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Braunkohle war und ist ein problembehafteter Rohstoff. Dieser Befund gilt im Besonderen für die DDR, die von ihrer wichtigsten Energieressource in fataler Weise abhängig war. Viele der Umweltprobleme, die wir mit dem sozialistischen Staat verbinden, hatten ihren Ursprung in der Nutzung von Braunkohlen. Dabei versuchte die DDR lange Zeit, sich diesen Umweltproblemen zu stellen. Von einem determinierten "sozialistischen Ökozid" kann daher nicht die Rede sein. Der Autor zeichnet anhand der Rekultivierungsforschung und -praxis ausgekohlter Tagebaue nach, wie die DDR sich bereits ab den frühen 1950er-Jahren den Problemen stellte und Lösungen suchte. Die reich bebilderte Studie zeigt, wie bis in die 1970er-Jahre ein Wissenschaftsnetzwerk entstand, das seine Erkenntnisse auch systemübergreifend distribuierte. Dank dieser Forschungen war die DDR für einen historischen Moment eines der führenden Länder in der bergbaubedingten Umweltpolitik.

Die Publikation untersucht die Wissenszirkulation zwischen Kunst und Design, wobei der wechselseitige Wissensaustausch von künstlerischem und nichtkünstlerische Objekt im Mittelpunkt steht. Ausgangspunkt ist die Annahme, dass Wissen in unterschiedlichen Formen rotieren kann. Wissen zirkuliert zwischen Menschen sowie zwischen nichtmenschlichen Wissensträgern. Im Zentrum stehen beispielhafte Orte , an denen Wissen zirkuliert: Die Ebene der Akteure (Künstler/-innen und Designer/-innen), der Objekte (Kunst- und Designobjekte) und der Bedeutungen. Infolgedessen wird Wissen auch nicht einfach als Wahrheit aufgefasst, sondern als ein historisches Phänomen, das zeit-, ort- und personenabhängig ist. Alltags- und Technikobjekt Global-Art Sozial engagierte Kunst

NS-Kontinuitäten konfrontieren Wie mit Kontinuitäten des Nazismus im 21. Jahrhundert kuratorisch umgehen? Der Sammelband widmet sich kuratorischen Formaten und Strategien, die Mechanismen des Verdrängens und Verleugnens der Nazigeschichte adressieren und bearbeiten. Die Beiträge analysieren die Normalisierung faschistischer Ästhetiken und Diskurse. Sie positionieren sich innerhalb neuer Debatten um Erinnerungspolitiken, suchen Möglichkeiten, sich Gewaltgeschichten zu stellen, und reflektieren Kontexte und Projekte in Museen, Hochschulen und im öffentlichen Raum. Welche Rolle spielt Erinnerung in kuratorischen Projekten zwischen Auseinandersetzung und Entledigung? Beschäftigen wir uns mit dem Thema, um uns nicht damit beschäftigen zu müssen? Oder wollen wir es nicht vielmehr zeigen, um uns mit den Kontinuitäten in der Gegenwart zu konfrontieren? Praktiken des Umgangs mit NS-Kontinuitäten in Bezug auf Denkmäler, Sammlungsbestände, institutionelle Strukturen 7. Band der /ecm-Reihe, mit Texten internationaler Expert:innen aus Theorie und Praxis sowie künstlerischen Arbeiten Beiträge von Sophie Goltz, Karin Harrasser, Michaela Melián, Ruth Sonderegger, Julia Voss u. a.

Historische Aufarbeitung - Universitätsgeschichte Als die Wiener Kunstgewerbeschule 1941 zur Reichshochschule erhoben wurde, feierte sie sich als einzigartigen "Sonderfall" im nationalsozialistischen Universitätswesen. Ausgehend von neuesten Forschungen, zeichnet diese Studie die wechselhafte Geschichte der heutigen Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien im Austrofaschismus, Nationalsozialismus und in den Nachkriegsjahren nach. Das Buch gibt umfassende Einblicke in Kunstsammlung und Archiv der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien und untersucht die Geschichte dieser Wiener Kunstinstitution, ihre Klassen und Werkstätten sowie ihre Lehrenden und Studierenden. Dabei stellen sich Fragen nach politischen, kulturellen und künstlerischen Zäsuren sowie Kontinuitäten im Wandel demokratischer und faschistischer Strukturen, die die Universität von 1933 bis 1955 prägten. Kritische Institutionengeschichte im kulturpolitischen Kontext Forschungsbeitrag zur Wiener Moderne und österreichischen Zeitgeschichte Mit einer umfangreichen Chronologie mit Biografien von Künstler:innen und einem großzügig bebilderten, kommentierten Katalogteil mit ausgewählten Beispielen (Kunstwerke, Archivalien, Quellen)

