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Muse
- Uncovering the Hidden Figures Behind Art History's Masterpieces
- Written by: Ruth Millington, Dina Razin - illustrator
- Narrated by: Florence Howard
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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The perception of the muse is that of a passive, powerless model, at the mercy of an influential and older artist. But is this trope a romanticised myth? Far from posing silently, muses have brought emotional support, intellectual energy, career-changing creativity and practical help to artists. Muse tells the true stories of the incredible muses who have inspired art history's masterpieces. From Leonardo da Vinci's studio to the covers of Vogue, Ruth Millington uncovers the remarkable role of muses in some of art history's most well-known and significant works.
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Muse
- Uncovering the Hidden Figures Behind Art History's Masterpieces
- Narrated by: Florence Howard
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release Date: 26-05-22
- 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
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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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The Vast Extent
- On Seeing and Not Seeing Further
- Written by: Lavinia Greenlaw
- Narrated by: Lavinia Greenlaw
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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From the celebrated poet, novelist and memoirist, The Vast Extent is an ingenious constellation of "exploded essays" about light and image, seeing and the unseen. Each is a record of how thought builds and ideas emerge, aligning art, myth, strange voyages, scientific scrutiny and a poet's response so that they cast light upon each other. Ranging across caves, seasickness, early photography, boredom, wonder, mountains, mice, the body and its shadow, Lavinia Greenlaw invites us to travel such questions as how we might describe what we have never seen before.
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The Vast Extent
- On Seeing and Not Seeing Further
- Narrated by: Lavinia Greenlaw
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release Date: 02-01-24
- Language: English
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Learning from Henri Nouwen and Vincent van Gogh
- A Portrait of the Compassionate Life
- Written by: Carol A. Berry, Sue Mosteller CSJ - foreword by
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
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Carol Berry and her husband met and befriended Henri Nouwen when she sat in his course on compassion at Yale Divinity School in the 1970s. At the request of Henri Nouwen's literary estate, she has written this book, which includes unpublished material recorded from Nouwen's lectures. As an art educator, Berry is uniquely situated to develop Nouwen's work on Vincent van Gogh and to add her own research. She fills in background on the much misunderstood spiritual context of van Gogh's work, and reinterprets van Gogh's art in light of Nouwen's lectures.
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Learning from Henri Nouwen and Vincent van Gogh
- A Portrait of the Compassionate Life
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Release Date: 07-05-19
- Language: English
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How to See
- Looking, Talking, and Thinking About Art
- Written by: David Salle
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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How does art work? How does it move us, inform us, challenge us? Internationally renowned painter David Salle's incisive essay collection illuminates the work of many of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Engaging with a wide range of Salle's friends and contemporaries - from painters to conceptual artists such as Jeff Koons, John Baldessari, Roy Lichtenstein, and Alex Katz, among others - How to See explores not only the multilayered personalities of the artists themselves but also the distinctive character of their oeuvres.
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How to See
- Looking, Talking, and Thinking About Art
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release Date: 14-08-18
- Language: English
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In Montmartre
- Picasso, Matisse and Modernism in Paris, 1900-1910
- Written by: Sue Roe
- Narrated by: Emma Bering
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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The real revolution in the arts first took place not, as is commonly supposed, in the 1920s to the accompaniment of the Charleston, black jazz and mint juleps but more quietly and intimately, in the shadow of the windmills - artificial and real - and in the cafés and cabarets of Montmartre during the first decade of the century.
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In Montmartre
- Picasso, Matisse and Modernism in Paris, 1900-1910
- Narrated by: Emma Bering
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Release Date: 28-07-16
- Language: English
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The Louvre
- The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum
- Written by: James Gardner
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
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The fascinating and little-known story of the Louvre, from its inception as a humble fortress to its transformation into the palatial residence of the kings of France and then into the world's greatest art museum.
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The Louvre
- The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Release Date: 04-08-20
- Language: English
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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
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Bestselling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy (yes), and then employing state of the art left-right brain scientific research to explain his universal genius. Shlain shows that no other person in human history has excelled in so many different areas as Da Vinci and he peels back the layers to explore the how and the why.
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Leonardo's Brain
- Understanding da Vinci's Creative Genius
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release Date: 07-10-14
- Language: English
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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
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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.
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Keith Haring Journals
- Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Narrated by: David Pittu, Shepard Fairey
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Release Date: 15-02-22
- Language: English
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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
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In Mind in Motion, psychologist Barbara Tversky shows that spatial cognition isn't just a peripheral aspect of thought, but its very foundation, enabling us to draw meaning from our bodies and their actions in the world. Our actions in real space get turned into mental actions on thought, often spouting spontaneously from our bodies as gestures. Spatial thinking underlies creating and using maps, assembling furniture, devising football strategies, designing airports, understanding the flow of people, traffic, water, and ideas.
