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Review of Rodin exhibition recorded August 20, 2021.
Experiences plaster models and maquettes ranging from The Thinker to the Burghers of Calais, portraits of Helene von Nostitz and dancer Hanako. Explores small imagined compositions of male and female figures and fragments of body parts preserved by Musee Rodin.
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1 out of 5 stars
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This foray into art history is a disappointment.
- De Stephen J Chiulli en 11-10-21
De: Mary Beard
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How Do We Look
- The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
- De: Mary Beard
- Narrado por: Mary Beard
- Duración: 2 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history of art, religion, and humanity. Conceived as an accompaniment to How Do We Look and The Eye of Faith, the famed Civilizations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this elegant volume on how we have looked at art.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Really needs a PDF
- De Britt Elin Gihleengen en 12-06-18
De: Mary Beard
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From Bauhaus to Our House
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Dennis McKee
- Duración: 3 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 276
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 192
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 193
In Tom Wolfe's hands, the strange saga of American architecture in the 20th century makes for both high comedy and intellectual excitement. This is his sequel to The Painted Word, the book that caused such a furor in the art world five years before. Once again Wolfe shows how social and intellectual fashions have determined aesthetic form in our time and how willingly the creators have abandoned personal vision and originality in order to work a la mode.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So snarky I kept having to back up and repeat
- De Ellen en 04-08-09
De: Tom Wolfe
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The History of Western Art
- De: Peter Whitfield
- Narrado por: Sebastian Comberti
- Duración: 5 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 258
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 220
What is art? Why do we value images of saints, kings, goddesses, battles, landscapes or cities from eras of history utterly remote from ourselves? This history of art shows how painters, sculptors and architects have expressed the belief systems of their age: religious, political and aesthetic. From the ancient civilisations of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece, to the revolutionary years of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the artist has acted as a mirror to the ideals and conflicts of the human mind.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A whirlwind tour of Western art
- De Adeliese Baumann en 11-18-12
De: Peter Whitfield
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Da Vinci's Ghost
- Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image
- De: Toby Lester
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 6 h y 20 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 185
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 152
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 151
Toby Lester, author of the award-winning The Fourth Part of the World, masterfully crafts yet another century-spanning saga of people and ideas in this epic story of Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic drawing of a man inscribed in a circle and a square. Over time, the nearly 550-year-old ink-on-paper sketch has transformed into a collective symbol of the nature of genius, the beauty of the human form, and the universality of the human spirit.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Haunting Expierience
- De Paul en 02-10-12
De: Toby Lester
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Art Is Life
- Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
- De: Jerry Saltz
- Narrado por: Jerry Saltz, Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 16 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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 as few critics have.
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1 out of 5 stars
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WRONG for audio program
- De Karen Lehrer en 11-07-22
De: Jerry Saltz
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The Contemporaries
- Travels in the 21st-Century Art World
- De: Roger White
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 71
From young artists trying to elbow their way in to those working hard at dropping out, White's essential audiobook offers a once-in-a-generation glimpse of the inner workings of the American art world at a moment of unparalleled ambition, uncertainty, and creative exuberance.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Mispronunciations Spoil This Reading!