In der Schweiz hat sich seit der Unterzeichnung der Washingtoner Erklärung von 1998 mangels einheitlicher Standards eine im Kern amorphe und konturlose Entscheidungspraxis gebildet, die bislang nicht Gegenstand vertiefter Forschung war. Gleichzeitig wird die Umsetzung der Erklärung seit einigen Jahren und nun erneut anlässlich der Schaffung der Kommission für historisch belastetes Kulturerbe zur Jahreswende 2024 intensiv diskutiert. Die Autorin kann nach umfassender Erfassung und Analyse der schweizerischen Restitutionspraxis seit Dezember 1998 zentrale Entscheidungsparameter ableiten. Ein besonderes Augenmerk legt sie auf den in der Schweiz zentralen Begriff des "Fluchtgutes".

Die Publikation nimmt 25 Jahre nach der Veröffentlichung der "Gemeinsamen Erklärung", mit der sich die Bundesrepublik Deutschland zu den Washingtoner Prinzipien von 1998 bekannte, die heutige Restitutionspraxis von "NS-Raubkunst" in den Blick. Die grundlegenden Texte sowie zahlreiche Entscheidungen, insbesondere die Empfehlungen der Beratenden Kommission, werden analysiert und systematisiert, um die bisherigen Entwicklungen aufzuzeigen. Die Autorin stellt diese erstmalig ihren historischen Vorgängern, den alliierten Rückerstattungsgesetzen von 1947/49 und der hierzu ergangenen Rechtsprechung, gegenüber. Aus dem Vergleich entwickelt sie konkrete Vorschläge für eine Verbesserung der "Handreichung" und leistet damit einen wichtigen Beitrag zur aktuellen Restitutionsdebatte.

AN EXTRAORDINARILY MOVING AND ORIGINAL MEMOIR OF GROWING UP GAY AND DISABLED IN 1980S LONDONWhen Emmett de Monterey is eighteen months old, a doctor diagnoses him with cerebral palsy. Words too heavy for his twenty-five-year-old artist parents and their happy, smiling baby.Growing up in south-east London in the 1980s, Emmett is spat at on the street and prayed over at church. At his mainstream school, teachers refuse to schedule his classes on the ground floor, and he loses a stone from the effort of getting up the stairs. At his sixth form college for disabled students, he's told he will be expelled if the rumours are true, if he's gay.And then Emmett is chosen for a first-of-its-kind surgery in America which he hopes will 'cure' him, enable him to walk unaided. He hopes for a miracle: to walk, to dance, to be able to leave the house when it rains. To have a body that's everyday beautiful, to hold hands in the street. To not be gay, which feels like another word for loneliness. But the 'miracle' doesn't occur, and Emmett must reckon with a world which views disabled people as invisible, unworthy of desire. He must fight to be seen.'Vivid, engaging... this insightful memoir sheds light on the author's life as a disabled gay man who is often rendered invisible' Andrew McMillan, Guardian Book of the Day'A frank and intimate memoir written with an incredible clear-eyed intensity' Claire Fuller

The cautious expansion of freedoms in the sign of de-Stalinization is remembered in Poland as the "October Thaw of 1956". The renowned historian Jerzy Kochanowski presents an innovative view of this era. He vividly describes the contemporary facts of life as hooliganism and prostitution, work and unemployment, money and corruption, the concept of deliberate motherhood and dreams of having one's own car. The term "revolution" in the title of the book is to be taken literally, because the emotions that gripped Polish society at the time manifested themselves in a variety of ways on the streets. When the "Polish October Revolution" was over, the country was irreversibly changed.

