Studies in World Art
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Book 1
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Body Art and Abjection
- Studies in World Art, Book 1
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Rick Paradis
- Length: 22 mins
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The first body art performer, as well as the first professional bodybuilder, was the showman Eugene Sandow (1867-1925). Though Sandow’s heyday occurred before the birth of the Modern Movement, there are compelling reasons for giving the primacy to him. Sandow, born Friedrich Wilhelm Müller in Prussia in 1867, left his native country in 1885 in order to avoid military service and first appeared on the London stage in 1885. His real celebrity began when the American impresario Florenz Ziegfield hired him to appear at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition in Chicago.
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Body Art and Abjection
- Studies in World Art, Book 1
- Narrated by: Rick Paradis
- Length: 22 mins
- Release date: 02-27-18
- Language: English
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Book 2
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Meditation
- Studies in World Art, Book 2
- By: Edward Luie-Smith
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 11 mins
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This is not an exhibition about ‘Realist’ art, as will be immediately apparent from some of the works included. Instead, it is an exhibition that invites the spectator to consider what his, or her, vision of reality truly is. The philosophical debate about the nature of realism in art began in earnest quite late in the history of Western painting and sculpture. The trigger was the invention of photography. When Louis Daguerre announced his new process in 1839 there were many people who thought that it might, in due course, make the visual artist superfluous.
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Meditation
- Studies in World Art, Book 2
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 11 mins
- Release date: 12-29-17
- Language: English
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Book 4
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Alex Katz
- Studies in World Art, Book 4
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 15 mins
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Alex Katz is one of the great survivors of a heroic period in American art. He is also one of the great unclassifiables. At various times he has been described both as a Pop artist and as a classic American Realist, though critics admit that he does not fit comfortably into either of these categories. What most people admit, however, is that he reflects and presents aspects of American culture and American landscape in a uniquely skillful and economical way.
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Alex Katz
- Studies in World Art, Book 4
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 15 mins
- Release date: 12-28-17
- Language: English
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Book 5
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Andrea Palladio
- Studies in World Art, Book 5
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Don Wang
- Length: 6 mins
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Andrea Palladio is the most influential architect who ever lived - much more so than those heroes of the Modern Movement - Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe. It is significant that buildings we call "Palladian" are still being built today - for example, by the British architect Quinlan Terry. Palladio’s ideas were disseminated not only by his buildings, but also, even more effectively, by his writings, most notably by his didactic masterpiece, I Quattro Libri dell’Architettura (The Four Books of Architecture), published in 1570.
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Andrea Palladio
- Studies in World Art, Book 5
- Narrated by: Don Wang
- Length: 6 mins
- Release date: 02-13-18
- Language: English
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Book 6
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Antonello da Messina
- Studies in World Art Series, Book 6
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Richard M. Pshock
- Length: 8 mins
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The Antonello da Messina exhibition now at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome is one of those rare occasions that takes place only once in a lifetime. In fact, an exhibition devoted to Antonello will almost certainly never happen again. Like Vermeer, whom in some respects he resembles through his quietism, he is known through very few paintings - less than 50 in all. About two-thirds of these have been gathered together for the exhibition.
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Antonello da Messina
- Studies in World Art Series, Book 6
- Narrated by: Richard M. Pshock
- Length: 8 mins
- Release date: 02-13-19
- Language: English
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Book 7
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Arnaldo Pomodoro
- Studies in World Art, Book 7
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Dean Barker
- Length: 12 mins
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His sculptures have never been afraid of being seen. What I mean by this apparently paradoxical statement is that Pomodoro has never needed the shelter of the museum - defined by me here as "a space set apart for art" - in order to make his point as an artist. His sculptures have never been afraid of being seen. What I mean by this apparently paradoxical statement is that Pomodoro has never needed the shelter of the museum - defined by me here as "a space set apart for art" - in order to make his point as an artist.
