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Kubo and the Two Strings: The Junior Novel
by Sadie ChesterfieldA junior novel based on the animated movie, Kubo and the Two Strings!©2016 LAIKA Entertainment. All Rights Reserved.
Kubrick's Men
by Richard RambussA provocative re-reading of Stanley Kubrick’s work and its focus on masculine desireThe work of Stanley Kubrick amounts to a sustained reflection on the male condition: past, present, and future. The persistent theme of his filmmaking is less violence or sex than it is the pressurized exertion of masculinity in unusual or extreme circumstances, where it may be taxed or exaggerated to various effects, tragic and comic—or metamorphosed, distorted, and even undone.The stories that Kubrick’s movies tell range from global nuclear politics to the unpredictable sexual dynamics of a marriage; from a day in the life of a New York City prizefighter preparing for a nighttime bout to the evolution of humankind. These male melodramas center on sociality and asociality. They feature male doubles, pairs, and rivals. They explore the romance of men and their machines, and men as machines. They figure intensely conflicted forms of male sexual desire. And they are also very much about male manners, style, taste, and art.Examining the formal, thematic, and theoretical affiliations between Kubrick’s three bodies of work—his photographs, his documentaries, and his feature films—Kubrick’s Men offers new vantages on to the question of gender and sexuality, including the first extended treatment of homosexuality in Kubrick’s male-oriented work.
Kubrick's Mitteleuropa: The Central European Imaginary in the Films of Stanley Kubrick
by Jeremi Szaniawski Nathan AbramsStanley Kubrick was arguably one of the most influential American directors of the post-World War II era, and his Central European Jewish heritage, though often overlooked, greatly influenced his oeuvre. Kubrick's Mitteleuropa explores this influence in ways that range from his work with Hungarian and Polish composers Bela Bartok, György Ligeti, and Krzysztof Penderecki to the visual inspiration of artists such as Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, and other central European Modernists. Beyond exploring the Mitteleuropa sensibility in Kubrick's films, the contributions in this volume also provide important commentary on the reception of his films in countries across Eastern Europe.
Kubrick: An Odyssey
by Robert P. Kolker Nathan AbramsThe definitive biography of the creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange, presenting the most in-depth portrait yet of the groundbreaking film-maker.The enigmatic and elusive filmmaker Stanley Kubrick has not been treated to a full-length biography in over twenty years. Stanley Kubrick: An Odyssey fills that gap. This definitive book is based on access to the latest research, especially Kubrick's archive at the University of the Arts, London, as well as other private papers plus new interviews with family members and those who worked with him. It offers comprehensive and in-depth coverage of Kubrick&’s personal, private, public, and working life. Stanley Kubrick: An Odyssey investigates not only the making of Kubrick's films, but also about those he wanted (but failed) to make like Burning Secret, Napoleon, Aryan Papers, and A.I. Revealingly, this immersive biography will puncture the controversial myths about the reclusive filmmaker who created some of the most important works of art of the twentieth century
Kulturell-ästhetische Bildungsprozesse in Jugendkunstschulen und kulturpädagogischen Projekten (Kasseler Edition Soziale Arbeit #21)
by Werner Thole Julia RohdeIn dem Band werden zentrale Befunde der Studie „Bildungsprozesse in der kulturellen Kinder- und Jugendarbeit“ (JuArt) präsentiert. In dem vom „Rat für kulturelle Bildung“ geförderten Forschungsvorhaben konnte den Bedeutungen und Wirkungen kulturell-ästhetischer Bildung in Jugendkunstschulen und kulturpädagogischen Projekten nachgegangen werden. Neben den empirisch gewonnenen Erkenntnissen werden die theoretischen und methodischen Überlegungen vorgestellt. Die Beiträge des Bandes weisen auf die vielfältigen Bedeutungen kulturell-ästhetischen Freizeitengagements für Heranwachsende hin.
Kulturelle Bildung (Edition ZfE #12)
by Christoph Wulf Ivo Züchner Annette ScheunpflugDas Buch vereinigt die Ergebnisse aktueller theoretischer und empirischer Forschung zur kulturellen Bildung. Untersucht werden zentrale Sparten wie bildende Kunst, Tanz, Musik, Museum und weite Formen kulturellen Engagements sowie unterschiedliche Zielgruppen, wie Schülerinnen und Schüler, Erwachsene, Lehrkräfte und Professionelle aus kunstbezogenen Berufen.
