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Arriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Benjamin Moser found himself visiting—casually at first, and then more and more obsessively—the country's great museums.
Beyond the sainted Rembrandt—who harbored a startling darkness—and the mysterious Vermeer, whose true subject, it turned out, was lurking in plain sight, Moser got to know a whole galaxy of geniuses: the doomed virtuoso Carel Fabritius, the anguished wunderkind Jan Lievens, the deaf prodigy Hendrik Avercamp.
Year after year, as he tried to make a life for himself in the Netherlands, Moser found friends among these centuries-dead artists. And he found that they, too, were struggling with the same questions that he was. Why do we make art? What even is art, anyway—and what is an artist? What does it mean to succeed as an artist, and what does it mean to fail?
The Upside-Down World is an invitation to ask these questions, and to turn them on their heads: to look, and then to look again. This is Holland and its great artists as we've never seen them before. And it's a highly personal coming-of-age-story, twenty years in the making: a revealing self-portrait by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.
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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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Ruined by narration
- De Adeliese Baumann en 11-23-23
De: Julia Voss, y otros
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Last Light
- How Six Great Artists Made Old Age a Time of Triumph
- De: Richard Lacayo
- Narrado por: Mack Sanderson
- Duración: 13 h y 12 m
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One of the nation’s top art critics shows how six great artists made old age a time of triumph by producing some of the greatest work of their long careers—and, in some cases, changing the course of art history. Though these six artists differed in many respects, they shared one thing: a determination to go on creating, driven not by the bounding energies of youth but by the ticking clock that would inspire them to produce some of their greatest masterpieces.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An art history course in one slim book
- De LC en 02-19-23
De: Richard Lacayo
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Chasing Beauty
- The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
- De: Natalie Dykstra
- Narrado por: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Duración: 15 h y 57 m
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Isabella Stewart Gardner’s museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Boston’s Fens at the turn of the twentieth century. Its treasures encompassed not only masterwork paintings but tapestries, rare books, prints, porcelains, and fine furniture.
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The best narrator I have ever listened to on an Audible!
- De William P. Anderson en 03-15-25
De: Natalie Dykstra
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The Slip
- The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
- De: Prudence Peiffer
- Narrado por: Melissa Redmond
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
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For just over a decade, from 1956 to 1967, a collection of dilapidated former sail-making warehouses clustered at the lower tip of Manhattan became the quiet epicenter of the art world.
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The narrator mis-pronounces everones name
- De Stephanie Laffont en 12-26-23
De: Prudence Peiffer
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The Story of Art Without Men
- De: Katy Hessel
- Narrado por: Katy Hessel
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway? Guided by Katy Hessel, art historian and founder of @thegreatwomenartists, discover the glittering paintings by Sofonisba Anguissola of the Renaissance, the radical work of Harriet Powers in the nineteenth-century United States, and the artist who really invented the "readymade." Explore the Dutch Golden Age, the astonishing work of postwar artists in Latin America, and the women defining art in the 2020s.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book, no pdf?
- De Amazon Customer en 08-11-24
De: Katy Hessel
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Caravaggio
- A Life Sacred and Profane
- De: Andrew Graham-Dixon
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 18 h y 24 m
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In the tradition of John Richardson's Picasso, a commanding new biography of the Italian master's tumultuous life and mysterious death. For four hundred years Caravaggio's (1571-1610) staggering artistic achievements have thrilled viewers, yet his volatile personal trajectory - the murder of Ranuccio Tomasini, the doubt surrounding Caravaggio's sexuality, the chain of events that began with his imprisonment on Malta and ended with his premature death - has long confounded historians.
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Interesting life
- De Jean en 08-28-13
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Botticelli's Secret
- The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
- De: Joseph Luzzi
- Narrado por: Keith Szarabajka
- Duración: 6 h y 54 m
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Some 500 years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created work of unearthly beauty. An intimate associate of Florence’s unofficial rulers, the Medici, he was commissioned by a member of their family to execute a near-impossible project: to illustrate all 100 cantos of The Divine Comedy by the city’s greatest poet, Dante Alighieri. A powerful encounter between poet and artist, sacred and secular, earthly and evanescent, these drawings produced a wealth of stunning images but were never finished.
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Great story
- De Chris M en 12-09-22
De: Joseph Luzzi
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The Grand Affair
- John Singer Sargent in His World
- De: Paul Fisher
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 17 h y 40 m
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A great American artist, John Singer Sargent is an abiding enigma. He scandalized viewers with the frankness and sensuality of his work, while dressing like a businessman and crafting a highly respectable persona. In The Grand Affair, scholar Paul Fisher explores the enigmas of fin de siecle sexuality and art, fashioning a biography that grants the man and his paintings new and intense life.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not what I expected.
- De Anonymous User en 04-19-23
De: Paul Fisher
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Mad Enchantment
- Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
- De: Ross King
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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We have all seen, whether live, in photographs or on postcards, some of Claude Monet's legendary water lily paintings. They are in museums all over the world and are among the most beloved works of art of the past century. Yet, ironically, these soothing images were created amid terrible personal turmoil and sadness.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful book. Awful awful narration.