Der Kulturverein "Deutsches Kulturwerk Europäischen Geistes" war zeitweise die zweitgrößte rechtsextreme Gruppierung der Bundesrepublik nach der NPD. Die 1950 vom ehemaligen NS-Kulturfunktionär Herbert Böhme gegründete Organisation diente mit dem Türmer-Verlag und ihren Zeitschriften als Plattform für frühere NS-Schriftsteller und völkische Autoren. In über 120 Ortsvereinen organisierte sie bis zur Auflösung 1996 Dichterlesungen, Vorträge und "Brauchtumsabende". Die Studie untersucht die Strukturen des Vereins, die Verbindungen zu rechten Gruppen und politischen Parteien sowie dessen Einflussversuche. Außerdem analysiert sie über 500 literarische Texte hinsichtlich des ideologischen Gehalts. Ein umfangreicher Anhang enthält u. a. biografische Informationen zu den wichtigsten Mitgliedern sowie Übersichten zu Akteuren, Publikationsorganen, Pflegstätten und Preisen. Somit bietet der Band einen wertvollen Beitrag zur Erschließung rechtsextremer Netzwerke im westdeutschen bürgerlichen Milieu.

The volume offers the collection of essays penned by eighteen luminous minds of the 20th century humanities and social sciences in Poland: Stefan Amsterdamski, Nina Assorodobraj-Kula, Bronislaw Baczko, Jan Blonski, Jolanta Brach-Czaina, Michal Glowinski, Oskar Hansen, Maria Janion, Jerzy Jedlicki, Antonii Kepinski, Anna Pawelczynska, Krzysztof Pomian, Mieczyslaw Porebski, Jan Strzelecki, Wladyslaw Strzeminski, Jerzy Szacki, Jerzy Topolski, and Andrzej Turowski. Celebrated as canonical within their respective fields, these works resonate profoundly in academic as well as social environment today.What lies at the centre of this collection is political and historical turbulence - the experience of the horror of war and destruction, always a point of reference for any form of political, intellectual or existential engagement. From the bold manifesto-like essays to groundbreaking theoretical writings that shift paradigms, each piece is a testament to intellectual revolution and courage. These are not just writings; they are beacons of transformative thought and conceptual reinvention.This book can be treated as evidence of the intergenerational dialogue, where scholars whose work and worldview have been to a large extent shaped by the experience of the 1989 political transition, visit their predecessors whose attitudes and ideas emerged in the aftermath of World War II. This is an acknowledgement of genealogy, heritage and influence.

This book sets out to analyse for the very first time a selection of works by international contemporary artists that reference the German-Polish border, and to draw attention to artworks created between 1990 and the early 2020s. The projects explored reference narratives of expulsion and the fluid, spectral and aesthetic nature of borders through sensory and somaesthetic perception. They examine the historical shifts of that border from the angle of changing political and societal contexts, lost homelands, expulsion of people and new political orders.The book is the product of research in the field at the German-Polish border, interviews with artists, visits to their studios, and archival work. It employs a transdisciplinary toolbox, combining methods from art history, border (art) studies, migration studies, memory studies, geopoetics, limotrophy and more. The volume questions the double figure of dividing and sharing that finds expression in the German word "eine (Grenze) teilen", which means either to divide or to share a border: separation by a shared border and shared historical experience, regarded from two, often dissimilar perspectives. The study focuses on artistic projects ranging from photography to installation art and artistic methods from mapping to re-enacting, which address the issue of the borderland as a dynamic transition space.

Forced Migration always takes place within specific cultural, social, political, and spatial environments. This volumes focuses on the interaction between those forced to migrate and their environments in the contexts of escape and exile from Nazi-occupied Europe. Forced emigration from Nazi Germany was a global phenomenon that took refugees primarily from Central Europe to continents and countries they often knew very little about. Not only did they have to adapt to foreign cultures but also to unfamiliar natural environments that often exposed them to severe temperature conditions, droughts, rainy seasons and diseases. While some refugees prepared for the natural conditions of their exile destination others acquired environmental knowledge at their host countries or were able to adapt prior knowledge-about cultivation methods, for example, or species, products, and sales markets-to the new environment. Consequently, specific knowledge about the environment had a large influence on the success of the migration experience. Moreover, just as the migrants shaped their new environments, they were shaped by them.