Kulturelle Bildungsforschung: Methoden, Befunde und Perspektiven (Bildung und Sport #24)
by Nils Neuber Esther Pürgstaller Sebastian KonietzkoDie Kulturelle Bildung hat in den vergangenen Jahren an Bedeutung gewonnen. Damit geht eine Stärkung der Forschung zu diesem Feld einher. Nach einer Phase der Überprüfung von Wirkungen Kultureller Bildung stellt sich zunehmend die Frage nach einer (kultur-) theoretischen Einbettung der Forschung, nicht zuletzt mit Blick auf die Bedeutsamkeit der Befunde für die Praxis. Vor diesem Hintergrund bündelt der Band Beiträge zu aktuellen Befunden, Forschungsmethoden und Perspektiven der kulturellen Bildungsforschung.
Kumihimo Wire Jewelry: Essential Techniques and 20 Jewelry Projects for the Japanese Art of Braiding
by Giovanna ImperiaIn ancient Japan, beautiful yet functional cords made with the traditional braiding art of kumihimo adorned everything from kimonos to samurai armor to prayer scrolls. In Kumihimo Wire Jewelry, innovative jewelry artist Giovanna Imperia offers a fresh twist on this time-honored technique, adapting it to create stunning wire jewelry. In addition to a concise history of kumihimo and an overview of its essential materials, tools, and techniques, readers will learn the basics of this braiding method, plus how to create 20 striking projects--stylish bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces--all supported with detailed, step-by-step instructions and illustrations. This comprehensive book, which also includes pieces by prominent kumihimo jewelry artists from around the world, will inspire jewelry makers, beaders, and wireworkers at all skill levels to take their craft in a vibrant new direction.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Kumihimo Wirework Made Easy: 20 Braided Jewelry Designs Step-by-Step
by Christina LarsenDiscover the gorgeous jewelry that can only be created with kumihimo wirework! Whether new to kumihimo or looking to take your skill to the next level, Kumihimo Wirework Made Easy is the companion you need. Author Christina Larsen will show you how easy it can be to transition from traditional kumihimo materials to wirework with her expert guidance, comprehensive instruction, and inspiring designs. In this must-have resource, you'll find: • A complete guide to understanding wireworking tools and materials specific to kumihimo wirework. • Full step-by-step tutorials for 3 basic kumihimo braid structures perfect for wirework jewelry designs. • Project instructions for 20 inspiring kumihimo wirework designs including earrings, bracelets, and pendants.Kumihimo Wirework Made Easy has everything you need to bring the ancient art of traditional Japanese braiding to your modern jewelry designs.
Kuna Art and Shamanism: An Ethnographic Approach
by Paolo FortisKnown for their beautiful textile art, the Kuna of Panama have been scrutinized by anthropologists for decades. Perhaps surprisingly, this scrutiny has overlooked the magnificent Kuna craft of nuchukana—wooden anthropomorphic carvings—which play vital roles in curing and other Kuna rituals. Drawing on long-term fieldwork, Paolo Fortis at last brings to light this crucial cultural facet, illuminating not only Kuna aesthetics and art production but also their relation to wider social and cosmological concerns. Exploring an art form that informs birth and death, personhood, the dream world, the natural world, religion, gender roles, and ecology, Kuna Art and Shamanism provides a rich understanding of this society’s visual system, and the ways in which these groundbreaking ethnographic findings can enhance Amerindian scholarship overall. Fortis also explores the fact that to ask what it means for the Kuna people to carve the figure of a person is to pose a riddle about the culture’s complete concept of knowing. Also incorporating notions of landscape (islands, gardens, and ancient trees) as well as cycles of life, including the influence of illness, Fortis places the statues at the center of a network of social relationships that entangle people with nonhuman entities. As an activity carried out by skilled elderly men, who possess embodied knowledge of lifelong transformations, the carving process is one that mediates mortal worlds with those of immortal primordial spirits. Kuna Art and Shamanism immerses readers in this sense of unity and opposition between soul and body, internal forms and external appearances, and image and design.
