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Lone Fox Dancing
- My Autobiography
- Written by: Ruskin Bond
- Narrated by: Udai Matthan
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In this brilliantly listenable autobiography - his book of books - one of India’s greatest writers shows us the roots of everything he has written....
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Worth listening
- By garima m. on 13-06-24
Written by: Ruskin Bond
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Leonardo da Vinci - De biografie
- Written by: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Jeroen Tjepkema
- Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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De geheimen van de grootste genie uit de geschiedenis. Leonardo da Vinci wordt gezien als het meest creatieve genie ooit. Naast zijn wereldberoemde...
Written by: Walter Isaacson
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If Walls Could Speak
- My Life in Architecture
- Written by: Moshe Safdie
- Narrated by: Trevor Thompson
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Over more than five decades, Moshe Safdie has built some of the world's most influential and memorable structures. If Walls Could Speak takes listeners behind the veil of an essential yet mysterious profession to explain through Safdie's own experiences how an architect thinks and works....
Written by: Moshe Safdie
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Van Gogh and the Artists He Loved
- Written by: Steven Naifeh
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Vincent van Gogh’s paintings look utterly unique - his vivid palette and boldly interpretive portraits are unmistakably his. Yet however revolutionary his style may have been, it was actually built on a strong foundation of paintings by other artists....
Written by: Steven Naifeh
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Nagme, Kisse, Baatein, Yaadein
- The Life & Lyrics of Anand Bakshi
- Written by: Rakesh Anand Bakshi
- Narrated by: Dev J. Haldar
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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An intimate peek into the life of the soldier-turned-lyricist Anand Bakshi, from his formative years in undivided Punjab to eventually moving to Bombay and landing his first film Bhala Aadmi in 1958....
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inspiring and touching memoir
- By Swati Jaiswal on 31-12-22
Written by: Rakesh Anand Bakshi
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It's What I Do
- A Photographer's Life of Love and War
- Written by: Lynsey Addario
- Narrated by: Lynsey Addario
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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War photographer Lynsey Addario’s memoir It’s What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped her life....
Written by: Lynsey Addario
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Lone Fox Dancing
- My Autobiography
- Written by: Ruskin Bond
- Narrated by: Udai Matthan
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In this brilliantly listenable autobiography - his book of books - one of India’s greatest writers shows us the roots of everything he has written....
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Worth listening
- By garima m. on 13-06-24
Written by: Ruskin Bond
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Leonardo da Vinci - De biografie
- Written by: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Jeroen Tjepkema
- Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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De geheimen van de grootste genie uit de geschiedenis. Leonardo da Vinci wordt gezien als het meest creatieve genie ooit. Naast zijn wereldberoemde...
Written by: Walter Isaacson
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If Walls Could Speak
- My Life in Architecture
- Written by: Moshe Safdie
- Narrated by: Trevor Thompson
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Over more than five decades, Moshe Safdie has built some of the world's most influential and memorable structures. If Walls Could Speak takes listeners behind the veil of an essential yet mysterious profession to explain through Safdie's own experiences how an architect thinks and works....
Written by: Moshe Safdie
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Van Gogh and the Artists He Loved
- Written by: Steven Naifeh
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Vincent van Gogh’s paintings look utterly unique - his vivid palette and boldly interpretive portraits are unmistakably his. Yet however revolutionary his style may have been, it was actually built on a strong foundation of paintings by other artists....
Written by: Steven Naifeh
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Nagme, Kisse, Baatein, Yaadein
- The Life & Lyrics of Anand Bakshi
- Written by: Rakesh Anand Bakshi
- Narrated by: Dev J. Haldar
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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An intimate peek into the life of the soldier-turned-lyricist Anand Bakshi, from his formative years in undivided Punjab to eventually moving to Bombay and landing his first film Bhala Aadmi in 1958....
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inspiring and touching memoir
- By Swati Jaiswal on 31-12-22
Written by: Rakesh Anand Bakshi
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It's What I Do
- A Photographer's Life of Love and War
- Written by: Lynsey Addario
- Narrated by: Lynsey Addario
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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War photographer Lynsey Addario’s memoir It’s What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped her life....