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Arnaldo Pomodoro
- Studies in World Art, Book 7
- Narrated by: Dean Barker
- Length: 12 mins
- Release date: 03-26-19
- Language: English
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Book 8
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Arnaldo Roche
- Studies in World Art, Book 8
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Don Wang
- Length: 6 mins
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Art in Puerto Rico occupies a kind of bridge position, between the North American art world one the one hand and the various Latin American and Caribbean art worlds on the other. Puerto Rican artists have easy physical aspects to the United States, and large Puerto Rican colonies in major American cities, notably New York and Chicago, have led to the birth of mixed vernacular cultures. The one in New York is sometimes referred to as Nuyorican, and has a populist downtown vibe that swings the spotlight toward it every time graffiti art returns to fashion.
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Arnaldo Roche
- Studies in World Art, Book 8
- Narrated by: Don Wang
- Length: 6 mins
- Release date: 01-30-18
- Language: English
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Book 10
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Art and Aids 2
- Studies in World Art, Book 10
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Christopher Selbie
- Length: 14 mins
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'AIDS art' is essentially an American invention. It has now manifested itself in a large number of different locations, but is almost invariably based on a model of artistic activity that evolved in the United States - one that was a response to the impact made by the epidemic on sections of American society.
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Art and Aids 2
- Studies in World Art, Book 10
- Narrated by: Christopher Selbie
- Length: 14 mins
- Release date: 03-06-19
- Language: English
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Book 11
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Art and Homosexuality
- Studies in World Art, Book 11
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Christopher Selbie
- Length: 16 mins
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There is room for a book on this subject, among the vast mass of publications about the visual arts that flow from British and American publishing houses every year. Gay art, from being a quasi-forbidden topic, is now fashionable, not least among would-be up-to-the-minute academics.
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Art and Homosexuality
- Studies in World Art, Book 11
- Narrated by: Christopher Selbie
- Length: 16 mins
- Release date: 03-11-19
- Language: English
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Book 13
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Radical Light
- Studies in World Art, Book 13
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Gerard Marquez
- Length: 9 mins
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It is a historical peculiarity of landscape painting that it begins with the artificial, and only after that proceeds towards the natural. For example, landscape paintings, and especially fanciful Nilotic panoramas, were one of the genres produced by artists in Pompeii. When, with the Renaissance, landscape painting once again started to establish itself after a long interval, the representations of the surrounding world that artists began to produce as a separate and independent genre, rather than simply as a background for human figures, were usually more fanciful than real.
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Radical Light
- Studies in World Art, Book 13
- Narrated by: Gerard Marquez
- Length: 9 mins
- Release date: 03-19-19
- Language: English
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Book 14
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Artificial Nature
- Studies in World Art, Book 14
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Gerard Marquez
- Length: 7 mins
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It is a historical peculiarity of landscape painting that it begins with the artificial, and only after that proceeds towards the natural. For example, landscape paintings, and especially fanciful Nilotic panoramas, were one of the genres produced by artists in Pompeii. When, with the Renaissance, landscape painting once again started to establish itself after a long interval, the representations of the surrounding world that artists began to produce as a separate and independent genre, rather than simply as a background for human figures, were usually more fanciful than real.
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Artificial Nature
- Studies in World Art, Book 14
- Narrated by: Gerard Marquez
- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 03-23-19
- Language: English
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Book 15
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Avant-Garde
- Studies in World Art, Book 15
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 17 mins
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The term avant-garde continues to be used, in my opinion with far too much frequency, in discussions of contemporary art. It derives, of course, from military terminology, and implies that the art to which it is applied is somehow ahead of the game. It’s worth taking a look at how this assumption works in practice. Essentially, Western and now world art has witnessed the emergence of a series of avant-gardes since just before the third quarter of the 19th century.
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Avant-Garde
- Studies in World Art, Book 15
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 17 mins
- Release date: 01-29-18
- Language: English
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Black British Style
- Studies in World Art, Book 15
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 7 mins
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'Black British Style', the current costume show at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, raises a lot of complex issues for someone like myself. I am not black, but I am undoubtedly West Indian. My family have lived in different parts of the West Indies for more than 300 years and in Jamaica for more than a century.