Kuna Art and Shamanism: An Ethnographic Approach
by Paolo FortisKnown for their beautiful textile art, the Kuna of Panama have been scrutinized by anthropologists for decades. Perhaps surprisingly, this scrutiny has overlooked the magnificent Kuna craft of nuchukana-wooden anthropomorphic carvings-which play vital roles in curing and other Kuna rituals. Drawing on long-term fieldwork, Paolo Fortis at last brings to light this crucial cultural facet, illuminating not only Kuna aesthetics and art production but also their relation to wider social and cosmological concerns. Exploring an art form that informs birth and death, personhood, the dream world, the natural world, religion, gender roles, and ecology, Kuna Art and Shamanism provides a rich understanding of this society's visual system, and the ways in which these groundbreaking ethnographic findings can enhance Amerindian scholarship overall. Fortis also explores the fact that to ask what it means for the Kuna people to carve the figure of a person is to pose a riddle about the culture's complete concept of knowing. Also incorporating notions of landscape (islands, gardens, and ancient trees) as well as cycles of life, including the influence of illness, Fortis places the statues at the center of a network of social relationships that entangle people with nonhuman entities. As an activity carried out by skilled elderly men, who possess embodied knowledge of lifelong transformations, the carving process is one that mediates mortal worlds with those of immortal primordial spirits. Kuna Art and Shamanism immerses readers in this sense of unity and opposition between soul and body, internal forms and external appearances, and image and design.
Kunst und Gewalt (Kunst und Gesellschaft)
by Andreas Braun Christian SteuerwaldDas Buch untersucht den bisher nur unzureichend untersuchten Zusammenhang von Kunst und Gewalt. Mit theoretischen, empirischen und methodischen Beiträgen von Gewalt- und Kunstsoziolog:Innen richtet sich das Buch nicht nur an ein soziologisches Fachpublikum, sondern zugleich auch an eine breite sowohl an Kunst als auch Gewalt interessierte Öffentlichkeit.
Kunst, Psyche und Wirtschaft
by Arnold KitzmannKunst ist faszinierend: Sie ermöglicht neue Sichtweisen auf die Realität und macht deutlich, dass der Mensch nur einen kleinen Teil dieser Realität überhaupt erfasst. Die verschiedenen Bereiche der Kunst verschaffen dem Betrachter sehr unterschiedliche Möglichkeiten, die eigene Begrenztheit zu erkennen und Chancen zu entdecken, das eigene Bewusstsein zu erweitern. Kunst spricht den ganzen Menschen an, auf mehreren Ebenen: Emotionen, Verstand und Metaphysik, ebenso das ästhetische Empfinden. Nicht zuletzt geht es im Kunstbetrieb immer auch um Geld, zum einen im Bereich des Sponsoring sowie im kulturellen und touristischen Veranstaltungsmanagement, zum anderen im Bereich der Investitionen und Wertanlagen. Dieses Buch bietet einen handlichen Überblick der verschiedenen Stile und Epochen und mündet in eine kurze gedankliche Betrachtung zur pekuniären Seite des Kunstbetriebs.
Kunstgeschichte für Dummies (Für Dummies)
by Jesse Bryant WilderBegeben Sie sich mit "Kunstgeschichte für Dummies" auf eine Reise durch Zeit und Raum: Lernen Sie Kunstwerke aus aller Welt kennen und betrachten Sie gemeinsam mit Jesse Wilder Kunstwerke aller Epochen: von den ersten Höhlenzeichnungen über die griechische und römische Kunst, Gothik und Barock, Impressionismus und Expressionismus bis in die Gegenwart. Erfahren Sie, was typisch für die einzelnen Epochen und Kunststile ist, wie die Kunst mit den historischen Ereignissen ihrer Entstehungszeit zusammenhängt, welche Künstler wann welche Kunstwerke schufen und welche Museen besuchenswert sind.
Kunsttheorie: Eine ideengeschichtliche Erkundung (essentials)
by Stavros ArabatzisDieses essential bietet eine ideengeschichtliche Erkundung des modernen Begriffs von Kunst. Es leistet eine theoretische Unterscheidung zwischen dem alten und neuen Kunstbegriff (,,Kultwert" und ,,Ausstellungswert") und zeigt zugleich ihre beider Ununterscheidbarkeit im neuen Kultgegenstand der interaktiv-vernetzten Kultur. Es schl#65533;gt Positions- und Kursbestimmungen f#65533;r eine zuk#65533;nftige Kunst vor, die den imperativen M#65533;chten nicht mehr gehorcht.
