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Toymaker
- My Journey from War to Wonder
- By: Tom Karen
- Narrated by: Mike Grady
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a story about life, about imagination, about being in the present and existing in the past; this is a story about painting, drawing, chopping and changing; about thinking, discussing, arguing and listening....
By: Tom Karen
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Boy in a China Shop
- Life, Clay and Everything
- By: Keith Brymer Jones
- Narrated by: Keith Brymer Jones
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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The star presenter and judge of Channel 4's The Great Pottery Throw Down looks back on his life and career - and the passion for ceramics that started it all....
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Genuinely surprised, in a good way
- By stu on 26-06-22
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Frida
- A Biography of Frida Kahlo
- By: Hayden Herrera
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Hailed by listeners and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences....
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The detail of her life’s story
- By Clare Chettle on 25-02-24
By: Hayden Herrera
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Dante
- By: Alessandro Barbero
- Narrated by: Alessandro Benvenuti
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Alessandro Barbero segue Dante nella sua adolescenza di figlio d'un usuraio che sogna di appartenere al mondo dei nobili e dei letterati; nei corridoi oscuri della politica, dove gli ideali si infrangono davanti alla realtà meschina degli odi di partito e della corruzione dilagante...
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Dante, un uomo dei suoi tempi
- By Anonymous User on 12-03-23
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Nonbinary
- A Memoir
- By: Genesis P-Orridge, Tim Mohr - contributor
- Narrated by: Paul Bee Hampshire
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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A revealing and beautifully open memoir from pioneering industrial music artist, visual artist, and transgender icon Genesis P-Orridge....
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Addictive and paradigm-shifting
- By Nick Ravenscroft on 29-01-24
By: Genesis P-Orridge, and others
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Con/Artist
- The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger
- By: Tony Tetro, Giampiero Ambrosi
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone, Tony Tetro, Giampiero Ambrosi
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The world’s most renowned art forger reveals the secrets behind his decades of painting like the masters—exposing an art world that is far more corrupt than we ever knew while providing an art history lesson wrapped in sex, drugs, and Caravaggio....
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A movie waiting to be made.
- By Jerry Euesden on 11-02-23
By: Tony Tetro, and others
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Toymaker
- My Journey from War to Wonder
- By: Tom Karen
- Narrated by: Mike Grady
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a story about life, about imagination, about being in the present and existing in the past; this is a story about painting, drawing, chopping and changing; about thinking, discussing, arguing and listening....
By: Tom Karen
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Boy in a China Shop
- Life, Clay and Everything
- By: Keith Brymer Jones
- Narrated by: Keith Brymer Jones
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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The star presenter and judge of Channel 4's The Great Pottery Throw Down looks back on his life and career - and the passion for ceramics that started it all....
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Genuinely surprised, in a good way
- By stu on 26-06-22
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Frida
- A Biography of Frida Kahlo
- By: Hayden Herrera
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Hailed by listeners and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences....
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The detail of her life’s story
- By Clare Chettle on 25-02-24
By: Hayden Herrera
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Dante
- By: Alessandro Barbero
- Narrated by: Alessandro Benvenuti
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Alessandro Barbero segue Dante nella sua adolescenza di figlio d'un usuraio che sogna di appartenere al mondo dei nobili e dei letterati; nei corridoi oscuri della politica, dove gli ideali si infrangono davanti alla realtà meschina degli odi di partito e della corruzione dilagante...
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Dante, un uomo dei suoi tempi
- By Anonymous User on 12-03-23
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Nonbinary
- A Memoir
- By: Genesis P-Orridge, Tim Mohr - contributor
- Narrated by: Paul Bee Hampshire
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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A revealing and beautifully open memoir from pioneering industrial music artist, visual artist, and transgender icon Genesis P-Orridge....
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Addictive and paradigm-shifting
- By Nick Ravenscroft on 29-01-24
By: Genesis P-Orridge, and others
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Con/Artist
- The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger
- By: Tony Tetro, Giampiero Ambrosi
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone, Tony Tetro, Giampiero Ambrosi
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The world’s most renowned art forger reveals the secrets behind his decades of painting like the masters—exposing an art world that is far more corrupt than we ever knew while providing an art history lesson wrapped in sex, drugs, and Caravaggio....
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A movie waiting to be made.
