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A Stagnant Art World
- Studies in World Art, Book 136
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Jack Wynters
- Length: 17 mins
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This may seem a funny moment to proclaim that nothing much is happening in art - certainly not in contemporary art. In many ways, the art world has never seemed more vibrant and active, and this activity is increasingly focused on what is defined as contemporary. There hasn’t, in fact, been a moment like this in the relatively recent history of art since the mid-19th century. If one looks at the years of political and economic chaos between 1789 and 1815, as the fortunes of war swayed back and forth, this is not surprising.
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A Stagnant Art World
- Studies in World Art, Book 136
- Narrated by: Jack Wynters
- Length: 17 mins
- Release date: 15-01-18
- 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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London Terminal: Frieze Art Fair 2013
- CV/Visual Arts Research, Book 187
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 26 mins
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Edward Lucie-Smith reviews Frieze Art Fair London 2013, in a critical take on the contemporary scene. It's pretty easy to get the point of the Frieze Masters art fair, now in its second edition, after a very successful start last year. Its purpose is to present the best of the best - or, at the very least, a good slice of the top quality art that is currently on the market. One of the great pleasures of Frieze Masters, this year more than ever, is the accidental confrontations the event manages to set up.
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London Terminal: Frieze Art Fair 2013
- CV/Visual Arts Research, Book 187
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 26 mins
- Release date: 31-01-18
- Language: English
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What It Is to Curate
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 174
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 23 mins
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Anyone who Googles the phrase curatorial theory will immediately come upon quite a long list of suggested websites. Sometimes it is a little difficult to be sure if the texts offered are intended to be taken entirely seriously. However, if I hack my way through the dense thickets of language, I find myself in agreement with what they seem to be trying to say, which is that curating an exhibition - or for that matter, a website - is not an end in itself.
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What It Is to Curate
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 174
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 23 mins
- Release date: 09-01-18
- Language: English
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The Elephant in the Room
- Studies in World Art, Book 27
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 9 mins
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"Gothic Nightmares" at Tate Britain in London was an important exhibition, but not entirely for the reasons that its organizers thought. They clearly saw it as a stage in mapping an episode in British art - the rise of the Sturm und Drang, hand-in-hand with a new age of Gothic sensibility in literature - that has, until now, been relatively uncharted. What they almost entirely failed to perceive was its relevance to recent, and even current, developments in British and American art.
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The Elephant in the Room
- Studies in World Art, Book 27
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 9 mins
- Release date: 29-01-18
- 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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Before Damien Hirst: There Was Salvador Dali
- Studies in World Art, Book 112
- Narrated by: Jack Wynters
- Length: 11 mins
- Release date: 15-01-18
- 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
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Release date: 26-02-18
- 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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Pollock/Picasso: The European Vanguard Versus American Modernism
- Studies in World Art, Book 112
- Narrated by: Paul Jenkins
- Length: 40 mins
- Release date: 28-12-17
- Language: English
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Matisse: The Cut-Outs
- Studies in World Art, Book 47
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: David Bernard
- Length: 8 mins
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The big exhibition of Matisse's Cut-Outs at Tate Modern in London was, certainly on the face of it, everything that a major museum of modern and contemporary art should be doing. It was beautifully presented, very professionally curated, had an extremely thorough, excellently illustrated catalogue, and was greeted with ecstatic reviews.
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Matisse: The Cut-Outs
- Studies in World Art, Book 47
- Narrated by: David Bernard
- Length: 8 mins
- Release date: 11-03-19
- Language: English
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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: 25-01-18
- Language: English
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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: 06-03-19
- 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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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
- Length: 9 mins
- Release date: 09-01-18
- 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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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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Andy Warhol at Tate Modern
- CV/Visual Arts Research, Book 294
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Mark Rice-Oxley
- Length: 30 mins
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An essay by Edward Lucie-Smith considers the Andy Warhol exhibition re-opening at Tate Modern on July 27. He puts forward a provocative view of the relevance of the art in an time of turbulent disruption. When the Warhol show returns to Tate Modern on July 27, almost the first thing you’ll meet if you go to see it will be a large painting, on two paired canvases, entitled Marilyn Diptych. It features repeated images the film star Marilyn Monroe.
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Andy Warhol at Tate Modern
- CV/Visual Arts Research, Book 294
- Narrated by: Mark Rice-Oxley
- Length: 30 mins
- Release date: 02-09-20
- 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
- Length: 6 mins
- Release date: 28-12-17
- 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
- Length: 21 mins
- Release date: 16-12-17
- Language: English
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Aubrey Beardsley: A Bridge Between Artistic Worlds
- CV/Visual Arts Research, Book 285
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Christopher Selbie
- Length: 19 mins
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A study of Aubrey Beardsley's work exhibited at Tate Britain until May 25, 2020. The author considers the darkly vigorous imagery of the short lived genius, his graphic work for the notorious Yellow Book, and sublimely erotic illustrations for Lysistrata by Aristophane and Salome by Oscar Wilde, which frank imagery even shocked the author.
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Aubrey Beardsley: A Bridge Between Artistic Worlds
- CV/Visual Arts Research, Book 285
- Narrated by: Christopher Selbie
- Length: 19 mins
- Release date: 01-08-20
- Language: English
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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: 11-03-19
- Language: English
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Self Representation
- Studies in World Art, Book 71
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Jim Spring
- Length: 33 mins
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The Gale Dictionary of Psychoanalysis defines ‘self-representation’ as “the image the subject has of him or herself based on his or her own interpretation.” The hugely influential 20th century psychoanalytic researcher and philosopher Jacques Lacan enlarges on this by speaking of “the finally donned armor of an alienating identity that will mark [the subject’s] mental development with its rigid structure.” Not surprisingly, psychoanalysts see this construct as a manifestation of the ego, and also as something intimately linked to narcissism.
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Self Representation
- Studies in World Art, Book 71
- Narrated by: Jim Spring
- Length: 33 mins
- Release date: 12-04-18
- Language: English
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