Ein älterer Herr schreibt seine Erfahrungen aus den ersten Jahren der IT. Damals wurde noch lange nicht erkannt, was für einen gigantischen Wandel sie in der Geschichte des Menschen bringen würde.Erfolge der IT und der dabei auch so übliche "Flops" sowie auch seine eigenen halten sich im Buch so etwa die Waage. Es wurde versucht, die technischen Details durch eine möglichst präzise Beschreibung auch für Laien auf diesem Gebiet etwas verdaulicher zu gestalten. Die Fachwörter sind auf Englisch besser bekannt als auf Deutsch und werden darum in dieser Sprache belassen. Die beim Niederschreiben unausweichlich aufkommende Assoziation leitet über zu menschlichen Anekdoten, Episoden und anderen Abschweifungen. Oft amüsant. Oft nachdenklich. Von denen er aber unweigerlich sehr bald wieder in die Realität der immer rasender sich entwickelnden Computer-Welt zurückkommt.

This richly illustrated book celebrates the groundbreaking work of an African American sculptor Determined to Be explores the work of prizewinning American sculptor John Walter Rhoden (1916-2001). When Rhoden was young, his talent caught the attention of several notable mentors: he was advised by Hale Woodruff and Alain Locke as well as sculptors Richmond Barthé and William Zorach. He went on to travel the world and became the first Black visual artist to win the Prix de Rome from the American Academy in Rome. Contributing scholars explore various aspects of Rhoden's life and career, including how the artist was shaped by his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, and his training and professional networks. Essays also consider how his time in Italy and his years in Indonesia expanded the scale and scope of his sculpture. Other topics include Rhoden's travels, public commissions, and oeuvre in the context of Cold War modernism, as well as media coverage of his career in the mainstream and Black press. Approximately 150 images, including stunning new photography, showcase the technical sophistication of Rhoden's work, and archival materials from the recently processed John Rhoden papers shed new light on the life of this significant underrecognized sculptor. Contributors: Greg Barnhisel, Katelyn D. Crawford, Sylvea Hollis, Hannah McCoy, Rebecca VanDiver, and Kelin Baldridge Smallwood

Với nhiều người trên thế giới, Việt Nam đồng nghĩa với những cuộc chiến tranh. Quả vậy, ròng rã hơn 30 năm, xứ sở này đã trải qua 3 cuộc chiến chống xâm lăng của ngoại bang. Thế nhưng đa phần họ không biết ở nơi chiến tranh, nghèo đói ấy vẫn có những cuộc sống nhân văn, trí tuệ, những tình yêu lãng mạn... Trong cuốn sách này, tác giả đã kể lại cuộc sống đời thường của những người dân, người lính Việt, cùng vô số câu chuyện li kỳ thời ấy. Đặc biệt là số phận của nhiều người miền Nam tập kết ra Bắc theo hiệp định Geneva 1954. Là người trưởng thành qua nhiều miền quê, nhiều chiến trường, Kìm Luc Le có góc nhìn riêng biệt và cảm nhận chân thật về cuộc sống thực của người dân hai miền Nam Bắc Việt Nam trong nửa cuối của thế kỷ 20.