- By Jerry Euesden on 11-02-23
By: Tony Tetro, and others
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Camille Pissarro
- The Audacity of Impressionism
- By: Anka Muhlstein, Adriana Hunter - translator
- Narrated by: Christine Rendel
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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From the acclaimed biographer and author of Balzac's Omelette comes an engaging new work on the life of "the father of Impressionism" and the role his Jewish background played in his artistic creativity....
By: Anka Muhlstein, and others
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Frida (Edición en español)
- Una biografía de Frida Kahlo [A Biography of Frida Kahlo]
- By: Hayden Herrera
- Narrated by: Mauricio Pérez, Noé Velásquez, Karla Hernández, and others
- Length: 20 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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La mejor biografía que se ha escrito sobre Frida Kahlo, la pintora mexicana por excelencia....
By: Hayden Herrera
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Dancing on the Edge
- A Journey of Living, Loving, and Tumbling Through Hollywood
- By: Russ Tamblyn, Sarah Tomlinson
- Narrated by: Russ Tamblyn
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Perfect for old and new fans alike, Dancing on the Edge is an intimate and powerful story about the singular life of one of our most gifted storytellers, artists, and stars of the silver screen.
By: Russ Tamblyn, and others
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Zauber der Stille
- Caspar David Friedrichs Reise durch die Zeiten
- By: Florian Illies
- Narrated by: Stephan Schad
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Das abenteuerliche Leben der Sehnsuchtsbilder von Caspar David Friedrich – mitreißend erzählt von Florian Illies. Kein deutscher Maler löst solche...
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Eine Freude zu hören
- By Anonymous User on 26-01-24
By: Florian Illies
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David Hockney In His Own Words
- In Their Own Words
- By: David Hockney
- Narrated by: David Hockney
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Original Recording
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David Hockney has been described as Britain's 'greatest living artist'. In this fascinating collection of archive interviews, we hear - in his own words - about his paintings, his schooldays and the attitudes he had while growing up....
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À bit of a rip-off
- By Lee W. on 26-03-24
By: David Hockney
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Men Have Called Her Crazy
- A Memoir
- By: Anna Marie Tendler
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the lives of women.
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Modern Man
- The Life of Le Corbusier, Architect of Tomorrow
- By: Anthony Flint
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Modern Man is a riveting biography of Le Corbusier - a man who invented new ways of building and thinking....
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Illuminating
- By Alex Holliman on 19-03-15
By: Anthony Flint
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The Man in the Glass House
- Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century
- By: Mark Lamster
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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The Man in the Glass House lifts the veil on Johnson's controversial and endlessly contradictory life to tell the story of a charming yet deeply flawed man. This book probes the dynamics of American culture that made him so powerful and tells the story of the built environment....
By: Mark Lamster
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Bernini's Beloved
- A Portrait Of Costanza Piccolomini
- By: Sarah McPhee
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
By: Sarah McPhee
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What Becomes a Legend Most
- A Biography of Richard Avedon
- By: Philip Gefter
- Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer
- Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The first definitive biography of Richard Avedon, a monumental photographer of the twentieth century, from award-winning photography critic Philip Gefter....
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Be good if the narrator could pronounce French
- By Graham on 29-12-20
By: Philip Gefter
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Francis Bacon in Your Blood
- By: Michael Peppiatt
- Narrated by: Michael Peppiatt
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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It is a story I have been wanting to write for a long time, telling it as it really was before that whole world that I shared with Francis vanishes....
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Riveting!
- By Mr. B. Martin on 05-01-18
By: Michael Peppiatt
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The Portraitist
- Frans Hals and His World
- By: Steven M. Nadler
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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This biography of the great portraitist Frans Hals takes the listener into the turbulent world of the Dutch Golden Age....
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Great insight.
- By Mr Patrick J Noone on 09-08-23
By: Steven M. Nadler
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The Lives of the Artists
- By: Giorgio Vasari, Julia Conway Bondanella - Translated by, Peter Bondanella - Translated by
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 22 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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The audio-equivalent of sleeping pills.
- By Ashtree on 03-12-20
By: Giorgio Vasari, and others
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The Lives of the Artists
- By: Giorgio Vasari
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Abridged
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An Italian Mannerist architect and painter, Giorgio Vasari was acquainted with many of the most famous artists of his day....
