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Giacometti and Frank Auerbach
- Portraiture and the Pursuit of the Absolute (CV/Visual Arts Research)
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Anthony Fanna
- Length: 20 mins
- Unabridged
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A study of Giacometti portraits at the National Portrait Gallery London and Frank Auerbach at Tate Britain....
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Prententious rubbish
- By Ian Dolwin on 28-09-22
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Giacometti and Frank Auerbach
- Portraiture and the Pursuit of the Absolute (CV/Visual Arts Research)
- Narrated by: Anthony Fanna
- Length: 20 mins
- Release date: 05-12-17
- 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
- Unabridged
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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 in British art....
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Not a book
- By A. P. Muscat on 04-09-19
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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 149
- Narrated by: Denise Kahn
- Length: 56 mins
- Release date: 15-12-16
- Language: English
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Avant-Garde
- Studies in World Art, Book 15
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 17 mins
- Unabridged
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The term avant-garde continues to be used, in my opinion with far too much frequency, in discussions of contemporary art. It derives, of course, from military terminology, and implies that the art to which it is applied is somehow ahead of the game....
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Avant-Garde
- Studies in World Art, Book 15
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 15
- Length: 17 mins
- Release date: 29-01-18
- Language: English
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Rothko at the Tate
- Studies in World Art, Book 68
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Rothko is now one of those mythical artists, an icon of 20th century creativity, the central figure in a tragic legend. Which means to say that one is pretty much compelled to agree that everything he did was wonderful....
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Rothko at the Tate
- Studies in World Art, Book 68
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 68
- Length: 6 mins
- Release date: 28-12-17
- Language: English
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Andrea Palladio
- Studies in World Art, Book 5
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Don Wang
- Length: 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Andrea Palladio is the most influential architect who ever lived - much more so than those heroes of the Modern Movement such as Frank Lloyd Wright....
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Andrea Palladio
- Studies in World Art, Book 5
- Narrated by: Don Wang
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 5
- Length: 6 mins
- Release date: 13-02-18
- 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
- Unabridged
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This audiobook considers the magnetic poles of post-war modernism and the towering figures of Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock....
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Pollock/Picasso: The European Vanguard Versus American Modernism
- Studies in World Art, Book 112
- Narrated by: Paul Jenkins
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 112
- Length: 40 mins
- Release date: 28-12-17
- Language: English
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Magical Thinking: Why the Avant-Garde Is Now History
- Studies in World Art, Book 140
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Jack Wynters
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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The word avant-garde, so much used in connection with the various manifestations of contemporary art, is starting to have a strange, ironic ring to it....
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Magical Thinking: Why the Avant-Garde Is Now History
- Studies in World Art, Book 140
- Narrated by: Jack Wynters
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 140
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Release date: 26-02-18
- 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
- Unabridged
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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....
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Yayoi Kusama
- Studies in World Art, Book 89
- Narrated by: Tim Carper
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 89
- Length: 9 mins
- Release date: 09-01-18
- 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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The Private John Singer Sargent
- Narrated by: David Micklem
- Length: 25 mins
- Release date: 15-11-17
- 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: Between Two Worlds
- Narrated by: Teague Dean
- Length: 32 mins
- Release date: 29-11-17
- Language: English
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Modern British Sculpture
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 171
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 8 mins
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Very seldom in London can a major show of modern and contemporary art at a highly respected national institution have received such universally negative reviews....
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Modern British Sculpture
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 171
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 8 mins
- Release date: 08-01-18
- Language: English
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Rubens in the Making
- Studies in World Art, Book 68
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Tim Carper
- Length: 8 mins
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Rubens, of all great artists the one who enjoyed the greatest degree of worldly success, had distinctly uneasy beginnings. Of sound Flemish bourgeois stock, he was born in 1577 at Siegen in Westphalia....
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Rubens in the Making
- Studies in World Art, Book 68
- Narrated by: Tim Carper
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 68
- Length: 8 mins
- Release date: 09-01-18
- Language: English
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Rembrandt and Turner: Mythical Masters
- CV/Visual Arts Research
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Jim Spring
- Length: 44 mins
- Unabridged
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The monograph publishes a study of Rembrandt van Rijn and JMW Turner at the National Gallery and Tate Britain in exhibitions of their later works....
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Rembrandt and Turner: Mythical Masters
- CV/Visual Arts Research
- Narrated by: Jim Spring
- Length: 44 mins
- Release date: 20-03-18
- 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
- Unabridged
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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....
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Joseph Beuys
- Studies in World Art, Book 42
- Narrated by: Ian Kingsley
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 42
- Length: 12 mins
- Release date: 02-01-18
- 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
- Unabridged
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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....
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not worth the few quid it cost...
- By MR Caspar Sewell on 19-02-19
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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: 19-01-18
- 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
- Unabridged
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An anthology of essays and reviews by the eminent art historian and writer, Edward Lucie-Smith....
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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: 22-02-18
- Language: English
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Ai Weiwei: And the Evolution of Political Art
- Studies in World Art, Book 90
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Anthony Howard
- Length: 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Ben Luke, resident art critic of the London Evening Standard, calls Ai Weiwei "probably the most famous artist in the world"....
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Ai Weiwei: And the Evolution of Political Art
- Studies in World Art, Book 90
- Narrated by: Anthony Howard
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 90
- Length: 21 mins
- Release date: 16-12-17
- Language: English
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Lucio Fontana: An Artist Between Worlds
- Studies in World Art, Book 101
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Stephen Floyd
- Length: 12 mins
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Lucio Fontana is rightly regarded as one of the most important Italian artists active in the 20 years after World War II, important not only in Italy, but in a pan-European sense....
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Lucio Fontana: An Artist Between Worlds
- Studies in World Art, Book 101
- Narrated by: Stephen Floyd
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 101
- Length: 12 mins
- Release date: 14-02-19
- 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
- Unabridged
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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....
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Body Art and Abjection
- Studies in World Art, Book 1
- Narrated by: Rick Paradis
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 1
- Length: 22 mins
- Release date: 27-02-18
- 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....
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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: 11-01-18
- Language: English
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