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Body Art and Abjection
- Studies in World Art, Book 1
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Rick Paradis
- Length: 22 mins
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The first body art performer, as well as the first professional bodybuilder, was the showman Eugene Sandow (1867-1925). Though Sandow’s heyday occurred before the birth of the Modern Movement, there are compelling reasons for giving the primacy to him. Sandow, born Friedrich Wilhelm Müller in Prussia in 1867, left his native country in 1885 in order to avoid military service and first appeared on the London stage in 1885. His real celebrity began when the American impresario Florenz Ziegfield hired him to appear at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition in Chicago.
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Body Art and Abjection
- Studies in World Art, Book 1
- Narrated by: Rick Paradis
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 1
- Length: 22 mins
- Release date: 02-27-18
- Language: English
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The Decline and Fall of the Avant-Garde
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 170
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Frank Knutson
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
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One of the commonest and most loosely used terms in any discussion of contemporary art is the word avant-garde. Indeed it often seems to be taken for granted that valid contemporary art and avant-garde art are synonymous.
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The Decline and Fall of the Avant-Garde
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 170
- Narrated by: Frank Knutson
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 170
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 03-11-19
- Language: English
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Appropriation - What's Appropriation?
- Studies in World Art, Book 110
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Bob Barton
- Length: 12 mins
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As a number of recent exhibitions have shown, there is a growing fashion for what is called appropriation in art. To you and me, what this means is slavish copying - no ifs and buts, apologies replaced by the paradoxical assertion that this is a thoroughly original, impeccably avant-garde thing to do. Examples were a recent show at the Saatchi Gallery, entitled "Post Pop: East Meets West"; and "Sturtevant: Double Trouble", on view till late February at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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Appropriation - What's Appropriation?
- Studies in World Art, Book 110
- Narrated by: Bob Barton
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 110
- Length: 12 mins
- Release date: 01-23-18
- Language: English
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Georgia O'Keeffe: A 20th Century Populist
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Mark Ballinger
- Length: 12 mins
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Georgia O’Keeffe is a slightly odd case in the story of American art. She became famous very early, thanks to the efforts of her patron, lover, and eventual husband Alfred Stieglitz. Having been a leading figure in the New York art world, she eventually withdrew from that to become the central presence in a new kind of regionalism, focused not on the Midwest but New Mexico and, in particular, on the art scene in and around Santa Fe.
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Georgia O'Keeffe: A 20th Century Populist
- Narrated by: Mark Ballinger
- Length: 12 mins
- Release date: 12-06-17
- Language: English
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Raphael
- Studies in World Art, Book 65
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 9 mins
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Of the three great Italian High Renaissance masters, Raphael is now the most problematic. Leonardo and Michelangelo continue to fascinate, even though some of the modern audience - myself included - find some of Leonardo's output faintly creepy. Raphael is a different matter. In his own lifetime, he was perhaps the most admired of the three, successful with every type of patron and every type of audience. Where his rivals delayed, Raphael delivered, unflappable and omnicompetent.
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Raphael
- Studies in World Art, Book 65
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 65
- Length: 9 mins
- Release date: 01-02-18
- Language: English
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Halfway There with Delacroix
- Studies in World Art, Book 120
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Tim Carper
- Length: 11 mins
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The new exhibition at the National Gallery in London is entitled "Delacroix - And the Rise of Modern Art". In other words, Delacroix, one of the most important artists of the first half of the 19th century, is presented as being important, not so much for what he actually did as an individual creator, but because he in so many ways foreshadowed the kind of art that was made immediately after his demise - in particular by artists linked to Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and even Fauvism.
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Halfway There with Delacroix
- Studies in World Art, Book 120
- Narrated by: Tim Carper
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 120
- Length: 11 mins
- Release date: 01-17-18
- Language: English
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Censoring the Body
- Studies in World Art, Book 18
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Teague Dean
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
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From the earliest times, human beings have found it difficult to represent their own bodies in a straightforward way. The rare painted images of humans in Paleolithic art are much less naturalistic than the images of animals created at the same epoch. At the dawn of art, representations of the nude body were simply vehicles for statement about the need for fertility if the human race was to survive successfully.
