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"Ma Yuan emerges as an artist who captures the reality of season, time, and mood in a dazzlingly abbreviated style that is nonetheless utterly convincing in its rendering of the natural world.---Maxwell K. Hearn Metropolitan Museum of Art ichard Edwards and Ma Yuan have something in common: both are deeply committed to the work of art and the medium of ink painting. And like Ma Yuan's brushwork, Edwards's prose couples formal restraint with expressive power. This book is a major contribution to the literature on the art of ink painting at the Southern Song court.---Robert Sharf University of California, Berkeley Ma Yuan, one of China's best-known artists, was a key figure in the period widel...
Architektur und Städtebau wurden im Kontext der Weltkunstschau documenta in Kassel seit ihrer ersten Ausstellung im Jahre 1955 stets thematisiert. Die vorliegende Dissertationsschrift beleuchtet die documenta-Ausstellungen seit 1955 bis heute in diesem Zusammenhang. Exemplarisch wird eine Essenz aus 27 Positionen zu Architektur und Städtebau besprochen und im Kontext der jeweiligen kuratorischen Setzungen der documenta-Ausstellungen gespiegelt. Ergänzt werden die Untersuchungen durch die Betrachtungen zahlreicher Nebenschauplätze zum Themenkomplex sowie durch Gespräche mit unterschiedlichen Persönlichkeiten und Akteuren der documenta.
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Knocking on the Door is the first book-length work to analyze federal involvement in residential segregation from Reconstruction to the present. Providing a particularly detailed analysis of the period 1968 to 1973, the book examines how the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) attempted to forge elementary changes in segregated residential patterns by opening up the suburbs to groups historically excluded for racial or economic reasons. The door did not shut completely on this possibility until President Richard Nixon took the drastic step of freezing all federal housing funds in January 1973. Knocking on the Door assesses this near-miss in political history, exploring how...
Providing a radical rethink that integrates tattoos and other body modifications within health, wellbeing, and positive psychology, this book disrupts the narrative of stigmatisation that so often surrounds these practices to welcome a broader discussion of the benefits they can offer.