Anna Schneider Books

Oscar Murillo’s work is showcased through a compelling collection of paintings, installations, and video art, highlighting his status as a prominent contemporary artist. This volume, created for his 2017 solo exhibition at Haus der Kunst in Munich, offers a comprehensive overview of his diverse artistic practice, revealing the depth and breadth of his career up to that point.

In modern societies, there is a constant need to develop our understanding of, and our provision for, child protection.Due to the increasing complexity of modern societies, the healthy and well-rounded development of children and young people is threatened for several reasons. The mechanisms of this are complex, and vary a good deal from country to country. In the course of time, societies have developed different kinds of infrastructures dealing with this challenge. The country-specific traditions of child protection policies and practices are influenced by the same social, cultural, economic, and political factors as the development of society in general. The chapters in this book examine the development and current state of social policy, legislation, agency provision and practices in the different European countries represented, with the aim of contributing to this Europe-wide understanding and set of developments.

The aim of the publication is to analyze whether there is any Visegrad commonly shared identity or not and what could be the integrative factor of the Visegrad Group. The authors of the publication cover the following topics – historical identities; historical memory; economic cohesion and the level of economic cooperation of the V4 states; the role of the Visegrad topics in the university education and the political culture of the V4 states. The publication shows that the Visegrad cooperation is still based on the interests rather than on the commonly shared identity. However, the citizens of V4 countries already perceive Visegrad as a relevant and meaningful regional group. The fact that Visegrad is considered by the domestic political elites as well as by the political elites abroad as a “brand” or “mark” has a significant contribution to the construction of the regional identity. However, still the motivation of the political leaders to develop the Visegrad cooperation is more pragmatic than based on the awareness of belonging together. The external factors (the EU, gas crisis between Russia and Ukraine in January 2009) and their demand for response still have more efficient impact on the strengthening of V4 cooperation compared to the pressure from inside. V4 could be regarded as more successful project of transition and integration compared to the rest of post-communist states in Central and East Europe both from political and economic perspective. However, there are still substantial differences in the level of economic development, impact of crisis on the V4 states economies, in the living standards, as well as in the political cultures and patterns of political behaviour of citizens. The region of Central and East Europe, including Visegrad, still remains a periphery of the EU, although the EU membership of V4 countries and generally the EU presence in the entire region acts as a factor of stability and contributes to its de-peripheralization. The significant trend for the Visegrad societies is the decreasing level of democracy and growing support of authoritarianism in the region. The de-democratization is not purely the result of sophisticated political programs of certain parts of Visegrad political elites, but it is a result of subconscious practice and pragmatically formulated short-term political targets. However, Visegrad is still a zone of stability, compared to South, South East and East Europe, in part because of the more successful reforms in 1990s and higher efficiency of governance. The peripheralization and marginalization still remains a certain threat for the V4 and Central Europe in general. Such threats are not only the results of the economic or political infrastructure inherited from the Communist past, but their sources consist in some domestic policies implemented since the political changes at the turn of 1980s and 1990s. The improvement of the efficiency of the government’s engagement in the economy is highly recommended. The changes are required in the regional policy as well in order to push the subnational territorial units to formulate their own autonomous approaches to regional development in order to overcome the regional disparities. A significant gap still persists between the “old EU members” and Central European states, including V4, in the financing of the education, science and welfare system. The underdevelopment of these branches could have a negative impact on the future of democracy in the entire region of Central and East Europe.

Tato monografie, plná kvalitních fotografií a technických detailů, je především určena obdivovatelům vojenské techniky, sběratelům a modelářům.

Wahrheit, Wissen und Fiktion An Stelle des Vertrauens in harte Tatsachen scheint in den heutigen Gesellschaften zunehmend ein blinder Glaube zu treten. Die Gegenwartskunst reagiert auf diese Tendenz, indem sie sich intensiv mit Körper und Geist beschäftigt. Die Publikation versammelt 28 internationale junge Künstler, die sich mit Konzepten von Subjektivität, Wahrheit, Wahrhaftigkeit, Intuition und Glauben unter Verwendung unterschiedlichster Mittel und Medien auseinandersetzen: Ed Atkins, Kader Attia, Olga Balema, Melanie Bonajo, Mariechen Danz, Cécile B. Evans, Andrea Andrea Éva Györi, Benedikt Hipp, Nicholas Hlobo, Marguerite Humeau, KAYA, Hanne Lippard, Wangechi Mutu, Otobong Nkanga, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Jon Rafman, Mary Reid Kelley, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Raphael Sbrzesny, Jeremy Shaw, Teresa Solar Abboud, Jol Thomson und David Zink Yi.

