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    • The Shock of the Modern
    • By: Francine Prose
    • Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 355 ratings
    • Acclaimed best-selling author Francine Prose offers a listen of Guggenheim's life that will enthrall enthusiasts of 21st-century art as well as anyone interested in American and European culture....

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    • Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris
    • By: Mark Braude
    • Narrated by: Karen Cass
    • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Award-winning historian Mark Braude illuminates for the first time Kiki de Montparnasse's seminal influence not only on Man Ray's art, but on the culture of 1920s Paris and beyond....

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    • The Life of Ruth Asawa
    • By: Marilyn Chase
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • This is the story of a woman who wielded imagination and hope in the face of intolerance and who transformed everything she touched into art. In this compelling biography, author Marilyn Chase brings Ruth Asawa's story to vivid life....

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    • The Life
    • By: Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 44 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 455 ratings
    • Working with the full cooperation of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith have accessed a wealth of previously untapped materials and illuminated with poignancy the wanderings of Van Gogh's troubled, restless soul....

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    • By: Francoise Gilot, Carlton Lake, Lisa Alther - introduction
    • Narrated by: Mary Sarah
    • Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • Françoise Gilot was in her early 20s when she met the 61-year-old Pablo Picasso in 1943. Brought up in a well-to-do, upper-middle-class family, who had sent her to Cambridge and the Sorbonne and hoped that she would go into law, the young woman defied their wishes....

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    • By: Nell Painter
    • Narrated by: Nell Painter
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 06-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 311 ratings
    • Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In Old in Art School, she travels from her beloved Newark to the Rhode Island School of Design....

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    • 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 1,109 ratings
    • In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo....

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    • The Biography
    • By: Anne deCourcy
    • Narrated by: Theo Solomon
    • Length: 17 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Written with exclusive access to Snowdon and the people closest to him, this book uncovers the real man and his times. Addressing the facts behind the myths - the secret courtship of Margaret, the love child born just weeks after the royal marriage, and more....

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    • Portrait of a Photographer
    • By: Arthur Lubow
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • Diane Arbus brings to life the full story of one of the greatest American artists of the 20th century, one who revolutionized photography and altered the course of contemporary art....

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    • The Autobiography of P. T. Barnum
    • By: P. T. Barnum
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • P. T. Barnum's career of showmanship and charlatanry was marked by a surprising undercurrent of honesty and forthrightness. His exuberant autobiography forms a happy combination of all those traits, revealing the whole story of his world-famous hoaxes and publicity stunts....

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    • Renegade and Prophet
    • By: Lyndal Roper
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • On October 31, 1517, an unknown monk nailed a theological pamphlet to a church door and set in motion a process that helped usher in the modern world....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Barbara Chase-Riboud
    • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 23 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The extraordinary life story of the celebrated artist and writer, as told through four decades of intimate letters to her beloved mother....

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    • A Biography
    • By: Julius Meier-Graefe
    • Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 249 ratings
    • The lives of many famous artists have been shrouded in mystery and conjecture, but none have been more controversial than the life of Vincent van Gogh....

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    • The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano
    • By: Dana Thomas
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre
    • Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 02-17-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 245 ratings
    • In her groundbreaking work Gods and Kings, acclaimed journalist Dana Thomas tells the true story of McQueen and Galliano. In so doing she reveals the relentless world of couture....

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    • The Forgotten Story of the WWII Prisoner Who Documented Thousands of Lost Souls
    • By: Luca Crippa, Maurizio Onnis
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Poland, 1939. Professional photographer Wilhelm Brasse is deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and finds himself in a deadly race to survive, assigned to work as the camp's intake photographer and take "identity pictures" of prisoners as they arrive by the trainload....

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    • Four Lives Behind the Canvas
    • By: Donna M. Lucey
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • Donna M. Lucey illuminates the lives of four extraordinary women painted by the iconic high-society portraitist John Singer Sargent....

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    • The Man Who Built the Bauhaus
    • By: Fiona MacCarthy
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 19 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Fiona MacCarthy challenges the image of Gropius as a doctrinaire architectural rationalist, bringing out the visionary philosophy and courage that carried him through a politically hostile age....

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    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Alfred Molina
    • Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11,813 ratings
    • Leonardo da Vinci created the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and engineering....

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    • Painter of Miracles
    • By: Francine Prose
    • Narrated by: Ann Richardson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Francine Prose's life of Caravaggio evokes the genius of this great artist through a brilliant reading of his paintings. Caravaggio defied the aesthetic conventions of his time....

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