Kunstvermittlung 2.0: Neue Medien und ihre Potenziale
by Andrea Hausmann Linda FrenzelDie Neuen Medien eröffnen vielfältige Chancen für die Vermittlungsarbeit in Museen, Ausstellungshäusern und anderen Kultureinrichtungen. Vor allem ermöglichen sie eine verbesserte, direkte Einbeziehung der Besucher in die Inhalte. Die Auseinandersetzung mit Kunst wird so zu einem spannenden, partizipativen und interaktiven Erlebnis. Es ist Ziel dieses Buchs, die Potenziale der Neuen Medien für die Vermittlungsarbeit in Kunst und Kultur fundiert zu untersuchen und im Hinblick auf die Gewinnung, Entwicklung und Bindung von Besuchern praxisnah zu beleuchten.
Kurosawa's Rashomon: A Vanished City, a Lost Brother, and the Voice Inside His Iconic Films
by Paul AndererA groundbreaking investigation into the early life of the iconic Akira Kurosawa in connection to his most famous film—taking us deeper into Kurosawa and his world. Although he is a filmmaker of international renown, Kurosawa and the story of his formative years remain as enigmatic as his own Rashomon. Paul Anderer looks back at Kurosawa before he became famous, taking us into the turbulent world that made him. We encounter Tokyo, Kurosawa’s birthplace, which would be destroyed twice before his eyes; explore early twentieth-century Japan amid sweeping cross-cultural changes; and confront profound family tragedy alongside the horror of war. From these multiple angles we see how Kurosawa’s life and work speak to the epic narrative of modern Japan’s rise and fall. With fresh insights and vivid prose, Anderer engages the Great Earthquake of 1923, the dynamic energy that surged through Tokyo in its wake, and its impact on Kurosawa as a youth. When the city is destroyed again, in the fire-bombings of 1945, Anderer reveals how Kurosawa grappled with the trauma of war and its aftermath, and forged his artistic vision. Finally, he resurrects the specter and the voice of a gifted and troubled older brother—himself a star in the silent film industry—who took Kurosawa to see his first films, and who led a rebellious life until his desperate end. Bringing these formative forces into focus, Anderer looks beyond the aura of Kurosawa’s fame and leads us deeper into the tragedies and the challenges of his past. Kurosawa’s Rashomon uncovers how a film like Rashomon came to be, and why it endures to illuminate the shadows and the challenges of our present.
Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema
by Mitsuhiro YoshimotoThe films of Akira Kurosawa have had an immense effect on the way the Japanese have viewed themselves as a nation and on the way the West has viewed Japan. In this comprehensive and theoretically informed study of the influential director's cinema, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto definitively analyzes Kurosawa's entire body of work, from 1943's Sanshiro Sugata to 1993's Madadayo. In scrutinizing this oeuvre, Yoshimoto shifts the ground upon which the scholarship on Japanese cinema has been built and questions its dominant interpretive frameworks and critical assumptions. Arguing that Kurosawa's films arouse anxiety in Japanese and Western critics because the films problematize Japan's self-image and the West's image of Japan, Yoshimoto challenges widely circulating clichés about the films and shows how these works constitute narrative answers to sociocultural contradictions and institutional dilemmas. While fully acknowledging the achievement of Kurosawa as a filmmaker, Yoshimoto uses the director's work to reflect on and rethink a variety of larger issues, from Japanese film history, modern Japanese history, and cultural production to national identity and the global circulation of cultural capital. He examines how Japanese cinema has been "invented" in the discipline of film studies for specific ideological purposes and analyzes Kurosawa's role in that process of invention. Demonstrating the richness of both this director's work and Japanese cinema in general, Yoshimoto's nuanced study illuminates an array of thematic and stylistic aspects of the films in addition to their social and historical contexts. Beyond aficionados of Kurosawa and Japanese film, this book will interest those engaged with cultural studies, postcolonial studies, cultural globalization, film studies, Asian studies, and the formation of academic disciplines.
