- Historia y Crítica (492)
Bestsellers
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Ninth Street Women
- Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
- De: Mary Gabriel
- Narrado por: Lisa Stathoplos
- Duración: 40 h y 12 m
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Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times)....
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Painful pronunciation issues!
- De Curious Artist Librarian en 05-20-19
De: Mary Gabriel
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Color
- A Natural History of the Palette
- De: Victoria Finlay
- Narrado por: Victoria Finlay
- Duración: 15 h y 58 m
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In this vivid and captivating journey through the colors of an artist’s palette, Victoria Finlay takes us on an enthralling adventure around the world and through the ages, illuminating how the colors we choose to value have determined the history of culture itself....
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A scrumptious, colorful adventure. Must read
- De Esio Trot en 07-26-23
De: Victoria Finlay
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The Story of Art Without Men
- De: Katy Hessel
- Narrado por: Katy Hessel
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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Have your sense of art history overturned and your eyes opened to many artforms often ignored or dismissed. From the Cornish coast to Manhattan, Nigeria to Japan, this is the history of art as it's never been told before....
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a necessary text for our time
- De Cierra en 05-22-23
De: Katy Hessel
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The Rescue Artist
- A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece
- De: Edward Dolnick
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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The Rescue Artist is a rollicking narrative that carries listeners deep inside the art underworld - and introduces them to a large and colorful cast of titled aristocrats, intrepid investigators, and thick-necked thugs. But most compelling of all is Charley Hill himself....
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Fascinating, educational, and a great police story
- De MAGJAG en 06-29-19
De: Edward Dolnick
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The Secret Lives of Color
- De: Kassia St. Clair
- Narrado por: Kassia St. Clair
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
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The unforgettable, unknown history of colors and the vivid stories behind them....
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More about pigments than social history
- De Jason Toon en 12-13-20
De: Kassia St. Clair
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Art Is Life
- Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
- De: Jerry Saltz
- Narrado por: Jerry Saltz, Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 16 h y 1 m
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Jerry Saltz is one of our most-watched writers about art and artists and a passionate champion of the importance of art in our shared cultural life. Since the 1990s he has been an indispensable cultural voice: Witty and provocative, he has attracted contemporary listeners to fine art....
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WRONG for audio program
- De Karen Lehrer en 11-07-22
De: Jerry Saltz
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Ninth Street Women
- Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
- De: Mary Gabriel
- Narrado por: Lisa Stathoplos
- Duración: 40 h y 12 m
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Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times)....
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Painful pronunciation issues!
- De Curious Artist Librarian en 05-20-19
De: Mary Gabriel
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Color
- A Natural History of the Palette
- De: Victoria Finlay
- Narrado por: Victoria Finlay
- Duración: 15 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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In this vivid and captivating journey through the colors of an artist’s palette, Victoria Finlay takes us on an enthralling adventure around the world and through the ages, illuminating how the colors we choose to value have determined the history of culture itself....
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A scrumptious, colorful adventure. Must read
- De Esio Trot en 07-26-23
De: Victoria Finlay
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The Story of Art Without Men
- De: Katy Hessel
- Narrado por: Katy Hessel
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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Have your sense of art history overturned and your eyes opened to many artforms often ignored or dismissed. From the Cornish coast to Manhattan, Nigeria to Japan, this is the history of art as it's never been told before....
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a necessary text for our time
- De Cierra en 05-22-23
De: Katy Hessel
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The Rescue Artist
- A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece
- De: Edward Dolnick
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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The Rescue Artist is a rollicking narrative that carries listeners deep inside the art underworld - and introduces them to a large and colorful cast of titled aristocrats, intrepid investigators, and thick-necked thugs. But most compelling of all is Charley Hill himself....
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Fascinating, educational, and a great police story
- De MAGJAG en 06-29-19
De: Edward Dolnick
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The Secret Lives of Color
- De: Kassia St. Clair
- Narrado por: Kassia St. Clair
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
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The unforgettable, unknown history of colors and the vivid stories behind them....
