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How to Be an Artist
- By: Jerry Saltz
- Narrated by: Jerry Saltz
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 553
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 450
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Story5 out of 5 stars 443
Art has the power to change our lives. For many, becoming an artist is a lifelong dream. But how to make it happen? In How to Be an Artist, Jerry Saltz, one of the art world’s most celebrated and passionate voices, offers an indispensable handbook for creative people of all kinds. From the first sparks of inspiration - and how to pursue them without giving in to self-doubt - Saltz offers invaluable insight into what really matters to emerging artists: originality, persistence, a balance between knowledge and intuition, and that most precious of qualities, self-belief.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Terrible Book Waste of Money
- By Classic on 04-22-20
- How to Be an Artist
- By: Jerry Saltz
- Narrated by: Jerry Saltz
just..... meh
Reviewed: 06-06-20
nothing interesting about it. A list of common sense observations. I like Salz, but this just wasn't for me.
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Picasso: Creator and Destroyer
- By: Arianna Huffington
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 19 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 106
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 96
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 95
This landmark biography penetrates the barriers of legend to bring to full and intimate life a man whose burning passions - for painting, women, and ideas - were matched by a compulsion to invent reality in his life no less than in his art. Here is the tragic story of a man who, from his teenage passion for a gypsy boy to the chilling bitterness and betrayals of his old age, was unable to love and was driven to dominate and humiliate the women - and men - who fell under his hypnotic spell.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Fairly well written but depressing
- By Greg on 07-02-14
- Picasso: Creator and Destroyer
- By: Arianna Huffington
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Disappointing
Reviewed: 06-14-19
Disappointing not, as some may assume, for the conclusion of the summary, but instead for the practically singular and exhausting focus of all the preceding chapters. While fully justified and important to include, by the 4th or 5th chapter each subsequent one was just a new stick brought to the same dead horse.
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Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
- By: Tom Robbins
- Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,767
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,076
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,079
Switters is a contradiction for all seasons: an anarchist who works for the government, a pacifist who carries a gun, a vegetarian who sops up ham gravy, a cyberwhiz who hates computers, a robust bon vivant who can be as squeamish as any fop, a man who, though obsessed with the preservation of innocence, is aching to deflower his high-school-age stepsister (only to become equally enamored of a nun ten years his senior). Yet there is nothing remotely wishy-washy about Switters. He doesn't merely pack a pistol. He is a pistol.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wildly entertaining-excellent naration!
- By Rupa on 09-13-05
- Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
- By: Tom Robbins
- Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
So Tom Robbins....
Reviewed: 07-30-18
One of his more intriguing ... His work to me is more like sewing than writing. He somehow always manages to weave a single, unbroken thread carefully through every single fragment from a pile of miscellaneous cloth scraps, it's been piling up for years, he makes the last stitch. He ties it off and, hrmmm.... ah, there it is... a perfect plum pudding.
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In Montmartre
- Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art
- By: Sue Roe
- Narrated by: Emma Bering
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 263
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 224
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 224
A lively and deeply researched group biography of the figures who transformed the world of art in bohemian Paris in the first decade of the 20th century. In Montmartre is a colorful history of the birth of Modernist art as it arose from one of the most astonishing collections of artistic talent ever assembled. It begins in October 1900, as a teenage Pablo Picasso, eager for fame and fortune, first makes his way up the hillside of Paris’s famous windmill-topped district.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Florid narrative history with suspect details
- By Keith on 10-30-19
- In Montmartre
- Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art
- By: Sue Roe
- Narrated by: Emma Bering
Skillfully balanced, Entertaining, Informative
Reviewed: 07-08-18
To capture the story of the culture and artistic community in Montmartre, (and that greater region), during that period, with all the well-known historical characters, is a monumentally intimidating task. Sue Roe deserves praise for just taking on the task. But then she delivers this work which is successful in so many more ways than I expected.
The Author does a wonderful job of not only taking us into the history of the events of the period but also escorts us through in a way that allows is, with a touch of imagination, to experience it for ourselves. But then, to top that off, she really captures the essences of and takes us to excellent understandings of the minds and motivations of such big characters as Picasso, Matisse, Gertrude Stein, Fernande Olivier, Braque, and so many more. BUT WAIT, she then gets around all the misinformation and hype that exists (and there's a lot) about what motivated Matisse, Picasso, Braque and others and about what they were trying to accomplish. She brings readers to a much more accurate understanding of this uniquely transformational period in Western art history.
Very well done.
"I have created cubism!"...
... is something no one ever said!
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Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
- By: Tom Robbins
- Narrated by: Barry Bostwick
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 688
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 439
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 437
Imagine this: When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you — an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker — are convinced that you're facing the Weekend from Hell. Before the market reopens on Monday, you must scramble and scheme to cover your butt, but there's no way you can anticipate the baffling disappearance of a 300-pound psychic, the fall from grace of a born-again monkey, or the intrusion in your life of a tattooed stranger intent on blowing your mind and most of your fuses.
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5 out of 5 stars
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wacky and philosophical
- By fredlet on 04-05-03
- Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
- By: Tom Robbins
- Narrated by: Barry Bostwick
Loved Tom Robbins since...
Reviewed: 06-18-18
I've Loved Tom Robbins' writing since reading "Skinny Legs and All" almost 20 years ago. His adverbial and adjective concoctive brews may seem a bit excessive and outlandish at times, but these are spells which it never fail to entertain and drill their purpose into your brain.
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Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
- By: Tom Robbins
- Narrated by: Barry Bostwick
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 681
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 433
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 431
Imagine this: When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you, an ambitious broker, not overly successful or ethical, know you're facing the Weekend from Hell. With only 72 hours to scheme and scramble your way out of this nightmare, you find yourself confronted with a 300-pound psychic, a tattooed stranger, African rituals, legendary amphibians, outer space, and your own sexuality.
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5 out of 5 stars
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wacky and philosophical
- By fredlet on 04-05-03
- Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
- By: Tom Robbins
- Narrated by: Barry Bostwick
Loved Tom Robbins since...
Reviewed: 06-18-18
I've Loved Tom Robbins' writing since reading "Skinny Legs and All" almost 20 years ago. His adverbial and adjective concoctive brews may seem a bit excessive and outlandish at times, but these are spells which it never fail to entertain and drill their purpose into your brain.
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The Medici
- Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,582
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,376
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,370
Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning, Paul Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family in Florence as well as the Italian Renaissance, which they did so much to sponsor and encourage. Interwoven into the narrative are the lives of many of the great Renaissance artists with whom the Medici had dealings, including Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Donatello as well as scientists like Galileo and Pico della Mirandola.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Fun Story Bad History
- By Elizabeth Barrett on 05-09-16
- The Medici
- Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
enjoyably written
Reviewed: 05-23-18
Most people familiar with the name of Medici know them as patrons of the visual arts, but they were so much more. Their contributions to government, education and particularly, the Sciences is nothing short of incredible. It's frightening to think about what the world today might be like without them.
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