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Enlightening
- De David A en 07-03-18
De: Richard J. Evans
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The History of Western Art
- De: Peter Whitfield
- Narrado por: Sebastian Comberti
- Duración: 5 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 254
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What is art? Why do we value images of saints, kings, goddesses, battles, landscapes or cities from eras of history utterly remote from ourselves? This history of art shows how painters, sculptors and architects have expressed the belief systems of their age: religious, political and aesthetic. From the ancient civilisations of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece, to the revolutionary years of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the artist has acted as a mirror to the ideals and conflicts of the human mind.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A whirlwind tour of Western art
- De Adeliese Baumann en 11-18-12
De: Peter Whitfield
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Culture and Imperialism
- De: Edward Said
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 19 h y 59 m
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A landmark work from the intellectually auspicious author of Orientalism, this book explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. This classic study, the direct successor to Said's main work, is read by Peter Ganim ( Orientalism).
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5 out of 5 stars
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BRAVO, AUDIBLE!! WE NEED MORE SAID!! REAL BOOKS!!
- De AnthonyStevens en 02-27-11
De: Edward Said
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How Do We Look
- The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
- De: Mary Beard
- Narrado por: Mary Beard
- Duración: 2 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history of art, religion, and humanity. Conceived as an accompaniment to How Do We Look and The Eye of Faith, the famed Civilizations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this elegant volume on how we have looked at art.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Really needs a PDF
- De Britt Elin Gihleengen en 12-06-18
De: Mary Beard
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Da Vinci's Ghost
- Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image
- De: Toby Lester
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 6 h y 20 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 185
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Toby Lester, author of the award-winning The Fourth Part of the World, masterfully crafts yet another century-spanning saga of people and ideas in this epic story of Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic drawing of a man inscribed in a circle and a square. Over time, the nearly 550-year-old ink-on-paper sketch has transformed into a collective symbol of the nature of genius, the beauty of the human form, and the universality of the human spirit.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Haunting Expierience
- De Paul en 02-10-12
De: Toby Lester
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What Are You Looking At?
- The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art
- De: Will Gompertz
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 13 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 139
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 113
What is modern art? Who started it? Why do we either love it or loathe it? And why is it such big money? Join BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz on a dazzling tour that will change the way you look at modern art forever. From Monet's water lilies to Van Gogh's sunflowers, from Warhol's soup cans to Hirst's pickled shark, hear the stories behind the masterpieces, meet the artists as they really were, and discover the real point of modern art.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A simply wonderful book with a serious flaw
- De 11104 en 05-02-21
De: Will Gompertz
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The Image, 50th Anniversary Edition
- A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
- De: Daniel J. Boorstin, Douglas Rushkoff - afterword
- Narrado por: Timothy Danko
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
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First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of "pseudo-events" - events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported - and the contemporary definition of celebrity as "a person who is known for his well-knownness". Since then Daniel J. Boorstin's prophetic vision of an America inundated by its own illusions has become an essential resource for any listeners who wants to distinguish the manifold deceptions of our culture from its few enduring truths.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Boorstin’s deep Conservative mindset reaches through every example in this book.
- De Christine en 10-12-20
De: Daniel J. Boorstin, y otros
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The Book of Yokai
- Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
- De: Michael Dylan Foster
- Narrado por: Tim Campbell
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 256
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 216
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Drawing on years of research in Japan, Michael Dylan Foster unpacks the history and cultural context of yokai, tracing their roots, interpreting their meanings, and introducing people who have hunted them through the ages. In this delightful and accessible narrative, listeners will explore the roles played by these mysterious beings within Japanese culture and will also learn of their abundance and variety through detailed entries on more than 50 individual creatures.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Pt 2 was delightful (+no cringey pronunciations!!)
- De Julieanne en 06-04-19
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The Oldest Enigma of Humanity
- De: Bertrand David, Jean-Jacques Lefrere
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 3 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Thirty thousand years ago our prehistoric ancestors painted perfect images of animals on walls of tortuous caves, most often without any light. How was this possible? Scholars and archaeologists have for centuries pored over these works of art, speculating and hoping to come away with the key to the mystery. David and Lefrre give us a new understanding of an art lost in time, revealing what had until recently remained unexplainable - the oldest enigma in humanity has been solved.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Amazing conclusion that will change your views
- De D en 05-13-15
De: Bertrand David, y otros
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Six Memos for the Next Millennium
- De: Italo Calvino, Geoffrey Brock - translator
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 3 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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At the time of his death, Italo Calvino was at work on six lectures setting forth the qualities in writing he most valued and which he believed would define literature in the century to come. Here, in Six Memos for the Next Millennium, are the five lectures he completed, forming not only a stirring defense of literature but also an indispensable guide to the writings of Calvino himself. He devotes one "memo" each to the concepts of lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity.
De: Italo Calvino, y otros
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High Weirdness
- Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies
- De: Erik Davis
- Narrado por: Erik Davis
- Duración: 20 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 207
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A study of the spiritual provocations to be found in the work of Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson, High Weirdness charts the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality that arose from the American counterculture of the 1970s. These three authors changed the way millions of readers thought, dreamed, and experienced reality - but how did their writings reflect, as well as shape, the seismic cultural shifts taking place in America?
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5 out of 5 stars
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High Weirdness
- De Amazon Customer en 09-17-20
De: Erik Davis
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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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General5 out of 5 stars 90
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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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5 out of 5 stars
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Best book ever
- De idamae en 11-04-22
De: John Higgs
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 271
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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. Once again, she demonstrates her bold originality and her refusal to let conventional ideas define her sense of the truth. Rand eloquently asserts that one cannot create art without infusing it with one's own value judgments and personal philosophy - even an attempt to withhold moral overtones only results in a deterministic or naturalistic message.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Essential AYN
- De Mica en 07-15-08
De: Ayn Rand
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The Age of Insight
- The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
- De: Eric R. Kandel
- Narrado por: James Anderson Foster
- Duración: 16 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind - our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions - and how mind and brain relate to art.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worth the listen
- De Amazon Customer en 01-28-19
De: Eric R. Kandel
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Leonardo's Brain
- Understanding da Vinci's Creative Genius
- De: Leonard Shlain
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 8 h y 4 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 832
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 738
Bestselling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy (yes), and then employing state of the art left-right brain scientific research to explain his universal genius. Shlain shows that no other person in human history has excelled in so many different areas as Da Vinci and he peels back the layers to explore the how and the why.
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3 out of 5 stars
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As distracted as Da Vinci
- De D. McCracken en 05-12-15
De: Leonard Shlain