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More about pigments than social history
- De Jason Toon en 12-13-20
De: Kassia St. Clair
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Art Is Life
- Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
- De: Jerry Saltz
- Narrado por: Jerry Saltz, Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 16 h y 1 m
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Jerry Saltz is one of our most-watched writers about art and artists and a passionate champion of the importance of art in our shared cultural life. Since the 1990s he has been an indispensable cultural voice: Witty and provocative, he has attracted contemporary listeners to fine art....
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WRONG for audio program
- De Karen Lehrer en 11-07-22
De: Jerry Saltz
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Hilma af Klint
- A Biography
- De: Julia Voss, Anne Posten - translator
- Narrado por: Doria Bramante
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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The Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was forty-four years old when she broke with the academic tradition in which she had been trained to produce a body of radical, abstract works the likes of which had never been seen before....
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Excellent audiobook. Talented narrator brings it to life.
- De Freddy en 12-04-23
De: Julia Voss, y otros
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On Photography
- De: Susan Sontag
- Narrado por: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
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First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images, which are continually inserted between experience and reality....
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I'm Glad I Bought, Despite Some Negative Reviews
- De DEF en 10-18-13
De: Susan Sontag
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The Monuments Men
- Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
- De: Robert M. Edsel, Bret Witter
- Narrado por: Jeremy Davidson
- Duración: 14 h y 15 m
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At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe.....
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Interesting listen
- De Laurie en 12-22-09
De: Robert M. Edsel, y otros
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The Last Leonardo
- The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting
- De: Ben Lewis
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
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An epic quest exposes hidden truths about Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi, therecently discovered masterpiece that sold for $450 million - and might not be the real thing....
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Definitely makes you think.
- De John Galt en 04-20-21
De: Ben Lewis
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Minor Feelings
- An Asian American Reckoning
- De: Cathy Park Hong
- Narrado por: Cathy Park Hong
- Duración: 6 h y 52 m
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Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism, this collection is vulnerable, humorous, and provocative....
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Essential
- De Realness en 03-04-20
De: Cathy Park Hong
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William Blake vs the World
- De: John Higgs
- Narrado por: John Higgs
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
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A wild and unexpected journey through culture, science, philosophy, and religion to better understand the mercurial genius of William Blake....
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Best book ever
- De idamae en 11-04-22
De: John Higgs
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The Judgment of Paris
- The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism
- De: Ross King
- Narrado por: Tristan Layton
- Duración: 14 h y 47 m
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While the Civil War raged in America, another very different revolution was beginning to take shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris....
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Try this!
- De Robert en 10-28-08
De: Ross King
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Lapidarium
- The Secret Lives of Stones
- De: Hettie Judah
- Narrado por: Nina Wadia
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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Stones have furnished our earliest technologies and our first art materials. As jewelry and talismans, they have accompanied us in our journeys into the afterlife. We have carried stones over vast distances, erecting temples with them where we gathered to worship our gods....
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Lovely Bite-Sized Stories
- De Anonymous User en 07-20-23
De: Hettie Judah
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A Degree in a Book: Art History
- Everything You Need to Know to Master the Subject
- De: John Finlay
- Narrado por: Ruth Ollman
- Duración: 6 h y 3 m
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Spanning from the classical sculpture of Ancient Rome to contemporary performance art, this guide provides a rich overview of art history, covering many topics explored in a history of art degrees....
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Horribly boring
- De Ard en 05-08-24
De: John Finlay
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In Montmartre
- Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art
- De: Sue Roe
- Narrado por: Emma Bering
- Duración: 12 h y 51 m
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A lively and deeply researched group biography of the figures who transformed the world of art in bohemian Paris in the first decade of the 20th century....
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Florid narrative history with suspect details
- De Keith en 10-30-19
De: Sue Roe
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The Last Wild Men of Borneo
- A True Story of Death and Treasure
- De: Carl Hoffman
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 9 h y 18 m
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Two modern adventurers sought a treasure possessed by the legendary "Wild Men of Borneo". One found riches. The other vanished forever into an endless jungle....
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Wow
- De Than en 07-21-19
De: Carl Hoffman
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The Death of the Artist
- How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech
- De: William Deresiewicz
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkin
- Duración: 13 h y 55 m
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A deeply researched warning about how the digital economy threatens artists' lives and work - the music, writing, and visual art that sustain our souls and societies - from an award-winning essayist and critic....