Exquisite cloth-bound edition of the classic art-history text - the ideal gift for every art connoisseur and student For more than 70 years Sir Ernst Gombrich's  The Story of Art  has been a global bestseller - with more than 8 million copies sold - the perfect introduction to art history, from the earliest cave paintings to art of the twentieth century, a masterpiece of clarity and personal insight. This classic book is currently in its 16th edition, and has been translated into more than 30 languages and published in numerous formats and editions. This luxury edition, with its bespoke cloth cover and preface by Professor Gombrich's granddaughter Leonie,  is the ultimate gift purchase for all art lovers - a keepsake to treasure, and to inspire future generations. A global bestseller for over five decades, this luxury edition is perfect for collectors, connoisseurs, and the millions of people who have grown up reading and loving this classic companion. | Exquisite cloth-bound edition of the classic art-history text - the ideal gift for every art connoisseur and student   | "Like every art historian of my generation, my way of thinking about pictures has been in large measure shaped by Ernst Gombrich. I was 15 when I read The Story of Art and like millions since, I felt I had been given a map of a great country, and with it the confidence to explore further without fear of being overwhelmed."- Neil MacGregor, former Director of the National Gallery, London, 1995 "Almost as well known as the Mona Lisa, Sir ErnstGombrich's The Story of Art unites learning and pleasure."- Pierre Rosenberg, Président-Directeur, Musée du Louvre, Paris "More people... have been introduced to the world of fine art, in the last 45 years, though Ernst Gombrich's The Story of Art than through any other single book."- Christopher Frayling, Professor of Cultural History, Royal College of Art, London "The country's bestselling book on art, never out of print, still in demand (and not just by students) and one of the few 'gift books' that actually gets read. The work is not so simplistic as the title implies, but it is this very title that rendered the book enormously attractive in 1950 to a new sort of book buyer: the self-educator. This field was set to grow, publishers eagerly wooing punters into buying the one big book on every impossibly massive but key subject. But with Gombrich, art was all sewn up."- The Times " The Story of Art has just about everything you need to follow the course of art from cave painting to David Hockney. I am surprised it's not yet been placed in hotels on the bedside table along with Gideon's Bible since Gombrich is as authoritative as the voice of God. The book has always been a pleasure to read and handle, the colour plates, now with many new additions, are excellent and the text is clear and straightforward, devoid of both pedantry and academic tedium."- The Birmingham Post "As a humane, uncomplicated but unpatronising account of art from prehistoric cave daubs to twentieth-century splurges, Gombrich's Story of Art is just what its title promises: more of a story than a work of reference, yet that as well."- Business Weekly "A wise and wide-ranging introduction to art history that will last and last."- The List "Lucid and endlessly informative."- The Good Book Guide "His populist approach comes from his childhood in Vienna, where art was for everyone, not just for stuffed shirts."- The Mail on Sunday "Thinking about building your dream library and brightening your coffee table with eye-candy and conversation starters? 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It's the perfect introduction to art history, covering everything from the Palaeolithic cave paintings in Lascaux, France, to 20th-century modern art - all of which is beautifully illustrated in the book. The book also comes in a luxury edition with an exquisite clothbound hardback that art lovers will cherish." - JetWings (India) "E.H. Gombrich's authoritative yet easy to read tome has been the introduction to art history for the past seven decades. Whether she's an art history aficionado or someone who wants to arm herself with knowledge for her next gallery or museum visit, The Story of Art will do the job. This luxury print makes for a brilliant coffee table addition and an eye-opening read." - AskMen.com | Ernst Gombrich was one of the greatest and least conventional art historians of his age, achieving fame and distinction in three separate spheres: as a scholar, as a popularizer of art, and as a pioneer of the application of the psychology of perception to the study of art. His best-known book,  The Story of Art  - first published 50 years ago and now in its sixteenth edition - is one of the most influential books ever written about art. His books further include  The Sense of Order  (1979) and  The Preference for the Primitive  (2002), as well as a total of 11 volumes of collected essays and reviews. Gombrich was born in Vienna in 1909 and died in London in November 2001. He came to London in 1936 to work at the Warburg Institute, where he eventually became Director from 1959 until his retirement in 1976. He won numerous international honours, including a knighthood, the Order of Merit and the Goethe, Hegel and Erasmus prizes. Gifted with a powerful mind and prodigious memory, he was also an outstanding communicator, with a clear and forceful prose style. His works are models of good art-historical writing and reflect his humanism and his deep and abiding concern with the standards and values of our cultural heritage.

