Best Sellers
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On Photography
- Written by: Susan Sontag
- Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images, which are continually inserted between experience and reality....
Written by: Susan Sontag
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A History of the World in 100 Objects
- The Landmark BBC Radio 4 Series
- Written by: Neil MacGregor
- Narrated by: Neil MacGregor
- Length: 22 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2010, the BBC and the British Museum embarked on an ambitious project: to tell the story of 2,000,000 years of human history using 100 objects selected from the museum's vast and renowned collection. Presented by the British Museum's then director Neil MacGregor, each episode focuses on a...
Written by: Neil MacGregor
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Mind in Motion
- How Action Shapes Thought
- Written by: Barbara Tversky
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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An eminent psychologist offers a major new theory of human cognition: movement, not language, is the foundation of thought....
Written by: Barbara Tversky
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Art & Fear
- Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
- Written by: David Bayles, Ted Orland
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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What is your art really about? Where is it going? What stands in the way of getting it there? These are questions that matter, questions that recur at each stage of artistic development - and they are the source for this volume of wonderfully incisive commentary. Art & Fear explores the way art...
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Engaging!!
- By Mohan Krishnappa on 05-06-21
Written by: David Bayles,
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Playing to the Gallery
- Helping Contemporary Art in its Struggle to Be Understood
- Written by: Grayson Perry
- Narrated by: Grayson Perry
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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'I have never read such a stimulating short guide to art' Lynn Barber, Sunday Times Now Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art (after all, there is a reason he's called this book Playing to the Gallery and not 'Sucking...
Written by: Grayson Perry
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The Geography of the Imagination
- Forty Essays
- Written by: Guy Davenport, John Jeremiah Sullivan - introduction
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 19 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Forty essays on history, art, and literature to lift your mind and spirit. Guy Davenport serves as the listener's guide through history and literature, providing links between music and sculpture, modernist poets and classic philosophers, the past and present-pointing out the values and avenues...
Written by: Guy Davenport,
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On Photography
- Written by: Susan Sontag
- Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance1
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First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images, which are continually inserted between experience and reality....
Written by: Susan Sontag
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A History of the World in 100 Objects
- The Landmark BBC Radio 4 Series
- Written by: Neil MacGregor
- Narrated by: Neil MacGregor
- Length: 22 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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In 2010, the BBC and the British Museum embarked on an ambitious project: to tell the story of 2,000,000 years of human history using 100 objects selected from the museum's vast and renowned collection. Presented by the British Museum's then director Neil MacGregor, each episode focuses on a...
Written by: Neil MacGregor
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Mind in Motion
- How Action Shapes Thought
- Written by: Barbara Tversky
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
An eminent psychologist offers a major new theory of human cognition: movement, not language, is the foundation of thought....
Written by: Barbara Tversky
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Art & Fear
- Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
- Written by: David Bayles, Ted Orland
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance9
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Story9
What is your art really about? Where is it going? What stands in the way of getting it there? These are questions that matter, questions that recur at each stage of artistic development - and they are the source for this volume of wonderfully incisive commentary. Art & Fear explores the way art...
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Engaging!!
- By Mohan Krishnappa on 05-06-21
Written by: David Bayles,
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Playing to the Gallery
- Helping Contemporary Art in its Struggle to Be Understood
- Written by: Grayson Perry
- Narrated by: Grayson Perry
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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'I have never read such a stimulating short guide to art' Lynn Barber, Sunday Times Now Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art (after all, there is a reason he's called this book Playing to the Gallery and not 'Sucking...
Written by: Grayson Perry
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The Geography of the Imagination
- Forty Essays
- Written by: Guy Davenport, John Jeremiah Sullivan - introduction
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 19 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Forty essays on history, art, and literature to lift your mind and spirit. Guy Davenport serves as the listener's guide through history and literature, providing links between music and sculpture, modernist poets and classic philosophers, the past and present-pointing out the values and avenues...
Written by: Guy Davenport,
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Adventures in the Louvre
- How to Fall in Love with the World's Greatest Museum
- Written by: Elaine Sciolino
- Narrated by: Lynn Bradford
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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A former New York Times Paris bureau chief explores the Louvre, offering an intimate journey of discovery and revelation. The Louvre is the most famous museum in the world, attracting millions of visitors every year with its masterpieces. In Adventures in the Louvre, Elaine Sciolino immerses...
Written by: Elaine Sciolino
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Twelve Caesars
- Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern (Bollingen Series)
- Written by: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook narrated by best-selling author Mary Beard explores how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power....
Written by: Mary Beard
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Germany: Memories of a Nation
- Written by: Neil MacGregor
- Narrated by: Neil MacGregor
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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From Neil MacGregor, the author of A History of the World in 100 Objects, this is a view of Germany like no other. For the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental Europe. Thirty years ago, a new German state came into being. How much do we really understand this new...
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Enlightening
- By Arun Chitnis on 01-11-22
Written by: Neil MacGregor
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A Little History of Art
- Little Histories Series
- Written by: Charlotte Mullins
- Narrated by: Rachael Beresford
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Charlotte Mullins brings art to life through the stories of those who created it and, importantly, reframes who is included in the narrative to create a more diverse and exciting landscape of art. She shows how art can help us see the world differently and understand our place in it, how it...
