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Images of Majesty 2
- Studies in World Art, Book 36
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 8 mins
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"The Queen: Art and Image", now on view at the National Portrait Gallery in London, makes a lot of claims for itself. The blurb on the gallery web-site tells one that by “exploring the startling range of artistic creativity that the Queen has inspired, the exhibition also reveals the radical changes in portraiture and profound developments since the 1950s.” It goes on to list some of the supposedly distinguished painters and photographers who have, during her long reign, produced likenesses of Elizabeth II.
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Images of Majesty 2
- Studies in World Art, Book 36
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 36
- Length: 8 mins
- Release date: 01-25-18
- Language: English
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John Millais
- Studies in World Art, Book 41
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Paul Bright
- Length: 9 mins
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John Millais is the most paradoxical of Britain’s major Victorian artists. Already recognized in his teens as prodigiously gifted, he chose to risk everything by becoming a founder-member of the Pre-Raphaelites, a revolutionary group of neo-primitive painters who, despite the support offered to them by John Ruskin, the most influential critic of the day, risked being treated as outcasts by the ruling artistic establishment.
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John Millais
- Studies in World Art, Book 41
- Narrated by: Paul Bright
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 41
- Length: 9 mins
- Release date: 01-25-18
- Language: English
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Making a Masterpiece
- Studies in World Art, Book 45
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 9 mins
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The creation of a masterpiece needs more than simply determination on the part of a single individual - though this, of course, is a myth that has continuously gained in strength since the time of Michelangelo. As Michelangelo himself well knew, masterpieces grow from a will to see them made on the part of patrons, who often play nearly as important a part in the process as the man who holds the brush or wields the chisel. The Sistine ceiling would never have come into existence had it not been for Pope Julius II.
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Making a Masterpiece
- Studies in World Art, Book 45
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 45
- Length: 9 mins
- Release date: 01-25-18
- Language: English
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Cultivating the Body
- Studies in World Art, Book 115
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Stephen Floyd
- Length: 7 mins
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The first thing to be said about the new exhibition at the British Museum, Defining Beauty: The Body in Ancient Greek Art, is that it is genuinely spectacular and deserves the hosannas it has already been greeted with in the press. The second thing is that it is highly political. It is political in all sorts of ways. The most obvious of these can be found in the fact that it plucks a number of the so-called "Elgin marbles".
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Cultivating the Body
- Studies in World Art, Book 115
- Narrated by: Stephen Floyd
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 115
- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 01-30-18
- Language: English
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The Mediterranean Past: All Hail Aphrodite!
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: MJ McGalliard
- Length: 12 mins
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The British Museum has two quite different archaeological exhibitions on view at the moment. In some ways, they echo one another. In other ways, they are quite strongly contrasted. The strongest link, of course is that they are about the archaeology of the Mediterranean, and that in addition, they both have ties to the classical Greek and Roman world that is still the main taproot of Western civilization.
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The Mediterranean Past: All Hail Aphrodite!
- Narrated by: MJ McGalliard
- Length: 12 mins
- Release date: 01-31-18
- Language: English
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London Terminal: Frieze Art Fair 2013
- CV/Visual Arts Research, Book 187
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 26 mins
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Edward Lucie-Smith reviews Frieze Art Fair London 2013, in a critical take on the contemporary scene. It's pretty easy to get the point of the Frieze Masters art fair, now in its second edition, after a very successful start last year. Its purpose is to present the best of the best - or, at the very least, a good slice of the top quality art that is currently on the market. One of the great pleasures of Frieze Masters, this year more than ever, is the accidental confrontations the event manages to set up.
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London Terminal: Frieze Art Fair 2013
- CV/Visual Arts Research, Book 187
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 26 mins
- Release date: 01-31-18
- Language: English
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Cranach Censored
- Studies in World Art, Book 24
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Joshua Smith
- Length: 8 mins
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Exhibition organizers at the Royal Academy are expressing bewilderment and mild outrage, at least in public, because the people who run advertising for the London Underground have decided to ban a poster featuring a nude Venus by the German 16th-century artist, Lucas Cranach the Elder. In private, they must be hugging themselves. At the time of writing, three major newspapers have picked up the story.
