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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
- Length: 12 mins
- Release date: 01-23-18
- Language: English
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Yayoi Kusama
- Studies in World Art, Book 89
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Tim Carper
- Length: 9 mins
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Yayoi Kusama is now one of Japan’s best-known contemporary artists. She was the recipient of her country’s Praemium Imperiale for painting in 2006 - the most prestigious award Japan can offer to any painter, native or foreign. Her rise to fame has been unconventional, even by the standards of the art world of the 21st century, where eccentricities of all kinds pass without question.
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Yayoi Kusama
- Studies in World Art, Book 89
- Narrated by: Tim Carper
- Length: 9 mins
- Release date: 01-09-18
- 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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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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Joseph Beuys
- Studies in World Art, Book 42
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Ian Kingsley
- Length: 12 mins
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Many people - among them, most art-world insiders - think that Joseph Beuys was the most important artist of the second half of the 20th century. Beuys was many things - a shaman, a trickster, a charismatic social and political activist. He spearheaded the return to prominence of the German avant-garde post-World War II, and his impact on both the European and American art worlds continues to be felt today, nearly 20 years after his death in January 1986.
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Joseph Beuys
- Studies in World Art, Book 42
- Narrated by: Ian Kingsley
- Length: 12 mins
- Release date: 01-02-18
- Language: English
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Collecting Contemporary Art
- Studies in World Art, Book 22
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Jack Wynters
- Length: 11 mins
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A good art collection is always much more than the sum of its parts. This applies with especial force to collections of contemporary work. A collection of this kind, whether the collector intends it to be so or not, is always a portrait - a reflection in the mirror of a particular epoch, and, willy-nilly, a self-portrait of the person who takes the trouble to bring it together.
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Collecting Contemporary Art
- Studies in World Art, Book 22
- Narrated by: Jack Wynters
- Length: 11 mins
- Release date: 01-09-18
- Language: English
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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
- Length: 22 mins
- Release date: 02-27-18
- Language: English
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Disobedient Objects
- Studies in World Art, Book 118
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Paul Bright
- Length: 12 mins
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It is understandable that, in current circumstances, major arts institutions should try to ally themselves with the more anarchic, contrarian elements in contemporary culture. Perhaps this is especially true of those dealing with the contemporary visual arts, committed as these still are to the myth of avant-gardism. One problem that immediately presents itself, of course, is that this myth is not itself contemporary - it is rooted in the very earliest years of the century before ours.
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Disobedient Objects
- Studies in World Art, Book 118
- Narrated by: Paul Bright
- Length: 12 mins
- Release date: 01-25-18
- Language: English
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The Artist and the Artwork
- Studies in World Art, Book 75
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Tim Carper
- Length: 13 mins
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Works of art have often been endowed by their audience with talismanic force. Their impact exceeds the visual impression they make. This seems natural enough when we consider the fact that the most ambitious works of art produced by ancient civilizations were religious. To those who originally encountered them, they seemed to speak directly from the gods. Their makers were very seldom recorded, though the names of those who ordered them to be made - pharaohs, emperors and kings - quite frequently survive.
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The Artist and the Artwork
- Studies in World Art, Book 75
- Narrated by: Tim Carper
- Length: 13 mins
- Release date: 01-09-18
- Language: English
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Men Looking at Men
- Studies in World Art, Book 50
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 8 mins
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In 1975, the American critic, Laura Mulvey, published an article entitled "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema". This has over the years been one of the most influential of all feminist texts. In it, Mulvey made use of a version of Freudian theory, as reinterpreted by the French philosopher and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. Freud referred to scopophilia - the pleasure of look at other people’s bodies as erotic objects. Mulvey applied this to the cinema.
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Men Looking at Men
- Studies in World Art, Book 50
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 8 mins
- Release date: 12-28-17
- 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
- Length: 8 mins
- Release date: 01-25-18
- Language: English
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Artificial Nature
- Studies in World Art, Book 14
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Gerard Marquez
- Length: 7 mins
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It is a historical peculiarity of landscape painting that it begins with the artificial, and only after that proceeds towards the natural. For example, landscape paintings, and especially fanciful Nilotic panoramas, were one of the genres produced by artists in Pompeii. When, with the Renaissance, landscape painting once again started to establish itself after a long interval, the representations of the surrounding world that artists began to produce as a separate and independent genre, rather than simply as a background for human figures, were usually more fanciful than real.
