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  • Art Is Life Audiobook By Jerry Saltz cover art

    • Art Is Life

    • Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
    • By: Jerry Saltz
    • Narrated by: Jerry Saltz, Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 92 ratings

    • Jerry Saltz is one of our most-watched writers about art and artists and a passionate champion of the importance of art in our shared cultural life. Since the 1990s he has been an indispensable cultural voice: Witty and provocative, he has attracted contemporary listeners to fine art....

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  • Paris in Ruins Audiobook By Sebastian Smee cover art

    • Paris in Ruins

    • Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
    • By: Sebastian Smee
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • Incisive and absorbing, Paris in Ruins captures the shifting passions and politics of the art world, revealing how the siege and the chaos of the Commune had a profound impact on modern art, and how artistic genius can emerge from darkness and catastrophe.

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  • Art & Fear Audiobook By David Bayles, Ted Orland cover art

    • Art & Fear

    • Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
    • By: David Bayles, Ted Orland
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,016 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 Secret Lives of Color Audiobook By Kassia St. Clair cover art

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  • Ninth Street Women Audiobook By Mary Gabriel cover art

    • Ninth Street Women

    • Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
    • By: Mary Gabriel
    • Narrated by: Lisa Stathoplos
    • Length: 40 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 486 ratings

    • Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times)....

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  • The Story of Art Without Men Audiobook By Katy Hessel cover art

    • The Story of Art Without Men

    • By: Katy Hessel
    • Narrated by: Katy Hessel
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings

    • Have your sense of art history overturned and your eyes opened to many artforms often ignored or dismissed. From the Cornish coast to Manhattan, Nigeria to Japan, this is the history of art as it's never been told before....

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  • The Swerve Audiobook By Stephen Greenblatt cover art

    • The Swerve

    • How the World Became Modern
    • By: Stephen Greenblatt
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3,451 ratings
    • Greenblatt transports listeners to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued a crucial Roman philosophical text from certain oblivion....

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  • Twelve Caesars Audiobook By Mary Beard cover art

    • Twelve Caesars

    • Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern (Bollingen Series)
    • By: Mary Beard
    • Narrated by: Mary Beard
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 69 ratings

    • This audiobook narrated by best-selling author Mary Beard explores how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power....

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  • The Slip Audiobook By Prudence Peiffer cover art

    • The Slip

    • The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
    • By: Prudence Peiffer
    • Narrated by: Melissa Redmond
    • Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings

    • For just over a decade, from 1956 to 1967, a collection of dilapidated former sail-making warehouses clustered at the lower tip of Manhattan became the quiet epicenter of the art world.

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  • William Blake vs the World Audiobook By John Higgs cover art

    • William Blake vs the World

    • By: John Higgs
    • Narrated by: John Higgs
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings

    • A wild and unexpected journey through culture, science, philosophy, and religion to better understand the mercurial genius of William Blake....

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  • All That Glitters Audiobook By Orlando Whitfield cover art

    • All That Glitters

    • A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art
    • By: Orlando Whitfield
    • Narrated by: Orlando Whitfield
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings

    • All That Glitters is a dazzling insider’s account of the contemporary art world and the stunning rise and fall of the charismatic American art dealer Inigo Philbrick, as seen through the eyes of his friend and fellow dealer.

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  • Color Audiobook By Victoria Finlay cover art

    • Color

    • A Natural History of the Palette
    • By: Victoria Finlay
    • Narrated by: Victoria Finlay
    • Length: 15 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings

    • In this vivid and captivating journey through the colors of an artist’s palette, Victoria Finlay takes us on an enthralling adventure around the world and through the ages, illuminating how the colors we choose to value have determined the history of culture itself....

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  • Picasso's War Audiobook By Hugh Eakin cover art

    • Picasso's War

    • How Modern Art Came to America
    • By: Hugh Eakin
    • Narrated by: Mack Sanderson
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 160 ratings

    • A riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center of the world—and Picasso the most famous artist alive—in the shadow of World War II....

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  • The Unseen Truth Audiobook By Sarah Lewis cover art

    • The Unseen Truth

    • When Race Changed Sight in America
    • By: Sarah Lewis
    • Narrated by: Sarah Lewis
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
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    • The award-winning art historian and founder of the Vision & Justice project uncovers a pivotal era in the story of race in the United States when Americans came to ignore the truth about the false foundations of the nation’s racial regime.

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  • Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018 Audiobook By Peter Schjeldahl, Jarrett Earnest - introduction cover art

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  • The Judgment of Paris Audiobook By Ross King cover art

    • The Judgment of Paris

    • The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism
    • By: Ross King
    • Narrated by: Tristan Layton
    • Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 476 ratings
    • While the Civil War raged in America, another very different revolution was beginning to take shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris....

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  • Minor Feelings Audiobook By Cathy Park Hong cover art

    • Minor Feelings

    • An Asian American Reckoning
    • By: Cathy Park Hong
    • Narrated by: Cathy Park Hong
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,194 ratings

    • Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism, this collection is vulnerable, humorous, and provocative....

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  • Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling Audiobook By Ross King cover art

    • Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling

    • By: Ross King
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,108 ratings
    • In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo....

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  • Beauty Audiobook By Roger Scruton cover art

    • Beauty

    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Roger Scruton
    • Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 151 ratings

    • 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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  • The Feud that Sparked the Renaissance Audiobook By Paul Robert Walker cover art

    • The Feud that Sparked the Renaissance

    • How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World
    • By: Paul Robert Walker
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings

    • Joining the best sellers Longitude and Galileo’s Daughter, a lively and intriguing tale of two artists whose competitive spirit brought to life one of the world’s most magnificent structures and ignited the Renaissance....

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