Take in the dark, compelling visions of Edvard Munch, artist of lurid colors, strange distortions, and a haunting Mona Lisa for modernity: The Scream. This essential introduction surveys Munch's staggering capacity for psychodrama and the echo of his artistic wail through the work of Andy Warhol, Martin Kippenberger, Tracey Emin, Marlene Dumas, ...
From Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter brings together a select group of paintings from the Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden--one of the most significant collections of German art from 1800 to the present--and new work from the renowned contemporary artist Gerhard Richter."--Page 4 of cover.
Die Ausstellung ist der offizielle kulturelle Beitrag der Bundesrepublik Deutschland zur EU-Ratspräsidentschaft in der ersten Jahreshälfte 2007. Durch eine in dieser Form neuartige Zusammenarbeit der größten staatlichen Museumsverbünde in Berlin, Dresden und München wird die Vielfalt der deutschen Malerei zwischen Klassizismus, Romantik und Realismus, zwischen Französischer Revolution und Erstem Weltkrieg, in einer Gesamtschau vorgestellt. Über 150 Spitzenwerke von Caspar David Friedrichs Mönch am Meer bis zu Adolph Menzels Piazza d ́Erbe in Verona belegen, wie sehr die deutsche Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts innerhalb Europas vernetzt war. Die Ausstellung steht für diesen gesamteuropäischen Kontext: von der Rezeption antiker Kultur in Griechenland über die Entdeckung Skandinaviens und der alpinen Bergwelt durch deutsche Landschaftsmaler bis hin zur Rolle des Gastgeberlandes Belgien, dessen Akademien wegweisend für die Historienmalerei in Deutschland waren.
The renowned international artist Marlene Dumas (b. 1953, Cape Town) created a big new altarpiece for the Annenkirche (St. Anne's Church) in Dresden.This beautiful publication includes many images of the altarpiece and Dumas' working process. In her own text she speaks about the background and motives of her paintings.The Protestant Church has not only preserved its fine built heritage, but has also commissioned artists down the ages to produce new liturgical works that breathe contemporary life into the faith.This new altarpiece for the Annenkirche draws on Christian motifs and explores their meaning in the story of Salvation, interpreting suffering with hope and illustrating how relevant religion is today.The altarpiece consists of five 'tondi' (circular paintings) by Marlene Dumas, a sixth by Jan Andriesse, which are arranged around a 'Tree of Life' by Bert Boogaard to bind them together on the altar wall with 3.60 meters wide and 7.80 meters high.English and German text.
From Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter brings together a select group of paintings from the Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden--one of the most significant collections of German art from 1800 to the present--and new work from the renowned contemporary artist Gerhard Richter."--Page 4 of cover.
Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts, which has appeared in semi-annual volumes since 1969, is de voted to the recording, summarizing and indexing of astronomical publications throughout the world. It is prepared under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union (according to a resolution adopted at the 14th General Assembly in 1970). Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts aims to present a comprehensive documentation of Iiterature in all fields of astronomy and astrophysics. Every effort will be made to ensure that the average time interval between the date of receipt of the original Iiterature and publication of the abstracts will not exceed eight months. This time interval is near to that achieved by monthly abstracting journals, com pared to which our system of accumulating abstracts for about six months offers the advantage of greater convenience for the user. Valurne 7 contains Iiterature published in 1972 and received before August 15, 1972; some older Iiter ature which was received late and which is not recorded in earlier volumes is also included.
This book present the value school of corporate governance,outlining a multitude of areas where corporate governance could addreal worth, and showing how this can be put into effect. No “one-size-fits-all” model emerges as a solution.Rather, the insights in this book take idiosyncrasies and dynamicsover time into consideration. They consider the main issues andtheir real causes, ownership settings, country settings and newdevelopments in corporate governance research and practice. International focus places emphasises on typical patterns,predicament and solutions instead of national laws. Points are illustrated with in-depth case studies andhighlighted learning nuggets. Alerts the reader to typical dilemmas and traps in attainingthe goal of value creation, whilst also pointing to promisingavenues forward.
Das vorliegende Buch behandelt die Anwendung numerischer Methoden auf die Berechnung von Stahlbetontragwerken. Rissbildung, Verbundwirkung und nichtlineares zeitabhängiges Spannungs-Dehnungs-Verhalten der Stahlbetonelemente lassen sich mit der Elastizitätstheorie allein nicht darstellen. Die Erfassung solcher Phänomene ist jedoch für die Untersuchung der Grenzzustände der Tragfähigkeit und der Gebrauchstauglichkeit erforderlich. Dieses Buch gibt eine anwendungsbezogene Zusammenfassung der numerischen Methoden einschließlich FEM. Der Schlüssel dazu liegt in der Beschreibung und im Verständnis des Materialverhaltens. Die wichtigsten Materialeigenschaften von Beton und Bewehrungsstahl und ihre Verbundwirkung werden erläutert. Mit diesen Grundlagen werden verschiedene Elemente wie Stäbe, Balken, Stabwerkmodell, Platten, Scheiben und Schalen behandelt. Dabei werden Vorspannung, Rissbildung, nichtlineares Spannung-Dehnungs-Verhalten, Kriechen, Schwinden und Temperatureinwirkungen berücksichtigt. Für alle Tragelemente werden die jeweils geeigneten Methoden hergeleitet. Dynamische Aufgaben und quasi-statische Kurzzeiteinwirkungen sowie vorübergehende Prozesse wie Kriechen und Schwinden werden gelöst. Die Problemstellungen werden anhand von zahlreichen Beispielen veranschaulicht. Diese sind mit dem Programmpaket ConFem berechnet, welches zusammen mit den Eingabedaten unter Open-Source-Bedingungen unter www.concrete-fem.com zur Verfügung steht. Der Autor zeigt die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der numerischen Methoden der Baustatik zur Simulation von Stahlbetontragwerken auf. Ein Buch für Studium, Lehre und Forschung, ebenso wie für Tragwerksplaner und Prüfingenieure.
Concrete is by far the most used building material due to its advantages: it is shapeable, cost-effective and available everywhere. Combined with reinforcement it provides an immense bandwidth of properties and may be customized for a huge range of purposes. Thus, concrete is the building material of the 20th century. To be the building material of the 21th century its sustainability has to move into focus. Reinforced concrete structures have to be designed expending less material whereby their load carrying potential has to be fully utilized. Computational methods such as Finite Element Method (FEM) provide essential tools to reach the goal. In combination with experimental validation, they enable a deeper understanding of load carrying mechanisms. A more realistic estimation of ultimate and serviceability limit states can be reached compared to traditional approaches. This allows for a significantly improved utilization of construction materials and a broader horizon for innovative structural designs opens up. However, sophisticated computational methods are usually provided as black boxes. Data is fed in, the output is accepted as it is, but an understanding of the steps in between is often rudimentary. This has the risk of misinterpretations, not to say invalid results compared to initial problem definitions. The risk is in particular high for nonlinear problems. As a composite material, reinforced concrete exhibits nonlinear behaviour in its limit states, caused by interaction of concrete and reinforcement via bond and the nonlinear properties of the components. Its cracking is a regular behaviour. The book aims to make the mechanisms of reinforced concrete transparent from the perspective of numerical methods. In this way, black boxes should also become transparent. Appropriate methods are described for beams, plates, slabs and shells regarding quasi-statics and dynamics. Concrete creeping, temperature effects, prestressing, large displacements are treated as examples. State of the art concrete material models are presented. Both the opportunities and the pitfalls of numerical methods are shown. Theory is illustrated by a variety of examples. Most of them are performed with the ConFem software package implemented in Python and available under open-source conditions.
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