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Austin Osman Spare

Austin Osman Spare, revised edition

Austin Osman Spare

The Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist

by Phil Baker

Foreword by Alan Moore

ISBN: 9781913689650

Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

Pub Date: June 13, 2023

A revised edition of Phil Baker's critically lauded biography of artist and occultist, Austin Osman Spare.
Sandfuture

Sandfuture

Sandfuture

by Justin Beal

ISBN: 9780262543095

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 14, 2021

An account of the life and work of the architect Minoru Yamasaki that leads the author to consider how (and for whom) architectural history is written.
Doomed and Famous

Doomed and Famous

Doomed and Famous

Selected Obituaries

by Adrian Dannatt

ISBN: 9780997567472

Publisher: Sequence Press

Pub Date: February 2, 2021

An obituarist opens his archive to celebrate the obscure and the eccentric.
Konrad Wachsmann’s Television

Konrad Wachsmann's Television

Konrad Wachsmann's Television

Post-architectural Transmissions

by Mark Wigley

ISBN: 9783956795350

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Pub Date: February 2, 2021

A novel reading of the work of one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century.
Ithell Colquhoun

Ithell Colquhoun

Ithell Colquhoun

Genius of The Fern Loved Gully

by Amy Hale

ISBN: 9781907222863

Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

Pub Date: November 24, 2020

The first in-depth biographical study of the British surrealist and occultist Ithell Colquhoun,
Murderous Passions

Murderous Passions, revised and expanded edition

Murderous Passions

The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco

by Stephen Thrower and Julian Grainger

ISBN: 9781907222917

Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

Pub Date: February 4, 2020

Extensive coverage of film guru Jesús Franco's kinky horror films and career from 1953 to 1974.
Mycelium

Mycelium

Mycelium

by Annette Weisser

ISBN: 9781635901009

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: November 5, 2019

In a novel set against a transforming Berlin, an artist confronts a diagnosis of breast cancer.
Richard Roe

Richard Roe

Richard Roe

A Memoir of a Legal Person

by Tyler Coburn

ISBN: 9783956794643

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Pub Date: June 18, 2019

The fictional memoir of a legal person—potentially everyone and actually no one.
Flowers of Perversion

Flowers of Perversion

Flowers of Perversion

The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco

by Stephen Thrower

ISBN: 9781907222603

Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

Pub Date: March 26, 2019

The disturbing, exciting, and defiantly avant-garde films of Jesús “Jess” Franco, director of such films as Vampyros Lesbos and Lilian the Perverted Virgin.
Being Here Is Everything

Being Here Is Everything

Being Here Is Everything

The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker

by Marie Darrieussecq

Translated by Penny Hueston

ISBN: 9781635900088

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: October 27, 2017

The short, obscure, and prolific life of the German expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907), a significant figure in modernism.
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