In this book, you will find the latest information about how what you eat affects your health, the environment, and the existence of the animals who share this planet, along with in-depth discussions of ground-breaking work by these internationally respected experts: Heart specialist, Dean Ornish, M.D.; Nutrition scientist, T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D.; Weight loss expert, Terry Shintani, M.D.; Far…
Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Expressionismus" verfügbar.
English version included Un luogo magico, una guida molto dettagliata, scena per scena, della Cappella degli Scrovegni. Oltre a spiegare ai lettori il ciclo degli affreschi di Giotto, Chiara Frugoni ne presenta un'interpretazione nuova, con protagonista il committente Enrico Scrovegni, per nulla pentito delle ricchezze accumulate e dell'ombra del peccato d'usura (che aveva portato il padre Ri…
The Art Institution of Tomorrow is a unique manifesto for raising the standard of institutional practices across the world. It suggests that existing art institutions are not equipped to deal with the radical social, economic and environmental change we are living through and engage with advancement in the arts, and that unless they re-focus on their core purpose and fundamentally transform the…
Since the global financial crash of 2008, artists have become increasingly engaged in a wide range of cultural activism targeted against capitalism, political authoritarianism, colonial legacies, gentrification, but also in opposition to their own exploitation. They have also absorbed and reflected forms of protest within their art practice itself. The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art ma…
Memory Art in the Contemporary World deals with the ever-expanding field of transnational memory art, which has emerged from a political need to come to terms with traumatic historical pasts, from the Holocaust to apartheid, colonialism, state terror and civil war. The book focuses on the work of several contemporary artists from beyond the Northern Transatlantic, including William Kentridge, V…
Nina Möntmann's timely book extends the decolonisation debate to the institutions of contemporary art. In a thoughtfully articulated text, illustrated with pertinent examples of best practice, she argues that to play a crucial role within increasingly diverse societies museums and galleries of contemporary art have a responsibility to 'decentre' their institutions, removing from their collecti…
Art in Saudi Arabia spotlights the role that contemporary art will play in the country's new push for sweeping internal reform and cultural diplomacy. As the Kingdom mobilizes its vast resources behind the economic and social priorities of its Vision 2030 strategy and simultaneously seeks new terms of engagement with the international community, art is set to take centre stage and a barrage of …
The Point of it All is a thoroughly documented, researched book about the history of the designs of antique barbed fencing. This book describes hundreds of patents and over 2,000 patent design variations found in antique barbed fencing. Varieties such as mild steel barbed wire strands, sheet metal barbed strips, barbed metal rods, and barbed wooden rails. Antique barbed fencing evolved from the…
Gedruckte Bilder und abgeformte Bildwerke haben eines gemeinsam: Sie gehen auf 'Urformen' zurück, zu denen sie in einem spannungsreichen Verhältnis stehen. Auf mechanischem Wege – mit Hilfe einer Matrize, eines Models, eines Druckstocks oder einer Druckplatte – hergestellt, behaupten sie einen Ähnlichkeitsbezug zu ihrer Vorlage, von der sie sich doch zugleich in technischer, materieller …