Written by: Charlotte Mullins
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Boom
- Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art
- Written by: Michael Shnayerson
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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The meteoric rise of the largest unregulated financial market in the world -- for contemporary art -- is driven by a few passionate, guileful, and very hard-nosed dealers. They can make and break careers and fortunes “Shnayerson tackles his subject with gusto, parading a cast of colorful...
Written by: Michael Shnayerson
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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
- Unabridged
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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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The Longing for Less
- Living with Minimalism
- Written by: Kyle Chayka
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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'Less is more': Everywhere we hear the mantra. Marie Kondo and other decluttering gurus promise that shedding our stuff will solve our problems....
Written by: Kyle Chayka
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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 With outrageous anecdotes about everyone from Leonardo Da Vinci to Caravaggio to Edward Hopper, Secret Lives of...
Written by: Elizabeth Lunday
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Chromophobia
- Focus on Contemporary Issues
- Written by: David Batchelor
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The central argument of Chromophobia is that a chromophobic impulse—a fear of corruption or contamination through color—lurks within much Western cultural and intellectual thought.
Written by: David Batchelor
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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, an engaging new work on the life of "the father of Impressionism" and the role his Jewish background played in his artistic creativity. The celebrated painter Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) occupied a central place in the artistic...
Written by: Anka Muhlstein,
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Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018
- Written by: Peter Schjeldahl, Jarrett Earnest - introduction
- Narrated by: Peter Schjeldahl
- Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Hot Cold Heavy Light collects 100 writings that taken together form a group portrait of many of the world’s most significant and interesting artists. From Pablo Picasso to Cindy Sherman, Old Masters to contemporary masters, paintings to comix, and saints to charlatans....
Written by: Peter Schjeldahl,
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50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship
- Written by: Salvador Dalí, Haakon Chevalier - translator
- Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Surrealist painter Salvador Dalí eccentrically presents his ideas of painting, judging good or bad the prominent figures in the history of art, and expounding on 50 "secrets" that cover topics like the movements of types of brushes....
Written by: Salvador Dalí,
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Ninth Street Women
- Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
- Written by: Mary Gabriel
- Narrated by: Lisa Stathoplos
- Length: 39 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times). Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street...
Written by: Mary Gabriel
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The History of Western Art
- Written by: Peter Whitfield
- Narrated by: Sebastian Comberti
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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What is art? Why do we value images of saints, kings, goddesses, battles, landscapes or cities from eras of history utterly remote from ourselves....
Written by: Peter Whitfield
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The Cultural Tutor
- Forty-Nine Lessons You Wish You’d Learned at School
- Written by: Sheehan Quirke
- Narrated by: Sheehan Quirke
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. 'For anyone who has enjoyed The Cultural Tutor on X, this book will be more of the same delight. Expect nuggets of insight and wisdom, wrapped in the author's trademark warmth and wit' Alain de Botton Who does the Mona Lisa actually depict? Why do we still look to the...
Written by: Sheehan Quirke
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The Creators
- A History of Heroes of the Imagination
- Written by: Daniel J. Boorstin
- Narrated by: Michael Jackson
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Abridged
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In this companion volume to The Discoverers, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin brings to life more than three thousand years of human artistic achievement...
Written by: Daniel J. Boorstin
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Hilma af Klint
- A Biography
- Written by: Julia Voss, Anne Posten - translator
- Narrated by: Doria Bramante
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was forty-four years old when she broke with the academic tradition in which she had been trained to produce a body of radical, abstract works the likes of which had never been seen before. Today, it is widely accepted that af Klint was one of the...
Written by: Julia Voss,
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
- Written by: Benvenuto Cellini
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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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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The Artist in the Machine
- The World of AI-Powered Creativity
- Written by: Arthur I. Miller
- Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Today's computers are composing music that sounds "more Bach than Bach", turning photographs into paintings in the style of Van Gogh's Starry Night, and even writing screenplays. But are computers truly creative - or are they merely tools to be used by musicians, artists, and writers? Miller...
Written by: Arthur I. Miller
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Keith Haring Journals
- (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
- Written by: Keith Haring, Shepard Fairey - introduction, 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 1980's. His artwork-with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion-filtered in to the world's consciousness and is still instantly recognizable, twenty years after his death. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition...
Written by: Keith Haring,
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Beauty
- A Very Short Introduction
- Written by: Roger Scruton
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores...
Written by: Roger Scruton
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Zauber der Stille
- Caspar David Friedrichs Reise durch die Zeiten
- Written by: Florian Illies
- Narrated by: Stephan Schad
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Das abenteuerliche Leben der Sehnsuchtsbilder von Caspar David Friedrich – mitreißend erzählt von Florian Illies. Kein deutscher Maler löst solche...
Written by: Florian Illies
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Contemporary Art
- A Very Short Introduction
- Written by: Julian Stallabrass
- Narrated by: Corrie James
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Contemporary art has never been so popular - but the art world is changing. In a landscape of increasing globalization, there is growing interest in questions over the nature of contemporary art today and the identity of who is controlling its future. In the midst of this, contemporary art...
Written by: Julian Stallabrass
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Broad Strokes
- 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order)
- Written by: Bridget Quinn
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with the resurgence of feminism in pop culture, Broad Strokes offers an entertaining corrective to that omission. Art historian Bridget Quinn delves into the lives and careers of 15 brilliant female...
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Great book stories of women artists
- By Amazon Customer on 05-11-21
Written by: Bridget Quinn