Bøger om Tidlige 21. århundrede

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

Erzählt wird die Geschichte des jungen Deutsch-Referendars Hans Behring. Die kurze Beziehung mit der jungen Frau Chloe, die ihm durch einen Schicksalsschlag entrissen wird. Heinz Drandorf, ein Buchhalter, erzählt uns sein weiteres Leben. Im dritten Teil (Behring ist jetzt 81) wandert er mit seiner Frau Herlinde und seinem Sohn aus erster Ehe durchs Maifeld und die Eifel. Man unterhält sich über Schlösser, Vulkane und die Landschaft, die ihnen immer vertrauter wird, und Behrings Sohn Veit findet an einem Kiosk seine spätere Lebensgefährtin.Veit gründet eine Agentur für Dichterhandschriften und soll ein zweifelhaftes Manuskript prüfen. Er reist mit seiner Frau auf den Spuren der Verfasserin in die englische Stadt Bath. Durch die Atmosphäre dort wird ihm klar, dass sein Manuskript eine echte Jane-Austen-Handschrift ist.

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.

« On pense toujours que cela n'arrive qu'aux autres, qu'on ne peut pas être touché, que c'est impossible que ces horreurs nous atteignent, comme si une fée invisible avait déroulé un voile de protection. Mais il n'en est rien. La fée elle-même a fui à la vue de ce monstre. »Nevada passe la majeure partie de son temps avec ses meilleures amies. Une série d'enlèvements et de meurtres ébranle la tranquillité de la ville. La jeune fille, qui rêve d'amour et de première fois, ne peut étrangement pas contrôler son obsession pour ce tueur en série qui rôde. Quand elle disparaît, tout porte à croire qu'il l'a kidnappée. Suivez l'enquête et découvrez ces deux âmes qui vont se confronter.Comment sa famille et ses amies vont-elles vivre sa disparition ? Nevada est-elle séquestrée ? Va-t-elle subir le même sort que les précédentes victimes ? Jusqu'où la colère et la tristesse peuvent-elles mener ?Plongez dans les dédales de ce thriller psychologique intense, où la frontière entre la haine et le désir peut rendre fou.

Zahlreich und vielfältig sind die Wege, die die Interkulturelle Philosophie heute weltweit geht, wie ihre Geschichte und Entwicklung zeigen. Von dieser Pluralität der Wege werden nun in diesem Band nur jene im Fokus stehen, die sich aus der Initiative der Internationalen Kongresse für Interkulturelle Philosophie und der Internationalen Schule für Interkulturelle Philosophie (span. EIFI) entwickelt haben. Diese Tatsache erklärt sich dadurch, dass dieser Sammelband als Hommage für Raúl Fornet-Betancourt anlässlich seines 75. Geburtstages (2021) geplant war, auf dessen Wirken diese beiden Initiativen zurückgehen.Ein herzliches Dankeschön sage ich allen Autorinnen und Autoren. Mit ihren Beiträgen, die wertvolle Einblicke in die aktuelle Weiterarbeit am Projekt der Interkulturellen Philosophie geben, haben sie diese Publikation ermöglicht. Aus verschiedenen Gründen hat sich die Herausgabe des Bandes leider verzögert. Er soll jedoch, wie geplant, Raúl Fornet-Betancourt gewidmet sein.

Ein tiefgründiger und doch erstaunlich lesbarer Ritt von dem innersten Selbst bis hin zu gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhängen, über das eigene Gehirn bis hin zu künstlicher Intelligenz. Mit dem Ziel, dich und die Gesellschaft zu ermächtigen, werden Zusammenhänge, Probleme und Lösungen aufgezeigt.Die moderne Welt lässt sich in ihrer Komplexität nur begreifen, wenn die verschiedenen Bereiche nicht getrennt voneinander, sondern als Gesamtheit verstanden werden. Dieses Buch nimmt sich dem Spagat zwischen Psychologie, Wirtschaft und Politik, zwischen Philosophie, Wissenschaft und Alltag an, ohne sich dabei in Fachwissenschaften zu verlieren. Auf dass wir nicht nur uns selbst, sondern auch unsere Gesellschaft besser verstehen.