Written by: Lynsey Addario
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Modern Man
- The Life of Le Corbusier, Architect of Tomorrow
- Written by: Anthony Flint
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Modern Man is a riveting biography of Le Corbusier - a man who invented new ways of building and thinking....
Written by: Anthony Flint
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Michelangelo, God's Architect
- The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece
- Written by: William E. Wallace
- Narrated by: Simon Callow
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Michelangelo, God's Architect is the first book to tell the full story of Michelangelo's final two decades, when the peerless artist refashioned himself into the master architect of St. Peter’s Basilica and other major buildings....
Written by: William E. Wallace
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Secret Lives of Great Artists
- What Your Teachers Never Told You About Master Painters and Sculptors (Secret Lives, Book 5)
- Written by: Elizabeth Lunday
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Take a tour through the wilder side of art history and discover true tales of murder, forgery, trickery, and great art—featuring jaw-dropping profiles of Da Vinci, Dali, and more...
Written by: Elizabeth Lunday
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Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World
- Written by: Miles J. Unger
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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When Picasso became Picasso: the story of how an obscure young painter from Barcelona came to Paris and made himself into the most influential artist of the 20th century....
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Brilliant intense informative
- By Author - Kajoli Khanna on 17-08-24
Written by: Miles J. Unger
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Con/Artist
- The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger
- Written by: Tony Tetro, Giampiero Ambrosi
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone, Tony Tetro, Giampiero Ambrosi
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
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The world’s most renowned art forger reveals the secrets behind his decades of painting like the masters—exposing an art world that is far more corrupt than we ever knew while providing an art history lesson wrapped in sex, drugs, and Caravaggio....
Written by: Tony Tetro,
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The Lives of Lee Miller
- Written by: Antony Penrose
- Narrated by: Esther Wane, Adam Grayson
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Antony Penrose's tribute to his mother, Lee Miller, brings to life a uniquely talented woman and the turbulent times in which she lived.
Written by: Antony Penrose
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Leonardo's Brain
- Understanding da Vinci's Creative Genius
- Written by: Leonard Shlain
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Leonardo's Brain uses Da Vinci as a starting point for an exploration of human creativity....
Written by: Leonard Shlain
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Everything She Touched
- The Life of Ruth Asawa
- Written by: Marilyn Chase
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the story of a woman who wielded imagination and hope in the face of intolerance and who transformed everything she touched into art. In this compelling biography, author Marilyn Chase brings Ruth Asawa's story to vivid life....
Written by: Marilyn Chase
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Everything Nothing Someone
- A Memoir
- Written by: Alice Carrière
- Narrated by: Alice Carrière
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Alice Carrière tells the story of her unconventional upbringing in Greenwich Village as the daughter of a remote mother, the renowned artist Jennifer Bartlett, and a charismatic father, European actor Mathieu Carrière....
Written by: Alice Carrière
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The Lives of the Artists
- Written by: Giorgio Vasari
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
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An Italian Mannerist architect and painter, Giorgio Vasari was acquainted with many of the most famous artists of his day....
Written by: Giorgio Vasari
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Let's Go Exploring: Calvin and Hobbes
- Pop Classics, Book 10
- Written by: Michael Hingston
- Narrated by: John Pirhalla
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
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In Let’s Go Exploring, Michael Hingston mines the strip and traces the story of Calvin’s reclusive creator to demonstrate how imagination―its possibilities, its opportunities, and ultimately its limitations―helped make Calvin and Hobbes North America’s last great comic strip.
Written by: Michael Hingston
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When Harry Met Pablo
- Truman, Picasso, and the Cold War Politics of Modern Art
- Written by: Matthew Algeo
- Narrated by: Pat Grimes
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
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When Harry Met Pablo intertwines the biographies of Harry Truman and Pablo Picasso, the history of modern art, and twentieth-century American politics, but at its core, it is the story of two old men who meet for the first time and realize they have more in common than they ever imagined....
