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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
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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 single object - from a Stone Age tool to a solar-powered lamp - and explains its significance in human history.
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A History of the World in 100 Objects
- The Landmark BBC Radio 4 Series
- Narrated by: Neil MacGregor
- Length: 22 hrs and 16 mins
- Release Date: 14-01-21
- Language: English
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The Lives of the Artists
- Written by: Giorgio Vasari, Julia Conway Bondanella - Translated by, Peter Bondanella - Translated by
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 22 hrs and 26 mins
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These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term "Renaissance", was the first to outline the influential theory of Renaissance art that traces a progression through Giotto, Brunelleschi, and finally the titanic figures of Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, and Raphael.
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The Lives of the Artists
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 22 hrs and 26 mins
- Release Date: 14-05-19
- Language: English
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Art History (2nd Edition)
- A Very Short Introduction
- Written by: Dana Arnold
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
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Art history encompasses the study of the history and development of painting, sculpture, and the other visual arts. In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, Dana Arnold presents an introduction to the issues, debates, and artifacts that make up art history. Beginning with a consideration of what art history is, she explains what makes the subject distinctive from other fields of study and also explores the emergence of social histories of art (such as feminist art history and queer art history).
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Art History (2nd Edition)
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Release Date: 20-07-21
- Language: English
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Postmodernism
- A Very Short Introduction
- Written by: Christopher Butler
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
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Postmodernism has become the buzzword of contemporary society over the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this highly engaging introduction, the mysteries of this most elusive of concepts are unraveled, casting a critical light upon the way we live now, from the politicizing of museum culture to the cult of the politically correct. The key postmodernist ideas are explored and challenged, as they figure in the theory, philosophy, politics, ethics, and artwork of the period, and it is shown how they have interacted within a postmodernist culture.
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Postmodernism
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
- Release Date: 01-06-21
- Language: English
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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
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Art & Fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. This is a book about what it feels like to sit in your studio or classroom, at your wheel or keyboard, easel or camera, trying to do the work you need to do. It is about committing your future to your own hands, placing free will above predestination, choice above chance. It is about finding your own work.
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Engaging!!
- By Mohan Krishnappa on 05-06-21
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Art & Fear
- Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Release Date: 23-04-12
- Language: English
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The World According to Colour
- A Cultural History
- Written by: James Fox
- Narrated by: James Fox
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
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The subject of this audiobook is humankind's extraordinary relationship with colour. It is composed of a series of voyages, ranging across the world and throughout history, which reveal the meanings that have been attached to the colours we see around us and the ways these have shaped our culture and imagination. It takes seven primary colours - black, red, yellow, blue, white, purple and green - and uncovers behind each a root idea, based on visual resemblances or properties so rudimentary as to be common to all societies.
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The World According to Colour
- A Cultural History
- Narrated by: James Fox
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Release Date: 06-04-23
- Language: English
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Reshaping Art
- Written by: T. M. Krishna
- Narrated by: Uplaksh Kochhar
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
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In Reshaping Art, T. M. Krishna examines what art is and how we can harness its power to make ourselves and our communities open and sensitive. Well known for his attempts to break Karnatik music out of its high-caste confines, the author takes us through a journey of understanding what art means to different groups of people and the ways in which we all create and enjoy it.
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Fantastic Study. Botched up narration
- By Ravikrishnan Natarajan on 16-06-21
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Reshaping Art
- Narrated by: Uplaksh Kochhar
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
- Release Date: 10-08-18
- Language: English
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What Are You Looking At?
- 150 Years of Modern Art in the Blink of an Eye
- Written by: Will Gompertz
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of What Are You Looking At? by Will Gompertz, read by Roy McMilllan. What is modern art? Why do we either love it or loathe it? And why is it worth so much damn money? Join Will Gompertz on a dazzling tour that will change the way you look at modern art forever. From Monet's water lilies to Van Gogh's sunflowers, from Warhol's soup cans to Hirst's pickled shark, hear the stories behind the masterpieces, meet the artists as they really were, and discover the real point of modern art.
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Long, deep journey through modern art
- By Mukund Joshi on 05-05-20
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What Are You Looking At?
- 150 Years of Modern Art in the Blink of an Eye
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Release Date: 11-09-14
- Language: English
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Beauty
- A Very Short Introduction
- Written by: Roger Scruton
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object - either in art, in nature, or the human form - beautiful and examining how we can compare differing judgments of beauty when it is evident all around us that our tastes vary so widely.
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Beauty
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Release Date: 26-02-19
- Language: English
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On Photography
- Written by: Susan Sontag
- Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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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. When anything can be photographed, and photography has destroyed the boundaries and definitions of art, a viewer can approach a photograph freely, with no expectations of discovering what it means. This collection of six lucid and invigorating essays, with the most famous being "In Plato's Cave", make up a deep exploration of how the image has affected society.
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On Photography
- Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Release Date: 02-09-11
- Language: English
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The Romantic Manifesto
- A Philosophy of Literature
- Written by: Ayn Rand
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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In this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned collection of essays, Ayn Rand throws new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again, she demonstrates her bold originality and her refusal to let conventional ideas define her sense of the truth. Rand eloquently asserts that one cannot create art without infusing it with one's own value judgments and personal philosophy - even an attempt to withhold moral overtones only results in a deterministic or naturalistic message.
