Inhaltsangabe: Zusammenfassung: Die immer groer werdende Konkurrenz, die Wandlung des Verkaufermarktes zum Kaufermarkt sowie die immer groer werdende Auswahl an gleichartigen Produkten zwingt die Unternehmen sich durch verschiedenste Arten der Differenzierung von den Wettbewerbern abzusetzen. Dabei gewinnt auch die Thematik der Kundenorientierung immer mehr an Bedeutung. Untersuchungen des „Deutschen Kundenbarometers" haben gezeigt, dass der Kaufer seine Kaufentscheidungen inzwischen immer mehr von der personlichen Beziehung und der Sympathie zum Verkaufer abhangig macht. Nicht mehr...

Diese zwolf skurrilen, humorvollen, schamanenhaften Geschichten, gesehen durch die Augen eines Hundes, beinhalten weltweit verbreitete Mythen, Legenden, Historie und Wissenschaften.

Bridging the gap: The onset of ExpressionismIn the German city of Dresden on June 7, 1905, the foundation of the Die Brucke artists group (1905 1913) is widely regarded as the birth of Expressionism. Led by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, the group sought to reject stultifying academia and, as their name suggested, to bridge the path to an artistic future. Their manifesto, printed with woodblock, insisted on absolute freedom from convention in their work and lives.In envisaging a new, liberated art, Die Brucke drew upon idols and aesthetics of the...

Pravoslav Sovak is a renowned graphic artist, his inimitable technical skill matched by a keen eye for critiquing both self and society. Over the years, he has turned his hand to a wide variety of subjects, from travel and the experience of nature to the cold sterility of mass media society and even his own life story. Sovak excels in photographic etching, further embellishing his images through the use of watercolor and collage.
Published to accompany a major exhibition at the Kunsthalle Mannheim marking the ninetieth anniversary of Sovak s birth, Sovak. Clear Vision(s) offers a...

Otto Dix (1891-1969) is considered one of the true lions of 20^th-C art, a man who established himself as an uncompromising artist that refused to temper how he rendered the realities that he witnessed. Dix's early works often depict the true brutalities of the WWI battlefields and trenches he served in for over three years, as well as the decadent underworld of 1920s Berlin.

With the publication of this first of three volumes of an extensive selection of letters, the most comprehensive collection of Otto Dix texts at last comes into print in English....