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Cranach Censored
- Studies in World Art, Book 24
- Narrated by: Joshua Smith
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 24
- Length: 8 mins
- Release date: 01-29-18
- Language: English
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Citizens and Kings
- Studies in World Art, Book 21
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 10 mins
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"Citizens and Kings", the new blockbuster show at the Royal Academy in London, contains an almost overwhelming number of celebrated paintings and sculptures, even if one or two of them, such as Jacques-Louis David’s Marat Assassiné, turn out to be studio versions rather than the real thing. The show aims to trace the shift in attitudes towards the human personality that was set in motion by the American and French Revolutions and the wars associated with these great political and social upheavals.
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Citizens and Kings
- Studies in World Art, Book 21
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 21
- Length: 10 mins
- Release date: 01-29-18
- Language: English
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Black British Style
- Studies in World Art, Book 15
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 7 mins
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'Black British Style', the current costume show at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, raises a lot of complex issues for someone like myself. I am not black, but I am undoubtedly West Indian. My family have lived in different parts of the West Indies for more than 300 years and in Jamaica for more than a century.
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Black British Style
- Studies in World Art, Book 15
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 15
- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 01-26-18
- Language: English
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Making Art History
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 168
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Rick Paradis
- Length: 36 mins
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Art dealing today in the United States is a huge, well-organized, well-publicized industry. Probably, there has never previously been a market in art that has played such an important role in a national economy. The United States retains the preeminent position in the world market for art that it achieved immediately after World War II and seems unlikely to lose it any time soon. In addition to serving collectors and institutions based in America, the American dealing community supplies works of art to individuals and museums all over the world.
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Making Art History
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 168
- Narrated by: Rick Paradis
- Length: 36 mins
- Release date: 01-26-18
- Language: English
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Pissing on the Pissoir
- Studies in World Art, Book 132
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 10 mins
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Dr. Glyn Thompson’s digital book, Duchamp’s Urinal? The Facts Behind the Façade, at first tends to make the heart sink. Dr. Thompson has done his homework, and he is insistent that you should do it too. "No skipping over the chapter-and-verse, boy, in search of something a bit racier." Some of the facts are, however, sufficiently racy in themselves. The urinal, or Fountain, as it is now officially called, turns out not to have been the work - or wheeze - of Duchamp himself, but that of a mad German baroness.
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Pissing on the Pissoir
- Studies in World Art, Book 132
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 132
- Length: 10 mins
- Release date: 01-25-18
- Language: English
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Sarajevo Diary (Studies in World Art Book 69)
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Rick Paradis
- Length: 11 mins
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Flying into Sarajevo is no big deal nowadays. Customs and immigration are quick. You don't need a visa if you hold an EEC passport. Perhaps the only noticeable difference between this and other flights within Europe is a slightly increased degree of airport security. Hand luggage goes through a scanner at two different points, before you board the aircraft. Nor is arrival at the hotel any different from arriving at big chain hotels in other European cities. The Holiday Inn is transatlantic in style, with a big fountain outside and a soaring atrium within. Things are busy - the receptionist leafs through lots of different pieces of paper before finally, and rather reluctantly, locating our reservations. "Do you mind having a room that overlooks the big boulevard? It might be a bit noisy." But when I get there, it's double-glazed, so there is no problem.
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Sarajevo Diary (Studies in World Art Book 69)
- Narrated by: Rick Paradis
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 69
- Length: 11 mins
- Release date: 01-25-18
- Language: English
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Charming Baker-Guerilla Art
- Studies in World Art, Book 19
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Bob Barton
- Length: 9 mins
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Charming Baker is a phenomenon. Right now, a much bigger phenomenon in the British art scene than the much touted, but now rather tired and fading YBAs. The YBAs, after suitably Bohemian, in-your-face beginnings, are now the official face of British art. You will find most of them (though not quite all) represented in the closing galleries of the new hang at Tate Britain, which aims to tell the complete story of British art, from the Tudors until now.
