Studies in World Art
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Book 88
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Wilhelm Hammershoi
- Studies in World Art, Book 88
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Jim Spring
- Length: 8 mins
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Hammershoi is, in a certain sense, the Danish Vermeer, an artist whom he occasionally paraphrased. That is to say, a quietist painter obsessed by subtle effects of light, forgotten very soon after his death, but rediscovered and turned into a demi-god by a later generation.
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Wilhelm Hammershoi
- Studies in World Art, Book 88
- Narrated by: Jim Spring
- Length: 8 mins
- Release date: 02-27-18
- Language: English
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Book 89
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Yayoi Kusama
- Studies in World Art, Book 89
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Tim Carper
- Length: 9 mins
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Yayoi Kusama is now one of Japan’s best-known contemporary artists. She was the recipient of her country’s Praemium Imperiale for painting in 2006 - the most prestigious award Japan can offer to any painter, native or foreign. Her rise to fame has been unconventional, even by the standards of the art world of the 21st century, where eccentricities of all kinds pass without question.
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Her prolific performance
- By 30reasons on 08-18-24
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Yayoi Kusama
- Studies in World Art, Book 89
- Narrated by: Tim Carper
- Length: 9 mins
- Release date: 01-09-18
- Language: English
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Book 90
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Ai Weiwei: And the Evolution of Political Art
- Studies in World Art, Book 90
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Anthony Howard
- Length: 21 mins
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Ben Luke, resident art critic of the London Evening Standard, calls Ai Weiwei "probably the most famous artist in the world. He has transcended the world of museums and galleries, and exerts a newsworthiness that no other artist competes with." This statement, if one bothers to look through the kind of publicity that Ai now attracts - thanks to the digital revolution most of this is easily available with a few clicks on one’s computer - is self-evidently true.
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Ai Weiwei: And the Evolution of Political Art
- Studies in World Art, Book 90
- Narrated by: Anthony Howard
- Length: 21 mins
- Release date: 12-16-17
- Language: English
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Book 101
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Lucio Fontana: An Artist Between Worlds
- Studies in World Art, Book 101
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Stephen Floyd
- Length: 12 mins
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Lucio Fontana is rightly regarded as one of the most important Italian artists active in the 20 years after World War II, important not only in Italy, but in a pan-European sense. It is, however, also important to remember additionally that he was born in Argentina and spent quite important parts of his early career there, working first as an assistant to his father, Luigi, a sculptor, and then independently.
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Lucio Fontana: An Artist Between Worlds
- Studies in World Art, Book 101
- Narrated by: Stephen Floyd
- Length: 12 mins
- Release date: 02-14-19
- Language: English
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Book 110
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Appropriation - What's Appropriation?
- Studies in World Art, Book 110
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Bob Barton
- Length: 12 mins
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As a number of recent exhibitions have shown, there is a growing fashion for what is called appropriation in art. To you and me, what this means is slavish copying - no ifs and buts, apologies replaced by the paradoxical assertion that this is a thoroughly original, impeccably avant-garde thing to do. Examples were a recent show at the Saatchi Gallery, entitled "Post Pop: East Meets West"; and "Sturtevant: Double Trouble", on view till late February at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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Appropriation - What's Appropriation?
- Studies in World Art, Book 110
- Narrated by: Bob Barton
- Length: 12 mins
- Release date: 01-23-18
- Language: English
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Book 111
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Art in Putinland
- Studies in World Art, Book 111
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Don Wang
- Length: 9 mins
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Maybe it’s time for attention to turn back to the Russians. In the 1980s, as some of us still remember, so-called perestroika art was pretty big in the West, with enthusiasm from leading Western curators and critics, and some support from the big international auction rooms. In fact, the pattern was pretty much the same as what happened with contemporary Chinese art just a little later on.
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Art in Putinland
- Studies in World Art, Book 111
- Narrated by: Don Wang
- Length: 9 mins
- Release date: 01-15-18
- Language: English
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Book 112
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Avant-Gardism and Magical Thinking
- Studies in World Art, Book 112
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Jack Wynters
- Length: 35 mins
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The tendency for art to detach itself from any duty to reflect observed reality manifested itself in avant-garde art production almost from the beginnings of the Modern Movement in art. It is already present in pure form in Malevich’s drastically reductive Black Square, which consists of exactly that, a black square on a white ground. It is interesting to note the way in which this work was exhibited when it was first put before the public.
