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Focusing on Los Angeles and Philadelphia, First Among Equals considers the various modes that contemporary artists have developed to work with each other and reach across generations through negotiation and dialogue. Among the artists included are Kathryn Andrews, Bodega, Alex Da Corte, Extra Extra, Machete Group, Marginal Utility, P&Co., Mateo Tannatt and Wu Tsang.

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In 1960 George Heard Hamilton published the first complete typographic translation of Duchamp’s Green Box in English. This landmark publication translated Duchamp’s notes and conceptual ambitions for his masterwork, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even. And as a book, designed to hinge at its binding, the work fulfilled Duchamp’s conceptual proposal for art that would move from two- into three-dimensional space. Hinge Pictures is an artist’s book in eight parts—a gorgeous, palimpsestual publication that layers the practices of Sarah Crowner, Julia Dault, Leslie Hewitt, Tomashi Jackson, Erin Shirreff, Ulla von Brandenburg, Adriana Varejão and Claudia Wieser over the pages of Duchamp’s imagination. It is also a companion publication to an exhibition in eight parts, a confrontation with the patrimony of European modernism. A literal reading of Duchamp positions the Bride, a nude woman, suspended above a host of ogling bachelors. In his writing, Duchamp narrates both social and physical constraint (“The Bride accepts this stripping…”) and formal liberation (“discover true form…develop the principle of the hinge.”). The artists of Hinge Pictures use formal constraint—a commitment to abstraction—in a demonstration of social liberation. With a Swiss binding that unveils the spine of the book and multiple vellum overlays that create layered interlocutions, the book’s physical qualities mirror its conceptual occupations.

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Using photography as a language, Shannon Ebner (born 1971) examines the signs, symbols, letters, words and graphical icons we encounter in the world. Auto Body Collision documents Ebner's most recent ongoing project, a multipart series of photographs that began on a trip to Italy in 2014. Ebner has been collecting language taken from signs, seeking out repetitions of terms such as "Auto Body Collision" and "Automotive." In dissecting found language and coupling it with her own, Ebner establishes connections between the terms "auto," "body," "motive" and "collision." The themes of Ebner's new work include the circulatory and the network, performance and its relationship to the body, and collision, in terms both literal and conceptual. Auto Body Collision, designed in collaboration with the artist, includes more than 150 never-before-published photographs, as well as essays by Alex Klein, Tina Kukielski and Mark Owens.

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"PROFIT FROM PROCUREMENT: 30 % Ergebnissteigerung durch funktionsübergreifendes Arbeiten" liefert einen aufschlussreichen, überzeugenden und frischen Blick auf ein Thema, das in der Regel 50 % der Gesamtkosten eines Unternehmens ausmacht: der Einkauf. Alex Klein, Simon Whatson und Jose Oliveira, Führungskräfte der weltweit größten Einkaufsberatung, zeigen die Grenzen des traditionellen, funktional isolierten Ansatzes für den Einkauf auf. Sie demonstrieren, wie erhebliche EBITDA-Gewinne erzielt werden können, indem der Einkauf aus dem Backoffice herausgelöst und in die Lage versetzt wird, die Kostenbasis eines Unternehmens grundlegend zu verändern. Die Autoren liefern praktische Strategien und Beispiele aus ihrer Arbeit mit den weltweit führenden Unternehmen, um Ihnen zu helfen, das Gewinnpotenzial Ihres Unternehmens freizusetzen. Das Buch bietet den Lesern einen praktischen und konkreten Fahrplan für die Optimierung, Integration und den Einsatz der Beschaffungskapazitäten eines Unternehmens, um eine weniger isolierte und wirkungsvollere Funktion zu schaffen. Die Leser werden lernen: - wie sie die Transformation des Einkaufs in ihrem Unternehmen planen; - wie sie sicherstellen können, dass ihr Team über die für den kommenden Wandel erforderlichen Fähigkeiten verfügt; - wie man den Einkauf neu positioniert, um zum Vorreiter funktionsübergreifender Veränderungen zu werden; - wie sie neue Themen wie Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit in ihre Beschaffungspläne integrieren; - wie man sicherstellt, dass sich Effizienzsteigerungen im Einkauf vollständig im Gewinn niederschlagen. "PROFIT FROM PROCUREMENT" ist die perfekte Lektüre für C-Suite-Führungskräfte und Einkaufsexperten in Unternehmen jeder Größe und gehört in das Bücherregal jedes Mitarbeiters und jeder Führungskraft, die mit Unternehmensabläufen und Gewinnstrategien betraut ist. Direkt, umsetzbar und praxiserprobt ist das Buch ein Muss für jede Führungskraft, die mit Hilfe des Einkaufs einen positiven Einfluss auf den Gewinn ausüben möchte.

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Your lack of focus on Procurement is limiting your profits. Multiply them by making Procurement a company-wide priority. Profit from Procurement: Add 30% to Your Bottom Line by Breaking Down Silos delivers an insightful, compelling, and fresh take on a subject that typically comprises 50% of a business's total costs: Procurement. Alex Klein, Simon Whatson and Jose Oliveira, leaders at the world's largest dedicated Procurement consultancy, highlight the limitations of the traditional, functionally siloed approach to Procurement, and demonstrate how significant EBITDA gains can be made by lifting Procurement out of the back office and enabling it to fundamentally reset a company's cost base. Its accessible, frank, and refreshing style, combined with practical, actionable advice, based on the authors' extensive real-life experience, make it a must read for any executive looking to make an impact through Procurement. The book offers readers a practical and concrete roadmap to optimizing, integrating, and deploying a company’s Procurement capabilities, creating a less siloed, more impactful function. Readers will learn how to: Plan their company's Procurement transformation Reskill teams for the coming change Reposition the Procurement function to become the driver of cross-functional change Integrate new topics such as digitalization and sustainability into their Procurement roadmaps Ensure that Procurement efficiencies are fully reflected in bottom-line profits Perfect for C-Suite executives and Procurement professionals at companies of all sizes, Profit from Procurement belongs on the bookshelves of every employee and leader tasked with company operations and profit strategy.

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The first book on acclaimed South Korean multimedia artist Suki Seokyeong Kang, whose sculptures, paintings and videos explore the power and politics of space Black Mat Oriole is the result of five years of research by South Korean artist Suki Seokyeong Kang (born 1977), who has combined sculpture, painting and video to create a multi-site installation that explores the power and politics of space. Grounded in the histories of Korean craft and choreography, Kang's multimedia project reassesses the use of geometry—particularly grids—in art-making activities in both traditional Korean art and Western abstraction. This book accompanies her first US museum exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania's Institute of Contemporary Art. Alongside full-color photographs that capture the impressive scope of Kang's installation, a foil-stamped cover and special graphic interpretations of Suki's work by designers Sulki & Min, the book includes three critical essays on her work and an interview with the artist.

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