Bøger af Peter Hecht

Det var netop 'de gamle hollænderes' store fortjeneste som de første at rette blikket mod hverdagens genstande og begivenheder for med sanselighed og humor at skabe fortællinger om almindelige menneskers liv i såkaldte folkelivsskildringer eller genrebilleder. Mængden af malerier eksploderede nærmest i 1600-tallets Holland og spredte sig over den vestlige verden, også til Danmark, og disse motiver lå på nethinden som en væsentlig del af kunsthistorien, da dansk kunst officielt formede sig op til og i løbet af den danske guldalder.Udgivet i forbindelse med udstillingen 'Da hverdagen stjal billedet – i Holland og Danmark' på Nivaagaards Malerisamling

This volume brings together over 25 scholarly essays, reviews and shorter contributions by Peter Hecht, preceded by an introduction on what he thinks his life in art history has taught him.

Early in the morning of September 5, 2002, camouflaged and heavily armed Drug Enforcement Administration agents descended on a terraced marijuana garden. The DEA raid on the Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana, a sanctuary for severely ill patients who were using marijuana as medicine, is the riveting opening scene in Weed Land, an up-close journalistic narrative that chronicles a transformative epoch for marijuana in America. From the 1996 passage of California's Proposition 215, the nation's first medical marijuana law, through law enforcement raids, clinical studies that revealed medical benefits for cannabis, and the emergence of a lucrative cannabis industry, Weed Land reveals the changing political, legal, economic, and social dynamics around pot. Peter Hecht, an award-winning journalist from The Sacramento Bee, offers an independent, meticulously reported account of the clashes and contradictions of a burgeoning California cannabis culture that stoked pot liberalization across the country.