Kunst & Kultur

This insightful biography takes a balanced and thoughtful look at the creative and enigmatic man who has had a greater influence on American culture than almost any other individual: Walt Disney.

This biography traces Dre's rise to fame, a story that parallels the rise of hip-hop as one of the most dominant cultural forces in America. Dre came of age at the time when hip-hop culture (rapping, breakdancing, Deejaying, and Graffiti art) began an underground trend in urban America.

When it comes to New York City hardcore, its community proudly boasts Lou and Pete Koller-brothers who have dominated the scene worldwide since 1986 with the aurally devastating Sick of It All as their vehicle.

Exploring a wide range of sonic practices, from birdsong in the Marshall Islands to Zulu ululation, the contributors reorient the field of sound studies toward the global South in order to rethink and decolonize modes of understanding and listening to sound.

A detailed chronicle of the rise and fall of the grunge music scene in Seattle and beyond.

As vibrant as her unique visual language, this monograph presents the work of Beatriz Milhazes, the Brazilian painter who fuses modernist abstraction with the colors and light of her native country. Expanded to include works up to 2020, this edition explores all of the artist's creative phases and contains over 300 works from her beginnings to...

Walter Chandoha's remarkable legacy as the 20th century's greatest pet photographer lives on in this sequel to his critically acclaimed Cats. Featuring over 60 breeds, photographed in a variety of styles and locations, the book includes color studio and environmental portraits, black-and-white street scenes, dogs roaming free in the countryside,...

Modeled on the brilliant approach first formulated by distinguished professor music and master clarinetist Michele Gingras in her Clarinet Secrets and More Clarinet Secrets (both available from Scarecrow Press), Tracy Heavner's Saxophone Secrets provides advanced saxophonists with 60 performance secrets that will assist in their musical development. This work is the result of 30 years of personal teaching and performance experience. Heavner offers both intermediate players and advanced professionals a wide variety of techniques, which will greatly improve any saxophonist's performance ability.Designed to be the go-to hands-on guide for practitioners, Heavner's strategies consider a vast array of issues for the saxophonist who needs to take that next big step up. Beginning chapters consider various brands of saxophones, mouthpieces, ligatures, reeds, and maintenance techniques that reflect the standard practices and expectations of the advanced performer. The secrets that follow develop and improve embouchure, tone, articulation, and finger technique, allowing saxophonists to analyze their own playing and adjust accordingly. Heavner pulls back the curtain further to introduce those secrets for developing the altissimo register and extended saxophone techniques, from circular breathing and multiphonics to slap and flutter tonguingall absolute necessities for saxophonists seeking to play contemporary classical, jazz, or commercial music. Finally, Heavner concludes by letting musicians in on those little-revealed secrets for taking their saxophones on the road.Saxophone Secrets is the ideal work for saxophonists, saxophone instructors, band teachers, and anyone looking to improve their saxophone performance skills or those of their students.

A spectacular and unprecedented visual biography of the leading pioneers and protagonists of modern art and design

Man rykker ikke sine rødder op og flytter - man spreder sit rodnet. Det er med dette udgangspunkt, teksterne i denne bog er skrevet. Aage Arnoldsen starter med udgangspunkt i sin ungdom at beskrive betragtninger, der trækker tråde bagud i slægten, verdensbegivenheder og ind i det nære daglige liv med baggrund i stolte håndværkertraditioner. Gennem bogen kommer man fra den midtjyske hede til Ulfborg i Vestjylland. Fortællingerne starter med barnets undren og perspektiv, og fortsætter med refleksioner over kunsten, livet og verden i al almindelighed. Fortællingerne fletter sig sammen med hinanden med afsæt i hans egne oplevelser og et skævt blik ud på verdens tilfældigheder, begivenheder og historie.

Renowned for his political remarks and social media activity almost as much as for his art, which is based on social interventions, a contemporary approach to the readymade, and his familiarity with Chinese traditional crafts, Ai Weiwei's fame extends throughout and beyond the art world. This monograph explores each of the periods of Ai's work...

Mosaics can be created from various materials, ceramics, dinnerware, polymer clay, beads, etc., but its true magic lies in crafting with glass.This book will teach you how to work with different types of glass. It contains an assortment of projects with step-by-step descriptions and images enabling you to create unique and original mosaics. In this Book: 14 original projects with clearly worded step-by-step workflow instructions Each work stage in the project is depicted in images In the book, projects are arranged from simple to complex A variety of cutting methods and tips for handling glass Glass squares and glass panels - differences and how-to's A secret technique for dyeing glass on your ownMoreover, you'll find a link at the end of the book for downloading every example.This book is intended for beginners or anyone interested in experimenting with glass mosaics.

Displaying a talent for combining aesthetic sensibility with scientific rigor, the author has given new life to something that once excited European passions: an original, non-academic art at the forefront of the 'new technology' of the time.