In recent years, many Nordic architects have returned to the materials used by their modernist forbearers (Alvar Aalto, Arne Jacobsen, Erik Gunnar Asplund, Jorn Utzon)--materials such as brick, pine, granite and concrete--developing a new regionialist idiom for Norway that has garnered much acclaim [...]
Edward Kienholz's life-size tableau "Five Car Stud" (1969-72) depicts four automobiles and a pickup truck, arranged on a dirt floor in a dark room with their headlights illuminating a shocking scene: a group of white men exacting their gruesome "punishment" on an African American man. "Five Car Stud[...]
The literature on strategy in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is fairly limited despite their great innovative talents. This book provides the reader with a thorough insight into six companies and their prerequisites for creating growth. Strategy Execution focuses on a varied picture of Sc[...]
"Women of the Avant-Garde 1920-1940" presents eight female artists who made major contributions to Dada, Surrealism, Constructivism and other European avant-gardes of the modernist era: Claude Cahun, Sonia Delaunay, Germaine Dulac, Florence Henri, Hannah Hoch, Katarzyna Kobro, Dora Maar and Sophie T[...]