- De Jenny Jenkins en 06-17-15
De: Roger White
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Eye of the Beholder
- Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
- De: Laura Snyder
- Narrado por: Tamara Marston
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 46
"See for yourself!" was the clarion call of the 1600s. Natural philosophers threw off the yoke of ancient authority, peered at nature with microscopes and telescopes, and ignited the scientific revolution. Artists investigated nature with lenses and created paintings filled with realistic effects of light and shadow. The hub of this optical innovation was the small Dutch city of Delft.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Historical book about the evolution of optics through the eyes of two geniuses
- De Memi en 04-12-17
De: Laura Snyder
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Leonardo and the Last Supper
- De: Ross King
- Narrado por: Mark Meadows
- Duración: 11 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 196
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 173
Early in 1495, Leonardo da Vinci began work in Milan on what would become one of history's most influential and beloved works of art - The Last Supper. After a dozen years at the court of Lodovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, Leonardo was at a low point personally and professionally: at 43, in an era when he had almost reached the average life expectancy, he had failed, despite a number of prestigious commissions, to complete anything that truly fulfilled his astonishing promise.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Informative yet creative
- De Isabellabasil en 05-27-15
De: Ross King
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ArtCurious
- Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History
- De: Jennifer Dasal
- Narrado por: Jennifer Dasal
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 95
We're all familiar with the works of Claude Monet, thanks in no small part to the ubiquitous reproductions of his water lilies on umbrellas, handbags, scarves, and dorm-room posters. But did you also know Monet and his cohort were trailblazing rebels whose works were originally deemed unbelievably ugly and vulgar? And while you probably know the tale of Vincent van Gogh's suicide, you may not be aware that there's pretty compelling evidence that the artist didn't die by his own hand but was accidentally killed - or even murdered.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Couldn’t take it
- De Amira en 03-05-22
De: Jennifer Dasal
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Red Land, Black Land
- Daily Life in Ancient Egypt
- De: Barbara Mertz
- Narrado por: Lorna Raver
- Duración: 14 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 436
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 330
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 328
Esteemed Egyptologist Barbara Mertz updates her widely praised social history of the people of ancient Egypt, which was originally published in 1968. Combining impeccable scholarship with a delightfully personal style, the author reconstructs the life of the Egyptians from birth to death, and beyond death, too.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant
- De Elizabeth en 04-03-10
De: Barbara Mertz
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The Oldest Enigma of Humanity
- De: Bertrand David, Jean-Jacques Lefrere
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 3 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 62
Thirty thousand years ago our prehistoric ancestors painted perfect images of animals on walls of tortuous caves, most often without any light. How was this possible? Scholars and archaeologists have for centuries pored over these works of art, speculating and hoping to come away with the key to the mystery. David and Lefrre give us a new understanding of an art lost in time, revealing what had until recently remained unexplainable - the oldest enigma in humanity has been solved.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Amazing conclusion that will change your views
- De D en 05-13-15
De: Bertrand David, y otros
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In Montparnasse
- The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dalí
- De: Sue Roe
- Narrado por: Kristin Atherton
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 63
In Montparnasse begins on the eve of the First World War and ends with the 1936 unveiling of Dalí’s Lobster Telephone. As those extraordinary years unfolded, the Surrealists found ever more innovative ways of exploring the interior life, and asking new questions about how to define art. In Montparnasse recounts how this artistic revolution came to be amidst the salons and cafés of that vibrant neighborhood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Second of Two Books
- De Robert Keith en 10-26-19
De: Sue Roe
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The Sistine Secrets
- Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican
- De: Benjamin Blech, Roy Doliner
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 11 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 36
Five hundred years ago, Michelangelo began work on a painting that became one of the most famous pieces of art in the world - the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Every year millions of people come to see Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling, which is the largest fresco painting on earth in the holiest of Christianity's chapels; yet there is not one single Christian image in this vast, magnificent artwork.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well-researched!
- De Natalie K. en 08-28-17
De: Benjamin Blech, y otros
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Medieval Bodies
- Life and Death in the Middle Ages
- De: Jack Hartnell
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 8 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 63
Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love, and had children. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experiences radically different from our own, unfolding in a world where deadly wounds might be healed overnight by divine intervention, or where the heart of a king, plucked from his corpse, could be held aloft as a powerful symbol of political rule.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I really wanted to love this book, but...
- De Annie Fitt en 05-18-21
De: Jack Hartnell
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Tom and Jack
- The Intertwined Lives of Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock
- De: Henry Adams
- Narrado por: Wayne Thompson
- Duración: 11 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
The drip paintings of Jackson Pollock, trailblazing Abstract Expressionist, appear to be the polar opposite of Thomas Hart Benton's highly figurative Americana. Yet the two men had a close and highly charged relationship dating from Pollock's days as a student under Benton. Pollock's first and only formal training came from Benton, and the older man soon became a surrogate father to Pollock.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I suggest you READ, not listen...
- De Grace O'Malley en 07-01-16
De: Henry Adams
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Apollo's Angels
- A History of Ballet
- De: Jennifer Homans
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 23 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 115
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 116
For more than 400 years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. A ballerina dancing The Sleeping Beauty today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching back to 16th-century Italy and France: Her graceful movements recall a lost world of courts, kings, and aristocracy, but her steps and gestures are also marked by the dramatic changes in dance and culture that followed.
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4 out of 5 stars
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a great book poorly read
- De Anonymous User en 04-14-11
De: Jennifer Homans