An exclusive look inside world-renowned architect Peter Marino's private, residential projects In this stunning new collection, internationally acclaimed architect Peter Marino shares a look inside his private, residential projects. In contrast to the architecture and design for his luxury commercial clients - including Chanel, Dior, Louis Vuitton, and Tiffany & Co. - the residences featured are ones where Marino was allowed almost unlimited creative freedom in both the architectural planning and interior design. Through ten chapters (nine completed residences and a tenth chapter of in-progress houses) with more than 200 images, this book provides a behind-the-scenes look into Marino's remarkable range of work across the globe with residences in: Southampton and Sagaponack, New York; Aspen, Colorado; Miami, Florida; Summerlin, Nevada; Malibu, California; Faqra, Lebanon; the Dominican Republic; Ramatuelle and St. Barts, France; Grace Bay, Turks and Caicos; and Skorpios, Greece. This is the first book on Peter Marino's residential architecture, and readers can gain insight into his practice and approach to residential design through a preface by Marino himself, an introduction by Pilar Viladas, and profiles of each residence by Sam Lubell.|An exclusive look inside world-renowned architect Peter Marino's private, residential projects| Peter Marino is the principal of Peter Marino Architect PLLC, the New York-based architecture firm he founded in 1978. His work includes award-winning residential, retail, cultural, and hospitality projects worldwide. An avid collector and patron of the arts, Marino is known for integrating art within his architectural designs and has commissioned more than 300 site-specific, original works of art from prominent contemporary artists. Pilar Viladas writes about design and architecture. The former design editor of T: The New York Times Style Magazine, she is the author of three books, and has written for Architectural Digest, Town & Country, W, and Surface, among others. Sam Lubell has written eight books about architecture, including California Captured and two travel guides to mid-century modern architecture in the USA, all from Phaidon. He is a contributing editor at The Architect's Newspaper and writes for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, Architectural Record, Architectural Review, and other publications.

A ground-breaking global survey of today's most innovative artists working with text The inclusion of text in works of art was a revolutionary creative advancement of the twentieth century, with artists subverting traditional conceptions of 'art' and 'writing.' Younger generations of artists have continued to use the inherent readability of words to communicate ideas to viewers across a diverse array of mediums, including painting, sculpture, installation, and video. Nominated by 66 leading global experts (including curators, critics, museum directors, and professors), Vitamin Txt showcases 103 living artists, from 34 countries, who place the use of text centrally within their artistic practices. With more the 500 artworks illustrated, and an introduction about the history of artists using text from ancient Chinese calligraphy to contemporary digital art, the book's focus allows for a showcase of a range of different mediums, providing a cross-disciplinary view into the art world today. Advisors include: Negar Azimi, Naomi Beckwith, Meriem Berrada, Isolde Brielmaier, Yeon Shim Chung, Tandazani Dhlakama, Yilmaz Dziewior, Touria El Glaoui, Ruth Erickson, Alison Gingeras, Krist Gruijthuijsen, Jennifer Higgie, Mami Kataoka, Sunjung Kim, Venus Lau, Helen Molesworth, Kimberly Moulton, Fumio Nanjo, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Adriano Pedrosa, Nada Raza, Dieter Roelstraete, Andrew Russeth, Nancy Spector, Sarah Thornton, Marianna Vecellio, Gilbert Vicario, Victor Wang Artists featured include: Ghada Amer, Hellen Ascoli, Kamyar Bineshtarigh, Sophie Calle, Alejandro Cesarco, Heman Chong, Tony Cokes, Tracey Emin, Jeffrey Gibson, Shilpa Gupta, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Ichihara Hiroko, Christine Sun Kim, Barbara Kruger, Glenn Ligon, Harland Miller, Shirin Neshat, Adam  Pendleton, Shubigi Rao, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Kay Rosen, Ed Ruscha, David Shrigley, Studio for Propositional Cinema, Hank Willis Thomas, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Nora Turato, Kaylene Whiskey, John Wood and Paul Harrison, Xu Bing, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries | A ground-breaking global survey of today's most innovative artists working with text | Phaidon Editors Evan Moffitt  is a writer, editor, and freelance critic based in New York.

