1940) is known the world over for his controversial erotic portraits of Japanese women, often bound using the kinbaku (Japanese bondage) technique. A unique figure in contemporary photography, he has always found creative inspiration in his daily existence, without making any distinction between his personal life and public and professional practice. The Araki Effect offers a broad overview of his career: from the first series from 1963-1965, Satchin and His Brother Mabo, to Subway of Love, a large collection of images taken in the Tokyo subway between 1963 and 1972, the year he also made Autumn in Tokyo, which recounts the autumn he spent wandering through the city in the twilight hours. These are followed by Sentimental Night in Kyoto, less well-known than the famous Sentimental Journey, both tributes to his wife, Yoko; Balcony of Love, Death Reality, Tokyo Diary from 2017, and one of his latest collections, Araki’s Paradise from 2019. The power of Araki’s images lies precisely in the force they emanate, the essence of the feeling – be it pain or joy – that the Japanese master puts into every picture. Araki transforms the set into a stage on which only he and the subject exist.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Sistaaz of the Castle: SistaazHood: Trans Sex Work Support Group, Cape Town
AU$48.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJan Hoek; Duran Lantink; Gerda van de Glind; SistaazHood
[Ghent]: Art Paper Editions, 2019.“Jan Hoek, fashion designer Duran Lantink and trans sex worker organisation SistaazHood present Sistaaz of the Castle, an ongoing project about the colorful looks and lives of transgender sex workers that roam the streets of Cape Town, South Africa. Most of the girls are homeless, living under a bridge near Cape Towns castle. The Sistaaz are eager activists, proud to be trans, proud to be a sex worker, and even prouder of their stunning sense of style. And they want it to be acknowledged. A series of photographs and a fashion collection based on the girls appearance and their ability to turn whatever they find into the most exuberant outfits was created. This has already resulted in a fashion show at Amsterdam Fashion Week (a show in Cape Town in still on the wish list) and a photo exhibition in Foam Amsterdam.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Post-Butt: The Power of the Image
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMelani De Luca
: Onomatopee, 2019.“Post-Butt analyses the virality of images in our mediated society. It is a case study around the image of female butts, bootys, and behinds, and their influence in media, society and art. The butt is the protagonist of mass-mediated culture, it is the democratic sex organ par excellence. The phenomenon of bootyfication exists in many contexts, as varied as the exploitation of the body in colonialism to 90s hiphop culture. Post-Butt goes through different periods in time and place, to analyse the political meaning of the usage of the image of the female buttocks. It discusses the role of the booty in varied cultural expressions such as film, Internet art, music videos, dance and plastic surgery; and aims to reflect on how our society is conditioned by viral images that do not only exist in the digital context, but have deep consequences on our physical world as well.” (publisher’s blurb)