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.

Im Jahr 2049 entdeckt die Mimi ein uraltes Stück Lebkuchenteig. Sofort lädt sie ihre Cousine Roza zum Backen ein. Die beiden schwelgen in hundertfünfzig Jahren Familiengeschichte mit exzentrischer Lebkuchentradition. Da wurden Botschaften gebacken und Warnungen, die verkrampfte Oma mit anzüglichen Lebkuchen geärgert, es wurden immer neue Methoden entwickelt um dekorative, außergewöhnliche, haltbare, schöne Lebkuchen zu backen: der Teig schmeckt scheußlich- riecht aber immer noch (nach über 50 Jahren) wunderbar. Auf der Suche nach weiteren Erinnerungen stoßen Mimi und Roza auf geheimnisvolle Briefe, anhand derer sie ihre erstaunliche Abstammung aufdecken. Außerdem macht Rozas besondere Gabe plötzlich einen Sinn. Ein Roman über Freundschaft, Familie, Traditionen, eine Zukunft in der der Mensch gerade noch so die Kurve bekommen hat und auch Lebkuchen.

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

The award-winning Julius Katz mysteries have delighted thousands of mystery fans since first appearing on the pages of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine in 2009, winning a Shamus, Derringer and two Ellery Queen's Readers Awards. 'Julius Katz' introduced readers to Boston's most brilliant, eccentric and possibly laziest detective, Julius Katz, as well as his sidekick, Archie, a tiny marvel of whiz-bang computer technology with the heart and soul of a hard-boiled PI.Now in Julius Katz and Archie's first full-length mystery, the stakes have never been higher when a famous Boston mystery writer, Kenneth Kingston, announces to Julius that he wants him to find out who's planning to kill him. The problem is almost everyone in Kingston's life has good reason to murder him, and this case soon plunges Julius and Archie deep into the world of murder and publishing.

This chronological account traces the history of Afghanistan from pre-civilization to present-day events and considers the future of democracy in Afghanistan.For centuries, Afghanistan has endured control by a gamut of political regimes as a result of its strategic location along the trade route between Asia and the Middle East. The area has been at the center of constant conflict and only in recent years has recovered from the vestiges of warfare. The second edition of this popular reference offers a fresh glimpse at the country, showing modern Afghanistan to be a melting pot of cultures, tribes, and political influences all under the guiding belief of Islam.In addition to thorough coverage of the country's political, economic, and cultural history, the book provides students with an account of recent events in Afghanistan since 2007, such as the death of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan and the removal of NATO soldiers. Other changes include a revised timeline, an updated glossary, additions to the notable figures appendix, and an expanded bibliography that includes electronic resources.

Mermaids aren't real - right?That's what Amy Wilson thinks until she is Cursed to become one. With her new abilities comes a heavy responsibility to keep her secret safe no matter the cost. She lies to everyone while being ostracized from the rest of the merfolk community for her human origins. However, when her best friend is attacked by a rouge merfolk, their species is revealed to the human world. Believing the ancient myths to be true, humans brand all merpeople as dangerous creatures, stripping them of their rights and putting rewards on their heads. As her situation grows more precarious. Amy must decide if she wants to keep lying and playing it safe or risk everything to save her species. Her decision will change everything.

