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The Gift
- How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World
- Written by: Lewis Hyde
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
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A modern classic cherished by many of the greatest artists of our time, The Gift is a brilliant, life-changing defense of the value of creative labor. Drawing on examples from folklore and literature, history and tribal customs, economics and modern copyright law, Lewis Hyde demonstrates how our society - governed by the marketplace - is poorly equipped to determine the worth of artists’ work.
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The Gift
- How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Release Date: 11-01-22
- Language: English
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The Rescue Artist
- A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece
- Written by: Edward Dolnick
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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In the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and made off with one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's Scream. It was a brazen crime committed while the whole world was watching the opening ceremonies of the Winter...
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The Rescue Artist
- A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release Date: 27-11-18
- Language: English
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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
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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...
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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
- Narrated by: Lisa Stathoplos
- Length: 39 hrs and 14 mins
- Release Date: 19-02-19
- 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
- Unabridged
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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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Glitch Feminism
- A Manifesto
- Written by: Legacy Russell
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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The divide between the digital and the real world no longer exists: we are connected all the time. How do we find out who we are within this digital era? Where do we create the space to explore our identity? How can we come together and create solidarity? The glitch is often dismissed as an error, a faulty overlaying, but, as Legacy Russell shows, liberation can be found within the fissures between gender, technology and the body that it creates.
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Glitch Feminism
- A Manifesto
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Release Date: 13-11-20
- 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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The Other Side
- A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World
- Written by: Jennifer Higgie
- Narrated by: Jennifer Higgie
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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Weaving in and out of these myriad lives, sharing her own memories of otherworldly experiences, Jennifer Higgie discusses the solace of ritual, the gender exclusions of art history, the contemporary relevance of myth, the boom in alternative ways of understanding the world and the impact of spiritualism on feminism and contemporary art. A radical reappraisal of a marginalised group of artists, The Other Side is an intoxicating blend of memoir, biography and art history.
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The Other Side
- A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World
- Narrated by: Jennifer Higgie
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Release Date: 02-02-23
- Language: English
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Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice
- Written by: J. F. Martel
- Narrated by: Donna Tartt, J. F. Martel
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
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A compelling call to rediscover the transformative power of art in an age of distraction, coercion and spectacle - with a new introduction by Donna Tartt In Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice, J. F. Martel offers a compelling and incisive meditation on the nature of art in a world dominated...
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Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice
- Narrated by: Donna Tartt, J. F. Martel
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Release Date: 05-06-25
- Language: English
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The History of Art in One Sentence
- 500 Years of Art (But Funny)
- Written by: Verity Babbs
- Narrated by: Dom O'Keefe, Verity Babbs
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
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In this book, comedian and art historian Verity Babbs journeys through 50 key art movements across history, answering ten questions for each in just one sentence at a time. Within these fascinating, and sometimes hilarious, nuggets of art wisdom, Verity covers everything from who inspired the movement and its impact on history, to the key artists and artworks for each.
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The History of Art in One Sentence
- 500 Years of Art (But Funny)
- Narrated by: Dom O'Keefe, Verity Babbs
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Release Date: 25-09-25
- Language: English
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Introducing Postmodernism
- Written by: Richard Appignanesi
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
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Postmodernism claims that "modernity", which grew from the Enlightenment to the Industrial Revolution and Marxism, has collapsed. We now live in an endlessly "contemporary" culture, a virtual world of "hyperreality" containing such strange phenomena as post-Holocaust amnesia, Disneyland, cyberspace, and Fukuyama's proclaimed "end of history".
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Introducing Postmodernism
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Release Date: 26-12-04
- Language: English
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Chromophobia
- Focus on Contemporary Issues
- Written by: David Batchelor
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
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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. This is apparent in the many and varied attempts to purge color, either by making it the property of some foreign body—the oriental, the feminine, the infantile, the vulgar, or the pathological—or by relegating it to the realm of the superficial, the supplementary, the inessential, or the cosmetic.
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Chromophobia
- Focus on Contemporary Issues
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Release Date: 12-08-24
- Language: English
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Leonardo da Vinci
- An Untraceable Life
- Written by: Stephen J. Campbell
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) never signed a painting, and none of his supposed self-portraits can be securely ascribed to his hand. He revealed next to nothing about his life in his extensive writings, yet countless pages have been written about him that assign him an identity: genius, entrepreneur, celebrity artist, outsider. Addressing the ethical stakes involved in studying past lives, Stephen J. Campbell shows how this invented Leonardo has invited speculation from figures ranging from art dealers and curators to scholars, scientists, and biographers.
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Leonardo da Vinci
- An Untraceable Life
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Release Date: 04-02-25
- 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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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
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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...
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Playing to the Gallery
- Helping Contemporary Art in its Struggle to Be Understood
- Narrated by: Grayson Perry
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Release Date: 04-09-14
- Language: English
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Art History
- 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
- 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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Women in the Picture
- Women, Art and the Power of Looking
- Written by: Catherine McCormack
- Narrated by: Catherine McCormack
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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Women’s identity has long been stifled by a limited set of archetypes, found everywhere in pictures from art history’s classics to advertising, while women artists have been overlooked and held back from shaping more empowering roles. In this impassioned book, art historian Catherine McCormack asks us to look again at what these images have told us to value, opening up our most loved images - from those of Titian and Botticelli to Picasso and the Pre-Raphaelites.
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Women in the Picture
- Women, Art and the Power of Looking
- Narrated by: Catherine McCormack
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Release Date: 13-07-21
- Language: English
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The Vatican and the World of Italian Art
- Written by: Jean-Pierre Isbouts, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Jean-Pierre Isbouts
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
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The story of Italian art is one of the greatest in human history: a golden thread that begins in ancient Rome, weaves through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and continues to shape the way we understand beauty, faith, and the world today. From the Etruscans’ vivid tomb frescoes to Michelangelo’s masterpieces on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel to Caravaggio’s dramatic use of light and shadow, Italian artists have created works that define Western Civilization.
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The Vatican and the World of Italian Art
- Narrated by: Jean-Pierre Isbouts
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Release Date: 25-03-26
- Language: English
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Germany: Memories of a Nation
- Written by: Neil MacGregor
- Narrated by: Neil MacGregor
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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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 Germany, and how do its people now understand themselves? Neil MacGregor argues that uniquely for any European country, no coherent, over-arching narrative of Germany's history can be constructed, for in Germany, both geography and history have always been unstable.
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Enlightening
- By Arun Chitnis on 01-11-22
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Germany: Memories of a Nation
- Narrated by: Neil MacGregor
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Release Date: 12-08-21
- Language: English
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Thunderclap
- SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024
- Written by: Laura Cumming
- Narrated by: Laura Cumming
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. 'We see with everything that we are' On the morning of 12 October 1654, in the Dutch city of Delft, a sudden explosion was followed by a thunderclap that could be heard more than seventy miles away. Carel Fabritius - now known across the world for his exquisite...
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Thunderclap
- SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024
- Narrated by: Laura Cumming
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release Date: 06-07-23
- Language: English
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Provenance
- How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art
- Written by: Laney Salisbury, Aly Sujo
- Narrated by: Marty Peterson
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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Here is a tautly paced investigation of one the 20th century's most audacious art frauds, which generated hundreds of forgeries - many of them still hanging in prominent museums and private collections today. Provenance is the extraordinary narrative of one of the most far-reaching and elaborate deceptions in art history.
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Provenance
- How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art
- Narrated by: Marty Peterson
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Release Date: 31-12-09
- Language: English
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