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Avant-Gardism and Magical Thinking
- Studies in World Art, Book 112
- Narrated by: Jack Wynters
- Length: 35 mins
- Release date: 03-09-18
- Language: English
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Pollock/Picasso: The European Vanguard Versus American Modernism
- Studies in World Art, Book 112
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Paul Jenkins
- Length: 40 mins
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This audiobook considers the magnetic poles of post-war modernism and the towering figures of Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock. The essay considers the history of French avant-garde art led by Picasso to the post-war years and the increasing dominance of American artists foregrounded by the advent of Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s.
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Loved the narrator!
- By Valerie on 09-10-18
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Pollock/Picasso: The European Vanguard Versus American Modernism
- Studies in World Art, Book 112
- Narrated by: Paul Jenkins
- Length: 40 mins
- Release date: 12-28-17
- Language: English
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Before Damien Hirst: There Was Salvador Dali
- Studies in World Art, Book 112
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Jack Wynters
- Length: 11 mins
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When I visited the huge Damien Hirst exhibition staged by the Gagosian Gallery in New York in 1996, one of the most striking pieces was a large glass tank full of live fish. Dumped among the fish were an obstetrical couch, in a rather decayed condition, and various obstetrical implements. For some time after I had seen the show, this image tugged at my mind. It reminded me of something - but of what? Finally, memory dragged up the reference I needed: Hirst's piece was a direct descendant of Salvador Dali's installation, "Rainy Taxi".
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Interesting
- By Amazon Customer on 05-03-19
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Before Damien Hirst: There Was Salvador Dali
- Studies in World Art, Book 112
- Narrated by: Jack Wynters
- Length: 11 mins
- Release date: 01-15-18
- Language: English
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Book 113
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Beryl Cook
- Studies in World Art, Book 113
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Jim Spring
- Length: 9 mins
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When Beryl Cook died, she was the subject of a large number of obituaries. Some of them were predictably condescending, which I suspect she would not have minded a bit. The really telling thing, however, is what has happened since then on the web. If you go to the site maintained by The Times, still regarded as the British paper of record, and look for the paper’s obituary archive, you will find a section within it devoted to "Artistic Genius". The subtitle is "Artists and makers who changed the way we see".
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Beryl Cook
- Studies in World Art, Book 113
- Narrated by: Jim Spring
- Length: 9 mins
- Release date: 03-30-18
- Language: English
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Book 115
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Cultivating the Body
- Studies in World Art, Book 115
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Stephen Floyd
- Length: 7 mins
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The first thing to be said about the new exhibition at the British Museum, Defining Beauty: The Body in Ancient Greek Art, is that it is genuinely spectacular and deserves the hosannas it has already been greeted with in the press. The second thing is that it is highly political. It is political in all sorts of ways. The most obvious of these can be found in the fact that it plucks a number of the so-called "Elgin marbles".
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Cultivating the Body
- Studies in World Art, Book 115
- Narrated by: Stephen Floyd
- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 01-30-18
- Language: English
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Book 117
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Daumier
- Studies in World Art, Book 117
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Jim Spring
- Length: 7 mins
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Every now and then, an exhibition comes along that hits you in the solar plexus. The compact Daumier show at the Royal Academy in London is one of those. It is housed in the moderately sized Sackler Galleries on the top floor of the building, not in the main exhibition rooms below, where it would be swallowed up. Most of the works on view are quite small. Very few are more than medium sized. For the most part, the color is subdued. Indeed, some of the paintings seem monochromatic until you examine them more closely, The range of subjects is, if not exactly restricted, not hugely wide.
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Daumier
- Studies in World Art, Book 117
- Narrated by: Jim Spring
- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 04-02-18
- Language: English
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Book 118
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Disobedient Objects
- Studies in World Art, Book 118
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Paul Bright
- Length: 12 mins
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It is understandable that, in current circumstances, major arts institutions should try to ally themselves with the more anarchic, contrarian elements in contemporary culture. Perhaps this is especially true of those dealing with the contemporary visual arts, committed as these still are to the myth of avant-gardism. One problem that immediately presents itself, of course, is that this myth is not itself contemporary - it is rooted in the very earliest years of the century before ours.