'Hamid Zénati. All-Over' is a richly illustrated monograph dedicated to the vibrant oeuvre of the artist Hamid Zénati (b. 1944 Constantine, Algeria; d. 2022 Munich, Germany).Travelling between Munich and Algiers, Zénati's artistic practice ranged from painting and textiles to interior and fashion design to photography, always driven by an anarchic impetus to create.This first monograph on the artist features textile works from a five decade-long career and provides insight into the artist's distinct cosmos for the first time.The publication encompasses diverse perspectives by leading thinkers on art and culture.With contributions by Wassila Bedjaoui, Andrea Lissoni, Natasha Marie Llorens, Chus Martínez, Duro Olowu, and Anna Schneider.Published on occasion of the exhibition 'Hamid Zénati. All-Over', 13 Mar - 23 Jul 2023, Haus der Kunst, Munich.This was the first institutional exhibition dedicated to the artist's work.English with a German supplement.

This publication charts the Haus der Kunst München exhibition 'Trace--Formations of Likeness.', drawn exclusively from The Walther Collection.The exhibition explores portrait photography and the tracing of societal transformation across geographic spaces as well as contrasting socio-political and cultural landscapes.Portrait photography has been deployed as a means to shape identity, to advocate for social change, and as a subversive strategy for visibility, often through an intimate investigation of the politics of memory, history, and embodiment.This book encompasses works from the last two hundred years and brings together artists from Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia.The juxtaposition of archival, documentary, and vernacular photography offers a global context to reflect on the divergent trajectories of historical and contemporary photography today.Collectively, these works showcase the medium's capacity as both an instrument for empowerment and a formation of the self, as well as its complex uses as a tool for control and subjugation.Features an essay by British curator and cultural historian Mark Sealy.Artists include: anonymous artists and Ai Weiwei, Jane Alexander, Dieter Appelt, Richard Avedon, Martina Bacigalupo, Sammy Baloji, Yto Barrada, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Jodi Bieber, Karl Blossfeldt, Candice Breitz, Cang Xin, Edson Chagas, Kudzanai Chiurai, Mitch Epstein, Em'kal Eyongakpa, and others.

The majority of the workforce is currently employed in the service industry where many employees are involved in daily face-to-face service interactions with customers. At the same time, these direct customer interactions are increasingly put under pressure for example, in traditional retailing by alternative distribution channels. Nevertheless, whenever an essential part of a business-model’s value-creation process builds on interactive service work, both front-line service workers and customers are forced to mutually work together in service interactions. The present study shows the tensions front-line service workers face between demands for cost-efficiency on the one hand and customer service on the other. Although these two rationalities do not necessarily contradict each other on an organizational level, individual front-line service workers face these contradictions in the form of challenging tensions in every day interactions with customers. Building on rich and comprehensive observational and interview data from the retail sales floor, the interpretive research approach allows the analysis of the challenges of interactive service work and carves out the corresponding competencies to handle the clash between production and consumption which manifest in service interactions. Drawing on Convention Theory (“Économie des conventions”), the situation as unit of analysis becomes center stage. Convention Theory shows that not only are individual characteristics such as friendliness important for successful service interactions, but especially the competent interplay between individual resources and organizational settings within the situation of interaction is essential. The results shed new light on individuals’ contributions to successful service interactions and contributes to a more fine-grained picture of the challenges and competencies in interactive service work.

Edited by Anna Schneider, with contributions by Elsbeth Court, Imraan Coovadia, Anna Schneider and Dimona Stöckle; and a conversation between Michael Armitage and Don Handa"Paradise Edict" highlights pivotal series by the painter Michael Armitage and positions his body of work within East African painting and sculpture of the 20th century. His wide array of subject matter ranges from the relationship between humans and animals, and political events in his native Kenya, to European landscape traditions in opposition to an East African understanding of nature. With large-format oil paintings on lubugo bark cloth, the British-Kenyan painter joins motifs and artistic traditions from Europe and East Africa in a variety of ways, upsetting visual stereotypes and an excepted balance of power in the process.