Bøger om Sent 20. århundrede

Der kanadisch-amerikanische Ökonom John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) gilt als einer der profiliertesten Kommentatoren von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Anne-Kristin von Dewitz untersucht seine Beziehungen zu Deutschland von den 1940er bis 1970er Jahren und beleuchtet seine Position als öffentlicher Intellektueller. Als Experte mit Gestaltungsmacht gelang es Galbraith, in den Jahrzehnten nach dem Krieg Einfluss auf die politische und gesellschaftliche Entwicklung der Bundesrepublik zu nehmen. Galbraith' Bücher und Reden fanden viel Resonanz, vor allem im Kontext der kritischen Betrachtung des neuen Wohlstands seit den 1960er Jahren. Warum fanden seine Worte so starken Widerhall? Welche Parteien und Gruppierungen waren an seinen Perspektiven interessiert und aus welchen Motiven? Die Analyse seiner Schriften und Korrespondenzen sowie seiner medialen und politischen Rezeption nimmt das Wirken Galbraith' - auf Basis bislang ungenutzter Quellen - neu in den Blick.

Beyond Courage recounts several inspiring feats of escape and evasion by downed airmen during the Korean conflict. The airmen endured incredible hardships, first at the hands of their captors, then as they managed, by one means or another, to make their way back to the safety of U.N. lines. As preparation for the book, author Clay Blair researched the military's incident records, then interviewed the survivors themselves to fill in any gaps in the accounts told to Air Force officers shortly after their rescue, and to recapture their personal reactions to their arduous adventures. The stories include members of the U.N. forces in Korea-not solely Americans-but also Turks and Greeks and 'ROK's (Republic of Korea soldiers), and friendly North Korean Christians, who risked their lives to help downed airmen. In addition to enemy soldiers, the terrain and climate posed terrible challenges to men without adequate food, clothing, or shelter. In the story Cold, for example, one can feel the sub-zero temperatures as the escapee struggles to walk for miles with frozen feet (doctors would later be forced to amputate both feet to save the airman's life). Challenges were also psychological, as portrayed in the first story, Robinson Crusoe of MiG Alley. There, a downed airman recounts his shattering loneliness of a month spent on a deserted island-with friendly planes flying over almost daily but ignorant of the plight of the stranded airman below them. Despite the passage of nearly 70 years since the cessation of this 'forgotten war, ' the stories in Beyond Courage remain a testament to the power of human endurance and will in the face of extreme, life-threatening challenges.

The story of Helen Khal and the artists who altered the course of modern and contemporary art in the Middle East and beyond. Helen Khal: Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s is a reflective exhibition catalogue, part archive, as well as a living testament to the late Helen Khal (1923-2009). A polymath, artist, educator, and writer, Khal was also the cofounder of Gallery One, the first modern and contemporary art gallery in Lebanon, which opened its doors to the public in Beirut in 1963. This catalogue follows an exhibition initiated by Carla Chammas and curated by Chammas and Rachel Dedman as part of Home Works 8: A Forum on Cultural Practices, which opened its doors at the Sursock Museum, Beirut in October 2019. The exhibition, like the catalogue, detailed Helen's life and practice as a catalytic lens through which to explore the work of a group of artists whom she was close to, in life and in art, including: Chafic Abboud, Yvette Achkar, Etel Adnan, Huguette Caland, Simone Fattal, Farid Haddad, Helen Khal, Saloua Raouda Choucair, Aref El Rayess, and Dorothy Salhab-Kazemi. From here, the publication seeks to address the exhibition's themes of love, sex, and motherhood, the relationship between visual art and the literary landscape of 1960s and 1970s Beirut, and the galleries and studios in which public collaborations and private kinships were forged. Taking an intimate approach to a fabled period, Helen Khal: Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s unfolds a rich picture of the friendships, connections, modes of exchange, common concerns, and differing approaches of some of the best-known and least-remembered artists of the mid-twentieth century in Lebanon. Copublished by artPost21

With a historian's eye and a theorist's ingenuity, Michael Doyle, whose writings on liberal peace have revolutionised modern statesmanship, cogently assesses the tectonic shifts threatening a global order that has held for more than seventy years. As tensions among China, Russia and the US escalate perilously towards a new Cold War, Doyle introduces a radical paradigm that will facilitate the international co-operation necessary to avert the global threats of our time.Combining dramatic history with trenchant analysis and landmark theory, Doyle explores the impacts of cyber-warfare, foreign election meddling and the unprecedented schism of modern politics on American foreign policy. He demonstrates that there can be no success in addressing climate change without China's cooperation, nor any hope of averting nuclear catastrophe without Russia's.In the tradition of Gaddis' The Cold War and Clark's The Sleepwalkers, Cold Peace provides one of the most necessary analyses of global power in decades.