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Mind in Motion
- How Action Shapes Thought
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Release Date: 03-09-19
- 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 History of Western Art
- Written by: Peter Whitfield
- Narrated by: Sebastian Comberti
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
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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? This history of art shows how painters, sculptors and architects have expressed the belief systems of their age: religious, political and aesthetic. From the ancient civilisations of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece, to the revolutionary years of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the artist has acted as a mirror to the ideals and conflicts of the human mind.
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The History of Western Art
- Narrated by: Sebastian Comberti
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Release Date: 15-11-11
- 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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Where the Heart Beats
- John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists
- Written by: Kay Larson
- Narrated by: Jason Wineinger
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
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Composer John Cage sought the silence of a mind at peace with itself - and found it in Zen Buddhism, a spiritual path that changed both his music and his view of the universe. "Remarkably researched, exquisitely written", Where the Heart Beats weaves together "a great many threads of cultural history" (Maria Popova, Brain Pickings) to illuminate Cage’s struggle to accept himself and his relationship with choreographer Merce Cunningham. Freed to be his own man, Cage originated exciting experiments that set him at the epicenter of a new avant-garde forming in the 1950s.
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Where the Heart Beats
- John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists
- Narrated by: Jason Wineinger
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Release Date: 21-02-14
- Language: English
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The Way I See It
- The Landmark BBC Art Series in Partnership with MoMA
- Written by: Alistair Sooke
- Narrated by: Alistair Sooke, Steven Pinker, Steve Martin,
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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Art critic and broadcaster Alastair Sooke, accompanied by some of the world's leading creative thinkers, takes an in-depth look at the outstanding exhibits in New York's MoMA, exploring how the way we 'see' art is shaped by our experiences and perspectives. His guests include some of the sharpest minds of our time - artists, writers, designers, comedians, musicians and scientists, among them Steve Martin, Margaret Cho, John Waters, Roxane Gay, Fiona Shaw, Orhan Pamuk and Stanley Tucci.
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The Way I See It
- The Landmark BBC Art Series in Partnership with MoMA
- Narrated by: Alistair Sooke, Steven Pinker, Steve Martin, Orhan Pamuk, Stanley Tucci, Fiona Shaw, Roxane Gay, John Waters
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Release Date: 22-07-21
- Language: English
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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
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What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book - against a background of today’s “sculpture wars” - Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits of the rich, powerful, and famous in the Western world have been shaped by the image of Roman emperors, especially the “Twelve Caesars”, from the ruthless Julius Caesar to the fly-torturing Domitian.
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Twelve Caesars
- Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern (Bollingen Series)
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release Date: 28-09-21
- Language: English
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Keeping an Eye Open
- Essays on Art
- Written by: Julian Barnes
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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Julian Barnes began writing about art with a chapter on Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa in his 1989 novel A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters. Since then he has written a series of remarkable essays, chiefly about French artists, for a variety of journals and magazines. Gathering them for this book, he realised that he had unwittingly been retracing the story of how art made its way from Romanticism to Realism and into Modernism.
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Keeping an Eye Open
- Essays on Art
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Release Date: 07-05-15
- Language: English
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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
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The contemporary art market is an international juggernaut, throwing off multimillion-dollar deals as wealthy buyers move from fair to fair, auction to auction, party to glittering party. But none of it would happen without the dealers - the tastemakers who back emerging artists and steer them to success, often to see them picked off by a rival. Dealers operate within a private world of handshake agreements, negotiating for the highest commissions. Michael Shnayerson, a longtime contributing editor to Vanity Fair, writes the first-ever definitive history of their activities.
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Boom
- Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
- Release Date: 21-05-19
- Language: English
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All the Beauty in the World
- A Museum Guard’s Adventures in Life, Loss and Art
- Written by: Patrick Bringley
- Narrated by: Patrick Bringley
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
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Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase into New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But only a select few have unrestricted access to every nook and cranny. They're the guards in dark blue suits, keeping careful watch over this vast treasure house. Caught up in the early days of a glamorous journalism career, Patrick Bringley never thought he'd be one of them. Then his brother was diagnosed with fatal cancer and he needed to escape the mundane clamour of daily life. So he quit, and sought solace in the most beautiful place he knew.
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All the Beauty in the World
- A Museum Guard’s Adventures in Life, Loss and Art
- Narrated by: Patrick Bringley
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Release Date: 16-03-23
- Language: English
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Under the Sign of Saturn
- Essays
- Written by: Susan Sontag
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
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Sontag's most important critical writings from 1972 to 1980 are collected in Under the Sign of Saturn. One of America's leading essayists, Sontag's writings are commentaries on the relation between moral and aesthetic ideas, discussing the works of Antonin Artaud, Leni Riefenstahl, Elias Canetti, Walter Benjamin, and others. The collection includes a variety of her well-known essays. Sontag's writings are famously full of intellectual range and depth, and are at turns exhilarating, ominous, disturbing, and beautiful.
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Under the Sign of Saturn
- Essays
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Release Date: 27-03-18
- Language: English
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