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  • The Unseen Truth Audiobook By Sarah Lewis cover art

    • The Unseen Truth

    • When Race Changed Sight in America
    • By: Sarah Lewis
    • Narrated by: Sarah Lewis
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
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    • The award-winning art historian and founder of the Vision & Justice project uncovers a pivotal era in the story of race in the United States when Americans came to ignore the truth about the false foundations of the nation’s racial regime.

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  • The Swerve Audiobook By Stephen Greenblatt cover art

    • The Swerve

    • How the World Became Modern
    • By: Stephen Greenblatt
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3,446 ratings
    • Greenblatt transports listeners to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued a crucial Roman philosophical text from certain oblivion....

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  • All That Glitters Audiobook By Orlando Whitfield cover art

    • All That Glitters

    • A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art
    • By: Orlando Whitfield
    • Narrated by: Orlando Whitfield
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings

    • All That Glitters is a dazzling insider’s account of the contemporary art world and the stunning rise and fall of the charismatic American art dealer Inigo Philbrick, as seen through the eyes of his friend and fellow dealer.

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  • Art & Fear Audiobook By David Bayles, Ted Orland cover art

    • Art & Fear

    • Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
    • By: David Bayles, Ted Orland
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,009 ratings
    • Art & Fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way....

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  • Paris in Ruins Audiobook By Sebastian Smee cover art

    • Paris in Ruins

    • Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
    • By: Sebastian Smee
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Incisive and absorbing, Paris in Ruins captures the shifting passions and politics of the art world, revealing how the siege and the chaos of the Commune had a profound impact on modern art, and how artistic genius can emerge from darkness and catastrophe.

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  • Ninth Street Women Audiobook By Mary Gabriel cover art

    • Ninth Street Women

    • Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
    • By: Mary Gabriel
    • Narrated by: Lisa Stathoplos
    • Length: 40 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 486 ratings

    • 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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  • The Secret Lives of Color Audiobook By Kassia St. Clair cover art

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  • Art Is Life Audiobook By Jerry Saltz cover art

    • Art Is Life

    • Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
    • By: Jerry Saltz
    • Narrated by: Jerry Saltz, Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings

    • 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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  • Rembrandt Is in the Wind Audiobook By Russ Ramsey, Makoto Fujimura cover art

    • Rembrandt Is in the Wind

    • Learning to Love Art Through the Eyes of Faith
    • By: Russ Ramsey, Makoto Fujimura
    • Narrated by: Zach Hoffman, John Behrens
    • Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 127 ratings

    • Rembrandt Is in the Wind is an invitation to discover some of the world's most celebrated artists and works and how each of them illuminates something about God, people, and the purpose of life....

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  • The Story of Art Without Men Audiobook By Katy Hessel cover art

    • The Story of Art Without Men

    • By: Katy Hessel
    • Narrated by: Katy Hessel
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings

    • 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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  • The Rise Audiobook By Sarah Lewis cover art

    • The Rise

    • Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery
    • By: Sarah Lewis
    • Narrated by: Sarah Lewis
    • Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 169 ratings
    • It is one of the enduring enigmas of the human experience: many of our most iconic, creative endeavors are not achievements but conversions, corrections after failed attempts....

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  • Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling Audiobook By Ross King cover art

    • Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling

    • By: Ross King
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,106 ratings
    • In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo....

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  • Color Audiobook By Victoria Finlay cover art

    • Color

    • A Natural History of the Palette
    • By: Victoria Finlay
    • Narrated by: Victoria Finlay
    • Length: 15 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings

    • 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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  • Picasso's War Audiobook By Hugh Eakin cover art

    • Picasso's War

    • How Modern Art Came to America
    • By: Hugh Eakin
    • Narrated by: Mack Sanderson
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 158 ratings

    • 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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  • Twelve Caesars Audiobook By Mary Beard cover art

    • Twelve Caesars

    • Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern (Bollingen Series)
    • By: Mary Beard
    • Narrated by: Mary Beard
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 66 ratings

    • This audiobook narrated by best-selling author Mary Beard explores how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power....

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  • William Blake vs the World Audiobook By John Higgs cover art

    • William Blake vs the World

    • By: John Higgs
    • Narrated by: John Higgs
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings

    • A wild and unexpected journey through culture, science, philosophy, and religion to better understand the mercurial genius of William Blake....

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  • In Montmartre Audiobook By Sue Roe cover art

    • In Montmartre

    • Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art
    • By: Sue Roe
    • Narrated by: Emma Bering
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 258 ratings

    • 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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  • Minor Feelings Audiobook By Cathy Park Hong cover art

    • Minor Feelings

    • An Asian American Reckoning
    • By: Cathy Park Hong
    • Narrated by: Cathy Park Hong
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,193 ratings

    • 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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  • Hilma af Klint Audiobook By Julia Voss, Anne Posten - translator cover art

    • Hilma af Klint

    • A Biography
    • By: Julia Voss, Anne Posten - translator
    • Narrated by: Doria Bramante
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • 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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  • The Gift Audiobook By Lewis Hyde cover art

    • The Gift

    • How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World
    • By: Lewis Hyde
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
    • Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings

    • A modern classic cherished by many of the greatest artists of our time, The Gift is a brilliant, life-changing defense of the value of creative labor....

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