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Joseph Beuys
- Studies in World Art, Book 42
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Ian Kingsley
- Length: 12 mins
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Many people - among them, most art-world insiders - think that Joseph Beuys was the most important artist of the second half of the 20th century. Beuys was many things - a shaman, a trickster, a charismatic social and political activist. He spearheaded the return to prominence of the German avant-garde post-World War II, and his impact on both the European and American art worlds continues to be felt today, nearly 20 years after his death in January 1986.
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Joseph Beuys
- Studies in World Art, Book 42
- Narrated by: Ian Kingsley
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 42
- Length: 12 mins
- Release date: 02-01-18
- 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
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 294
- Length: 30 mins
- Release date: 02-09-20
- 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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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
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 115
- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 30-01-18
- Language: English
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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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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
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 112
- Length: 11 mins
- Release date: 15-01-18
- Language: English
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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
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 22
- Length: 11 mins
- Release date: 09-01-18
- Language: English
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Georgia O'Keeffe: A 20th Century Populist
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Mark Ballinger
- Length: 12 mins
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Georgia O’Keeffe is a slightly odd case in the story of American art. She became famous very early, thanks to the efforts of her patron, lover, and eventual husband Alfred Stieglitz. Having been a leading figure in the New York art world, she eventually withdrew from that to become the central presence in a new kind of regionalism, focused not on the Midwest but New Mexico and, in particular, on the art scene in and around Santa Fe.
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Georgia O'Keeffe: A 20th Century Populist
- Narrated by: Mark Ballinger
- Length: 12 mins
- Release date: 06-12-17
- 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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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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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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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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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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The Emperors
- Studies in World Art, Book 85
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Richard M. Pshock
- Length: 7 mins
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Here can be no doubt that the Chinese exhibition at the Royal Academy in London is more than a merely artistic event. It represents a new stage in the burgeoning relationship between contemporary China and the West. The opening, originally scheduled for January, was brought forward to coincide with a State Visit to Britain by the Chinese president, Hu Jintao. The "Three Emperors" of the title were the second, third, and fourth rulers of the Qing Dynasty, and their period in power spanned nearly a century-and-a-half, from the mid-17th century until the end of the 18th.
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The Emperors
- Studies in World Art, Book 85
- Narrated by: Richard M. Pshock
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 85
- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 02-07-19
- Language: English
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Forgotten Empire
- Studies in World Art, Book 28
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Dean Barker
- Length: 6 mins
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Forgotten Empire, the new exhibition in London devoted to the great realm that Alexander the Great destroyed, is an openly political occasion, designed to stress links in the present as well as to revive interest in a part of the past that has more or less sunk into oblivion. It stresses the fact that, despite the tensions that now exist between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Western Europe, a degree of cultural cooperation is still possible.
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Forgotten Empire
- Studies in World Art, Book 28
- Narrated by: Dean Barker
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 28
- Length: 6 mins
- Release date: 26-03-19
- Language: English
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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
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 7
- Length: 12 mins
- Release date: 26-03-19
- Language: English
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Seeing Africa
- Studies in World Art, Book 70
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Gerard Marquez
- Length: 7 mins
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The Tate Britain’s "display", Seeing Africa - it was hardly big enough to be called a proper exhibition - raised more questions than it answered. Consisting of paintings and sculptures drawn from a single private collection, it aimed to explore the subject of Africanisme through images of African people and African landscape made by European painters who traveled to the Dark Continent at the height of the colonial epoch. That is to say between the 1870s and the 1950s.
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Seeing Africa
- Studies in World Art, Book 70
- Narrated by: Gerard Marquez
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 70
- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 22-03-19
- Language: English
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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
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 13
- Length: 9 mins
- Release date: 19-03-19
- Language: English
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Radical Nature
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 172
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Neil Gallagher
- Length: 7 mins
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Eco-art exhibitions are part of the trend of our times. Radical Nature, the show at the Barbican Art Gallery in London, demonstrated some of the possibilities and paradoxes of enterprises of this sort. Basically what the organizers had to do is to move the outside indoors. This set them both practical and, in their own terms at least, moral problems.
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Radical Nature
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 172
- Narrated by: Neil Gallagher
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 172
- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 11-03-19
- Language: English
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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
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 129
- Length: 19 mins
- Release date: 11-03-19
- Language: English
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