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Censoring the Body
- Studies in World Art, Book 18
- Narrated by: Teague Dean
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 18
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Release date: 12-05-17
- Language: English
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Art, Poetry and WW1
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 191
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: David Micklem
- Length: 36 mins
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In this study, Art, Poetry, and WW1 by Edward Lucie-Smith of writing, poetry, and painting in the centenary year of the outbreak of the First World War, the author considers the historical impact on the general psyche of the calamitous events, reflected in the expression of poets and visual artists. He establishes a continuity to the theme with reference to works by Velázquez, Watteau, Goya, and others, in their treatment of the spectacle of battle and the horrors of war and human conflict.
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Art, Poetry and WW1
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 191
- Narrated by: David Micklem
- Length: 36 mins
- Release date: 01-25-18
- Language: English
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Titian at the National Gallery
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 293
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Charles Johnston
- Length: 20 mins
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The Titian Show at the National Gallery here in London has just opened to the public again. It was available for just three days before the big lockdown. Now, it is with us once more, though on rather different terms from what was the case previously. You have to book a time. You have to be wearing a mask. You have to maintain distance between yourself and other visitors booked in for the same slot. Is it worth the hassle? Yes, of course it is. Titian is one of the greatest figures in the history of Western art.
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Titian at the National Gallery
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 293
- Narrated by: Charles Johnston
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 293
- Length: 20 mins
- Release date: 12-15-20
- Language: English
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Public Art in a Modern Society
- Studies in World Art, Book 63
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 8 mins
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How do we expect public art to function in a contemporary society? By public art, we mean art that to some extent at least ambushes us. We encounter it as we go about our everyday lives, not in some special art-dedicated space. In other words, certainly not in a museum. However, Aida Mahmudova notes, in her introduction to this public art project for Baku organized by Yarat! Contemporary Art Space, conditions for public art are now very different from the way in which art of this kind operated previously.
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Public Art in a Modern Society
- Studies in World Art, Book 63
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 63
- Length: 8 mins
- Release date: 01-25-18
- Language: English
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Ted Hughes: A Modern Wordsworth? A Modern Byron?
- Studies in World Art, Book 138
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Tim Carper
- Length: 17 mins
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Of all the British poets of my generation, Ted Hughes, now nearly 20 years dead, left behind him both the grandest and most sulfurous reputation. The controversies he aroused rumble on, and the hurts, in certain quarters, are still keenly felt. Any life story that comprises not just two but actually three suicides, plus a murder, does wrap a cloak of darkness about itself.
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Ted Hughes: A Modern Wordsworth? A Modern Byron?
- Studies in World Art, Book 138
- Narrated by: Tim Carper
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 138
- Length: 17 mins
- Release date: 01-16-18
- Language: English
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Frida Kahlo
- Studies in World Art, Book 29
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Willis Miller
- Length: 7 mins
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Going to the Frida Kahlo exhibition current at Tate Modern in London is like entering the shrine of a secular saint. The rooms are thronged. People peer closely at the paintings, many of them very small. They seem afraid to talk much above a whisper. There are a number of reasons for this reaction. One is Hayden Herrera’s highly readable biography of the artist, first published in 1983, and now established as a classic feminist text. Another is the feminist movement’s general need for heroines, which has had a similar effect on the posthumous reputation of Georgia O’Keeffe. A third, probably the most powerful, reason is Kahlo’s own personality, which combined self-assertion, defiance and masochism in almost equal proportions. In this respect Kahlo can be compared with a slightly later generation of English-language poets, male and female. Prominent among them are Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.
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Frida Kahlo
- Studies in World Art, Book 29
- Narrated by: Willis Miller
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 29
- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 12-22-17
- Language: English
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Radical Nature
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 172
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Neil Gallagher
- Length: 7 mins
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Eco-art exhibitions are part of the trend of our times. Radical Nature, the show at the Barbican Art Gallery in London, demonstrated some of the possibilities and paradoxes of enterprises of this sort. Basically what the organizers had to do is to move the outside indoors. This set them both practical and, in their own terms at least, moral problems.
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Radical Nature
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 172
- Narrated by: Neil Gallagher
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 172
- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 03-11-19
- Language: English
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Self Representation
- Studies in World Art, Book 71
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Jim Spring
- Length: 33 mins
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The Gale Dictionary of Psychoanalysis defines ‘self-representation’ as “the image the subject has of him or herself based on his or her own interpretation.” The hugely influential 20th century psychoanalytic researcher and philosopher Jacques Lacan enlarges on this by speaking of “the finally donned armor of an alienating identity that will mark [the subject’s] mental development with its rigid structure.” Not surprisingly, psychoanalysts see this construct as a manifestation of the ego, and also as something intimately linked to narcissism.