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Brilliant audio rendition of a vital book
- By Nandan on 13-01-23
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The Romantic Manifesto
- A Philosophy of Literature
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release Date: 10-07-08
- Language: English
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Poststructuralism
- A Very Short Introduction
- Written by: Catherine Belsey
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
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Poststructuralism changes the way we understand the relations between human beings, their culture, and the world. Following a brief account of the historical relationship between structuralism and poststructuralism, this Very Short Introduction traces the key arguments that have led poststructuralists to challenge traditional theories of language and culture.
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Poststructuralism
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Release Date: 25-05-21
- Language: English
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Art Monsters
- Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
- Written by: Lauren Elkin
- Narrated by: Lauren Elkin
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences as bodies. Queer bodies, sick bodies, racialised bodies, female bodies, what is their language, what are the materials we need to transcribe it? Exploring the ways in which feminist artists have taken up this challenge, Art Monsters is a landmark intervention in how we think about art and the body, calling attention to a radical heritage of feminist work that not only reacts against patriarchy but redefines its own aesthetic aims.
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Art Monsters
- Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
- Narrated by: Lauren Elkin
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release Date: 17-08-23
- Language: English
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Minds at War
- How Great Artists and Their Work Were Shaped by the First World War
- Written by: Fintan O'Toole, Ruth Padel, Heather Jones,
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
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World War I saw an unprecedented loss of life in Western Europe, and destruction on a scale no one alive had ever seen. All those who experienced it were irrevocably changed, including many writers and artists upon whose oeuvre it left an indelible mark. This captivating series examines the impact of the war on artists and thinkers through the prism of their great works. In each episode, a leading figure from the worlds of science, culture and the arts reflects on a single iconic piece, and discusses how the events of 1914-18 shaped its creation.
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Minds at War
- How Great Artists and Their Work Were Shaped by the First World War
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Release Date: 03-11-22
- Language: English
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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 of 2
- Written by: Plutarch
- Narrated by: B. J. Harrison
- Length: 41 hrs and 4 mins
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Plutarchs's (46-120 A.D.) epic chronicle of the lives of great Grecians and Romans. Beginning with the founding of Rome and Athens, the lives of the men who created the ancient world are brought to life in this new, high quality recording. Greats such as Romulus, Pericles, Theseus, Lycurgus and many others come alive as their politics, economy, and their individual stories play out in the time of the Ancients. This translation by John Dryden, which is considered by scholars to be the quintessential translation.
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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 of 2
- Narrated by: B. J. Harrison
- Length: 41 hrs and 4 mins
- Release Date: 06-08-14
- Language: English
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Culture
- A New World History
- Written by: Martin Puchner
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
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Can anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account argues that the story of global civilisations is one of mixing, sharing, and borrowing. It shows how art forms have crisscrossed continents over centuries to produce masterpieces. From Nefertiti's lost city and the Islamic Golden Age to twentieth century Nigerian theatre and Modernist poetry, Martin Puchner explores how contact between different peoples has driven artistic innovation in every era - whilst cultural policing and purism have more often undermined the very societies they tried to protect.
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My review of the book:
- By Anil kumar Saxena on 07-06-23
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Culture
- A New World History
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Release Date: 07-02-23
- Language: English
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Thunderclap
- A memoir of art and life & sudden death
- Written by: Laura Cumming
- Narrated by: Laura Cumming
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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Laura Cumming reveals her passion for the art of the Dutch Golden Age and her determination to lift up the reputation of Fabritius. She reveals the Netherlands, where - wandering the narrow streets of Amsterdam, driving across the flatlands, or pausing at a quiet waterfront - she encounters the rich reality behind the shining beauty of Vermeer and Rembrandt, Hals and de Hooch. She shares too her relationship with her father, the Scottish artist James Cumming, who had his own deep connection to Dutch painting, and who taught her about colour, light and the rewards of looking deeply.
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Thunderclap
- A memoir of art and life & sudden death
- Narrated by: Laura Cumming
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release Date: 06-07-23
- Language: English
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The Story of Art Without Men
- Written by: Katy Hessel
- Narrated by: Katy Hessel
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
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Discover the glittering Sofonisba Anguissola of the Renaissance, the radical work of Harriet Powers in 19th-century USA and the artist who really invented the Readymade. Explore the Dutch Golden Age, the astonishing work of post-War artists in Latin America and the women artists defining art in the 2020s. Have your sense of art history overturned and your eyes opened to many art forms often overlooked or dismissed. From the Cornish coast to Manhattan, Nigeria to Japan, this is the history of art as it's never been told before.
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The Story of Art Without Men
- Narrated by: Katy Hessel
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Release Date: 08-09-22
- Language: English
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The Age of Insight
- The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
- Written by: Eric R. Kandel
- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
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A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind - our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions - and how mind and brain relate to art.
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The Age of Insight
- The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
- Release Date: 05-06-18
- Language: English
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A Month in Siena
- Written by: Hisham Matar
- Narrated by: Hisham Matar
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
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Shortly after completing his searing work of nonfiction, The Return, Hisham Matar set off for Siena, a city he had never visited before. His plan was to see the paintings of the Sienese school, to immerse himself in the work of artists he admired perhaps above all others.
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A Month in Siena
- Narrated by: Hisham Matar
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
- Release Date: 17-10-19
- Language: English
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