With a foreword by fellow POW, Senator John McCain, Taps on the Walls contains all the poems General Borling created during his confinement. Readers will discover remarkable stories of endurance, life lessons, and means to achieve personal triumph.

A vivid and gripping story of an epic Maine snowstorm that tested the very limits of human endurance. A National Bestseller

The book intends to critically evaluate the publications concerning the history of the Jews from Romania and Hungary (1945-1953) identified in Romania and Hungary, providing a description of historical context where the Jewish community developed its activity in the aftermath of the Second World War, when it severely reduced in terms of numbers, destroyed as community in terms of state of health of its members and materially affected by the consequences of the war. Nevertheless, even in the first years after the war they tried to re-build as members of of their community and later on to collaborate with the communist party for a better status or emigration in Israel. The most important issue of the time was the emigration of Romanian Jews in Israel and the negotiations which were pursued with the view of reaching this objective. From the volume, it results that the Jews were rather victims of the communism than beneficiaries, as it was often considered. Through the intermediation of the books and articles and of the collaboration with Jewish community from Oradea, author succeeded to know the Jews which come with their culture and traditions to enrich the cultural variety.

Flowers; the minimalism of Alexander Silva, is an aesthetic artistic study of flowers. It depicts what could be imagined as flowers, from the realistic to the surreal. This beautiful book on minimalism features hundreds of digitally hand drawn flowers created by artist Alexander Silva a self identified minimalist.

"Ein Haus mit Ecken und Kanten, ohne harmonische Rundungen, geschweige denn Säulen oder Kuppeln. Nichts Orientalisches, nichts Mediterranes. Ein wenig Luxus hier, ein wenig sozialer Wohnungsbau dort. Eine Mischung aus Höhen und Tiefen. Na ja, wie eben das Leben auch." Monika E. Khan erzählt aus der Perspektive der Erzählerin Lisa vom Bau ihres Hauses in Pakistans Metropole Karachi, dem Leben in dieser neuen und völlig fremden Kultur sowie den Veränderungen innerhalb der Gesellschaft Pakistans im Laufe der Zeit. Und sie schildert, gewürzt mit einer Menge Humor, Lisas Erlebnisse auf ihren vielen Reisen in der Region.

Raven FAC. Full-color images, Non-fiction, Secret war Laos 1970, personal account, LS 20A, Forward Air Controller, O-1 Bird dog, AT-28D, U17B. Vang Pao, Hmong resistance, Allied Government corruption. Faith. We were birds of prey; finding and destroying targets of opportunity and defending allied outposts. We dueled with dragons every day. In a flash of time, at the speed of haste, we pressed forward in the straps to the next battle, knowing many of us would die very young. Living in the present, and sculpting the future as best we could; we did our best to free the oppressed. Allied pilots flew with conspicuous bravery that others could live in Freedom's dignity, and love in her blessings of peace. Worthy dreams are too often victims of reality, like wilderness and paradise, light and dark, and long life. Ravens shared leaded air by day and warrior stories relived by night. "It feels so good when gunners miss." Close Air Support, Guerrilla Warfare. Ambassador's Secret War. USIS, AIRA, ARMA, My Ravens, Our General Vang Pao. Hmong Freedom Fighters, Robin Scout Translators, Chao Pha Khao Fighter Pilots, Special Guerrilla Unit (SGU), Special Operations, SKY, CAS, Air America, Continental Air, Refugees, USAID, Project 404, Det. 1 56th SOW, DEPCHIEF, RTA, RTAF, RLA, RLAF, RLG, PL, LPLA, NVA, PAVN, ICC. This work is an expression of my experiences as a Raven Forward Air Controller during the Loa Civil War. My window of participation was from December 1969 thru June 1970. This work is about people I knew who risk their lives in a fight for the freedom of others; and whose visions were twisted and tempered by the crucible of horrid War. This is a story of promise, betrayal, and hardship that progressed to a refugee gateway leading to compassion, freedom, education, and prosperity. The Hmong, Lao, Cambodian, Montagnard, and Vietnamese refugees from the Vietnam Area War produced vibrant communities in the United States. The Hmong preserved and learned to adapt to the American system without losing their cultural identity as Hmong or Americans. The Hmong have cleared the path and set the example for new refugees to follow. I hope this work is helpful to many in understanding the Raven's mission during the Secret War in Laos. This work should be encouraging for war refugees new to America. The United States military veterans should find goodwill in stories of survival and courage against great odds. "Freedom is not Free."

