Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Art Year
Author: Meret Oppenheim
Author: Meret OppenheimPublisher: Hatje Cantz
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
In little more than a generation, Asia has emerged from centuries of stagnation to become the rising force of the global economy. This transformation has been so spectacular that some have called it a miracle. How did it happen? Taking the reader from the docksides of Korea to the halls of India's finance ministry, The Miracle details the courageous decisions and heroic self-sacrifice that made Asia's ascent possible. Spanning nine countries and probing major historical currents, this account illuminates not only Asia's extraordinary economic rise but also how its causes might emancipate the developing world from poverty and guide the developed world to further prosperity. Using more than a decade of reporting and analysis, Time magazine and former Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Schuman uncovers how outsourcing to Asia began; how Asia's most famous companies, such as Sony and Honda, became global corporations; and how technological changes and global economic shifts made Asia's boom possible. He reveals the compelling human side to this economic story, introducing readers to the political strongmen, entrepreneurs, and policymakers who made the Miracle a reality. This engaging historical narrative brings to life the ideas and actions of a diverse group of Asians—dictators and democrats, generals and technocrats, economists and engineers. Some of the characters in the book have captured the global imagination for years, such as China's reformer Deng Xiaoping and Sony founder Akio Morita. Others are less well known, including Park Chung Hee, Korea's tightfisted nation builder; Liu Chuanzhi, the risk-taking founder of PC maker Lenovo; and Azim Premji, the mastermind behind Wipro, one of India's technology giants. All of them shared a dream—to elevate Asia to its proper place of influence in the world and eradicate the poverty around them. The Miracle not only offers profound insight into Asia and its increasing wealth and power; it also reveals how these seismic shifts continue to reverberate through the global economy. The implications of Asia's economic ascent for the rest of the world are surprising, promising, and inspiring. Readers of The Miracle will gain a deep understanding of Asia's place in the global economy—and of their own.
Kurt Schwitters
Author: Sprengel Museum HannoverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, German
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Catalogue raisonné.
Bibliographie D'histoire de L'art
Author: Das literarische Werk: Manifeste und kritische Prosa
Author: Kurt SchwittersGerman books in print
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ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Publishers'
Languages : de
Pages : 2354
Book Description
Landscapes
Author: Gerhard RichterPublisher:
ISBN: 9783775726399
Category : Art, Abstract
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Gerhard Richter (*1932 in Dresden) has always dealt with the landscape. No other motif has fascinated him as much or kept him so occupied over the years: black-and-white landscapes based on images from magazines and amateur photos; views of mountains and parks painted in thick impasto; softly hued, transparent, illusionist lake scenes. Ever since the subtle Corsica paintings of 1968/69, landscapes have become an established, distinct group of works within the artist's oeuvre. Richter captures reality in a painterly way, such that landscape and abstraction manifest not as opposites but as related concepts. Containing outstanding illustrations and insightful texts, this volume examines Richter's landscapes from the early sixties to the present. (German edition ISBN 978-3-7757-2638-2)
A Sense of Common Ground
Author: Fazal SheikhPublisher: Scalo Publishers
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Fazal Sheikh's dual heritage of Kenyan and American and his experience of life in Kenya has given him a special focus on the refugees from Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia who have flooded into Kenya.
What We Bought-- the New World
Author: Robert AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Explores the developing landscape of Denver metropolitan area from 1968 through 1974. This work contains photographs that show tract housing with mountain ranges in the distance, trailer lots devoid of people, suburban streets through generic windows, shopping mall interiors and parking lots.
The Thirty-two Inch Ruler
Author: John R. GossagePublisher:
ISBN: 9783865217103
Category : Kalorama (Washington, D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
John Gossage, the renowned American photographer and photography book-maker, presents two companion volumes and his first ever books in color. Engaged in a dance, neither book comes first, there is no hierarchy or sequence to the pair of volumes. Gossage is one of the most literary of photographic book authors and in The Thirty-Two Inch Ruler, the narrative, whilst not autobiographical, is about a neighborhood in which he lives; one that is singular in the United States. At the same time provincial and international, it is a neighborhood populated by ambassadorial residences, embassies, and the lavish private homes of those who are in positions of power and influence in Washington. A project he began with the arrival of a new neighbor, the Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and made over a full years cycle of seasons, these are images from the drift of privilege. The streets, cars, homes and yards of this neighborhood are photographed on perfect spring or autumn days, with sparklingly clear blue skies, and flowers or foliage accenting the order. These are photographs about how one might wish the world to be, how beauty might be seen as desire. In the same year Gossage made the Map of Babylon, photographing digitally from Washington, to Germany, to China and places in-between. This look away, to places beyond the immediate and local, is a classic exploration of particulars of the outside world.