- History & Criticism (524)
Bestsellers
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The Unseen Truth
- When Race Changed Sight in America
- By: Sarah Lewis
- Narrated by: Sarah Lewis
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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The award-winning art historian and founder of the Vision & Justice project uncovers a pivotal era in the story of race in the United States when Americans came to ignore the truth about the false foundations of the nation’s racial regime.
By: Sarah Lewis
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All That Glitters
- A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art
- By: Orlando Whitfield
- Narrated by: Orlando Whitfield
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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All That Glitters is a dazzling insider’s account of the contemporary art world and the stunning rise and fall of the charismatic American art dealer Inigo Philbrick, as seen through the eyes of his friend and fellow dealer.
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Gripping
- By Anonymous User on 09-01-24
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Paris in Ruins
- Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
- By: Sebastian Smee
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Incisive and absorbing, Paris in Ruins captures the shifting passions and politics of the art world, revealing how the siege and the chaos of the Commune had a profound impact on modern art, and how artistic genius can emerge from darkness and catastrophe.
By: Sebastian Smee
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The Rise
- Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery
- By: Sarah Lewis
- Narrated by: Sarah Lewis
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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It is one of the enduring enigmas of the human experience: many of our most iconic, creative endeavors are not achievements but conversions, corrections after failed attempts....
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Inspiring and artful
- By james kenly on 06-13-16
By: Sarah Lewis
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The Secret Lives of Color
- By: Kassia St. Clair
- Narrated by: Kassia St. Clair
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The unforgettable, unknown history of colors and the vivid stories behind them....
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More about pigments than social history
- By Jason Toon on 12-13-20
By: Kassia St. Clair
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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
- By: Mary Gabriel
- Narrated by: Lisa Stathoplos
- Length: 40 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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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)....
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Painful pronunciation issues!
- By Curious Artist Librarian on 05-20-19
By: Mary Gabriel
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The Unseen Truth
- When Race Changed Sight in America
- By: Sarah Lewis
- Narrated by: Sarah Lewis
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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The award-winning art historian and founder of the Vision & Justice project uncovers a pivotal era in the story of race in the United States when Americans came to ignore the truth about the false foundations of the nation’s racial regime.
By: Sarah Lewis
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All That Glitters
- A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art
- By: Orlando Whitfield
- Narrated by: Orlando Whitfield
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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All That Glitters is a dazzling insider’s account of the contemporary art world and the stunning rise and fall of the charismatic American art dealer Inigo Philbrick, as seen through the eyes of his friend and fellow dealer.
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Gripping
- By Anonymous User on 09-01-24
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Paris in Ruins
- Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
- By: Sebastian Smee
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Incisive and absorbing, Paris in Ruins captures the shifting passions and politics of the art world, revealing how the siege and the chaos of the Commune had a profound impact on modern art, and how artistic genius can emerge from darkness and catastrophe.
By: Sebastian Smee
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The Rise
- Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery
- By: Sarah Lewis
- Narrated by: Sarah Lewis
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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It is one of the enduring enigmas of the human experience: many of our most iconic, creative endeavors are not achievements but conversions, corrections after failed attempts....
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Inspiring and artful
- By james kenly on 06-13-16
By: Sarah Lewis
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The Secret Lives of Color
- By: Kassia St. Clair
- Narrated by: Kassia St. Clair
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The unforgettable, unknown history of colors and the vivid stories behind them....
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More about pigments than social history
- By Jason Toon on 12-13-20
By: Kassia St. Clair
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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
- By: Mary Gabriel
- Narrated by: Lisa Stathoplos
- Length: 40 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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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)....
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Painful pronunciation issues!
- By Curious Artist Librarian on 05-20-19
By: Mary Gabriel
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Color
- A Natural History of the Palette
- By: Victoria Finlay
- Narrated by: Victoria Finlay
- Length: 15 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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In this vivid and captivating journey through the colors of an artist’s palette, Victoria Finlay takes us on an enthralling adventure around the world and through the ages, illuminating how the colors we choose to value have determined the history of culture itself....
