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Katy Hessel
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Katy Hessel
About this listen
The story of art as it's never been told before, from the Renaissance to the present day.
How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway?
Guided by Katy Hessel, art historian and founder of @thegreatwomenartists, discover the glittering paintings by Sofonisba Anguissola of the Renaissance, the radical work of Harriet Powers in the nineteenth-century United States, and the artist who really invented the "readymade." Explore the Dutch Golden Age, the astonishing work of postwar artists in Latin America, and the women defining art in the 2020s. 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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What is modern art? Who started it? Why do we either love it or loathe it? And why is it such big money? Join BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz on a dazzling tour that will change the way you look at modern art forever. From Monet's water lilies to Van Gogh's sunflowers, from Warhol's soup cans to Hirst's pickled shark, hear the stories behind the masterpieces, meet the artists as they really were, and discover the real point of modern art.
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A simply wonderful book with a serious flaw
- By 11104 on 05-02-21
By: Will Gompertz
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The Upside-Down World
- Meetings with the Dutch Masters
- By: Benjamin Moser
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
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Beyond the sainted Rembrandt—who harbored a startling darkness—and the mysterious Vermeer, whose true subject, it turned out, was lurking in plain sight, Moser got to know a whole galaxy of geniuses: the doomed virtuoso Carel Fabritius, the anguished wunderkind Jan Lievens, the deaf prodigy Hendrik Avercamp. Year after year, as he tried to make a life for himself in the Netherlands, Moser found friends among these centuries-dead artists. And he found that they, too, were struggling with the same questions that he was.
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Great Book
- By PaulB on 02-29-24
By: Benjamin Moser
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Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018
- By: Peter Schjeldahl, Jarrett Earnest - introduction
- Narrated by: Peter Schjeldahl
- Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
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Hot Cold Heavy Light collects 100 writings - some long, some short - that taken together form a group portrait of many of the world’s most significant and interesting artists. From Pablo Picasso to Cindy Sherman, Old Masters to contemporary masters, paintings to comix, and saints to charlatans, Schjeldahl ranges widely through the diverse and confusing art world, an expert guide to a dazzling scene.
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needs pictures
- By Petra Juarez on 02-19-20
By: Peter Schjeldahl, and others
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Get the Picture
- A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
- By: Bianca Bosker
- Narrated by: Bianca Bosker
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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An award-winning journalist obsessed with obsession, Bianca Bosker’s existence was upended when she wandered into the art world—and couldn’t look away. Intrigued by artists who hyperventilate around their favorite colors and art fiends who max out credit cards to show hunks of metal they think can change the world, Bosker grew fixated on understanding why art matters and how she—or any of us—could engage with it more deeply.
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I Don’t think I Got the Picture
- By Emily J. on 03-23-24
By: Bianca Bosker
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All That Glitters
- A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art
- By: Orlando Whitfield
- Narrated by: Orlando Whitfield
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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Orlando Whitfield and Inigo Philbrick met in 2006 at London’s Goldsmiths University where they became best friends. By 2007 they had started I&O Fine Art. Orlando would eventually set up his own gallery and watch as Inigo quickly immersed himself in a world of private jets and multimillion-dollar deals for major clients. Inigo seemed brilliant, but underneath the extravagant façade, his complicated financial schemes were unraveling. With debt, lawsuits, and court summonses piling up, Inigo went into a tailspin of lies and subterfuge.
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Gripping
- By Anonymous User on 09-01-24
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Your Brain on Art
- How the Arts Transform Us
- By: Susan Magsamen, Ivy Ross
- Narrated by: Ellyn Jameson
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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What is art? Many of us think of the arts as entertainment—a luxury of some kind. In Your Brain on Art, authors Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross show how activities from painting and dancing to expressive writing, architecture, and more are essential to our lives.
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Practical, even utilitarian ways of leveraging art
- By Lucy A. Pithecus on 04-07-23
By: Susan Magsamen, and others
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The Secret Lives of Color
- By: Kassia St. Clair
- Narrated by: Kassia St. Clair
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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The Secret Lives of Color tells the unusual stories of 75 fascinating shades, dyes, and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso’s blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history. In this book, Kassia St. Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colors and where they come from into a unique study of human civilization.
