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Contemporary Art, The Med
- Studies in World Art, Book 23
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Paul Bright
- Length: 36 mins
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There are three things that we have to take into account when attempting to assess the impact of the contemporary sensibility in art on the culture of the various countries bordering the Mediterranean. First, the way in which each of these territories responds to the idea of the contemporary is bound up with its own cultural history. Every Mediterranean coastline possesses a hinterland, and this hinterland exercises an enormous influence on what is seen on the coast itself.
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Contemporary Art, The Med
- Studies in World Art, Book 23
- Narrated by: Paul Bright
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 23
- Length: 36 mins
- Release date: 13-02-18
- Language: English
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Philip Pearlstein
- Studies in World Art, Book 61
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Rick Paradis
- Length: 41 mins
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Philip Pearlstein is a paradox. He is one of the great survivors from a time when American art was at its most creative and influential. And at the same time, he seems to oppose everything that the two major revolutions in American art - Abstract Expressionism and Pop - seem to stand for.
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Philip Pearlstein
- Studies in World Art, Book 61
- Narrated by: Rick Paradis
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 61
- Length: 41 mins
- Release date: 13-02-18
- Language: English
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Not Enough Bread
- Studies in World Art, Book 52
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 24 mins
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More than 30 years ago - in 1977, to be exact - I co-authored a book called Work and Struggle: The Painter as Witness. Its subject was one aspect of the academic painting of the late 19th and very early 20th century - art which dealt not with the comfortable lives of the rich but with all the social problems of the time. There were over 200 illustrations, most of them drawn from publications issued in conjunction with the official Salons of the period, but when we searched for these, they were largely missing.
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Not Enough Bread
- Studies in World Art, Book 52
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 52
- Length: 24 mins
- Release date: 29-01-18
- 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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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
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 27
- Length: 9 mins
- Release date: 29-01-18
- Language: English
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Leonardo: The Non-Deliverer
- Studies in World Art, Book 44
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 12 mins
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We all have friends like that, who promise, and fantasize, and disappoint, then somehow contrive to charm us all over again. In the history of Western art, Leonardo da Vinci is the supreme example of this personality-type, the great non-deliverer. It’s interesting to speculate why his legend remains so powerful. Perhaps, most of all, it is because of his restless curiosity about so many aspects of nature, recorded in notebooks that place him well in advance of his time.
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Leonardo: The Non-Deliverer
- Studies in World Art, Book 44
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 44
- Length: 12 mins
- Release date: 26-01-18
- Language: English
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Michelangelo Drawings
- Studies in World Art, Book 59
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 9 mins
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The show of Michelangelo drawings at the British Museum in London counted as one of the artistic events of 2006. It is unlikely that the public will have another chance to see such a complete panorama of the artist’s achievement as a draughtsman for many years to come, if indeed ever again. The reasons for this rush to get in are not hard to discover. Michelangelo’s reputation is that of the greatest of all artists. Most of his finished, or near-finished, works are in marble or fresco, and can never leave their locations in Florence or Rome.
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Michelangelo Drawings
- Studies in World Art, Book 59
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 59
- Length: 9 mins
- Release date: 25-01-18
- Language: English
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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
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 118
- Length: 12 mins
- Release date: 25-01-18
- Language: English
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The Modern Shaman
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 173
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Paul Bright
- Length: 30 mins
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There is an increasing tendency to set up body artists and performance artists - the two categories are often interchangeable - as the real heroes and heroines of the contemporary avant-garde. In fact, we need to look much further back for its beginnings. 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.
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The Modern Shaman
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 173
- Narrated by: Paul Bright
- Length: 30 mins
- Release date: 25-01-18
- Language: English
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Images of Majesty 2
- Studies in World Art, Book 36
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 8 mins
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"The Queen: Art and Image", now on view at the National Portrait Gallery in London, makes a lot of claims for itself. The blurb on the gallery web-site tells one that by “exploring the startling range of artistic creativity that the Queen has inspired, the exhibition also reveals the radical changes in portraiture and profound developments since the 1950s.” It goes on to list some of the supposedly distinguished painters and photographers who have, during her long reign, produced likenesses of Elizabeth II.