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Charming Baker-Guerilla Art
- Studies in World Art, Book 19
- Narrated by: Bob Barton
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 19
- Length: 9 mins
- Release date: 01-22-18
- Language: English
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Holbein in England
- Studies in World Art, Book 35
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 8 mins
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It is a paradox of a sort that the only fully authentic Holbein painting of King Henry VIII of England should now reside in Madrid, in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. It left Britain as late as 1933, sold by Earl Spencer, grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales. Holbein is, after all, the author of what is perhaps the most iconic and formidable of all British royal images. Fittingly, the Thyssen-Bornemizsa portrait adorned the cover of the catalogue that accompanied the "Holbein in England" exhibition at Tate Britain in London.
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Holbein in England
- Studies in World Art, Book 35
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 35
- Length: 8 mins
- Release date: 01-19-18
- Language: English
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Byzantium
- Studies in World Art, Book 17
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Bob Barton
- Length: 6 mins
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Byzantine art has a slightly odd reputation. It is regarded, on the one hand, as something remote, hieratic, and difficult. On the other hand, the word Byzantium has a very romantic ring - it lives in our minds as the name of a citadel of civilization, a place that preserved for posterity both intellectual and material treasures that would otherwise have vanished forever. The remarkable exhibition now at the Royal Academy in London touches on both of these aspects.
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Byzantium
- Studies in World Art, Book 17
- Narrated by: Bob Barton
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 17
- Length: 6 mins
- Release date: 01-17-18
- Language: English
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Paris and Beyond
- Studies in World Art, Book 60
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 9 mins
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In the early years of the 20th century, Paris became the center for an international community of artists. Some of them were French, but the city also offered its hospitality to artists from an increasingly wide range of other nationalities. Some, like Marc Chagall, came from communities that had never produced artists of international note before. The result was a mixture between a stewpot and a laboratory.
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Paris and Beyond
- Studies in World Art, Book 60
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 60
- Length: 9 mins
- Release date: 01-15-18
- Language: English
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Art in Putinland
- Studies in World Art, Book 111
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Don Wang
- Length: 9 mins
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Maybe it’s time for attention to turn back to the Russians. In the 1980s, as some of us still remember, so-called perestroika art was pretty big in the West, with enthusiasm from leading Western curators and critics, and some support from the big international auction rooms. In fact, the pattern was pretty much the same as what happened with contemporary Chinese art just a little later on.
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Art in Putinland
- Studies in World Art, Book 111
- Narrated by: Don Wang
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 111
- Length: 9 mins
- Release date: 01-15-18
- Language: English
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Hockney at the Royal Academy
- Studies in World Art, Book 34
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Tim Carper
- Length: 7 mins
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British, even more than most countries, like to have a "boss" artist - an artistic figure who is indubitably the head of the profession. In the old days, this need was easily accommodated within the establishment structures of the time. The big boss could be Sir Joshua Reynolds, knighted by the monarch of the day, or Lord Leighton, given a peerage. Both of these were also presidents of the Royal Academy.
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Hockney at the Royal Academy
- Studies in World Art, Book 34
- Narrated by: Tim Carper
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 34
- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 01-15-18
- Language: English
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A Stagnant Art World
- Studies in World Art, Book 136
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Jack Wynters
- Length: 17 mins
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This may seem a funny moment to proclaim that nothing much is happening in art - certainly not in contemporary art. In many ways, the art world has never seemed more vibrant and active, and this activity is increasingly focused on what is defined as contemporary. There hasn’t, in fact, been a moment like this in the relatively recent history of art since the mid-19th century. If one looks at the years of political and economic chaos between 1789 and 1815, as the fortunes of war swayed back and forth, this is not surprising.
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A Stagnant Art World
- Studies in World Art, Book 136
- Narrated by: Jack Wynters
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 136
- Length: 17 mins
- Release date: 01-15-18
- Language: English
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John Constable
- Studies in World Art, Book 39
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Tim Carper
- Length: 8 mins
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The new exhibition at Tate Britain celebrates one of the best loved of all British artists, the landscape painter, John Constable. In his own lifetime, Constable was constantly struggling to catch up with his great rival, J. M. W. Turner, whose astonishing fluency he could never match. Turner has maintained his fame, but, among the British at least, Constable is now more intimately loved.
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John Constable
- Studies in World Art, Book 39
- Narrated by: Tim Carper
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 39
- Length: 8 mins
- Release date: 01-11-18
- Language: English
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