Illustrates hundreds of paintings, drawings, and sculptures from all corners of the world, revealing that angels play an important role not only in Judaism and Christianity but also in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam

Product Description: One of America’s finest abstract painters, Chris Martin (born 1954) explores the fertile areas between sophisticated formalism and the visionary joy of outsider art, making abstract painting look enviably effortless. For this massive volume, Martin and Dan Nadel have assembled a massive compendium of Martin’s drawings from the past 30 years, presenting them chronologically so the reader–viewer can follow the artist’s continual pursuit and discovery of new forms--from sound waves to mushrooms to Tantric arches to the iconic visages of James Brown and Sigmar Polke...read more

Product Description: Nonfiction. Art. Criticism and Theory. Beyond the obsolete models of artist or author as genius and their fetish objects, what collective and collaborative practices are inventing new terrains and flows? As information and communication technologies saturate our world, how is art giving way to new forms of cultural symbolic manipulation? What new kinds of "virtual" spaces are opening up for cultural practice in electronic media? As "old media" begin to collapse under the pressures of the virtual, what new media can we find? How are didactic illustration and channeled dissidence giving way to new forms of surprise and intensity? What strategies elude the creative industries' seemingly infinite appetite for things radical? Are there any strategies that can elude being reduced to styles in the service of sales, or are critical practices doomed to play cat and mouse with the forces of consumerism? What could be insurrectional? What libratory? Contributors include Ted Byfield, Steve Kurtz, Amanda McDonald Crowley, Claire Pentecost, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Franco (Bifo) Berardi, Marco Deseriis, Rene Gabri, Brian Holmes, McKenzie Wark, Felix Stalder...read more

Product Description: Poetry. "Peter Lamborn Wilson - brilliant translator, poet, magpie scholar, anarchist, consummate cosmologist - offers up this raw bitter tender sequence for all humanity...We need his salient wisdom and bite more than ever under the dark gathering clouds of Empire & shackles that threaten all civil/sexual/human delights...read more

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Product Description: Literary Nonfiction. ESCAPE FROM THE NINETEENTH CENTURY is a group of essays by cultural critic Peter Lamborn Wilson and tackles the notion of modern progress: Did the Nineteenth Century ever come to an end? Was the "Twentieth" Century just a rerun? And what about the Twenty-First Century, the New Millennium? Another lackluster confirmation of the Eternal Return? Another garden of secondhand time? If to know "History" as tragedy is to escape its repetition as farce, then perhaps we need to look more deeply at this Past that won't stop haunting us...read more

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Product Description: This text explains how philosophers, mystics and artists have envisioned the messengers of the gods since ancient times - their appearance, work, nature and surroundings - and presents some of the important angelic narratives.

Product Description: A search for the “poetic facts” of heresy in Islamic history, ranging from “sacred pederasty” in Persian sufism and forbidden imagery in Islamic art to the inner teachings of the Assassins, the heretical influences on Shiite terrorism, and the mystical uses of wine, opium, and hashish...read more

Product Description: A massive outsider sci-fi anthology. Varied and largely critically-acclaimed material by the obscure, the overexposed and the justly renowned