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Tech issues
- By K dot H on 21-05-18
By: Giorgio Vasari
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Sharon e mia suocera
- Se questa è vita
- By: Suad Amiry
- Narrated by: Aurora Cancian
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Un libro particolare. Nato in una situazione particolare. Una donna palestinese, colta, intelligente e spiritosa, tiene un "diario di...
By: Suad Amiry
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The Upside-Down World
- Meetings with the Dutch Masters
- By: Benjamin Moser
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
By: Benjamin Moser
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The Phoenix
- St Paul's Cathedral and the Men Who Made Modern London
- By: Leo Hollis
- Narrated by: John Hopkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The remarkable and inspiring story of how London was transformed after the Great Fire of 1666 into the most powerful city in the world, and the men who were responsible for that achievement....
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Leo Hollis, The Phoenix
- By Jane on 18-10-23
By: Leo Hollis
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The Lives of Lucian Freud
- Fame 1968-2011
- By: William Feaver
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 19 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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The second half of William Feaver's Baillie Gifford Prize-shortlisted work of biography: the definitive story of the epic life of one of the 20th century's most important artists....
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Superb
- By Amazon Customer on 06-08-22
By: William Feaver
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Radiant
- The Life and Line of Keith Haring
- By: Brad Gooch
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 18 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 1980s, the subways of New York City were covered with art. In the stations, black matte sheets were pasted over outdated ads, and unsigned chalk drawings often popped up on these blank spaces....
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Inspirational and heartbreaking
- By Philip Sadler on 14-04-24
By: Brad Gooch
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Hilma af Klint
- A Biography
- By: Julia Voss, Anne Posten - translator
- Narrated by: Doria Bramante
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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Finally A Discovery
- By Daniela M. on 25-12-23
By: Julia Voss, and others
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Cristo si è fermato a Eboli
- By: Carlo Levi
- Narrated by: Massimo Malucelli
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Scritta tra il 1943 e il 1944, durante la sua militanza nel Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale, viene pubblicata nel 1945, a guerra ormai conclusa...
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Classic of post-war Italian literature
- By AMS on 08-09-15
By: Carlo Levi
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Michelangelo, God's Architect
- The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece
- By: William E. Wallace
- Narrated by: Simon Callow
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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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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A captivating read by Simon Callow
- By Audio addict on 29-11-19
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Truckload of Art
- The Life and Work of Terry Allen—An Authorized Biography
- By: Brendan Greaves
- Narrated by: Jason Culp, Brendan Greaves
- Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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The definitive, authorized, and first-ever biography of Terry Allen, the internationally acclaimed visual artist and iconoclastic songwriter who occupies an utterly unique position straddling the disparate, and usually distant, worlds of conceptual art and country music.
By: Brendan Greaves
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Leonardo
- Il romanzo di un genio ribelle
- By: Massimo Polidoro
- Narrated by: Massimo Polidoro
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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È l'alba del XVI secolo. L'Italia è divisa in una miriade di regni litigiosi e incapaci di opporsi alle mire delle grandi potenze. Tra...
By: Massimo Polidoro
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Betting on Bernie
- A Memoir of a Marriage
- By: Martha Marks
- Narrated by: Martha Marks, Max Highstein
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Bernard Marks and Martha Alford met by chance. No real reason for it, just a series of fluky coincidences. The odds were long that they would hit it off. That wasn’t in the cards they’d been dealt at birth. “It’ll never last,” people whispered after they got engaged. “Poor probability of success” was the general consensus when they married. But Bernie and Martha ignored the naysayers. Gamblers in love, they rolled the dice.
By: Martha Marks
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Fables of a Paid Piper
- By: Skip Martin
- Narrated by: Skip Martin
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Get ready to embark on a rollercoaster ride, with Grammy & Emmy-winning artist, songwriter, producer and author, Skip Martin. He is best known for his tenure as a lead singer and trumpeter for two legendary groups, Kool & the Gang and The Dazz Band. Skip Martin unveils his life's journey through a captivating audio adventure: 'Fables of a Paid Piper.' This collection of short stories takes you on a thrilling ride through life's twists and turns, revealing the moments that shaped him and his iconic career.
By: Skip Martin
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Dancing on the Edge
- A Journey of Living, Loving, and Tumbling Through Hollywood
- By: Russ Tamblyn, Sarah Tomlinson
- Narrated by: Russ Tamblyn
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Perfect for old and new fans alike, Dancing on the Edge is an intimate and powerful story about the singular life of one of our most gifted storytellers, artists, and stars of the silver screen.