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A scrumptious, colorful adventure. Must read
- By Esio Trot on 07-26-23
By: Victoria Finlay
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Rembrandt Is in the Wind
- Learning to Love Art Through the Eyes of Faith
- By: Russ Ramsey, Makoto Fujimura
- Narrated by: Zach Hoffman, John Behrens
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Rembrandt Is in the Wind is an invitation to discover some of the world's most celebrated artists and works and how each of them illuminates something about God, people, and the purpose of life....
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Creating Beauty as Our Lifework
- By Anonymous User on 07-02-22
By: Russ Ramsey, and others
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art
- By: Wassily Kandinsky
- Narrated by: David Pickering
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Featuring an enlightening introduction by the book's translator, Michael T. H. Sadler, providing generational and cultural context for Kandinsky and his work, Concerning the Spiritual in Art gives testimony to the mind and creative expression of Kandinsky and other artists of his generation....
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The Story of Art Without Men
- By: Katy Hessel
- Narrated by: Katy Hessel
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Have your sense of art history overturned and your eyes opened to many artforms often ignored 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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a necessary text for our time
- By Cierra on 05-22-23
By: Katy Hessel
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Art Is Life
- Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
- By: Jerry Saltz
- Narrated by: Jerry Saltz, Mark Bramhall
- Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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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....
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WRONG for audio program
- By Karen Lehrer on 11-07-22
By: Jerry Saltz
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Minor Feelings
- An Asian American Reckoning
- 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....
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Essential
- By Realness on 03-04-20
By: Cathy Park Hong
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Hilma af Klint
- A Biography
- By: Julia Voss, Anne Posten - translator
- Narrated by: Doria Bramante
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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Ruined by narration
- By Adeliese Baumann on 11-23-23
By: Julia Voss, and others
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The Monuments Men
- Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
- By: Robert M. Edsel, Bret Witter
- Narrated by: Jeremy Davidson
- Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe.....
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Interesting listen
- By Laurie on 12-22-09
By: Robert M. Edsel, and others
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The Feud that Sparked the Renaissance
- How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World
- By: Paul Robert Walker
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Joining the best sellers Longitude and Galileo’s Daughter, a lively and intriguing tale of two artists whose competitive spirit brought to life one of the world’s most magnificent structures and ignited the Renaissance....
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Detailed history of the early Italian Renaissance
- By Roger on 11-30-22
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Michelangelo, God's Architect
- The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece
- By: William E. Wallace
- Narrated by: Simon Callow
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Michelangelo, God's Architect is the first book to tell the full story of Michelangelo's final two decades, when the peerless artist refashioned himself into the master architect of St. Peter’s Basilica and other major buildings....
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Michelangelo, architect, urban designer, artist
- By Marco on 09-16-20
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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 of 2
- By: Plutarch
- Narrated by: B. J. Harrison
- Length: 41 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Plutarchs's (46-120 A.D.) epic chronicle of the lives of great Grecians and Romans....
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TABLE of CONTENTS here:
- By Amazon Customer on 02-24-16
By: Plutarch
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William Blake vs the World
- By: John Higgs
- Narrated by: John Higgs
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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A wild and unexpected journey through culture, science, philosophy, and religion to better understand the mercurial genius of William Blake....
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Best book ever
- By idamae on 11-04-22
By: John Higgs
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The Beautiful Fall
- Fashion, Genius, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
- By: Alicia Drake
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 1970s, Paris fashion exploded like a champagne bottle left out in the sun. Amid sequins and longing, celebrities and aspirants flocked to the heart of chic, and Paris became a hothouse of revelry....
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Fun and immersive -- despite the narrator
- By SBG on 01-10-21
By: Alicia Drake
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Mad Enchantment
- Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
- By: Ross King
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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We have all seen, whether live, in photographs or on postcards, some of Claude Monet's legendary water lily paintings....
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Wonderful book. Awful awful narration.
- By Stephanie Croquez on 06-23-17
By: Ross King
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Georgia O'Keeffe
- A Life
- By: Roxana Robinson
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 29 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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When Roxana Robinson’s definitive biography of O’Keeffe was first published in 1989, it received rave reviews and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year....
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Delightful
- By Cody on 06-02-24
By: Roxana Robinson
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The Gardner Heist
- The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft
- By: Ulrich Boser
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Shortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and committed the largest art heist in history. After the death of famed art detective Harold Smith, reporter Ulrich Boser decided to take up the case....
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Loved it!
