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Confrontational Ceramics
Those who associate ceramics with functional vessels or charming knick-knacks are in for a shock. Clay may start out soft, but in the right hands it can deliver a hard blow. From British Toby Jugs to Marcel Duchamp's Fountain to a wall of gruesome tiles that forms a portrait of President George W. Bush, ceramic art has the power to provoke and subvert.
Confrontational Ceramics surveys the work of contemporary sculptors, potters, and mixed media artists who have turned the ancient medium of clay into an articulate vehicle for political and social commentary. Educator and curator Judith S. Schwartz gathers the works of more than two hundred artists from thirty different countries into a glossy full-color overview of the radical ceramics scene. Provocative pieces from makers such as Grayson Perry, Robert Arneson, Richard Notkin, Howard Kottler, as well as newer talents, address personal, social, and geopolitical injustices from rape to racism. In their own words, these bold artists discuss the outrage behind their outrageous works. Schwartz provides historical context for current and late twentieth-century protest in the form of ceramics. She also places the artists within thematic groupings: war and politics, the social and human condition, gender issues, the environment, and popular and material culture.
Filled with subtle satire, garish jests, grotesque shock treatments, and moving testaments, Confrontational Ceramics is a radical departure from conventional coffee-table ceramics books on decorative housewares or formal abstractions. This art book will amuse, inspire, and possibly offend art historians, ceramics collectors, and anyone with an eye for the outlandish. .
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Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Confrontational Times
Now updated: Geoffrey Nunberg's "shrewd" and "valuable" guide to the way we speak and what this tells us about ourselves and the world we live in ( Washington Post Book world) Going Nucular is Geoff Nunberg's brilliant and witty look at what language reveals about our changing attitudes. Nunberg pronounces blog "a syllable whose time has come," and of Google he says: "You don't get to be a verb unless you're doing something right." Above all, he shows how the important issues of our times can be illuminated by the smallest linguistic cues, if you know how to listen for them. Nunberg explains why conservatives use "and" more than liberals do, and why the way the President says "nuclear" is something more than a simple mispronunciation-"a thinko, not a typo." Listening to the rhetoric of "values" in the 2004 presidential campaign, he traces how "a word that ought to be a bland political bromide has turned into a battle cry for both sides." Nunberg has dazzling receptors, perfect acoustics and a deftly elegant style..
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Great Power Diplomacy: 1814-1914
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Target Costing and Value Engineering (Strategies in Confrontational Cost Management Series)
What would happen if everyone in your company followed a disciplined approach to cost reduction? Go ahead -- imagine it. What would it look like? How can it be done? The answer -- smart cost management. Effective cost management must start at the design stage. As much as 90-95% of a product's costs are added in the design process That is why effective cost management programs focus on design and manufacturing. The primary cost management method to control cost during design is a combination of target costing and value engineering. Target Costing Objectives: - Identify the cost at which your product must be manufactured at if it is to earn its profit margin at its expected target selling price.
- Break the target cost down to its component level and have your suppliers find ways to deliver the components they sell you at the set target prices while still making adequate returns.
Value Engineering:
The connection to function: An organized effort and team based approach to analyze the functions of goods and services that the design stage, and find ways to achieve those functions in a manner that allows the firm to meet its target costs.
The result: Added value for your company (development costs on-line with added value for your company; development costs on-line with selling prices) and added value for your customer (higher quality products that meet, possibly even exceed, customer expectations.).
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Supply Chain Development for the Lean Enterprise: Interorganizational Cost Management (Strategies in Confrontational Cost Management Series)
Four questions determine whether a company is using interorganizational cost management - Does your firm set specific cost-reduction objectives for its suppliers?
- Does your firm help its customers and/or suppliers find ways to achieve their cost-education objectives?
- Does your firm take into account the profitability of its suppliers when negotiating component pricing with them?
- Is your firm continuously making its buyer-supplier interfaces more efficient?
If the answer to any of these questions is "no", your firm risks introducing products that cost too much or are not competitive. The full potential of the supply network can be realized only when the entire supply chain adopts interorganizational cost management practices. Competitive pressure has led many firms to try to increase the efficiency of supplier firms through interorganizational cost management systems, a structured approach tocoordinating the activities of firms in a supplier network to reduce the total costs in the network.
It is particularly important to lean enterprises for two reasons: - Lean enterprises typically outsource more of the added value of their products than their mass producer counterparts.
- Lean enterprises usually compete more aggressively and must manage costs more effectively.
Interorganizational cost management can reduce costs in three ways: through product design, through product manufacture and through cooperative approaches between buyers and suppliers to build smoother interfaces.
However, more than just cost management must cross interorganizational boundaries. Suppliers are also a major source of innovation for lean enterprises. Successful supplier networks encourage every firm in the network to innovate and compete more aggressively. Read this book to learn to manage the supply chain to forge competitive advantage while reducing costs..
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World War 3 Illustrated: Confrontational Comics
This graphic collection gathers the work of more than thirty artists who represent both the extreme edge of the comic art and its future. They are radical voices for the 21st century. Included are artists such as Peter Kuper, a frequent contributor to Time magazine, The New Yorker, The Village Voice, and The New York Times (where he had the first and only comic strip to run regularly in that paper); Eric Drooker, author/artist of the award-winning Flood! A Novel in Pictures: James Romberger, whose work is in the permanent collection of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Mike Diana, famous now as the first cartoonist in U.S. history sentenced to jail as a result of his work. Here, politics is mixed with the personal. Stories range from Sandy Jiminez's tale of homophobia in the Latin community to Sabrina Jones's articulate defense of her right to have an abortion, from Seth Tobocman's account of the squatters' movement on New York's Lower East Side to a piece by Mumia Abu Jamal commenting on the "three strikes" judiciary guidelines. .
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