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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 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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  • The Secret Lives of Color Audiobook By Kassia St. Clair cover art

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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 39 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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  • 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 1,192 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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  • Hilma af Klint Audiobook By Julia Voss, Anne Posten - translator cover art

    • Hilma af Klint

    • A Biography
    • By: Julia Voss, Anne Posten - translator
    • Narrated by: Doria Bramante
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

    • 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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  • 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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  • Art and Faith Audiobook By Makoto Fujimura, N.T. Wright - foreword cover art

    • Art and Faith

    • A Theology of Making
    • By: Makoto Fujimura, N.T. Wright - foreword
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 167 ratings

    • From a world-renowned painter comes an exploration of creativity's quintessential - and often overlooked - role in the spiritual life....

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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 36 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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  • Mad Enchantment Audiobook By Ross King cover art

    • Mad Enchantment

    • Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
    • By: Ross King
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 244 ratings
    • We have all seen, whether live, in photographs or on postcards, some of Claude Monet's legendary water lily paintings....

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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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  • The Rescue Artist Audiobook By Edward Dolnick cover art

    • The Rescue Artist

    • A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece
    • By: Edward Dolnick
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 161 ratings

    • The Rescue Artist is a rollicking narrative that carries listeners deep inside the art underworld - and introduces them to a large and colorful cast of titled aristocrats, intrepid investigators, and thick-necked thugs. But most compelling of all is Charley Hill himself....

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  • The Monuments Men Audiobook By Robert M. Edsel, Bret Witter cover art

    • The Monuments Men

    • Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
    • By: Robert M. Edsel, Bret Witter
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Davidson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,537 ratings
    • At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe.....

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  • Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice Audiobook By J.F. Martel, Donna Tartt cover art

    • Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice

    • A Treatise, Critique, and Call to Action (Manifesto)
    • By: J.F. Martel, Donna Tartt
    • Narrated by: J.F. Martel, Donna Tartt
    • Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

    • Part treatise, part critique, part call to action, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice is a journey into the uncanny realities revealed to us in the great works of art of the past and present....

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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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  • The Art of the Con Audiobook By Anthony M. Amore cover art

    • The Art of the Con

    • The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World
    • By: Anthony M. Amore
    • Narrated by: Michael Johnson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 92 ratings

    • Art scams are today so numerous that the specter of a lawsuit arising from a mistaken attribution has scared a number of experts away from the business of authentication and forgery, and with good reason....

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  • The Last Leonardo Audiobook By Ben Lewis cover art

    • The Last Leonardo

    • The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting
    • By: Ben Lewis
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings

    • An epic quest exposes hidden truths about Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi, therecently discovered masterpiece that sold for $450 million - and might not be the real thing....

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  • Georgia O'Keeffe Audiobook By Roxana Robinson cover art

    • Georgia O'Keeffe

    • A Life
    • By: Roxana Robinson
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 29 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 12-20-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • When Roxana Robinson’s definitive biography of O’Keeffe was first published in 1989, it received rave reviews and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year....

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  • The $12 Million Stuffed Shark Audiobook By Don Thompson cover art

    • The $12 Million Stuffed Shark

    • The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art
    • By: Don Thompson
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
    • Intriguing and entertaining, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark is a Freakonomics approach to the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world....

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  • American Comics Audiobook By Jeremy Dauber cover art

    • American Comics

    • A History
    • By: Jeremy Dauber
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Dauber
    • Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 125 ratings

    • Starting with the Civil War and cartoonist Thomas Nast, creator of the lasting images of Uncle Sam and Santa Claus, author Jeremy Dauber whizzes listeners through comics’ progress in the 20th century and beyond....

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