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
by Richard Bienstock Brett MorgenThe companion book to the HBO film about the Nirvana singer and songwriter, “the most intimate rock doc ever” (Rolling Stone).Kurt Cobain, legendary lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of Nirvana, “the flagship band of Generation X,” remains an object of reverence and fascination for music fans. For the first time, his story was told in the fully authorized feature documentary, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, in 2015. Brett Morgen—the Oscar®-nominated filmmaker behind such acclaimed documentaries as the HBO presentation Crossfire Hurricane, which celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the Rolling Stones, and The Kid Stays in the Picture—was writer, director, and producer of film. Visual artist Frances Bean Cobain, Cobain’s daughter, was executive producer. This riveting book accompanied Morgen’s documentary and delved further into the material created for the film, presenting an illuminating and honest portrait of the Nirvana frontman that captured the contradictions that made up his character. The book is composed of the extended versions of the exclusive interviews featured in the film. It also showcases the film’s incredible visuals with a mixture of animation stills, rare photography, and other treasures from Kurt Cobain’s personal archive. Director Brett Morgen offers his personal thoughts on the creation of the film and the need to shatter the mythos that surrounds Cobain. Taking fans into and beyond Morgen’s movie with unparalleled insight into the world of the late musician, this book is the perfect complement to a milestone documentary that forever changed the way fans view Kurt Cobain.“The film offers the bells and whistles but the book provides the real guts of the tale.” —Examiner
Kurt Schwitters: Space, Image, Exile
by Megan R. LukeGerman artist Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) is best known for his pioneering work in fusing collage and abstraction, the two most transformative innovations of twentieth-century art. Considered the father of installation art, Schwitters was also a theorist, a Dadaist, and a writer whose influence extends from Robert Rauschenberg and Eva Hesse to Thomas Hirschhorn. But while his early experiments in collage and installation from the interwar period have garnered much critical acclaim, his later work has generally been ignored. In the first book to fill this gap, Megan R. Luke tells the fascinating, even moving story of the work produced by the aging, isolated artist under the Nazi regime and during his years in exile. Combining new biographical material with archival research, Luke surveys Schwitters's experiments in shaping space and the development of his Merzbau, describing his haphazard studios in Scandinavia and the United Kingdom and the smaller, quieter pieces he created there. She makes a case for the enormous relevance of Schwitters's aesthetic concerns to contemporary artists, arguing that his later work provides a guide to new narratives about modernism in the visual arts. These pieces, she shows, were born of artistic exchange and shaped by his rootless life after exile, and they offer a new way of thinking about the history of art that privileges itinerancy over identity and the critical power of humorous inversion over unambiguous communication. Packed with images, Kurt Schwitters completes the narrative of an artist who remains a considerable force today.
Kutztown University (Campus History)
by Kayla L. Fusselman Emma E. BilligKutztown University (KU) traces its origins to the Fairview Seminary. In 1860, Henry R. Nicks opened Fairview Seminary as a select school where more advanced subjects than those offered in the area were taught. In 1864, Nicks opened a new Maxatawny Seminary on the site where KU's Old Main stands today. With growth, efforts were made to convert the seminary into a public state normal school. On September 15, 1866, Maxatawny Seminary officially became Keystone State Normal School (KSNS). KSNS was dedicated to preparing students for the teaching profession. With emphasis placed on student life and the school's Pennsylvania German heritage, this book tells the story of KU from its modest beginnings as a teacher training school to its current mission of providing high-quality education.
Kuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life
by Farah Al-NakibAs the first Gulf city to experience oil urbanization, Kuwait City's transformation in the mid-twentieth century inaugurated a now-familiar regional narrative: a small traditional town of mudbrick courtyard houses and plentiful foot traffic transformed into a modern city with marble-fronted buildings, vast suburbs, and wide highways. In Kuwait Transformed, Farah Al-Nakib connects the city's past and present, from its settlement in 1716 to the twenty-first century, through the bridge of oil discovery. She traces the relationships between the urban landscape, patterns and practices of everyday life, and social behaviors and relations in Kuwait. The history that emerges reveals how decades of urban planning, suburbanization, and privatization have eroded an open, tolerant society and given rise to the insularity, xenophobia, and divisiveness that characterize Kuwaiti social relations today. The book makes a call for a restoration of the city that modern planning eliminated. But this is not simply a case of nostalgia for a lost landscape, lifestyle, or community. It is a claim for a "right to the city"--the right of all inhabitants to shape and use the spaces of their city to meet their own needs and desires.