By: Russ Tamblyn, and others
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Ink, Paint and Bronze: A Path to Creative Freedom
- By: Mike Major
- Narrated by: Mike Major
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Ink, Paint and Bronze is an inspiring and informative book by the award-winning visual artist, Mike Major. Infused with a wealth of knowledge and experience spanning four decades, this book is for artists or art enthusiasts at any stage of their career.
By: Mike Major
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Truckload of Art
- The Life and Work of Terry Allen—An Authorized Biography
- By: Brendan Greaves
- Narrated by: Jason Culp, Brendan Greaves
- Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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The definitive, authorized, and first-ever biography of Terry Allen, the internationally acclaimed visual artist and iconoclastic songwriter who occupies an utterly unique position straddling the disparate, and usually distant, worlds of conceptual art and country music.
By: Brendan Greaves
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Radiant
- The Life and Line of Keith Haring
- By: Brad Gooch
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 18 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 1980s, the subways of New York City were covered with art. In the stations, black matte sheets were pasted over outdated ads, and unsigned chalk drawings often popped up on these blank spaces. These temporary chalk drawings numbered in the thousands and became synonymous with a city as diverse as it was at war with itself, beset with poverty and crime but alive with art and creative energy. And every single one of these drawings was done by Keith Haring.
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Inspirational and heartbreaking
- By Philip Sadler on 14-04-24
By: Brad Gooch
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Betting on Bernie
- A Memoir of a Marriage
- By: Martha Marks
- Narrated by: Martha Marks, Max Highstein
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Bernard Marks and Martha Alford met by chance. No real reason for it, just a series of fluky coincidences. The odds were long that they would hit it off. That wasn’t in the cards they’d been dealt at birth. “It’ll never last,” people whispered after they got engaged. “Poor probability of success” was the general consensus when they married. But Bernie and Martha ignored the naysayers. Gamblers in love, they rolled the dice.
By: Martha Marks
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Fables of a Paid Piper
- By: Skip Martin
- Narrated by: Skip Martin
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Get ready to embark on a rollercoaster ride, with Grammy & Emmy-winning artist, songwriter, producer and author, Skip Martin. He is best known for his tenure as a lead singer and trumpeter for two legendary groups, Kool & the Gang and The Dazz Band. Skip Martin unveils his life's journey through a captivating audio adventure: 'Fables of a Paid Piper.' This collection of short stories takes you on a thrilling ride through life's twists and turns, revealing the moments that shaped him and his iconic career.
By: Skip Martin
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Dancing on the Edge
- A Journey of Living, Loving, and Tumbling Through Hollywood
- By: Russ Tamblyn, Sarah Tomlinson
- Narrated by: Russ Tamblyn
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Perfect for old and new fans alike, Dancing on the Edge is an intimate and powerful story about the singular life of one of our most gifted storytellers, artists, and stars of the silver screen.
By: Russ Tamblyn, and others
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Ink, Paint and Bronze: A Path to Creative Freedom
- By: Mike Major
- Narrated by: Mike Major
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Ink, Paint and Bronze is an inspiring and informative book by the award-winning visual artist, Mike Major. Infused with a wealth of knowledge and experience spanning four decades, this book is for artists or art enthusiasts at any stage of their career.
By: Mike Major
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Truckload of Art
- The Life and Work of Terry Allen—An Authorized Biography
- By: Brendan Greaves
- Narrated by: Jason Culp, Brendan Greaves
- Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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The definitive, authorized, and first-ever biography of Terry Allen, the internationally acclaimed visual artist and iconoclastic songwriter who occupies an utterly unique position straddling the disparate, and usually distant, worlds of conceptual art and country music.
By: Brendan Greaves
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Radiant
- The Life and Line of Keith Haring
- By: Brad Gooch
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 18 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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In the 1980s, the subways of New York City were covered with art. In the stations, black matte sheets were pasted over outdated ads, and unsigned chalk drawings often popped up on these blank spaces. These temporary chalk drawings numbered in the thousands and became synonymous with a city as diverse as it was at war with itself, beset with poverty and crime but alive with art and creative energy. And every single one of these drawings was done by Keith Haring.
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Inspirational and heartbreaking
- By Philip Sadler on 14-04-24
By: Brad Gooch