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Artificial Nature
- Studies in World Art, Book 14
- Narrated by: Gerard Marquez
- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 03-23-19
- Language: English
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Gauguin at Tate Modern
- Studies in World Art, Book 31
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 8 mins
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The new Gauguin exhibition at Tate Modern in certainly the art event of the year in London. It’s a blockbuster exhibition of a kind that, thanks to the continuing worldwide financial crisis, may soon become extinct. It is also an exhibition that raises important questions about how we currently see and think about art.
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Gauguin at Tate Modern
- Studies in World Art, Book 31
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 8 mins
- Release date: 01-09-18
- 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
- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 12-22-17
- Language: English
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The Private John Singer Sargent
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: David Micklem
- Length: 25 mins
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An essay by Edward Lucie-Smith explores aspects of the mysterious and private character of the renowned American society artist John Singer Sargent.
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A wonderful voice reads a fascinating bio
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The Private John Singer Sargent
- Narrated by: David Micklem
- Length: 25 mins
- Release date: 11-15-17
- Language: English
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Art and Homosexuality
- Studies in World Art, Book 11
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Christopher Selbie
- Length: 16 mins
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There is room for a book on this subject, among the vast mass of publications about the visual arts that flow from British and American publishing houses every year. Gay art, from being a quasi-forbidden topic, is now fashionable, not least among would-be up-to-the-minute academics.
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Art and Homosexuality
- Studies in World Art, Book 11
- Narrated by: Christopher Selbie
- Length: 16 mins
- Release date: 03-11-19
- Language: English
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Chuck Close
- Cv/Visual Arts Research Series, Book 177
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Mark Isham
- Length: 26 mins
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Charles Thomas "Chuck" Close (born July 5, 1940) is an American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photo-realist. He developed his own highly resolved heads (his preferred term to portraits), which were worked on a massive scale. Despite suffering a disabling spinal aneurysm in 1988, the artist has continued to forge a monumental body of work in a variety of media: paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs, of potent and original effect.
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Chuck Close
- Cv/Visual Arts Research Series, Book 177
- Narrated by: Mark Isham
- Length: 26 mins
- Release date: 12-14-17
- Language: English
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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 149
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Denise Kahn
- Length: 56 mins
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Explores the structure and development of the Pre-Raphaelite movement in the mid-19th century and works that figure among the most enduring and generally popular in British art. Renowned writer and art critic Edward Lucie-Smith contributes a study of the brotherhood of seven artists and their interconnection and intricate links with the social establishment of the time. James Cahill has a special interest in the movement, having studied Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Holman Hunt. He reviews a major exhibition of 150 works at Tate Britain launched in September 2012.
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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 149
- Narrated by: Denise Kahn
- Length: 56 mins
- Release date: 12-15-16
- Language: English
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Slavery for Beginners
- Studies in World Art, Book 134
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Paul Bright
- Length: 19 mins
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Britain’s Culture Minister, David Lammy, recently suggested that the history of slavery should be made a compulsory part of the nation’s school curriculum. Mick Hume, a columnist in The Times, promptly retorted, “Slavery and the Holocaust are now likely to be taught as little chunks of history, removed from any proper context. They become simplistic parables of good and evil, over which children are encouraged to emote and empathise...." How well founded was this criticism?
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Slavery for Beginners
- Studies in World Art, Book 134
- Narrated by: Paul Bright
- Length: 19 mins
- Release date: 01-25-18
- Language: English
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Pollock/Picasso: The European Vanguard Versus American Modernism
- Studies in World Art, Book 112
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Paul Jenkins
- Length: 40 mins
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This audiobook considers the magnetic poles of post-war modernism and the towering figures of Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock. The essay considers the history of French avant-garde art led by Picasso to the post-war years and the increasing dominance of American artists foregrounded by the advent of Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s.
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Loved the narrator!
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Pollock/Picasso: The European Vanguard Versus American Modernism
- Studies in World Art, Book 112
- Narrated by: Paul Jenkins
- Length: 40 mins
- Release date: 12-28-17
- Language: English
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Goya: Between Two Worlds
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Teague Dean
- Length: 32 mins
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A study of a later period album of drawings on the theme of old women and nightmares by Francisco Goya exhibited at the Courtauld Gallery London, with reference to his supernatural "Black Paintings".
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Goya
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Goya: Between Two Worlds
- Narrated by: Teague Dean
- Length: 32 mins
- Release date: 11-29-17
- Language: English
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