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Images of Majesty 2
- Studies in World Art, Book 36
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 36
- Length: 8 mins
- Release date: 25-01-18
- 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
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 134
- Length: 19 mins
- Release date: 25-01-18
- Language: English
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Making a Masterpiece
- Studies in World Art, Book 45
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 9 mins
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The creation of a masterpiece needs more than simply determination on the part of a single individual - though this, of course, is a myth that has continuously gained in strength since the time of Michelangelo. As Michelangelo himself well knew, masterpieces grow from a will to see them made on the part of patrons, who often play nearly as important a part in the process as the man who holds the brush or wields the chisel. The Sistine ceiling would never have come into existence had it not been for Pope Julius II.
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Making a Masterpiece
- Studies in World Art, Book 45
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 45
- Length: 9 mins
- Release date: 25-01-18
- Language: English
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The Mediterranean Past: All Hail Aphrodite!
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: MJ McGalliard
- Length: 12 mins
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The British Museum has two quite different archaeological exhibitions on view at the moment. In some ways, they echo one another. In other ways, they are quite strongly contrasted. The strongest link, of course is that they are about the archaeology of the Mediterranean, and that in addition, they both have ties to the classical Greek and Roman world that is still the main taproot of Western civilization.
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The Mediterranean Past: All Hail Aphrodite!
- Narrated by: MJ McGalliard
- Length: 12 mins
- Release date: 31-01-18
- 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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Cranach Censored
- Studies in World Art, Book 24
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Joshua Smith
- Length: 8 mins
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Exhibition organizers at the Royal Academy are expressing bewilderment and mild outrage, at least in public, because the people who run advertising for the London Underground have decided to ban a poster featuring a nude Venus by the German 16th-century artist, Lucas Cranach the Elder. In private, they must be hugging themselves. At the time of writing, three major newspapers have picked up the story.
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Cranach Censored
- Studies in World Art, Book 24
- Narrated by: Joshua Smith
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 24
- Length: 8 mins
- Release date: 29-01-18
- Language: English
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Chinese Art Now
- Studies in World Art, Book 20
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 11 mins
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The immense and very sudden success of contemporary Chinese art in Western markets is a phenomenon that Western critics are still struggling to assess. Many link it, not unreasonably, to the economic resurgence of China during the past decade and a half. This resurgence should not have been unexpected. Up to and perhaps including the period of the Ming emperors, China represented as much as 25% of the whole world economy.
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Chinese Art Now
- Studies in World Art, Book 20
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 20
- Length: 11 mins
- Release date: 29-01-18
- Language: English
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Black British Style
- Studies in World Art, Book 15
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Length: 7 mins
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'Black British Style', the current costume show at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, raises a lot of complex issues for someone like myself. I am not black, but I am undoubtedly West Indian. My family have lived in different parts of the West Indies for more than 300 years and in Jamaica for more than a century.
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Black British Style
- Studies in World Art, Book 15
- Narrated by: Joe Van Riper
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 15
- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 26-01-18
- Language: English
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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
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 128
- Length: 9 mins
- Release date: 26-01-18
- Language: English
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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
- Series: Studies in World Art, Book 131
- Length: 16 mins
- Release date: 26-01-18
- Language: English
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Making Art History
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 168
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Rick Paradis
- Length: 36 mins
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Art dealing today in the United States is a huge, well-organized, well-publicized industry. Probably, there has never previously been a market in art that has played such an important role in a national economy. The United States retains the preeminent position in the world market for art that it achieved immediately after World War II and seems unlikely to lose it any time soon. In addition to serving collectors and institutions based in America, the American dealing community supplies works of art to individuals and museums all over the world.
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Making Art History
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 168
- Narrated by: Rick Paradis
- Length: 36 mins
- Release date: 26-01-18
- Language: English
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