- By Amanda D. on 05-21-19
By: Ulrich Boser
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Ordinary Notes
- By: Christina Sharpe
- Narrated by: Christina Sharpe
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake....
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Very good…
- By lawrence fauntleroy on 10-01-23
By: Christina Sharpe
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The Secret Supper
- A Novel
- By: Javier Sierra
- Narrated by: Simon Jones
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Leonardo is completing "The Last Supper" and Pope Alexander VI is determined to execute him....
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It's a good read.. but not DaVinci Code 2
- By Michelle on 04-13-06
By: Javier Sierra
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The Lonely City
- Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
- By: Olivia Laing
- Narrated by: Susan Lyons
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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An expertly crafted work of reportage, memoir, and biography on the subject of loneliness told through the lives of six iconic artists....
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Not what I wanted
- By Katarina Riesing on 06-04-18
By: Olivia Laing
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The Rescue Artist
- A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece
- By: Edward Dolnick
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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The Rescue Artist is a rollicking narrative that carries listeners deep inside the art underworld - and introduces them to a large and colorful cast of titled aristocrats, intrepid investigators, and thick-necked thugs. But most compelling of all is Charley Hill himself....
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Fascinating, educational, and a great police story
- By MAGJAG on 06-29-19
By: Edward Dolnick
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A Degree in a Book: Art History
- Everything You Need to Know to Master the Subject
- By: John Finlay
- Narrated by: Ruth Ollman
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Spanning from the classical sculpture of Ancient Rome to contemporary performance art, this guide provides a rich overview of art history, covering many topics explored in a history of art degrees....
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Better for Beginners
- By Bonnie Mommy on 03-12-24
By: John Finlay
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Picasso's War
- How Modern Art Came to America
- By: Hugh Eakin
- Narrated by: Mack Sanderson
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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A riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center of the world—and Picasso the most famous artist alive—in the shadow of World War II....
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Better Books on Picasso Available
- By john burke on 08-17-22
By: Hugh Eakin
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Vermeer's Hat
- The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
- By: Timothy Brook
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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A Vermeer painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl....
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A wonderful book
- By Acteon on 07-09-14
By: Timothy Brook
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The Judgment of Paris
- The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism
- By: Ross King
- Narrated by: Tristan Layton
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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While the Civil War raged in America, another very different revolution was beginning to take shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris....
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Try this!
- By Robert on 10-28-08
By: Ross King
New releases
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The Unseen Truth
- When Race Changed Sight in America
- By: Sarah Lewis
- Narrated by: Sarah Lewis
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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In a masterpiece of historical detective work, Sarah Lewis exposes one of the most damaging lies in American history. There was a time when Americans were confronted with the fictions shoring up the nation’s racial regime and learned to disregard them. The true significance of this hidden history has gone unseen—until now. Groundbreaking and profoundly resonant, The Unseen Truth shows how visual tactics have long secured our regime of racial hierarchy in spite of its false foundations—and offers a way to begin to dismantle it.
By: Sarah Lewis
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Paris in Ruins
- Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
- By: Sebastian Smee
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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From the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, famously dubbed the "Terrible Year" by Victor Hugo, Paris and its people were besieged, starved, and forced into surrender by Germans-then imperiled again as radical republicans established a breakaway Commune, ultimately crushed by the French Army after bloody street battles and the burning of central Paris.
By: Sebastian Smee
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The Lie Behind The Scream
- By: L. A. Braun
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Edvard Munch's The Scream, an inspiration for the world's most celebrated memes, had hidden a ghostly secret! In fact, several images of rebus pictograms linked to physics were being deliberately embedded in The Scream. Our books are picture-based so the audiobook should ONLY be an add-on. The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive overview on a few different secrets that pertain to The Scream. Munch had concealed clues to math and physics. That premise seems impossible. But it is true. Secrets were being purposefully concealed in the artworks. We'll present ample evidence to back ...
By: L. A. Braun
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Our Lady of the World's Fair
- Bringing Michelangelo's "Pieta" to Queens in 1964
- By: Ruth D. Nelson
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Driven by different motives, Robert Moses and Francis Cardinal Spellman had the same vision: to display Michelangelo's masterpiece, the Pietà, in the Vatican's pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair in New York City.
