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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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Magical Thinking: Why the Avant-Garde Is Now History
- Studies in World Art, Book 140
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Jack Wynters
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
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The word avant-garde, so much used in connection with the various manifestations of contemporary art, is starting to have a strange, ironic ring to it. One might even claim that it is starting to signify what is behind the times, rather than in front of them. Like all such terms, it is in fact a metaphor, rather than a direct description. Borrowed from old-fashioned military terminology, it seeks to describe a situation where social norms are being perpetually challenged by artists. In the military sphere, where it originated, it is long out of use.
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Magical Thinking: Why the Avant-Garde Is Now History
- Studies in World Art, Book 140
- Narrated by: Jack Wynters
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 140
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Release date: 26-02-18
- 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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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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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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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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David Hockney: British National Treasure
- Studies in World Art, Book 141
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Charles Johnston
- Length: 16 mins
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An essay by Edward Lucie-Smith on David Hockney's portraits exhibited at the Royal Academy's "82 Portraits and One Still-Life", and also "David Hockney and the Yorkshire Landscape" at RA in 2012.
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David Hockney: British National Treasure
- Studies in World Art, Book 141
- Narrated by: Charles Johnston
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 141
- Length: 16 mins
- Release date: 04-02-21
- 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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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
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 5
- Length: 6 mins
- Release date: 13-02-18
- 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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Frida Kahlo
- Studies in World Art, Book 29
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Willis Miller
- Length: 7 mins
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Going to the Frida Kahlo exhibition current at Tate Modern in London is like entering the shrine of a secular saint. The rooms are thronged. People peer closely at the paintings, many of them very small. They seem afraid to talk much above a whisper. There are a number of reasons for this reaction. One is Hayden Herrera’s highly readable biography of the artist, first published in 1983, and now established as a classic feminist text. Another is the feminist movement’s general need for heroines, which has had a similar effect on the posthumous reputation of Georgia O’Keeffe. A third, probably the most powerful, reason is Kahlo’s own personality, which combined self-assertion, defiance and masochism in almost equal proportions. In this respect Kahlo can be compared with a slightly later generation of English-language poets, male and female. Prominent among them are Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.
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Frida Kahlo
- Studies in World Art, Book 29
- Narrated by: Willis Miller
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 29
- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 22-12-17
- 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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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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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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The Artist and the Artwork
- Studies in World Art, Book 75
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Tim Carper
- Length: 13 mins
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Works of art have often been endowed by their audience with talismanic force. Their impact exceeds the visual impression they make. This seems natural enough when we consider the fact that the most ambitious works of art produced by ancient civilizations were religious. To those who originally encountered them, they seemed to speak directly from the gods. Their makers were very seldom recorded, though the names of those who ordered them to be made - pharaohs, emperors and kings - quite frequently survive.
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The Artist and the Artwork
- Studies in World Art, Book 75
- Narrated by: Tim Carper
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 75
- Length: 13 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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Rembrandt and Turner: Mythical Masters
- CV/Visual Arts Research
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Jim Spring
- Length: 44 mins
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The monograph publishes a study of Rembrandt van Rijn and JMW Turner at the National Gallery and Tate Britain in exhibitions of their later works.
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Rembrandt and Turner: Mythical Masters
- CV/Visual Arts Research
- Narrated by: Jim Spring
- Length: 44 mins
- Release date: 20-03-18
- Language: English
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Elegy for the Landscape
- Late John Constable at the Royal Academy
- By: N.P. James, Edward Lucie-Smith, Janet Barber
- Narrated by: Christopher Selbie
- Length: 59 mins
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A review of the exhibition Late Constable at the Royal Academy London. Includes the family background of the artist, his career development, and working methods and technique. Noted works include "The Leaping Horse", "Cottage in East Bergholt", "Rainstorm at Sea", "Chain Pier Brighton", "Stonehenge", and "The Cornfield". Includes essays by Edward Lucie-Smith ("John Constable", 2006) and Janet Barber ("John Constable: Earth and Sky", 2012).
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Elegy for the Landscape
- Late John Constable at the Royal Academy
- Narrated by: Christopher Selbie
- Length: 59 mins
- Release date: 13-01-22
- Language: English
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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
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 18
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Release date: 05-12-17
- Language: English
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Wilfredo Lam - Final Essay
- Studies in World Art, Book 43
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Rick Paradis
- Length: 26 mins
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Wifredo Lam is by far the most celebrated, and most people would say the greatest, artist produced by the Caribbean region in modern times. His relationship with where he came from is, however, extraordinarily complex - much more complex than most of his admirers suppose, largely because they usually have no direct experience of the region and little knowledge of its social history.
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Wilfredo Lam - Final Essay
- Studies in World Art, Book 43
- Narrated by: Rick Paradis
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 43
- Length: 26 mins
- Release date: 29-01-18
- Language: English
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