Rodman, the assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, toned down the extent to which that debate may influence Chinese policy, though he concluded that it is still going on: We see discussions, albeit limited, beneath the surface in China over the future of its nuclear ...
In the long history of China, bronze culture has been one of the most important cultural heritages. China’s Bronze Age began in 2000 BC and lasted until the Qin and Han Dynasties. Its time span was as long as 15 centuries. This long history has been passed down to this day and promot...
as a professor of Latin and Greek, and later French literature, at a Catholic college in Roubaix. In 1940, he turned down the post of head of painting at the college. His study of painters grew as he travelled: Rembrandt, Kasimir Malevich, Giorgione, Hugo van der Goes. During all these...
he refers in equal measure to ideas and positions of modernism and to phenomena of everyday culture. In an act of radical reduction and concentration (the two basic principles of the artist's method), these are scaled down to bare essentials. Gerwald Rockenschaub lives and works in Vienna an...
For Karachi—Series 1 (2009), she photographed non-Muslim Pakistanis in the street at dusk during the holy month of Ramadan, when the metropolis is quiet as Muslims sit down to break their fast. Abidi renders visible the Hindu and Christian minorities, which together constitute less than five...
imagery and ideas. While in Berlin, Stern met Horacio Coppola, an argentine photographer, whom she would later marry. In 1933, as the Nazis rose to power and closed down the Bauhaus, Stern and her husband Horacio Coppola fled Germany, living in London for two years until moving to Buenos ...
“The guard is down and the mask is off,” he remarked. “Even more than in lone bedrooms (where there are mirrors), people’s faces are in naked repose down in the subway.” Between 1934 and 1965, Evans contributed more than 400 photographs to 45 articles published in Fortune magazine...
Really Mess Him Up!, a rethinking of German history with enormous repercussions. In a few shows, the public discovered a director who turned performance upside-down, shifted the real, invented a new aesthetic and staged, with unequalled humanity, men and women in a state of imbalance. Charact...
‘there is the fact that every image and every sound in this world, captured by the operator’s machines will find themselves, one way or another, projected into another order of reality, that of representation rounded down to one or two dimensions’. The ability to hold this duality in ...