"Alberto Giacometti's 1943 Cube stands apart for many as atypical of the Swiss artist, the only abstract sculptural work in a wide œvre that otherwise had as its objective the exploration of reality. With The Cube and the Face, renowned French art historian and philosopher Georg…
"This book examines the ways in which the Swiss defined their national identity in the long nineteenth century, in the face of a changing domestic and international background, and it challenges both functionalist and constructivist approaches to the study of nationalism." "Its …
"This book draws upon recent scientific work by the author, as well as by close colleagues working within scientific networks both in Switzerland and Europe, in order to provide the reader with up-to-date information on climate processes in the course of the 20th and 21st centur…