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  • Art & Fear cover art

    • Art & Fear

    • Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
    • Written by: David Bayles, Ted Orland
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release Date: 23-04-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Art & Fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way....

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  • The Lives of the Artists cover art

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  • Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 of 2 cover art

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    • Postmodernism

    • A Very Short Introduction
    • Written by: Christopher Butler
    • Narrated by: Christine Williams
    • Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release Date: 01-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • Postmodernism has become the buzzword of contemporary society over the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this highly engaging introduction, the mysteries of this most elusive of concepts are unraveled, casting a critical light upon the way we live now....

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    • Poststructuralism

    • A Very Short Introduction
    • Written by: Catherine Belsey
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release Date: 25-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • Poststructuralism changes the way we understand the relations between human beings, their culture, and the world. This Very Short Introduction traces the key arguments that have led poststructuralists to challenge traditional theories of language and culture....

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    • Strange Tools

    • Art and Human Nature
    • Written by: Alva Noë
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release Date: 22-12-15
    • Language: English
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    • In Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, philosopher and cognitive scientist Alva Noë raises a number of profound questions....

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    • How to See

    • Looking, Talking, and Thinking About Art
    • Written by: David Salle
    • Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release Date: 14-08-18
    • Language: English
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    • How does art work? How does it move us, inform us, challenge us? Internationally renowned painter David Salle's incisive essay collection illuminates the work of many of the most influential artists of the 20th century....

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  • The History of Western Art cover art

    • The History of Western Art

    • Written by: Peter Whitfield
    • Narrated by: Sebastian Comberti
    • Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release Date: 15-11-11
    • Language: English
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    • What is art? Why do we value images of saints, kings, goddesses, battles, landscapes or cities from eras of history utterly remote from ourselves....

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  • Design cover art

    • Design

    • A Very Short Introduction
    • Written by: John Heskett
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release Date: 08-06-21
    • Language: English
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    • John Heskett wants to transform the way we think about design by showing how integral it is to our daily lives, from the spoon we use to eat our breakfast cereal, and the car we drive to work in, to the medical equipment used to save lives....

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  • A History of the World in 100 Objects cover art

    • A History of the World in 100 Objects

    • The Landmark BBC Radio 4 Series
    • Written by: Neil MacGregor
    • Narrated by: Neil MacGregor
    • Length: 22 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release Date: 14-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • In 2010, the BBC and the British Museum embarked on an ambitious project: to tell the story of 2,000,000 years of human history using 100 objects selected from the museum's vast and renowned collection....

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    • On Photography

    • Written by: Susan Sontag
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
    • Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release Date: 02-09-11
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images, which are continually inserted between experience and reality....

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  • Beauty cover art

    • Beauty

    • A Very Short Introduction
    • Written by: Roger Scruton
    • Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release Date: 26-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object beautiful and examining how we can compare differing judgments of beauty when it is evident all around us that our tastes vary so widely....

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    • Michelangelo, God's Architect

    • The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece
    • Written by: William E. Wallace
    • Narrated by: Simon Callow
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release Date: 15-10-19
    • Language: English
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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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    • Bernini's Beloved

    • A Portrait of Costanza Piccolomini
    • Written by: Sarah McPhee
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release Date: 12-07-13
    • Language: English
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    • With lips slightly parted and eyes fixed on a point in the distance, a breathtaking marble portrait of Costanza Piccolomini appears alive....

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  • How the Medici Shaped the Renaissance cover art

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  • The Age of Insight cover art

    • The Age of Insight

    • The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
    • Written by: Eric R. Kandel
    • Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
    • Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release Date: 05-06-18
    • Language: English
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    • A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind and how mind and brain relate to art....

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    • Provenance

    • How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art
    • Written by: Laney Salisbury, Aly Sujo
    • Narrated by: Marty Peterson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release Date: 31-12-09
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Here is a tautly paced investigation of one the 20th century's most audacious art frauds, which generated hundreds of forgeries....

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  • Arquitectura contemporánea [Contemporary Architecture] cover art

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  • Le muse inquietanti di Giorgio De Chirico cover art

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  • Austin Osman Spare (Revised & Expanded Edition) cover art

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