The first serious study on the work of one of the most iconoclastic artists living today An aesthetic outlier and artistic maverick, Cameron Jamie is a Los Angeles-born, Paris-based American artist whose critically acclaimed art has been exhibited worldwide in some of the most prestigious exhibitions and institutional venues. Over the course of more than three decades, Jamie has established a multi-faceted practice defined by cultural exploration and formal experimentation that resists categorizations. His artwork encompasses a wide range of artistic cross-disciplines including drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, photography, performance, filmmaking, music, and independent publishing. Jamie's groundbreaking work has explored, investigated, and analysed how the structures of mythology and rituals in popular and vernacular cultures are shaped and shared, and the extent to which they participate in the creation of individuals' fictional worlds and fictional selves. Featuring a large number of previously unpublished images and never-seen-before archival material, this fascinating and long-overdue book will be the first comprehensive monographic publication dedicated to one of the most significant artistic visionaries working today.

Reconstructs the infamous New Year assault on Grozny, detailing the chaotic defeat of Russian forces through veteran accounts, research, and footage.The New Year assault on Grozny by Russian forces was the most famous and controversial action of the 1st Chechen War. Entering Grozny from four directions, Russian troops with poor knowledge of the city and totally unprepared found themselves trapped, isolated and annihilated by numerous Chechen detachments. Unfortunately, due to the complexity and chaotic nature of the events, almost no official documentation exists. The reconstruction of the assault has been created from numerous veteran accounts, research publications, and video footage. Battle for Grozny is the first attempt to present a complete picture to the English-speaking audience.At first, the resistance offered by Chechens on 31 December 1994 had been relatively moderate and sporadic. All Russian forces besides the Group West managed to reach their objectives way before the planned timeline. The 131st Separate Motor-Rifle Brigade received a controversial order to move towards the railway station. With no knowledge of Grozny and never having trained for urban combat, the Brigade moved in and reached the station by noon, meeting the 81st Motor-Rifle Regiment. In the late afternoon, Chechens started to hammer Russian forces from multiple directions, knocking out the armor one by one. Trying to organize defensive lines, both units were suffering heavy casualties while all relief efforts were completely blocked by Chechens. During the night and the next day most of the Russian units left Grozny with disastrous losses in men and materiel. On the morning of 1 January, Russian aviation mistakenly attacked the positions of the 129th Motor-Rifle Regiment with devastating results - making it the worst friendly fire incident of the entire war. The only Group that managed to hold their positions was that of General Lev Rokhlin, who skillfully organized the defenses of the city hospital and cannery plant, leaving a narrow corridor for reinforcements.Battle for Grozny, Volume 2, is based on numerous little-known publications, veterans' accounts from both sides, extensive pictorial and video footage, and focuses on the reconstruction of the events that happened over two days of a New Year.

From Ann Bennett, bestselling author of The Orphan House, comes The Lake Villa, a spellbinding story of one woman's journey to uncover long-buried secrets in French Indochina.

A celebration of more than 100 major public art commissions throughout the New York transit system Contemporary Art Underground presents more than 100 permanent projects completed between 2015 and 2023 by MTA Arts & Design. This ground-breaking program of site-specific projects by a broad spectrum of well-known and emerging contemporary artists has helped to create a sense of character and place at subway and commuter rail stations throughout the MTA system. Among the featured artists are Yayoi Kusama, Kiki Smith, Nick Cave, Ann Hamilton, Xenobia Bailey, Jim Hodges, Alex Katz, Sarah Sze, and Vik Muniz. Of special interest is the discussion of fabricating and transposing the artist's rendering or model into mosaic, glass, or metal, the materials that can survive in the transit environment. This is the definitive survey of the latest works of the internationally acclaimed MTA Arts & Design collection. On view 24 hours a day, the collection is seen by more than four million subway riders and commuters daily and has been hailed as 'New York's Underground Art Museum.' The collection enlivens stations in all boroughs, with a myriad works by major contemporary artists executed in mosaic, glass, metal, and ceramic.|A celebration of more than 100 major public art commissions throughout the New York transit system|Sandra Bloodworth is director of MTA Arts & Design and the principal author of Along the Way and New York's Underground Art Museum. Under her leadership, MTA Arts & Design has gained renown in the field of public transportation by creating a collection of nearly 400 public artworks. Bloodworth is the recipient of numerous awards including the Sloan Public Service Award and the Gari Melchers Award from the Artist's Fellowship. Cheryl Hageman is deputy director of MTA Arts & Design, responsible for commissioning new projects and maintaining the permanent art collection throughout the MTA system. She has applied an in-depth knowledge of materials and fabrication to produce and care for award-winning artworks during her two decades as an arts administrator. Hilarie M. Sheets writes frequently on public art for the New York Times and the Art Newspaper.