What happens when you're meeting with your estranged sister after years and it doesn't go as planned?Sophie could go after her sister, call it a day, order a well-deserved Latte... Or she could take matter in her own hands...Environmental lawyer, workaholic and dutiful Sophie Smith has just moved back to New York after years abroad. She's not running away from her past. No, not at all. She's back on American soil and excited to reconnect with her sister and only relative, Carol.But nothing goes according to her carefully laid plans. Nope.She reconnects with the wrong person. The type of person who makes her want to take on fewer cases - and who she definitely can't introduce to her sister.She befriends the coffee shop owner, who pushes her to rewrite all her life rules. Hello out of my comfort zone, liquor-infused moments!And she allows her inner goddess to take over the reins...Will Sophie run away again? Will she ever find her right place? And what will she ultimately decide?Love You Latte, Sophie is a story about chance encounters, finding yourself and revenge. Just not the way Sophie had imagined it.

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? Look no further than Phaidon books."- Big Life Magazine "Gombrich's The Story of Art was the very first book I bought on Art... An ideal book for anybody who is just discovering Art for the first time. He is accessible without talking down. He looks at the great masterpieces and only writes about what he can illustrate. The illustrations are wonderful."- MatureTimes.co.uk "...Has made art history accessible to generations of readers."- The Hollywood Reporter Online "The ultimate gift purchase for all art lovers - a perfect keepsake to treasure and to inspire future generations."- WhatsGoodOnline.co.uk "One of the most accessible introductions to the history of visual arts... This cloth bound luxury edition [...] is a joy to the eye."- Mint (India) "What could be a better gift for an art connoisseur than Ernst Gombrich's classic art history book, The Story of Art ? It is undoubtedly one of the most popular art books of all time and has been a global bestseller for more than 60 years. 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.

As the Commander of U.S. Central Command, General Frank McKenzie oversaw some of the most important - and controversial operations in modern U.S. military history. He had direct operational responsibility for the strikes on Qassem Soleimani and two successive leaders of ISIS, the many months of deterrence operations against Iran and its proxies, and the methodical drawdown in Iraq. He directed the noncombatant evacuation operation in Afghanistan, and our final withdrawal from that tortured country. The Melting Point has three themes. The first one is the importance of the primacy of civilian control of the military. It has become a widely perceived truth that this control has been eroded over the past few years. General McKenzie doesn't believe that to be the case, and he speaks with some authority on the matter arguing that the civ-mil relationship isn't perfect or frictionless, but it doesn't have to be, and probably shouldn't be. It is, however, more durable than many believe, and is supported and embraced by the military to a degree that some critics do not choose to recognize. The second theme is the uniqueness of being a combatant commander. Combatant commanders participate in the development of policy, although as junior partners. They are also responsible for the execution of policy once civilian leaders have formulated their decision, a unique position, and very different than the role of a service chief, or even the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. None of these officers are in the chain of command, and they have no ultimate, mortal responsibility or authority for execution. Only the combatant commander stands astride the boundary of decision-making and execution. Finally, the third theme that McKenzie argues is that leaders matter, and the decisions they make have a profound effect on what happens on the battlefield. McKenzie provides an honest assessment of his time in command-describing decisions that were sound, as well as some outcomes he wishes were different. He offers a vivid portrait of leadership in action in one of the most volatile regions of the world.

"Given the length of time the United States spent in Iraq, there is a perception that there was no consideration before the war of what should be done after coalition forces arrived in Baghdad and removed Saddam Hussein. However as this unofficial history reveals, there was a great deal of planning to address how to achieve the policy objectives for Iraq set by the Bush administration. Kevin Benson -- director of plans for the United States Third Army, the ground forces command headquarters for GEN Franks' Central Command, at the start of the war -- details the development of the invasion plan and its subsequent execution from D-Day in March 2003 until the change of command of operations in Iraq and the departure of Third Army in June 2003. He addresses the persistent trope that 'the Army did no planning' for 'Phase IV, ' revealing that extensive plans were proposed, and were met with very little interest in Washington. The book covers the difficulties encountered in dealing with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, from getting his approval on the number of forces requested to conducting the campaign to find the 'smoking gun' of WMD; the instructions given to Army, Marine and coalition forces; and the daily secure video teleconferences with Central Command and the Pentagon, and the rather remarkable conversations and guidance that came from these meetings."--

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.

"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.