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Golden
- De Ivana A. en 10-17-20
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Picasso's War
- How Modern Art Came to America
- De: Hugh Eakin
- Narrado por: Mack Sanderson
- Duración: 15 h y 11 m
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A riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center of the world—and Picasso the most famous artist alive—in the shadow of World War II....
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Better Books on Picasso Available
- De john burke en 08-17-22
De: Hugh Eakin
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Where the Heart Beats
- John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists
- De: Kay Larson
- Narrado por: Jason Wineinger
- Duración: 15 h y 25 m
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A "heroic" biography of John Cage and his "awakening through Zen Buddhism" - "a kind of love story" about a brilliant American pioneer of the creative arts who transformed himself and his culture....
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Mind Expansion
- De Robert Keith en 04-04-15
De: Kay Larson
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Boom
- Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art
- De: Michael Shnayerson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 16 h y 38 m
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The meteoric rise of the largest unregulated financial market in the world - for contemporary art - is driven by a few passionate, guileful, and very hard-nosed dealers. They can make and break careers and fortunes....
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Outstanding
- De Clifford I. Davis en 07-04-19
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The Upside-Down World
- Meetings with the Dutch Masters
- De: Benjamin Moser
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
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Arriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Benjamin Moser found himself visiting—casually at first, and then more and more obsessively—the country's great museums....
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Great Book
- De PaulB en 02-29-24
De: Benjamin Moser
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Ordinary Notes
- De: Christina Sharpe
- Narrado por: Christina Sharpe
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
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A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake....
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Very good…
- De lawrence fauntleroy en 10-01-23
De: Christina Sharpe
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The Romantic Manifesto
- A Philosophy of Literature
- De: Ayn Rand
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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In this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned collection of essays, Ayn Rand throws new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life....
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Essential AYN
- De Mica en 07-15-08
De: Ayn Rand
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Tracing Time
- Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau
- De: Craig Childs
- Narrado por: Craig Childs
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
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Craig Childs bears witness to rock art of the Colorado Plateau—bighorn sheep pecked behind boulders, tiny spirals in stone, human figures with upraised arms shifting with the desert light, each one a portal to the open mouth of time....
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Excellent!
- De Lizzie en 04-21-24
De: Craig Childs
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Fragile Cargo
- The World War II Race to Save the Treasures of China's Forbidden City
- De: Adam Brookes
- Narrado por: Adam Brookes
- Duración: 12 h y 23 m
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Told for the first time in English and playing out across a vast historical canvas, this “compelling story of art, war, and adventure” (Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs: 1613-1918) follows the small group who, when faced with war’s onslaught on civilization, chose to resist....
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Excellent!
- De Amazon Customer en 06-05-23
De: Adam Brookes
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The Slip
- The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
- De: Prudence Peiffer
- Narrado por: Melissa Redmond
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
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For just over a decade, from 1956 to 1967, a collection of dilapidated former sail-making warehouses clustered at the lower tip of Manhattan became the quiet epicenter of the art world....
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The narrator mis-pronounces everones name
- De Stephanie Laffont en 12-26-23
De: Prudence Peiffer
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Les Yeux de Mona
- Suivi d'un entretien avec l'auteur
- De: Thomas Schlesser
- Narrado por: François Cognard
- Duración: 16 h y 40 m
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Avant que les yeux de sa petite fille ne voient plus, un grand-père décide de lui montrer autant d’œuvres que possible. Un merveilleux roman d’initiation, une plongée émouvante au cœur de l’art.
De: Thomas Schlesser
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Mind in Motion
- How Action Shapes Thought
- De: Barbara Tversky
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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An eminent psychologist offers a major new theory of human cognition: movement, not language, is the foundation of thought....
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Physically difficult to listen to
- De Claire Hay en 11-08-19
De: Barbara Tversky
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art
- De: Wassily Kandinsky
- Narrado por: David Pickering
- Duración: 2 h y 43 m
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Featuring an enlightening introduction by the book's translator, Michael T. H. Sadler, providing generational and cultural context for Kandinsky and his work, Concerning the Spiritual in Art gives testimony to the mind and creative expression of Kandinsky and other artists of his generation....