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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
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 15
- Length: 17 mins
- Release date: 29-01-18
- Language: English
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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 149
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Denise Kahn
- Length: 56 mins
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Explores the structure and development of the Pre-Raphaelite movement in the mid-19th century and works that figure among the most enduring and generally popular in British art. Renowned writer and art critic Edward Lucie-Smith contributes a study of the brotherhood of seven artists and their interconnection and intricate links with the social establishment of the time. James Cahill has a special interest in the movement, having studied Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Holman Hunt. He reviews a major exhibition of 150 works at Tate Britain launched in September 2012.
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Not a book
- By A. P. Muscat on 04-09-19
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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 149
- Narrated by: Denise Kahn
- Length: 56 mins
- Release date: 15-12-16
- Language: English
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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
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 90
- Length: 21 mins
- Release date: 16-12-17
- Language: English
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Rothko at the Tate
- Studies in World Art, Book 68
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 6 mins
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Rothko is now one of those mythical artists, an icon of 20th century creativity, the central figure in a tragic legend. Which means to say that one is pretty much compelled to agree that everything he did was wonderful, a manifestation of genius. I have to say that I find myself increasingly resistant to this approach. Some works by Rothko I do in fact respond to, with their glowing blocks of color.
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Rothko at the Tate
- Studies in World Art, Book 68
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 68
- Length: 6 mins
- Release date: 28-12-17
- Language: English
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Giacometti and Frank Auerbach
- Portraiture and the Pursuit of the Absolute (CV/Visual Arts Research)
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Anthony Fanna
- Length: 20 mins
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A study of Giacometti portraits at the National Portrait Gallery London and Frank Auerbach at Tate Britain.
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Prententious rubbish
- By Ian Dolwin on 28-09-22
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Giacometti and Frank Auerbach
- Portraiture and the Pursuit of the Absolute (CV/Visual Arts Research)
- Narrated by: Anthony Fanna
- Length: 20 mins
- Release date: 05-12-17
- Language: English
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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
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 101
- Length: 12 mins
- Release date: 14-02-19
- Language: English
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Titian at the National Gallery
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 293
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Charles Johnston
- Length: 20 mins
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The Titian Show at the National Gallery here in London has just opened to the public again. It was available for just three days before the big lockdown. Now, it is with us once more, though on rather different terms from what was the case previously. You have to book a time. You have to be wearing a mask. You have to maintain distance between yourself and other visitors booked in for the same slot. Is it worth the hassle? Yes, of course it is. Titian is one of the greatest figures in the history of Western art.
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Titian at the National Gallery
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 293
- Narrated by: Charles Johnston
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 293
- Length: 20 mins
- Release date: 15-12-20
- Language: English
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Edward Lucie-Smith: Uncollected Writings - Studies of Western Art
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 152
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Simon Barber
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
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An anthology of essays and reviews by the eminent art historian and writer, Edward Lucie-Smith. The articles cover a broad span, from the Italian Renaissance of Giotto and Antonello da Messina, Leonardo, and Michelangelo, progressing to Rubens, Velázquez, and Ingres, with essays on William Hogarth, John Constable, and John Everett Millais for British art. With the experience of his landmark publications on modern art, which remain in print, the author sweeps the listener on a fabulous journey of perception.
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Edward Lucie-Smith: Uncollected Writings - Studies of Western Art
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 152
- Narrated by: Simon Barber
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 22-02-18
- Language: English
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Holbein in England
- Studies in World Art, Book 35
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 8 mins
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It is a paradox of a sort that the only fully authentic Holbein painting of King Henry VIII of England should now reside in Madrid, in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. It left Britain as late as 1933, sold by Earl Spencer, grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales. Holbein is, after all, the author of what is perhaps the most iconic and formidable of all British royal images. Fittingly, the Thyssen-Bornemizsa portrait adorned the cover of the catalogue that accompanied the "Holbein in England" exhibition at Tate Britain in London.
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not worth the few quid it cost...
