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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
- Written by: Ross King
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
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In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo Buonarroti to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel in Rome. During the four extraordinary years that Michelangelo spent laboring over the ceiling, power politics and personal rivalries swirled around him. He battled ill health, financial and family difficulties, inadequate knowledge of the art of fresco, and the Pope's impatience - a history that is more compelling than most novels.
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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2003-04-18
- 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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Worth your Time
- By Anonymous User on 2021-03-03
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Beauty
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2019-02-26
- Language: English
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Like Love
- Essays and Conversations
- Written by: Maggie Nelson
- Narrated by: Senn Annis
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
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Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes, and critical essays, as well as several conversations with friends and idols, bring to life Nelson's passion for dialogue and dissent. The range of subjects is wide—from Prince to Carolee Schneemann to Matthew Barney to Lhasa de Sela to Kara Walker—but certain themes recur.
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Like Love
- Essays and Conversations
- Narrated by: Senn Annis
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 2024-04-16
- Language: English
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Art and Faith
- A Theology of Making
- Written by: Makoto Fujimura, N.T. Wright - foreword
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
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Conceived over 30 years of painting and creating in his studio, this book is Makoto Fujimura's broad and deep exploration of creativity and the spiritual aspects of "making". What he does in the studio is theological work as much as it is aesthetic work. In between pouring precious, pulverized minerals onto handmade paper to create the prismatic, refractive surfaces of his art, he comes into the quiet space in the studio, in a discipline of awareness, waiting, prayer, and praise.
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Excellent!
- By Anonymous User on 2022-02-19
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Art and Faith
- A Theology of Making
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 2021-03-30
- 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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Great read for Artists
- By Nameless on 2018-01-20
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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: 2012-04-23
- Language: English
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Seven Days in the Art World
- Written by: Sarah Thornton
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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In a series of beautifully paced narratives, Sarah Thornton investigates the drama of a Christie's auction, the workings in Takashi Murakami's studios, the elite at the Basel Art Fair, the eccentricities of Artforum magazine, the competition behind an important art prize, life in a notorious art-school seminar, and the wonderland of the Venice Biennale. She reveals the new dynamics of creativity, taste, status, money, and the search for meaning in life.
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Worth hearing twice.
- By greg ludlow on 2021-05-07
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Seven Days in the Art World
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 2014-12-23
- Language: English
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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
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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 earliest abstract academic painters in Europe. But this is only part of her story. Not only was she a working female artist, she was also an avowed clairvoyant and mystic.
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Hilma af Klint
- A Biography
- Narrated by: Doria Bramante
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2023-09-26
- 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: 40 hrs and 12 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 Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of 20th-century abstract painting - not as muses but as artists.
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Powerful! A must read!!
- By Mona_Lisa on 2022-01-18
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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: 40 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2019-02-19
- Language: English
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Lost Art: The Stories of Missing Masterpieces
- Written by: Noah Charney, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Noah Charney
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
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Imagine a Museum of Lost Art. If this imaginary museum contained just the artwork we knew was lost— whether from theft, purposeful destruction, vandalism, war, or the forces of nature—it would still contain more masterpieces than those in all the world’s current museums combined. Imagine that! In Lost Art: The Stories of Missing Masterpieces, art historian Noah Charney guides you through just such an imaginary museum. In 12 fascinating lectures, you will hear the stories behind the theft and/or destruction of some of the world’s most famous pieces of art.
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Lost Art: The Stories of Missing Masterpieces
- Narrated by: Noah Charney
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 2023-08-11
- Language: English
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The Swerve
- How the World Became Modern
- Written by: Stephen Greenblatt
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late 30s took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic by Lucretius—a beautiful poem containing the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles.
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Awesome
- By Ostap on 2023-05-04
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The Swerve
- How the World Became Modern
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2011-09-29
- 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: 2019-05-14
- Language: English
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Les Yeux de Mona
- Suivi d'un entretien avec l'auteur
- Written by: Thomas Schlesser
- Narrated by: François Cognard
- Length: 16 hrs and 40 mins
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Avant que les yeux de sa petite fille ne voient plus, un grand-père décide de lui montrer autant d’œuvres que possible. Un merveilleux roman d’initiation, une plongée émouvante au cœur de l’art.
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Les Yeux de Mona
- Suivi d'un entretien avec l'auteur
- Narrated by: François Cognard
- Length: 16 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2024-02-09
- Language: French
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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: 2011-09-02
- Language: English
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Art Is Life
- Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
- Written by: Jerry Saltz
- Narrated by: Jerry Saltz, Mark Bramhall
- Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
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Jerry Saltz is one of our most-watched writers about art and artists and a passionate champion of the importance of art in our shared cultural life. Since the 1990s he has been an indispensable cultural voice: Witty and provocative, he has attracted contemporary listeners to fine art as few critics have.
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Frank, insightful and engaging for art lovers
- By Catherine Dove on 2024-05-04
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Art Is Life
- Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
- Narrated by: Jerry Saltz, Mark Bramhall
- Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 2022-11-01
- Language: English
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In Montmartre
- Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art
- Written by: Sue Roe
- Narrated by: Emma Bering
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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A lively and deeply researched group biography of the figures who transformed the world of art in bohemian Paris in the first decade of the 20th century. In Montmartre is a colorful history of the birth of Modernist art as it arose from one of the most astonishing collections of artistic talent ever assembled. It begins in October 1900, as a teenage Pablo Picasso, eager for fame and fortune, first makes his way up the hillside of Paris’s famous windmill-topped district.
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Accents
- By Anonymous User on 2019-02-08
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In Montmartre
- Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art
- Narrated by: Emma Bering
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2015-04-21
- Language: English
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Stepping-Stones
- A Journey through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne
- Written by: Christine Desdemaines-Hugon
- Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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Over more than 25 years of teaching and research, Christine Desdemaines-Hugon has become an unrivaled expert in the cave art and artists of the Dordogne region. In Stepping-Stones she combines her expertise in both art and archaeology to convey an intimate understanding of the "cave experience." Her keen insights communicate not only the incomparable artistic value of these works but also the near-spiritual impact of viewing them for oneself.
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Stepping-Stones
- A Journey through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne
- Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 2020-02-28
- 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: 2021-09-28
- Language: English
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Minor Feelings
- An Asian American Reckoning
- Written by: Cathy Park Hong
- Narrated by: Cathy Park Hong
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism, this collection is vulnerable, humorous, and provocative—and its relentless and riveting pursuit of vital questions around family and friendship, art and politics, identity and individuality, will change the way you think about our world.
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Major Feelings!!
- By Angela on 2021-04-20
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Minor Feelings
- An Asian American Reckoning
- Narrated by: Cathy Park Hong
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 2020-02-25
- Language: English
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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: 2022-01-11
- Language: English
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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
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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 helps us express ourselves, fuels our creativity, and contributes to our overall wellbeing and positive mental health.
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A Little History of Art
- Little Histories Series
- Narrated by: Rachael Beresford
- Series: Little Histories Series, Little Histories
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 2023-01-17
- Language: English
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