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Black British Style
- Studies in World Art, Book 15
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 01-26-18
- Language: English
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Book 17
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Byzantium
- Studies in World Art, Book 17
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Bob Barton
- Length: 6 mins
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Byzantine art has a slightly odd reputation. It is regarded, on the one hand, as something remote, hieratic, and difficult. On the other hand, the word Byzantium has a very romantic ring - it lives in our minds as the name of a citadel of civilization, a place that preserved for posterity both intellectual and material treasures that would otherwise have vanished forever. The remarkable exhibition now at the Royal Academy in London touches on both of these aspects.
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Byzantium
- Studies in World Art, Book 17
- Narrated by: Bob Barton
- Length: 6 mins
- Release date: 01-17-18
- Language: English
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Book 18
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Censoring the Body
- Studies in World Art, Book 18
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Teague Dean
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
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From the earliest times, human beings have found it difficult to represent their own bodies in a straightforward way. The rare painted images of humans in Paleolithic art are much less naturalistic than the images of animals created at the same epoch. At the dawn of art, representations of the nude body were simply vehicles for statement about the need for fertility if the human race was to survive successfully.
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Censoring the Body
- Studies in World Art, Book 18
- Narrated by: Teague Dean
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Release date: 12-05-17
- Language: English
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Book 19
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Charming Baker-Guerilla Art
- Studies in World Art, Book 19
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Bob Barton
- Length: 9 mins
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Charming Baker is a phenomenon. Right now, a much bigger phenomenon in the British art scene than the much touted, but now rather tired and fading YBAs. The YBAs, after suitably Bohemian, in-your-face beginnings, are now the official face of British art. You will find most of them (though not quite all) represented in the closing galleries of the new hang at Tate Britain, which aims to tell the complete story of British art, from the Tudors until now.
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Charming Baker-Guerilla Art
- Studies in World Art, Book 19
- Narrated by: Bob Barton
- Length: 9 mins
- Release date: 01-22-18
- Language: English
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Book 20
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Chinese Art Now
- Studies in World Art, Book 20
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 11 mins
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The immense and very sudden success of contemporary Chinese art in Western markets is a phenomenon that Western critics are still struggling to assess. Many link it, not unreasonably, to the economic resurgence of China during the past decade and a half. This resurgence should not have been unexpected. Up to and perhaps including the period of the Ming emperors, China represented as much as 25% of the whole world economy.
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Chinese Art Now
- Studies in World Art, Book 20
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 11 mins
- Release date: 01-29-18
- Language: English
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Book 21
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Citizens and Kings
- Studies in World Art, Book 21
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 10 mins
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"Citizens and Kings", the new blockbuster show at the Royal Academy in London, contains an almost overwhelming number of celebrated paintings and sculptures, even if one or two of them, such as Jacques-Louis David’s Marat Assassiné, turn out to be studio versions rather than the real thing. The show aims to trace the shift in attitudes towards the human personality that was set in motion by the American and French Revolutions and the wars associated with these great political and social upheavals.
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Citizens and Kings
- Studies in World Art, Book 21
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 10 mins
- Release date: 01-29-18
- Language: English
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Book 22
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Collecting Contemporary Art
- Studies in World Art, Book 22
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Jack Wynters
- Length: 11 mins
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A good art collection is always much more than the sum of its parts. This applies with especial force to collections of contemporary work. A collection of this kind, whether the collector intends it to be so or not, is always a portrait - a reflection in the mirror of a particular epoch, and, willy-nilly, a self-portrait of the person who takes the trouble to bring it together.
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Collecting Contemporary Art
- Studies in World Art, Book 22
- Narrated by: Jack Wynters
- Length: 11 mins
- Release date: 01-09-18
- Language: English
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Book 23
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Contemporary Art, The Med
- Studies in World Art, Book 23
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Paul Bright
- Length: 36 mins
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There are three things that we have to take into account when attempting to assess the impact of the contemporary sensibility in art on the culture of the various countries bordering the Mediterranean. First, the way in which each of these territories responds to the idea of the contemporary is bound up with its own cultural history. Every Mediterranean coastline possesses a hinterland, and this hinterland exercises an enormous influence on what is seen on the coast itself.
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Contemporary Art, The Med
- Studies in World Art, Book 23
- Narrated by: Paul Bright
- Length: 36 mins
- Release date: 02-13-18
- Language: English
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