- By MR Caspar Sewell on 19-02-19
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Holbein in England
- Studies in World Art, Book 35
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 35
- Length: 8 mins
- Release date: 19-01-18
- Language: English
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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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Yayoi Kusama
- Studies in World Art, Book 89
- Narrated by: Tim Carper
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 89
- Length: 9 mins
- Release date: 09-01-18
- Language: English
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Edvard Munch
- Studies in World Art, Book 26
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 8 mins
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As a working critic, I find the most difficult exhibitions to write about are those that combine an evidently important subject with a faintly dispiriting result. The new Edvard Munch show at Tate Modern is a case in point. Munch is undoubtedly a major Modernist artist, a Norwegian cultural icon who was the precursor and to some extent the inventor of what came to be known as Expressionism. One version of his composition, The Scream, very recently made a record price.
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Edvard Munch
- Studies in World Art, Book 26
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 26
- Length: 8 mins
- Release date: 28-12-17
- 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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Pollock/Picasso: The European Vanguard Versus American Modernism
- Studies in World Art, Book 112
- Narrated by: Paul Jenkins
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 112
- Length: 40 mins
- Release date: 28-12-17
- Language: English
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The Private John Singer Sargent
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: David Micklem
- Length: 25 mins
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An essay by Edward Lucie-Smith explores aspects of the mysterious and private character of the renowned American society artist John Singer Sargent.
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The Private John Singer Sargent
- Narrated by: David Micklem
- Length: 25 mins
- Release date: 15-11-17
- Language: English
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Ted Hughes: A Modern Wordsworth? A Modern Byron?
- Studies in World Art, Book 138
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Tim Carper
- Length: 17 mins
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Of all the British poets of my generation, Ted Hughes, now nearly 20 years dead, left behind him both the grandest and most sulfurous reputation. The controversies he aroused rumble on, and the hurts, in certain quarters, are still keenly felt. Any life story that comprises not just two but actually three suicides, plus a murder, does wrap a cloak of darkness about itself.
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Ted Hughes: A Modern Wordsworth? A Modern Byron?
- Studies in World Art, Book 138
- Narrated by: Tim Carper
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 138
- Length: 17 mins
- Release date: 16-01-18
- Language: English
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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
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 1
- Length: 22 mins
- Release date: 27-02-18
- Language: English
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Modern British Sculpture
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 171
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 8 mins
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Very seldom in London can a major show of modern and contemporary art at a highly respected national institution have received such universally negative reviews. As I write this, not all the verdicts on the Royal Academy’s exhibition of Modern British Sculpture have been delivered. However, it is already clear that the majority will be hostile. Paradoxically, it is this, more than any other factor, which makes it seem like an important event - a turning point if you like.
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Modern British Sculpture
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 171
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 8 mins
- Release date: 08-01-18
- Language: English
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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
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 14
- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 23-03-19
- Language: English
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Goya: Between Two Worlds
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Teague Dean
- Length: 32 mins
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A study of a later period album of drawings on the theme of old women and nightmares by Francisco Goya exhibited at the Courtauld Gallery London, with reference to his supernatural "Black Paintings".
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Goya: Between Two Worlds
- Narrated by: Teague Dean
- Length: 32 mins
- Release date: 29-11-17
- Language: English
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Gauguin at Tate Modern
- Studies in World Art, Book 31
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 8 mins
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The new Gauguin exhibition at Tate Modern in certainly the art event of the year in London. It’s a blockbuster exhibition of a kind that, thanks to the continuing worldwide financial crisis, may soon become extinct. It is also an exhibition that raises important questions about how we currently see and think about art.
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Gauguin at Tate Modern
- Studies in World Art, Book 31
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 31
- Length: 8 mins
- Release date: 09-01-18
- Language: English
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Renoir Landscapes
- Studies in World Art, Book 67
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Willis Miller
- Length: 7 mins
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Renoir’s reputation has long been in decline with intellectuals. He is seen as sugary and self-indulgent, to the point where his work gives the whole of the Impressionist Movement a bad name. The thing that has contributed to this fall from grace is, of course, the late work, with its bloated nudes and curiously hot colors. Yet even the work of Renoirís best period tends to seem uneven, despite the continuing popularity of undoubted masterpiece such as La Loge [1874].
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Renoir Landscapes
- Studies in World Art, Book 67
- Narrated by: Willis Miller
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 67
- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 27-12-17
- Language: English
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