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Self Representation
- Studies in World Art, Book 71
- Narrated by: Jim Spring
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 71
- Length: 33 mins
- Release date: 04-12-18
- Language: English
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Daumier
- Studies in World Art, Book 117
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Jim Spring
- Length: 7 mins
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Every now and then, an exhibition comes along that hits you in the solar plexus. The compact Daumier show at the Royal Academy in London is one of those. It is housed in the moderately sized Sackler Galleries on the top floor of the building, not in the main exhibition rooms below, where it would be swallowed up. Most of the works on view are quite small. Very few are more than medium sized. For the most part, the color is subdued. Indeed, some of the paintings seem monochromatic until you examine them more closely, The range of subjects is, if not exactly restricted, not hugely wide.
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Daumier
- Studies in World Art, Book 117
- Narrated by: Jim Spring
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 117
- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 04-02-18
- Language: English
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On Not Going to the Venice Biennale
- Studies In World Art, Book 128
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Don Wang
- Length: 9 mins
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Thank God I wasn’t in Venice for the opening of this year’s Biennale, even though I had a number of artist friends who were exhibiting there. The crowds to get into the main shows are fierce, with queues at all the main national pavilions. So is the social competition. “Have you been invited to this?” “Have you got a ticket for that?” Elbows out. Armour-plated ego at the ready.
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On Not Going to the Venice Biennale
- Studies In World Art, Book 128
- Narrated by: Don Wang
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 128
- Length: 9 mins
- Release date: 01-26-18
- Language: English
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Rembrandt and Turner: Mythical Masters
- CV/Visual Arts Research
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Jim Spring
- Length: 44 mins
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The monograph publishes a study of Rembrandt van Rijn and JMW Turner at the National Gallery and Tate Britain in exhibitions of their later works.
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Rembrandt and Turner: Mythical Masters
- CV/Visual Arts Research
- Narrated by: Jim Spring
- Length: 44 mins
- Release date: 03-20-18
- Language: English
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Renoir Landscapes
- Studies in World Art, Book 67
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Willis Miller
- Length: 7 mins
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Renoir’s reputation has long been in decline with intellectuals. He is seen as sugary and self-indulgent, to the point where his work gives the whole of the Impressionist Movement a bad name. The thing that has contributed to this fall from grace is, of course, the late work, with its bloated nudes and curiously hot colors. Yet even the work of Renoirís best period tends to seem uneven, despite the continuing popularity of undoubted masterpiece such as La Loge [1874].
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Excellent Narration
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Renoir Landscapes
- Studies in World Art, Book 67
- Narrated by: Willis Miller
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 67
- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 12-27-17
- Language: English
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Edward Lucie-Smith: Uncollected Writings - Studies of Western Art
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 152
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Simon Barber
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
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An anthology of essays and reviews by the eminent art historian and writer, Edward Lucie-Smith. The articles cover a broad span, from the Italian Renaissance of Giotto and Antonello da Messina, Leonardo, and Michelangelo, progressing to Rubens, Velázquez, and Ingres, with essays on William Hogarth, John Constable, and John Everett Millais for British art. With the experience of his landmark publications on modern art, which remain in print, the author sweeps the listener on a fabulous journey of perception.
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Greatly informative & perfect for a long road trip
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Edward Lucie-Smith: Uncollected Writings - Studies of Western Art
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 152
- Narrated by: Simon Barber
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 02-22-18
- Language: English
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Elegy for the Landscape
- Late John Constable at the Royal Academy
- By: N.P. James, Edward Lucie-Smith, Janet Barber
- Narrated by: Christopher Selbie
- Length: 59 mins
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A review of the exhibition Late Constable at the Royal Academy London. Includes the family background of the artist, his career development, and working methods and technique. Noted works include "The Leaping Horse", "Cottage in East Bergholt", "Rainstorm at Sea", "Chain Pier Brighton", "Stonehenge", and "The Cornfield". Includes essays by Edward Lucie-Smith ("John Constable", 2006) and Janet Barber ("John Constable: Earth and Sky", 2012).
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Elegy for the Landscape
- Late John Constable at the Royal Academy
- Narrated by: Christopher Selbie
- Length: 59 mins
- Release date: 01-13-22
- Language: English
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