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...

Magritte, Bacon, Ensor, Moore, Jordaens, Rubens … These are just some of the world-famous names on display at the MAS in autumn 2023. The not-to-be-missed exhibition 'Rare and Indispensable' brings a unique selection of masterpieces from the Flemish masterpiece list. Works of art you would otherwise have to travel all over Flanders to see, or which were never even publicly accessible, can now be temporarily admired in one museum hall. All in honour of the 20th anniversary of the 'Flemish Ma...

History of Japanese Art after 1945 is a compilation of essays that surveys the development of art in Japan since WWII. The original Japanese work, which has become essential reading for those with an interest in modern contemporary Japanese art and is a foundational resource for students and researchers, spans the 150 years from the 1850s to the 2010s. Each chapter is dedicated to a specific period and written by a specialist on the subject matter.

For this English edition, overseen by Art Pl...

De Gevelstenen van Amsterdam, van vóór 1800

Rond 1800 werd in Amsterdam een systeem van huisnummering ingevoerd. Vóór die tijd werd de ligging van een pand omschreven door onder andere te verwijzen naar een gevelsteen. Men woonde in ‘Het Zwarte Schaap’, in ‘De Rode Leeuw’, in ‘Het Melkmeisje’ of in het huis ertegenover of ernaast.

Gevelstenen functioneerden als ‘reclameborden’ voor de handel of nering die in het pand werd uitgeoefend, bevatten een toespeling op de naam v...

A new way of appreciating art that puts the artwork front and centre, brought to us by one of the freshest and most exciting new voices in cultural criticism.

Carel de Moor (1655–1738). His Life and Work, a monograph and œuvre catalogue, is the first scholarly study of one of the most important Dutch portrait painters of his time. The book includes a comprehensive biography, which explores Carel de Moor’s life and multi-faceted career within the context of the economic, political, and social history of the Dutch Republic.

As a result of the authors’ thorough investigation of De Moor’s client networks, several hitherto unknown sitters have...

What happens when two art forms – the literary and the visual arts – come together? For its bicentenary, the Mauritshuis asked 200 writers to draw inspiration from the museum’s collection. The crème de la crème of today's literary community, from at home and abroad, participated in this remarkable book. One writer; one work of art from the Mauritshuis; 200 words per contribution – never before have so many authors appeared together in a single publication. To name just a few of the ...

Een groot deel van de Nederlandse kunst uit de zeventiende eeuw werd speciaal besteld. Het was opdrachtkunst. De opdrachtgevers hadden daarmee grote invloed op de kunstproductie. Hun artistieke verwachtingen en smaak bepaalden een groot deel van wat we nu als de Gouden Eeuw van de Nederlandse schilderkunst beschouwen. Maar wat de grote opdrachtgevers precies van kunst vonden, en waarom, is nog nooit onderzocht. Dit boek brengt daar verandering in. Het beschrijft hoe de artistieke verwachtinge...

In Anarchy of the Body, art historian KuroDalaiJee (a.k.a. Kuroda Raiji) sheds light on vital pieces of postwar Japanese avant-garde history by contextualizing the social, cultural, and political trajectories of artists across Japan in the 1960s. A culmination of years of research, Anarchy of the Body draws on an extensive breadth of source material to reveal how the practice of performance by individual artists and art groups during this period formed a legacy of resistance against instituti...