'Ema (Nude on a staircase)' pulls the reader into the mind of Ema, the young woman descending the staircase in Gerhard Richter's 1966 painting, 'Ema'. Ema is a young artist who wants to discover what her greatest form of creativity is. She embarks on a journey of awakening, a quest for mastery that brings her into dialogue with her teachers and with her great mentors, the artists Gerhard Richter, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage. Ema explores her field, finds her own voice, considers the world an...

Artivisme lijkt tegenwoordig een modewoord te zijn geworden voor de empowerment van vrouwen door middel van activistische kunst. Dit boek wil de diversiteit aan praktijken en realiteiten onder de paraplu van kunstactivisme en activisme in de kunsten in zijn breedte tonen. De verzameling bijdragen (32!) van kunstenaars, journalisten en onderzoekers vertegenwoordigt een reeks kritische inzichten, perspectieven en praktijken en verkent en reflecteert op de rol van feministische interventies op h...

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In this sequel to bestselling The Visual Miscellaneum, author David McCandless reveals unexpected?and much needed?positive developments from around the world.David McCandless creates simple, elegant ways to see and understand complex, abstract, and often obscured information important to our lives. A specialist in infographics. McCandless cuts through the noise of data overload, creating visually stunning displays that not only make facts comprehensive, but illuminates their connections and a...

An expertly curated compilation of officially published step-by-step guides on how to deal with every kind of disaster imaginable, drawn from government archives all around the world from the 1910s to today.