By: Ruth D. Nelson
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Art as Information Ecology
- Artworks, Artworlds, and Complex Systems Aesthetics (Thought in the Act)
- By: Jason A. Hoelscher
- Narrated by: Bill Davis
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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In Art as Information Ecology, Jason A. Hoelscher offers not only an information theory of art but an aesthetic theory of information. Applying close readings of the information theories of Claude Shannon and Gilbert Simondon to 1960s American art, Hoelscher proposes that art is information in its aesthetic or indeterminate mode—information oriented less toward answers and resolvability than toward questions, irresolvability, and sustained difference. In this way, art constitutes information that remains in formation---a difference that makes a difference that keeps on differencing.
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Art of Work
- A Proven Way to Find Your Purpose
- By: Clark Steven
- Narrated by: Tanvir Karim
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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What exactly is a work of art? Within the context of this guided trip inside the artist's psyche, Author traces the development of transcendent books, paintings, jokes, movies, songs, and other forms of artistic expression. Together with the diary entries, napkin doodles, and sketches that were their tools, Moss lays down the work—the tortuous roads and creative decisions—that lead to outstanding art. He does this by weaving together conversations with some of the most renowned artists of our time.
By: Clark Steven
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The Unseen Truth
- When Race Changed Sight in America
- By: Sarah Lewis
- Narrated by: Sarah Lewis
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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In a masterpiece of historical detective work, Sarah Lewis exposes one of the most damaging lies in American history. There was a time when Americans were confronted with the fictions shoring up the nation’s racial regime and learned to disregard them. The true significance of this hidden history has gone unseen—until now. Groundbreaking and profoundly resonant, The Unseen Truth shows how visual tactics have long secured our regime of racial hierarchy in spite of its false foundations—and offers a way to begin to dismantle it.
By: Sarah Lewis
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Paris in Ruins
- Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
- By: Sebastian Smee
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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From the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, famously dubbed the "Terrible Year" by Victor Hugo, Paris and its people were besieged, starved, and forced into surrender by Germans-then imperiled again as radical republicans established a breakaway Commune, ultimately crushed by the French Army after bloody street battles and the burning of central Paris.
By: Sebastian Smee
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The Lie Behind The Scream
- By: L. A. Braun
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Edvard Munch's The Scream, an inspiration for the world's most celebrated memes, had hidden a ghostly secret! In fact, several images of rebus pictograms linked to physics were being deliberately embedded in The Scream. Our books are picture-based so the audiobook should ONLY be an add-on. The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive overview on a few different secrets that pertain to The Scream. Munch had concealed clues to math and physics. That premise seems impossible. But it is true. Secrets were being purposefully concealed in the artworks. We'll present ample evidence to back ...
By: L. A. Braun
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Our Lady of the World's Fair
- Bringing Michelangelo's "Pieta" to Queens in 1964
- By: Ruth D. Nelson
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Driven by different motives, Robert Moses and Francis Cardinal Spellman had the same vision: to display Michelangelo's masterpiece, the Pietà, in the Vatican's pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair in New York City.
By: Ruth D. Nelson
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Art as Information Ecology
- Artworks, Artworlds, and Complex Systems Aesthetics (Thought in the Act)
- By: Jason A. Hoelscher
- Narrated by: Bill Davis
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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In Art as Information Ecology, Jason A. Hoelscher offers not only an information theory of art but an aesthetic theory of information. Applying close readings of the information theories of Claude Shannon and Gilbert Simondon to 1960s American art, Hoelscher proposes that art is information in its aesthetic or indeterminate mode—information oriented less toward answers and resolvability than toward questions, irresolvability, and sustained difference. In this way, art constitutes information that remains in formation---a difference that makes a difference that keeps on differencing.
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Art of Work
- A Proven Way to Find Your Purpose
- By: Clark Steven
- Narrated by: Tanvir Karim
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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What exactly is a work of art? Within the context of this guided trip inside the artist's psyche, Author traces the development of transcendent books, paintings, jokes, movies, songs, and other forms of artistic expression. Together with the diary entries, napkin doodles, and sketches that were their tools, Moss lays down the work—the tortuous roads and creative decisions—that lead to outstanding art. He does this by weaving together conversations with some of the most renowned artists of our time.
By: Clark Steven