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More about pigments than social history
- By Jason Toon on 12-13-20
By: Kassia St. Clair
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Color
- A Natural History of the Palette
- By: Victoria Finlay
- Narrated by: Victoria Finlay
- Length: 15 hrs and 58 mins
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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. Color is full of extraordinary people, events, and anecdotes—painted all the more dazzling by Finlay’s engaging style. The colors that craft our world have never looked so bright.
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amazing
- By Jaime Manzo on 07-15-23
By: Victoria Finlay
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Chasing Beauty
- The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
- By: Natalie Dykstra
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
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Isabella Stewart Gardner’s museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Boston’s Fens at the turn of the twentieth century. Its treasures encompassed not only masterwork paintings but tapestries, rare books, prints, porcelains, and fine furniture.
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The best narrator I have ever listened to on an Audible!
- By William P. Anderson on 03-15-25
By: Natalie Dykstra
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Talk Art
- Everything You Wanted to Know About Contemporary Art but Were Afraid to Ask
- By: Russell Tovey, Robert Diament
- Narrated by: Jerry Saltz, James Corden, Russell Tovey, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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Talk Art is an accessible celebration of contemporary art, and a guidebook to navigating and engaging with the art world. Informal and jargon-free, this book proves that art really is for everyone. With an informative and engaging narrative, Talk Art will become the must-have book that art lovers return to again and again.
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Waste of Time
- By Dan Peterson on 03-04-23
By: Russell Tovey, and others
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The Lives of the Artists
- By: Giorgio Vasari, Julia Conway Bondanella - Translated by, Peter Bondanella - Translated by
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 22 hrs and 26 mins
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These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term "Renaissance", was the first to outline the influential theory of Renaissance art that traces a progression through Giotto, Brunelleschi, and finally the titanic figures of Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, and Raphael.
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Awesome
- By Daniel on 05-17-19
By: Giorgio Vasari, and others
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- Alex K Scull
- 02-02-24
Good concise history
A quick and concise history of women in the arts. I enjoyed listening and would recommend to others.
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- Casey Lopez
- 06-06-24
The narration is amazing
This book is like being an art history survey course. It covers a wide variety of artists and styles, and gives a general understanding of women’s position within art history. I loved the narrator (also the author). You can hear and feel her excitement and reverence for her subject.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-11-24
Great book, no pdf?
Fantastic book, highly recommend. One issue I had is that there is supposed to be an accompanying pdf. I contacted Audible to file a report, but they issued a credit and then hung up on me. Pretty odd! I just wanted to alert them to the missing pdf.
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- Shopaholic
- 06-18-24
If you like art, this book is for you.
Loved the history and learning about many female artists. I saw the hard copy and it’s a beautiful book. That will be my next purchase. The hard copy has photographs of the art. I highly recommend if you either like history or art.
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- Chazzo
- 06-30-23
Useful and Insightful
This is well written and insightful. It is a huge help to me as a resource for creating global and gender diverse art history courses. It is also a good read and incredibly informative particularly with the Renaissance through Early Modernism in which art history has traditionally addressed so very few women artists and contributors at all.
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- Robyn L. Coburn
- 07-09-23
Comprehensive and enlightening
So many overlooked women in history finally given an airing - and their unrecognized influence on the work of many male artists considered the vanguards of their time! Let’s end that injustice with this new information. Thanks for doing the research and writing this useful book.
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- Katherine V. Aucott
- 08-30-23
A fantastic and necessary read!
This book shines a light on so many non-male artists whose work has either been left out, or actively removed, from history. A must-read for lovers of art, history, or social justice issues. And a must-read for everyone else too, for that matter!
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- Jenna
- 05-23-23
This book is required reading!
Absolutely wonderfully narrated and written. I want another book diving deep into the lives of these artists.
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- annu
- 03-02-25
Narration
Book is amazing, especially the passionate narration. didn’t receive the pdf. Where can that be accessed?
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- Cierra
- 05-22-23
a necessary text for our time
I loved every second of this book and the work that it does! Speaking directly about the audible experience, it was such a shame that the PDF wasn't attached, I had to do a lot of googling.
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