Absolute Idealism.

Absolute Idealism, by means of Lance Banbury. Self-Published/30 pp.

Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity, on E. Patricia Johnson, Duke University Press/365 pp/$7995 (hb) $2295 (sb)

Astronaut, by dint of Steven Tynan. Robber Books/39 pp/$1500 (sb)

At the opening [i]or[/i] close of the Light, by David Travis. David R Godine/96 pp/$1895 (hb)

Baghdad Blues: A War Diary, by way of David Turnley. The Vendome Press/160 pp/$2500 (hb)

Bertha Alyce: Mother exPos through Gay Block. University of of the present day Mexico Press/291 pp./$39.95 (hb).

Un Chevreuil a la Fenetre de Ma Chambre, Marie-Eva Gagnon and Marisa Portolese. Dazibao/80 pp/$2800 (sb)

Cine-Ethnography, on Jean Rouch, translated by Steven Feld University of Minnesota Press/456 pp/$7195 (hb) $2595 (sb)

Contemporary Cinema of Latin America, at Deborah Shaw. Continuum Publishing Group/206 pp/$8995 (hb) $2495 (sb)

Crossing the Blvd: Strangers, Neighbors, Aliens in a recently made known America, by Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan. WW Norton & Company/400 pp/$3500 (hb)

Crossing the Line: from Sara Davidmann. Dewi Lewis Publishing/96 pp/$2800 (hb)

Designing Women: Cinema, Art Deco & the Female Form, by way of Lucy Fisher. Columbia University Press/290 pp/$5450 (hb) $2750 (sb)

Disappearing Witness: Change in Twentieth-Century American Photography, by the agency of Gretchen Garner. John Hopkins University Press/328 pp/$3995 (hb)

East-West Encounters: Franco-Asian Cinema and Literature, at Sylvie Blum-Reid. Columbia University Press/179 pp/$6500 (hb) $2000(sb)

The verge of Surrealism: A Roger Caillois Reader, by means of Roger Caillois, Claudine Frank, ed Duke University Press/416 pp./$22.95 (sb)

fluent and powerful Images: Word and Image in the Age of of recent origin Media, Mary E. Hocks and Michelle R Kendrick, ed MIT Press/376 pp./$39.95 (hb).

Faking Death: Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination, from Penny Cousineau-Levine. McGill-Queen's University Press/366 pp/$4995 (hb)

For the Record: Drawing Contemporary Life, curated by way of Daina Augaitas. Vancouver Art Gallery/104 pp

sullied Perfection: Essays and Criticism, by the agency of Mike Kelley, John C. Welchman, ed The MIT Press/238 pp./$24.95 (sb)

Grand road [.sup.#]71: Danger. Distributed Art Publishers/260 pp/$1500 (sb)

inn Terminus, by Stephen Lapthisophon. Whitewalls/478 pp/$1500 (sb)

Insecurity, on Christopher Stewart. Consorcio Salamanca/75 pp

The Invention of Art, through Larry Shiner. University of Chicago Press/352 pp/$2000 (sb)

Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpetriere, on Georges Didi-Huberman, translated by Alisa Hartz. The MIT Press/373 pp/$3495 (hb)

The Invention of the Western Film: A Cultural History of the Genre's First Half-Century, by the agency of Scott Simmon. Cambridge University Press/393 pp/$8500 (hb) $3000 (sb)

John Carpenter: The Prince of Darkness, by means of Gilles Boulenger. Silman-James Press/296 pp/$1995 (sb)

Looking for Mr Flexus: In The tracks of George Maciunas/Fluxus Genetics, Raimundas Malasauskas and Grady T Turner/Skuta. Art in General/85 pp/$1295 (sb)

Life lectures from Davey and Goliath, from Catherine Malotky and David Engelstad. Rutledge Hill Press/96 pp/$1299 (hb)

Lotte Jacobi: Photographs, Introduction and Notes according to Peter Moriarty. David R. Godine/95 pp/$1895 (sb)

Mapping Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Digital Age, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht and Michael Marrinaned. Stanford University Press/349 pp/$6000 (hb) $2595 (sb)

Marc Chagall forward Art and Culture, Benjamin Harshav, ed Stanford University Press/225 pp./$49.50 (hb) $1995 (sb)

The Matrix of Visual Culture: Working with DeLeuze in Film Theory, at Patricia Pisters. Stanford University Press/303 pp/$5500 (hb) $2495 (sb)

Matters of Gravity: Special issues and Superman in the 20th centenary by Scott Bukatman. Duke University Press/296 pp/$2195 (sb)

Nacho Lopez Mexican Photographer, by means of John Mraz. University of Minnesota Press/256 pp/$6895 (hb) $2495 (sb)

The recently made known World's Old World: Photographic Views of Ancient America, May Castleberry, ed University of New Mexico Press/270 pp/$4750 (hb)

Politics of Knowledge, from Richard Ohmann. Wesleyan University Press/308 pp/$6500 (hb) $2295 (sb)

Porcelaine: Carte Grise, by means of Evergon. Dazibao/39 pp.

Prisoners' Inventions, by way of Angelo. Whitewalls/128 pp./$12.00 (sb).

Recycl agriculture in Contemporary Art and Film, by means of Vera Dika. Cambridge University Press/241 pp/$6500 (hb) $2400 (sb)

Screenplay: Writing the Picture, through Robin U. Russin and William Missouri Downs. Silman-James Press/438 pp/$2195 (sb)

clash Waves: Photography Rocks Representation, France Choiniere and Vincent Lavoie, ed Dazibao/114 pp.in English, 114 pp in French/$10 (sb)

Situating El Lissitzky: Vitebsk, Berlin, Moscow Nancy Perloff and Brian Re ed Getty Research Institute/288 pp/$3995 (sb)

Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism, through Klaus Ottmann and Pamela Auchincloss. University of Washington Press/72 pp/$1995 (sb)

The Ted Chris Steele-Perkins and Richard Smith. Dewi Lewis Publishing/128 pp/$2500 (hb)