- De StphnyC en 06-23-17
De: Ross King
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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
- De: Mary Gabriel
- Narrado por: Lisa Stathoplos
- Duración: 40 h y 12 m
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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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3 out of 5 stars
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Painful pronunciation issues!
- De Curious Artist Librarian en 05-20-19
De: Mary Gabriel
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All That Glitters
- A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art
- De: Orlando Whitfield
- Narrado por: Orlando Whitfield
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
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Orlando Whitfield and Inigo Philbrick met in 2006 at London’s Goldsmiths University where they became best friends. By 2007 they had started I&O Fine Art. Orlando would eventually set up his own gallery and watch as Inigo quickly immersed himself in a world of private jets and multimillion-dollar deals for major clients. Inigo seemed brilliant, but underneath the extravagant façade, his complicated financial schemes were unraveling. With debt, lawsuits, and court summonses piling up, Inigo went into a tailspin of lies and subterfuge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gripping
- De Anonymous User en 09-01-24
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Picasso's War
- How Modern Art Came to America
- De: Hugh Eakin
- Narrado por: Mack Sanderson
- Duración: 15 h y 11 m
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In January 1939, Pablo Picasso was renowned in Europe but disdained by many in the United States. One year later, Americans across the country were clamoring to see his art. How did the controversial leader of the Paris avant-garde break through to the heart of American culture? The answer begins a generation earlier, when a renegade Irish American lawyer named John Quinn set out to build the greatest collection of Picassos in existence. His dream of a museum to house them died with him, until it was rediscovered by Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Better Books on Picasso Available
- De john burke en 08-17-22
De: Hugh Eakin
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The Gardner Heist
- The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft
- De: Ulrich Boser
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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After the death of famed art detective Harold Smith, reporter Ulrich Boser decided to take up the case. Exploring Smith's unfinished leads, Boser travels deep into the art underworld and comes across a remarkable cast of characters, including a brilliant rock 'n' roll thief, a gangster who professes his innocence in rhyming verse, and the enigmatic late Boston heiress Isabella Stewart Gardner herself. Boser becomes increasingly obsessed with the case and eventually uncovers startling new evidence about the identities of the thieves.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!
- De Amanda D. en 05-21-19
De: Ulrich Boser
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In Montparnasse
- The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dalí
- De: Sue Roe
- Narrado por: Kristin Atherton
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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In Montparnasse begins on the eve of the First World War and ends with the 1936 unveiling of Dalí’s Lobster Telephone. As those extraordinary years unfolded, the Surrealists found ever more innovative ways of exploring the interior life, and asking new questions about how to define art. In Montparnasse recounts how this artistic revolution came to be amidst the salons and cafés of that vibrant neighborhood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Second of Two Books
- De Robert Keith en 10-26-19
De: Sue Roe
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A Degree in a Book: Art History
- Everything You Need to Know to Master the Subject
- De: John Finlay
- Narrado por: Ruth Ollman
- Duración: 6 h y 3 m
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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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4 out of 5 stars
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Better for Beginners
- De Bonnie Mommy en 03-12-24
De: John Finlay
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Rembrandt Is in the Wind
- Learning to Love Art Through the Eyes of Faith
- De: Russ Ramsey, Makoto Fujimura
- Narrado por: Zach Hoffman, John Behrens
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
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Striving for beauty, art also reveals what is broken. It presents us with the tremendous struggles and longings common to the human experience. And it says a lot about our Creator too. Great works of art can speak to the soul in a unique way. 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. Part art history, part biblical study, part philosophy, and part analysis of the human experience, this book is nonetheless all story.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Creating Beauty as Our Lifework
- De Anonymous User en 07-02-22
De: Russ Ramsey, y otros
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Thunderclap
- A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
- De: Laura Cumming
- Narrado por: Laura Cumming
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
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In 1654, the Thunderclap—an enormous explosion at a gunpowder store—devasted the city of Delft, killing hundreds of people, including the extraordinary painter Carel Fabritius, and injuring thousands more. Framing the story around the life of Fabritius, Cumming illuminates this extraordinary moment in art history while also writing about her own father, a painter. Like Dutch art, the story gradually links country, city, town, street, house, interior—all the way to the bird on its perch, the blue and white tile, the smallest seed in a loaf of bread.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The deep dive into Dutch Art
- De toni en 08-06-23
De: Laura Cumming
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The Lives of the Artists
- De: Giorgio Vasari, Julia Conway Bondanella - Translated by, Peter Bondanella - Translated by
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 22 h y 26 m
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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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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome
- De Daniel en 05-17-19
De: Giorgio Vasari, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Upside-Down World
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- Julie D
- 07-25-24
The scope of the project and the detail of each artists history.
A fascinating look into the Golden Age of Dutch painters. Deeply personal to the author and rich with a point of view that stands out from other art historians.
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- Alednam A Uonopk
- 12-01-24
Glad to have listened.....
Good book. Had the physical for the pictures. Will listen to again. Could have read it but my eyes are lazy nowadays
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- PaulB
- 02-29-24
Great Book
If you love art history and the Dutch Golden Age, you will love this book. It goes so deep on the specific artists and the history of the period, that my own knowledge has multiplied many times. And I love the artwork that much more as well.
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