Bøker av Alex Ross

Alex Ross's sweeping history of twentieth-century classical music, winner of the Guardian First Book Award, is a gripping account of a musical revolution.The landscape of twentieth-century classical music is a wild one: this was a period in which music fragmented into apparently divergent strands, each influenced by its own composers, performers and musical innovations. In this comprehensive tour, Alex Ross, music critic for the 'New Yorker', explores the people and places that shaped musical development: Adams to Zweig, Brahms to Bjork, pre-First World War Vienna to 'Nixon in China'.Above all, this unique portrait of an exceptional era weaves together art, politics and cultural history to show how twentieth-century classical music was both a symptom and a source of immense social change.

Carefully restored from an original manuscript by a team of experts (including a comic book and illustration legend), this facsimile edition completes the Loomis legacy.

NOTABLE CREATOR: Ross is one of the world¿s most respected comics creators. He has won every major award in the industry and has more than 150,000 followers on Twitter and 700,000 followers on Instagram. Fantastic Four: Full Circle is the first graphic novel Ross has both written and illustrated in his 30-year career.LARGE FORMAT AND BONUS POSTER: The front flap of the jacket unfolds into a mini-poster featuring an all-new fully painted origin story of the Fantastic Four.BROAD AUDIENCE: A standalone title for both new readers and longtime fans.NEW LINE OF BOOKS: Fantastic Four: Full Circle is the first title in a new line of graphic novels by Marvel Comics and Abrams ComicArts called Marvel Arts.MIGHTY BRAND: Marvel Comics celebrated its 80th anniversary in 2019 and is one of the most recognizable brands worldwide. In November 2021, Marvel began its celebration of the Fantastic Four¿s 60th anniversary.

With a new jacket and an additional 16 pages, this book reveals Ross's lifelong love of these classic superheroes and his vision - combining his dynamic art with Chip Kidd's kinetic design.

In Listen to This, the award-winning music critic and author of The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross looks forward and backward in musical culture: capturing essential figures in classical music history, as well as giving an alternative view of recent pop music.From his own first encounter with classical music to vibrant sketches of Schubert, Verdi and Brahms; from in-depth interviews with modern pop masters such as Bjork and Radiohead to the lives of a high school's music students, Ross shows how music can express the full complexity of human experience. He explains how pop music can achieve the status of high art and how classical music can become a vital part of wider contemporary culture.Witty, passionate and brimming with insight, Listen to This teaches us to listen more closely.

They are the World's Greatest Super Heroes. But the members of the fabled Justice League of America are about to learn they aren't the only ones who can band together toward a common goal. The deadliest criminal masterminds of our time appear to be acting in concert--with a surprising plan that seeks to achieve more good than the JLA ever could! Collects JUSTICE #1-12.

Step into the haunting world of 'Behind the Shadows: The Gypsy Rose Blanchard Story, ' where manipulation, deception, and a shocking act of violence unfold against the backdrop of true crime's most twisted tale. This gripping narrative navigates the complexities of Gypsy Rose Blanchard's life-from the suffocating shadows of her mother's manipulation to the quest for redemption behind bars. Delve into the intricacies of victimhood, the impact on societal norms, and the transformative power of redemption in this chilling true crime saga. As the shadows unravel, prepare for an unforgettable journey through the layers of deception, the echoes of a twisted tale, and the enduring legacy that challenges the very essence of justice, empathy, and understanding."

From renowned, multi-award-winning comics artist Alex Ross, the companion volume to The Alex Ross Marvel Comics Poster Book—an all-new poster collection of the greatest villains from Marvel Comics. From Abomination to Venom, all your favorite Marvel Comics super villains are featured in this exclusive collection of painted portraits by Alex Ross—one of the most respected and influential artists working in comics.The Alex Ross Marvel Comics Super Villains Poster Book is the first-ever collection of these stunning and dynamic portraits and includes 37 ready-to-frame, removable art prints, as well as an all-new introduction and commentary by Ross, preparatory sketches and ancillary illustrations, and a bonus four-page gatefold featuring all 37 iconic portraits. These villainous posters showcase Marvel’s rogue’s gallery as you’ve never seen them before, painted in the award-winning, breathtaking style that has made Ross famous.

Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics-an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence.For better or worse, Wagner is the most widely influential figure in the history of music. Around 1900, the phenomenon known as Wagnerism saturated European and American culture. Such colossal creations as The Ring of the Nibelung, Tristan und Isolde, and Parsifal were models of formal daring, mythmaking, erotic freedom, and mystical speculation. A mighty procession of artists, including Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann, Paul Cézanne, Isadora Duncan, and Luis Buñuel, felt his impact. Anarchists, occultists, feminists, and gay-rights pioneers saw him as a kindred spirit. Then Adolf Hitler incorporated Wagner into the soundtrack of Nazi Germany, and the composer came to be defined by his ferocious antisemitism. For many, his name is now almost synonymous with artistic evil.In Wagnerism, Alex Ross restores the magnificent confusion of what it means to be a Wagnerian. A pandemonium of geniuses, madmen, charlatans, and prophets do battle over Wagner's many-sided legacy. As readers of his brilliant articles for The New Yorker have come to expect, Ross ranges thrillingly across artistic disciplines, from the architecture of Louis Sullivan to the novels of Philip K. Dick, from the Zionist writings of Theodor Herzl to the civil-rights essays of W.E.B. Du Bois, from O Pioneers! to Apocalypse Now. In many ways, Wagnerism tells a tragic tale. An artist who might have rivaled Shakespeare in universal reach is undone by an ideology of hate. Still, his shadow lingers over twenty-first century culture, his mythic motifs coursing through superhero films and fantasy fiction. Neither apologia nor condemnation, Wagnerism is a work of passionate discovery, urging us toward a more honest idea of how art acts in the world.

A deluxe collection of Marvel Comics superhero posters from renowned comics artist Alex RossFrom Angel to Wolverine, all your favorite Marvel Comics superheroes are featured in this exclusive collection of painted portraits by Alex RossΓÇöone of most respected and influential artists working in comics. This first-ever collection of these iconic images includes 35 ready-to-frame, removeable art printsΓÇöperfect for longtime Marvel fans and those just discovering these classic heroes for the first timeΓÇöas well as commentary by Ross, preliminary sketches, and a bonus four-page gatefold of the portraits, assembled into a mural that was commissioned for MarvelΓÇÖs New York City offices. These heroic posters showcase the Marvel superheroes as youΓÇÖve never seen them beforeΓÇöas realistic as any on the silver screenΓÇöpainted in the award-winning, breathtaking style that made Alex Ross famous.

One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011 Alex Ross's award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing Ross as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. Listen to This, which takes its title from a beloved 2004 essay in which Ross describes his late-blooming discovery of pop music, showcases the best of his writing from more than a decade at The New Yorker. These pieces, dedicated to classical and popular artists alike, are at once erudite and lively. In a previously unpublished essay, Ross brilliantly retells hundreds of years of music history-from Renaissance dances to Led Zeppelin-through a few iconic bass lines of celebration and lament. He vibrantly sketches canonical composers such as Schubert, Verdi, and Brahms; gives us in-depth interviews with modern pop masters such as Björk and Radiohead; and introduces us to music students at a Newark high school and indie-rock hipsters in Beijing.Whether his subject is Mozart or Bob Dylan, Ross shows how music expresses the full complexity of the human condition. Witty, passionate, and brimming with insight, Listen to This teaches us how to listen more closely.

Commemorate 25 years of Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross'' MARVELS with this postcard collection curated from Ross'' exquisite painted artwork for the landmark series! Ideal for creating your own miniature gallery of masterpieces - or for sending inspiring works of art to your friends and family! Whether you choose Captain America, the Silver Surfer, Spider-Man or any of the other stunning cards in this set, it''s guaranteed to be the best-looking piece of post they''ve ever received!

Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismA New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the YearTime magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.

When six-year-old Abel Cohen wanders off from her parents' cabin in the woods of Maine, she is rescued by Zac Lipton, a girl barely older than herself, who knows her way through the trees because they are where she has spent her entire life. That meeting sparks a summer-long friendship filled with laughter, stories, adventures and, of course, spinning.Fourteen years later they meet again, and after a rocky introduction, strengthen that bond of friendship formed so many years ago. Abel loves introducing Zac to the world she's barely glimpsed from her overlook in the woods, and Zac, in turn, shares her love of the outdoors. Together they explore not just their surroundings, but their fears, hopes and feelings. When Abel nears the end of college and her regular trips to the cabin, will she be able to convince Zac to leave her beloved woods and join her in the bustling city of Boston? Or will Zac decide to remain in her comfort zone, hidden behind the branches and tree trunks, safe from the chaos of civilization?

Collects "Black Terror" issues numbered 10-14, along with a complete cover gallery.

Twelfth in the acclaimed series of annual collections celebrating the best writing on every style of music, from rock to hip-hop, R&B to jazz, pop to blues, and more