For more than three decades, Gregory Crewdson has been luring viewers into the worlds of his cinematic, highly detailed, and assiduously crafted photographs. This retrospective catalog features images from nine series that represent a broad chronological spectrum of Crewdson's oeuvre. Included are selections from Twilight, the eerie and often darkly humorous photographs inspired by Stephen Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Beneath the Roses, which illuminates townscapes, forest clearings and broad, desolate streets with unsettling clarity; the black and white images of Sanctuary, shot on location at the legendary Cinecittà studios on the outskirts of Rome; Cathedral of the Pines, a paean to the beauty and tragedy of a gritty western Massachusetts town; and Eveningside, in which moments of alienation and wonder occur within the confines of quotidian life. With highest quality reproductions, paper changes, and incisive essays by photography expert Walter Moser and other esteemed art historians, this exhibition catalog reveals why Crewdson's powerful, elegiac and painterly photos draw comparisons to old master painting, staged photography and auteur cinema.

"This book considers the sculptures of Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) in light of psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott's (1896-1971) radical ideas regarding transitional objects, potential space, and play, offering a model for exploring the complex and psychologically evocative sculptures Bourgeois produced from 1947 to 2000. Bridging themes and concerns of modernism and postmodernism, the book reveals how Bourgeois brought a decades-long study of psychoanalysis to bear upon her sculptural production that was symbolic, metaphorical, but most importantly, useful"--

Published on the occasion of the "Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum" initiative at the Baltimore Museum of Art, this book centers Native artist voices and challenges collective understandings of Native peoples' pivotal role in North American history. The written and visual contributions address and refute the oppressive and pervasive hierarchies of colonialism upon which museums are based. The book features essays by heather ahtone (Chickasaw / Choctaw), Paul Chaat Smith (Comanche), and John Lukavic; newly commissioned poetry by Heid E. Erdrich (Ojibwe); a comic conceived, written, and illustrated by Weyodi Old Bear (Comanche), Dale Deforest (Diné), and Lee Francis IV (Pueblo of Laguna); and transcripts of roundtable discussions with contemporary Native artists. Fifty plates spanning a range of media from monographic and thematic exhibitions showcase both historically significant works from the BMA's collection and the works of living artists, many of whom offer their perspectives in the catalog, including Julie Buffalohead (Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma), Dana Claxton (Lakota First Nations-Wood Mountain), Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit and Unangax̂), Duane Linklater (Omaskêko Ininiwak), Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, and Lakota / Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold), Alan Michelson (Mohawk / Six Nations of the Grand River), Caroline Monnet (Anishinaabe/French), Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache), Kevin Pourier (Oglala Sioux), Rose B. Simpson (Santa Clara Pueblo), Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee Indian), and Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota). The work offers an important contribution to current global conversations around the decolonization of museums.

Esther Mahlangu: To Paint is in My Heart is a captivating exploration of the life and work of the iconic South African painter, one of the most influential artists of Pan-African Contemporary Art.

Sixty years after the Dallas shootings - and despite more and more documents becoming available - a multitude of myths continue to surround the most famous assassination attempt of the 20th century. With his work, the author tries to bring a little more light into the thicket of conspiracy theories and facts, especially for the layperson. The aim should be to be able to form an opinion based on undisputed facts, even without any specialist knowledge and purely on the basis of common sense.

Jonas Eika har udvalgt digte fra hele Ivan Malinowskis forfatterskab og komponeret en ny digtsamling, der rummer håb og hård protest. Udvalget viser både den engagerede, aktivistiske nerve i Malinowskis digte og hans optagethed af menneskets forhold til naturen.