Vincent Obert de Thieusies is een kunstenaar die veel heeft gereisd doorheen zijn leven, dit kan je herkennen aan zijn brede visie op kunst en de wereld in het algemeen. Hij creëert als het ware zijn eigen kosmos, gekenmerkt door een constante evolutie in zijn kunstwerken. Daarom kunnen we zijn kunstpraktijk ook niet categoriseren onder slechts één stijl. Het best kunnen we Vincent omschrijven als een eclectisch kunstenaar, gedreven door een out-of-the-box denken. Zijn werken zijn erg expr...

Ellie van der Est (Rotterdam 1952) is organisation consultant, coach and trainer. The first half of her career she worked in social organisations and in government institutions (on local and national levels) during which her work was focussed on management and on initiating and coaching changing processes. In 1993 she started her own company. The reason was that she wished to design her own vision with regard to cooperation and sustainable developments.

About her work she says: 'My inner mot...

From 1993 to 1996 L.J.K. Setright contributed 10 articles to the Dutch car magazine GranTurismo. In these witty, erudite articles Setright, one of the 20th century's most influential motoring journalists, wrote about historic GP races, racing cars, contemporary cars, automotive history and the people in the automotive industry. Setright's writings have to be savoured, they are not always easy to read (let's call it an acquired taste), but anyone with a heart for the motoring scene will enjoy ...

Since 1846, the Vlisco company, located in Helmond, has supplied the Western and Central African market with Dutch Wax fabrics. This book is an homage to the fabric's fascinating history - more than a hundred years old, born in Indonesia, designed in the Netherlands, loved in Africa and coveted in the West. Full of layered meaning, the fabrics find their way to Parisian fashion shows, markets in Ghana and galleries in London and New York. More than 200 examples of fabrics from the Vlisco arch...

Classical ballet is no longer the sole stimulus for today's audiences, as a fluid fusion of everything from ballet to Bollywood and from breakdancing to Latin represents how dance is consumed today. With the emergence of modern choreographers and new teaching styles, debate on the benefits of classical ballet training for non-classical dancers continues, even raising questions as to its relevance. The increasing academic interest in examining ballet's role is the focus of this book, published...

In this book, Gert Biesta presents a new approach to contemporary art education by showing the unique possibilities the arts offer to establish a dialogue with the world around us. This approach to art education is based on teaching as a process of showing, where the teacher shows the student what could be good, important or meaningful to master in the world. As a starting point for illustrating this method, the book proposes 'How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare' (1965) by Joseph Beuys, wh...

The Art of Bodypainting

Een gedroomde werkelijkheid

The Art of Bodypainting bevat een collectie fascinerende bodypaintings van uitzonderlijke klasse. Het boek geeft een representatief beeld van de kwaliteit van deze kunstvorm anno 2012. De 120 meesterwerken zijn vervaardigd door 45 toonaangevende kunstenaars uit tal van landen, in samenwerking met modellen en fotografen van hoog niveau. Samen schetsen ze de lezer een gedroomde werkelijkheid; een werkelijkheid die de zinnen prikkelt, die verwa...

Pieter Bruegel invites us to study and to admire his work down to the tiniest element. He was a trained and experienced miniaturist, draughtsman, and print designer: skills that combined with his brilliant painting technique enable us to read every image and every detail. Bruegel created a world of unprecedented visual richness: it is impossible to take in everything at once, as there is so much to see. Alongside this rich viewing experience, Bruegel always offers layers of visual and intelle...

'As Above, So Below' documents the work made by Amsterdam-based artist, Ruchama Noorda over a twenty-year period and explores the esoteric system of belief that links her practice to the early 20th century Lebensreformers, the European avant-garde, and today's no growth environmentalist movement.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the artist's installations, drawings, video's, sculptures, and performances with written commentary by the artist and by California-based art and cultural...