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Disobedient Objects
- Studies in World Art, Book 118
- Narrated by: Paul Bright
- Length: 12 mins
- Release date: 01-25-18
- Language: English
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Book 119
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Figurative Painting: Confronting the Crisis
- Studies in World Art, Book 119
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 22 mins
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This exhibition, based on a single, very personal and - dare one say it? - extremely distinguished private collection, tackles a large subject within a relatively small compass. It aims to examine a now universally recognized crisis, which is what is happening to painting as an art form. Quite a large number of critics and curators have, in recent years, proclaimed that painting is dead: that attention must now be paid to other kinds of art.
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Figurative Painting: Confronting the Crisis
- Studies in World Art, Book 119
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 22 mins
- Release date: 01-09-18
- Language: English
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Book 120
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Halfway There with Delacroix
- Studies in World Art, Book 120
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Tim Carper
- Length: 11 mins
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The new exhibition at the National Gallery in London is entitled "Delacroix - And the Rise of Modern Art". In other words, Delacroix, one of the most important artists of the first half of the 19th century, is presented as being important, not so much for what he actually did as an individual creator, but because he in so many ways foreshadowed the kind of art that was made immediately after his demise - in particular by artists linked to Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and even Fauvism.
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Halfway There with Delacroix
- Studies in World Art, Book 120
- Narrated by: Tim Carper
- Length: 11 mins
- Release date: 01-17-18
- Language: English
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Book 128
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On Not Going to the Venice Biennale
- Studies In World Art, Book 128
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Don Wang
- Length: 9 mins
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Thank God I wasn’t in Venice for the opening of this year’s Biennale, even though I had a number of artist friends who were exhibiting there. The crowds to get into the main shows are fierce, with queues at all the main national pavilions. So is the social competition. “Have you been invited to this?” “Have you got a ticket for that?” Elbows out. Armour-plated ego at the ready.
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On Not Going to the Venice Biennale
- Studies In World Art, Book 128
- Narrated by: Don Wang
- Length: 9 mins
- Release date: 01-26-18
- Language: English
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Book 129
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Pablo Gargallo
- Studies in World Art, Book 129
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Richard M. Pshock
- Length: 19 mins
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Pablo Gargallo is often described as "Cubist" sculptor, partly thanks to his signature technique of hollowing out or reversing volumes, and partly due to his links with Picasso, one of the two undoubted inventors of cubism. In the strict sense, the idea of cubist sculpture is an oxymoron. Despite its undoubted early links to the African tribal sculptures that partly inspired Picasso’s transition to a new and radical style, cubism was essentially an attempt to find a better and more complete way of representing forms on a flat surface.
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Pablo Gargallo
- Studies in World Art, Book 129
- Narrated by: Richard M. Pshock
- Length: 19 mins
- Release date: 03-11-19
- Language: English
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Book 131
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Photography Loses Its Limits
- Studies in World Art, Book 131
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Don Wang
- Length: 16 mins
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London is now a major centre for the international art world. The only other European city that houses as many studios is not Paris but Berlin. And Berlin does not have nearly as many galleries, public or commercial, which feature the latest developments in contemporary art.
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Photography Loses Its Limits
- Studies in World Art, Book 131
- Narrated by: Don Wang
- Length: 16 mins
- Release date: 01-26-18
- Language: English
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Book 132
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Pissing on the Pissoir
- Studies in World Art, Book 132
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 10 mins
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Dr. Glyn Thompson’s digital book, Duchamp’s Urinal? The Facts Behind the Façade, at first tends to make the heart sink. Dr. Thompson has done his homework, and he is insistent that you should do it too. "No skipping over the chapter-and-verse, boy, in search of something a bit racier." Some of the facts are, however, sufficiently racy in themselves. The urinal, or Fountain, as it is now officially called, turns out not to have been the work - or wheeze - of Duchamp himself, but that of a mad German baroness.
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Pissing on the Pissoir
- Studies in World Art, Book 132
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 10 mins
- Release date: 01-25-18
- Language: English
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Book 134
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Slavery for Beginners
- Studies in World Art, Book 134
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Paul Bright
- Length: 19 mins
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Britain’s Culture Minister, David Lammy, recently suggested that the history of slavery should be made a compulsory part of the nation’s school curriculum. Mick Hume, a columnist in The Times, promptly retorted, “Slavery and the Holocaust are now likely to be taught as little chunks of history, removed from any proper context. They become simplistic parables of good and evil, over which children are encouraged to emote and empathise...." How well founded was this criticism?
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Slavery for Beginners
- Studies in World Art, Book 134
- Narrated by: Paul Bright
- Length: 19 mins
- Release date: 01-25-18
- Language: English
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