Underholdende konspirationsroman fra en af Sveriges væsentligste forfattere og samfundsdebattører baseret på et af Nordens største mordmysterier: drabet på Olof Palme.En februarnat bliver statsminister Carl Stjärne i landet Thule skudt og dræbt på åben gade. Politichef Rolf Utterström leder efterforskningen, men det lykkes aldrig at pågribe en gerningsmand, og mordet skal i årene der kommer forblive et åbent sår i landets kollektive bevidsthed. Tredive år senere får journalisten Roger Lilja til opgave at skrive en artikel om mordet. Han kommer i kontakt med en advokat og efterretningsofficer, der hævder, at han har oplysninger om, hvad der i virkeligheden skete. Trådene samler sig om en weekend i Frankrig få måneder før mordet, hvor en inderkreds fra den politiske magtelite er samlet.Med humor, intelligens og ironi udforsker Lena Andersson atter en gang temaer, der knytter sig til den berømmede svenske velfærdsstat og dens opløsning.

Historical records of the diaspora of North Korean war orphans to Eastern Europe in the 1950sIt's a mostly forgotten slice of Cold War history, but a new documentary sheds light on the lives of the orphans whose departure still weighs on the Europeans who knew them - New York TimesI hope your film will provide audiences all over the world with an opportunity to reflect upon both the past and the future of the Korean peninsula - Harry Harris, U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Your film was very powerful, beautiful, and sincere - Renee Fisher, Film Director A movie you cannot watch without shedding tears as a person living in the same era in different location. - Shimokawa Masahiru, former Mainichi journalist Kim Il Sung's Children reveals the secrets of North Korean orphans in Eastern Europe in the 1950s. An illumination on the forgotten lives of 10,000 North Korean orphans in Eastern Europe in the 1950s, referred to as Kim Il Sung's children.This documentary traces North Korea's war orphans of the 1950s in five Eastern European countries: The Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. It features miraculous events and meetings with innocent people throughout the journey. 2020 Rome International Movie Awards (Italy) The Best Documentary Winner 2020 International New York Film Festival Official Selection2020 Cyrus International Film Festival of Toronto (Canada) Semi Finalist2020 Nice International Film Festival (France) Official Selection2020 'Global Migration Film Festival' by UN International Organization of Migration Official SelectionAuthor Kim Deog-Young is a documentary film director. Kim made his debut as a film director in 1995 with Waning 1989. Kim's another film Farewell to the Factory (1999) made an official selection at Busan International Film Festival and was aired on Japan's NHK in 1999. Kim Il Sung's Children, released in 2020, was internationally acclaimed, making Kim South Korea's leading documentary film director.

From 1967 to 1974, the military junta ruling Greece attempted a dramatic reshaping of the nation, implementing ideas and policies that left a lasting mark on both domestic affairs and international relations. Bringing together leading scholars from a range of disciplines, The Greek Military Dictatorship explores the junta's attempts to impose authoritarian rule upon a rapidly modernizing country while navigating a complex international landscape. Focusing both on foreign relations as well as domestic matters such as economics, ideology, religion, culture and education, this book offers a fresh and well-researched study of a key period in modern Greek history.

This book gives a definitive account of the politics of personal information in West Germany during the 1970s and 1980s, highlighting the growing role of personal information as a tool for social governance.

Four decades of participatory art, films, sculpture and more from the iconic Relational Aesthetics pioneerAccompanying the first US survey and largest exhibition to date dedicated to Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija, Rirkrit Tiravanija: A LOT OF PEOPLE traces four decades of Tiravanija's multifaceted practice. Spanning rarely seen early works from the 1980s through recent projects, the publication covers Tiravanija's experimentations with installation, film, works on paper, ephemera, sculpture and participatory works. Designed by Tiffany Malakooti, the publication features over 400 images--many of which are published for the first time--as well as 23 newly commissioned texts. Longform essays by exhibition curators Ruba Katrib and Yasmil Raymond, as well as scholars Jörn Schafaff, David Teh and Mi You, dive into key aspects of Tiravanija's work, providing historical context. These texts are complemented by 18 short reflections from artists, thinkers and collaborators who have been key interlocutors with Tiravanija over the years.Rirkrit Tiravanija (born 1961) is a Thai contemporary artist residing in New York, Berlin and Chiang Mai, Thailand. Recent solo exhibitions include the Hirshhorn Museum (2019); the National Gallery Singapore (2018); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2016); the Kunsthalle Bielefeld (2010); the Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2009); the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Serpentine Gallery, London (all 2005); and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2004). Tiravanija has been on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts at Columbia University since 2000. He is the cofounder of the Land Foundation, located in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and a member of Bangkok's alternative space and magazine VER.

