Daniel Beckley (7 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Bozic, Milan (jacket design); Lagin, Daniel (book design); Druskin, Julia (production manager) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Fine unread condition black boards with silver spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped photographic and color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Notes and Index. "Unflinching and historically grounded, provocative and richly researched, this refreshing, pioneering work delivers a necessary corrective to narrow thinking and relaxed timelines in dealing with China. Beckley and Brands' ideas need to be embraced if we are to effectively manage differences emerging in the increasingly volatile relationship between our two nations." - General Jim Mattis, U.S. Marines (ret.) and 26th Secretary of Defense. "There is bipartisan consensus in Washington that China is the most important long-term strategic challenge for the U.S. Hal Brands and Michael Beckley powerfully argue that an enormously ambitious China is peaking now and confrontation is coming sooner that we think. This well-written, must-read book will add a sense of urgency to the national debate about strategic competition." - Ambassador (ret.) Eric S. Edelman, former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy (2005-2009). "Brilliant and engagingly written, this warning by two outstanding scholars is especially timely in light of recent events. Are Americans ready for what may be coming? They will be better prepared if they read this book." - Robert Kagan, author. "Russian aggression notwithstanding, China constitutes the most daunting challenge to U.S. national security and the liberal international order. In this brilliant and urgently important book, Hal Brands and Michael Beckley explain why the threat of war with China will likely peak in this decade - when China's global power and ambition for primacy are swelling just as it faces severe demographic, economic, and political strains on the horizon. Every U.S. foreign policy maker and thinker should read this book and heed their call to rapidly mobilize strategy, strength, and alliances to navigate through this danger zone." - Larry Diamond, Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University. "A provocative and urgent analysis of the U.S-China rivalry. It has become conventional wisdom that America and China are running a "superpower marathon" that may last a century. Yet Hal Brands and Micahel Beckley pose a counterintuitive question: What if the sharpest phase of that competition is more like a decade-long sprint? The Sino-American contest is driven by clashing geopolitical interests and a stark ideological dispute over whether authoritarianism or democracy will dominate the twenty-first century. But both history and China's current trajectory suggest that this rivalry will reach its moment of maximum danger in the 2020s. China is at a perilous moment: strong enough to violently challenge the existing order, yet losing confidence that time is on its side. Numerous examples from antiquity to the present show that rising powers become most aggressive when their fortunes fade, their difficulties multiply, and they realize they must achieve their ambitions now or miss the chance to do so forever. China has already started down this path. Witness its aggression toward Taiwan, its recond-breaking military buildup, and its efforts to dominate the critical technologies that will shape the world's future. Over the long run, the Chinese challenge will most likely prove more manageable than many pessimists currently believe - but during the 2020s, the pace of Sino-American conflict will accelerate, and the prospect of war will be frighteningly real. America, Brands and Beckly argue, will still need a sustainable approach to winning a protracted global competition. But first, it needs a near-term strategy for navigating the danger zone ahead." - from the inner front jacket flap.

304 pp.; 23.8 x 22 cm.; sewn bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Monograph by Achille Bonito-Oliva with editorial coordination by Corinna Ferrari. Artists include Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Vincenzo Agnetti, Laurie Anderson, Carl Andre, Giovanni Anselmo, Eleanor Antin, Art & Language, Michael Asher, David Askevold, Gabor Attalai, Michael Badura, Jo Baer, Marco Bagnoli, John Baldessari, Martin Barré, Robert Barry, Lothar Baumgarten, Didier Bay, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Bill Beckley, Larry Bell, Lynda Benglis, Joseph Beuys, James Bishop, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Mari Boeyen, Marinus Boezem, Christian Boltanski, George Brecht, K.P. Brehmer, Marcel Broodthaers, Stanley Brouwn, Trisha Brown, Gunter Brüs, Chris Burden, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, James Lee Byars, André Cadere, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Peter Campus, Louis Cane, Enrico Castellani, Mark Camille Chaimowitz, Alan Charlton, Sandro Chia, Christo, Francesco Clemente, Chuck Close, Hanne Darboven, Walter De Maria, Agnes Denes, Jan Dibbets, Richard Estes, Valie Export, Robert Filliou, Dan Flavin, Simone Forti, Terry Fox, Hamish Fulton, General Idea, Gilbert & George, Philip Glass, Dan Graham, Robert Grosvenor, Hans Haacke, Duane Hanson, Michael Heizer, Eva Hesse, Dick Higgins, Nancy Holt, Rebecca Horn, Douglas Huebler, Robert Irwin, Ray Johnson, Joan Jonas, Donald Judd, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Ellsworth Kelly, Edward Kienholz, Yves Klein, Joseph Kosuth, Jannis Kounellis, David Lamelas, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Barry Le Va, Les Levine, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, George Maciunas, Robert Mangold, Piero Manzoni, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Gordon Matta-Clark, Mario Merz, Annette Messager, Mary Miss, Meredith Monk, Robert Morris, Antonio Muntadas, Bruce Nauman, N.E. Thing Co., Barnett Newman, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Arnulf Rainer, Yvonne Rainer, Ad Reinhardt, Gerhard Richter, Terry Riley, Dieter Rot [aka Dieter Roth], Alan Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Lucas Samaras, Richard Serra, Charles Simonds, Robert Smithson, Keith Sonnier, Nancy Spero, Daniel Spoerri, Frank Stella, Richard Tuttle, Wolf Vostell, Andy Warhol, and Lawrence Weiner. Includes author biography. Texts in English, French, and German. Very Good. Small chip to bottom edge of dust-jacket at spine. Light bumping of cover and page corners. Contents clean and unmarked. Due to large size and weight additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Nuevo. Dust Jacket Condition: Como Nuevo. Interfunktionen, an art journal which published 12 issues between 1968 and 1975 in Cologne, was founded in 1968 as a form of protest by artists who had no affinity with the critical lines that were redrawn at Documenta that year. The review was of considerable importance as a vehicle for propagating pro-European ideas and as a union between artists in Europe and the United States, irrespective of the predominating movements of the time. It contained both theoretical and practical contributions, with the intervention of creators who defined and illustrated their artistic strategies. Directly linked to the most prominent figures in the Düsseldorf Kunstacademie, such as Joseph Beuys, Jorg Immendorf and Sigmar Polke, it also boasted the involvement of the most spirited and reflexive artists of the times, from Vito Acconci and Marcel Broodthaers to Bruce Nauman and Dieter Roth. Interfunktionen, as its name indicates, was an inter-disciplinary publication, open to all artistic genres and with no restrictions as to media. This book is produced in collaboration with Fritz Heubach, the review's first editor, and depicts the experience of those years by means of original documents--some of them hitherto unpublished--artworks, and artists' writings.

Softcover. Condition: Gut bis sehr gut. 136 S., zahl. s/w Abb., kart., 27 x 21 cm. Including the intended torn pages by Buren. Inklusive der vorsätzlich herausgerissenen Seiten von Buren. Minimal berieben, gebräunt und bestoßen. Insgesamt in sehr guter Erhaltung.