Written by: Matthew Algeo
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Keith Haring Journals
- Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Written by: Keith Haring, Shepard Fairey - foreword, Robert Farris Thompson - introduction
- Narrated by: David Pittu, Shepard Fairey
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980s. His artwork - with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion - filtered in to the world's consciousness and is still instantly recognizable, 20 years after his death....
Written by: Keith Haring,
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Raffaello. Una vita felice
- Written by: Antonio Forcellino
- Narrated by: Graziano Piazza
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
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Avido di piacere non meno che di conoscenza, Raffaello Sanzio intuisce molto presto che soltanto nella Roma libera, felice e sfrenatamente sensuale di Giulio II e Leone X il suo talento potrà essere apprezzato. Vi arriva venticinquenne, la incarna e la seduce diventando...
Written by: Antonio Forcellino
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Camille Pissarro
- The Audacity of Impressionism
- Written by: Anka Muhlstein, Adriana Hunter - translator
- Narrated by: Christine Rendel
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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From the acclaimed biographer and author of Balzac's Omelette comes an engaging new work on the life of "the father of Impressionism" and the role his Jewish background played in his artistic creativity....
Written by: Anka Muhlstein,
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Mad Enchantment
- Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
- Written by: Ross King
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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We have all seen, whether live, in photographs or on postcards, some of Claude Monet's legendary water lily paintings....
Written by: Ross King
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Seeing Like an Artist
- What Artists Perceive in the Art of Others
- Written by: Lincoln Perry
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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Learn to see art as an artist does. As the mysteries of techniques and styles are revealed, viewing paintings and sculptures becomes a more powerfully enriching experience that will stay in your mind long after you’ve left a museum....
Written by: Lincoln Perry
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The da Vinci Legacy
- How an Elusive 16th-Century Artist Became a Global Pop Icon
- Written by: Jean-Pierre Isbouts, Christopher Heath Brown
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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Virtually everyone would agree that Leonardo da Vinci was the most important artist of the High Renaissance. It was Leonardo who singlehandedly created the defining features of Western art....
Written by: Jean-Pierre Isbouts,
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
- Written by: Benvenuto Cellini
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
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Master Italian sculptor, goldsmith, and writer Benvenuto Cellini is best remembered for his magnificent autobiography....
Written by: Benvenuto Cellini
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Thoughts on Art and Life
- Written by: Leonardo Da Vinci
- Narrated by: Cyril Taylor-Carr, The Cliff
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
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'Thoughts On Art and Life' by Leonardo Da Vinci is a fascinating collection of writings from the great polymath of the Italian Renaissance. There are sections covering the great man's thoughts on life, art, and science....
Written by: Leonardo Da Vinci
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The Mother Artist
- Portraits of Ambition, Limitation, and Creativity
- Written by: Catherine Ricketts
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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Few women artists feature prominently in the history of art, and even fewer who are mothers. What can we learn about ambition, limitation, and creativity from women who persist in doing both? The Mother Artist explores the fraught yet generative ties between caregiving and creative practice.
Written by: Catherine Ricketts
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Old in Art School
- Written by: Nell Painter
- Narrated by: Nell Painter
- Length: 11 hrs
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Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In Old in Art School, she travels from her beloved Newark to the Rhode Island School of Design....
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Calming to jangled nerves
- By Arvind Passey on 22-12-21
Written by: Nell Painter
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My Journey
- Written by: Donna Karan
- Narrated by: Kathleen Boyes, Donna Karan
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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In this candid memoir, featuring a foreword by Barbra Streisand, renowned designer Donna Karan shares intimate details about her lonely childhood, her four-plus decades in the fashion industry, her two marriages, motherhood, and her ongoing quest for self-acceptance and spiritual peace....
Written by: Donna Karan
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Georgia O'Keeffe
- A Life
- Written by: Roxana Robinson
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 29 hrs and 12 mins
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When Roxana Robinson’s definitive biography of O’Keeffe was first published in 1989, it received rave reviews and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year....
Written by: Roxana Robinson