Cocurated by Kyung An, Associate Curator, Asian Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Kang Soojung, Senior Curator, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.

In this fully illustrated introduction, acclaimed historian Dr Aaron Edwards provides a concise overview of one of the most difficult and controversial actions in recent history.Spanning 38 years of the 'Troubles', the British Army's deployment in Northern Ireland (codenamed Operation Banner) was one of the most difficult and controversial in its recent history. Over 10,000 troops were on active service during much of the campaign, which saw armoured vehicles, helicopters and special forces deployed onto the streets of Ulster. In this book, Dr Aaron Edwards considers the strategic, operational and tactical aspects of Operation Banner, as the Army's military objectives morphed from high-profile peacekeeping into a covert war against the IRA. Using personal testimony from both sides of the sectarian divide, as well as insights from the soldiers themselves, he presents an authoritative introduction to the Army's role in the Troubles, providing expert analysis of Operation Banner's successes and failures.Updated and revised for the new edition, with full-colour maps and 50 new images, this is an accessible introduction to the complicated yet fascinating history of modern Britain's longest military campaign.

In the second half of the 19th century visions of an infrastructurally integrated imperial space captivated the minds of Russian administrators and businessmen. Infrastructural integration promised to unravel the economic and political potential of the Russian Empire but it also revealed its administrative weakness. The book explores the challenges the Tsarist administration faced in harmonizing the multitudinous regional economic regimes in its vast landed empire. It analyzes conflicting logics towards the imperial space and demonstrates how the modern project of an infrastructurally integrated space limited the leeway in resorting to imperial administrative practices and accelerated the "nationalization" of the Russian Empire's economic space.

Die Studie handelt von der Multinationalisierung europäischer Unternehmen im letzten Drittel des 20. Jahrhunderts. Am Beispiel von vier großen Chemiekonzernen (Bayer, Hoechst, Rhône-Poulenc, Akzo) fragt sie in europäisch vergleichender Perspektive nach der Bedeutung von multinationalen Unternehmen für die jüngsten Globalisierungsprozesse und die zunehmende Interdependenz in der Weltwirtschaft. Sie zeigt sie auf, dass sich die unternehmensstrategischen Leitlinien wie auch die politischen und ökonomischen Ordnungsstrukturen ab den 1970er Jahren grundlegend veränderten, und reflektiert die Herausforderungen dieses Strukturwandels.

Allan Kaprow gilt als zentrale Figur der Happeningszene der 1960er Jahre. Wenig bekannt sind hingegen die Activities, die er in den 1970er Jahren in Kalifornien entwickelte - Übungen für Paare, die ohne Publikum auf Grundlage einer schriftlichen Partitur realisiert wurden. Sie stellen den Versuch dar, eine partizipative Kunstform zu schaffen, die es den Teilnehmern ermöglichen sollte, sich mit der Gestaltung zwischenmenschlicher Beziehungen aktiv auseinanderzusetzen. Erstmals werden die Activities in ihrer formalen wie thematischen Komplexität erschlossen und ausführlich diskutiert. In der kritischen Zusammenschau mit den Verfahren und Anliegen der Sozialwissenschaften und Psychodisziplinen der 1970er Jahre entpuppen sie sich als eigenständiger, spannungsvoller Beitrag zu einem neuen Intimitätsdiskurs. Zu Allan Kaprows Werk nach den Happenings Neue kunst- und kulturgeschichtliche Perspektiven auf die partizipative Kunst der 1970er-Jahre

To hippietøser udlever deres drøm og tager turen over land til Indien. Året er 1972. Vi befinder os i en tid, hvor det ikke er ualmindeligt for unge at tomle rundt i Europa, mens man bor hos tilfældige ligesindede, man møder, fordi man befinder sig i en tidslomme, hvor en uforklarlig fællesskabsfølelse har samlet en stor del af verdens ungdom.Efter at være vokset op med forældre, der har svælget i efterkrigstidens goder, er Lisbeth og Bente blevet en del af den generation, der har spillet en aktiv rolle i ungdomsoprøret og den seksuelle frigørelse.Turen til Indien bliver for dem ikke kun en rejse i den virkelige verden med store kulturelle kontraster, men også en personlige rejse, hvor de sammen forsøger at finde svar på nogle af livets store spørgsmål.

