Focusing on the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy and Hungary, countries that represent key variations in European public administration, this textbook explores how the cultural, organizational, personnel and financial dimensions of public administration compare. The guiding questions are whether, to what extent and why the politico-administrative systems and their reforms show convergence or divergence from Europeanization. Key features of the second edition: Country profiles, comparative r...

Der Einfluss von volkstümlichen Traditionen auf die Pioniere der Moderne bei der Entwicklung ihrer neuen künstlerischen Sprache wird grundlegend untersucht. Objekte aus dem Kunsthandwerk und der Volkskunst treffen auf Meisterwerke von Avantgarde-Künstlern wie Josef Albers, Sonia Delaunay, Johannes Itten, Wassily Kandinsky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Pablo Picasso, Charles Sheeler oder Sophie Taeuber-Arp.

Ein Jahrhundert nach Entstehung der Moderne in Europa und Amerika strebt dieses S...

"Making and Meaning" präsentiert ausgewählte Werke aus dem Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center des Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. In bebilderten Essays, Werktexten, Gedichten und einer Zeitleiste offenbart der Band den überwältigenden Reichtum einer Sammlung, die sich von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart erstreckt.Der Band verdeutlicht die enorme Vielfalt der Sammlung anhand von Gemälden, Grafiken, Fotografien, Skulpturen und Kunsthandwerk. Die Texte von Kurator*innen und Dozent*inn...

At the crossroads of philosophy, artistic practice, and art history.Though Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari were not strictly art historians, they reinvigorated ontological and formal approaches to art, and simultaneously borrowed art historical concepts for their own philosophical work. They were dedicated modernists, inspired by the German school of expressionist art historians such as Riegl, Wölfflin, and Worringer and the great modernist art critics such as Rosenberg, Steinberg, Greenbe...

What is art history? Why, how, and where did it originate, and how have its methods changed over time? The history of art has been written and rewritten since classical antiquity. Since the foundation of the modern discipline of art history in Germany in the late eighteenth century, debates about art and its histories have intensified. Historians, philosophers, psychologists, and anthropologists among others have changed our notions of what art history has been, is,and might be.

This antholog...

An authoritative and provocative survey of the arts of Japan, brought right up to date with the latest developments and current trends.

Gives you an understanding of the ways in which modern art differs from realistic works of earlier centuries. This book examines 100 works of modern art that have attracted critical and public hostility from Cy Twomblys scribbled "Olympia", Jean-Michel Basquiats crude but spontaneous "LNAPRK", and more.

A compact, introductory guide to modern art that explains styles, schools, and movements from Impressionism to the present day