Denne bidende kolde vinter midt i halvtredserne er Berlin en hemmelighedsfuld heksekedel af efterkrigsneuroser, spionage og mistillid. Den unge, uerfarne engelske tekniker Leonard Marnham er i byen for at deltage i et engelsk-amerikansk projekt om aflytning af russerne. Han møder den smukke, lidt ældre Maria, som fører ham ind i kærlighedslivets glæder og får ham til at bryde alle broer. Men det kommer han til at fortryde ...

Jasper Johns (* 1930) zählt zu den bedeutendsten amerikanischen Malern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Kaum bekannt ist hingegen, dass der Künstler auch ein passionierter Sammler ist. Der bibliophile Band bietet mit einer Auswahl von über 100 Zeichnungen Gelegenheit, die Vielfalt dieser einzigartigen Sammlung zu entdecken.Von Paul Cézanne über Pablo Picasso bis zu Willem de Kooning - Jasper Johns ermöglicht mit seiner Sammlung überraschende Gegenüberstellungen. Wie die Qualität der Zeichnungen zeigt, wählt Johns mit dem sicheren Blick eines Connaisseurs. Viele Werke zeugen zudem von Freundschaften zu anderen Künstlerinnen und Künstlern. Rund 50 Positionen treten in diesem Katalog in einen inspirierenden Dialog, der Laien und Experten gleichermaßen zu faszinieren weiß.GESAMMELTE WERKE VONJohn Cage | Paul Cézanne | Merce Cunningham | Edgar Degas | Marcel Duchamp | Jacob Epstein Eric Fischl | Dan Flavin | Johann Heinrich Füssli | Paul Gauguin | Alberto Giacometti | Juan Gris Kim Jones | Franz Kline | Käthe Kollwitz | Elaine de Kooning | Willem de Kooning | Sol LeWitt René Magritte | Brice Marden | Henri Matisse | Robert Morris | Barnett Newman | Pablo Picasso Robert Rauschenberg | Odilon Redon | Frank Stella | Cy Twombly | Terry Winters u. a.

Katharina Grosse (* 1961) schafft in drei historischen Räumlichkeiten der Albertina begehbare Kunstwerke. Die vibrierenden Farbfelder breiten sich auf Wand, Decke und Boden aus, überschreiten räumliche und gedankliche Grenzen. Sie überwältigen durch ihre Kraft, Intensität und die schiere Größe. Der Katalog dokumentiert die dreidimensionale Bildwelt mit detailreichen Installationsfotos und Bildern aus dem Atelier. Expansion und permanente Grenzüberschreitung, Freiheit und Autonomie bilden die Grundpfeiler von Grosses OEuvre. Wie das wilde Denken ist ihr Schaffen experimentell und unberechenbar. Zahlreiche Fotos aus dem privaten Archiv der Künstlerin bieten Einblick in Ihre Arbeitsweise, Inspirationsquellen und Ideenfindungsprozesse.

Die Studie untersucht erstmals systematisch Erich Kästners bislang nur marginal erforschte Rolle als Intellektueller nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Ausgehend von der Annahme der Intellektuellensoziologie, dass Reichweite und Wirkungschancen eines Intellektuellen maßgeblich von dem Prestige abhängen, das er in seinem eigentlichen Tätigkeitsbereich gewonnen hat, beleuchtet die Verfasserin zunächst die Nachkriegskarriere Kästners und seine unterschiedlichen Positionen im kulturellen Feld. Daran anknüpfend zeigt sie auf, wie Kästner den Einfluss und die Bekanntheit, die er als Schriftsteller, Journalist und PEN-Präsident erlangen konnte, nutze, um sich innerhalb (kultur-)politischer Diskurse öffentlich zu positionieren. Im Fokus steht dabei seine Auseinandersetzung mit der deutschen Schuldfrage, seine Kritik an personellen und mentalen Kontinuitäten des NS-Regimes und sein Einsatz für den Frieden. Durch die konsequente Berücksichtigung der historischen und diskursiven Kontexte seiner Stellungnahmen offeriert die Studie nicht nur neue Erkenntnisse für die Kästner-Forschung, sondern erweitert zugleich auch die literatur-, zeit- und intellektuellengeschichtliche Perspektive auf die unmittelbaren Nachkriegsjahre und die junge Bundesrepublik.