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Title: Gourd Art: A Proven Step-by-Step Method to Making Beautiful Gourd Art Today

Author: Amber Lewis

Narrator: Mindy Newell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-19-18

Publisher: Amber Lewis

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts

Publisher's Summary:

Learn the beauty of gourd art!

An art is an essential way of life. Any form of art is an expression of your soul and identity. It not only nourishes your life by providing endless opportunities with which to create new masterpieces, it also helps you find inner peace. Traditional art forms like painting, sketching, and sculpting have managed to stay alive despite the storm of technology and machinery. There are still many young people who, motivated by passion and the dream to paint, sculpt, or sketch something that might capture the essence of true beauty, live their lives exploring what the fine arts can offer them.

Some of the greatest men and women have claimed for themselves a unique art style or contribution to the talk of art and creation. Today, there are new art forms readily available for the public. The most common art forms of today include those that need the Internet or a graphic user interface for the artist to be able to come up with digital images that sometimes look more convincing than any real object or person.

However, there are art forms that, rooted in the simpler pleasures of rural life, continue to beckon creative intellectuals and art enthusiasts to rethink what art is and how it may be created. Gourd art is an example of that simple, rural-based art form. It is a little known practice that begins with growing, harvesting, choosing, then cleaning and designing a gourd. The design possibilities of gourd art are virtually endless as artists can express their creativity through carving or painting on the gourds surface.

If you do not have an artistic hobby yet, you would do well to learn all about gourd art and how easy it is to get started with this art form. There is nothing as satisfying as learning a new way to express your creative side. Come learn the simple yet truly gratifying art that Mother Nature herself provides.

Members Reviews:

do not buy

Unless you want to learn how to grow pumpkins, this book is worthless in regards to creating gourd art. There is no information on how to lay out designs, no step by step instructions for creating a piece of artwork. The information contained in this book can easily be found on the internet for free. Complete waste of money.

Not much here

Not very much information and few pictures. Very little use for anyone starting out in Gourd Art. For a supposed step by step manual this is sorely lacking. Most steps are missing or glossed over and in fact the procedures are not truly laid out in steps at all. Not worth the price and way over hyped.

A waste. Of time

This book does nothing to give a person any valuable information on gourd art. Finished the book in five minutes and learned nothing. Why is this book even in the kindle library? The title and picture on the cover of this book leads one to believe something that is not found in the book.

gourd man

Way to simple, not as advertised. Very disappointed. Expected more. Informative for real basic beginners, I guess I am further along than I thought.

Five Stars

Great

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Title: Paris and Beyond

Subtitle: Studies in World Art, Book 60

Author: Edward Lucie-Smith

Narrator: Joe Van Riper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-15-18

Publisher: Cv Publications

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts

Publisher's Summary:

In the early years of the 20th century, Paris became the center for an international community of artists. Some of them were French, but the city also offered its hospitality to artists from an increasingly wide range of other nationalities. Some, like Marc Chagall, came from communities that had never produced artists of international note before.

The result was a mixture between a stewpot and a laboratory. A stewpot because all kinds of cultural traditions were blended together. A laboratory because this is where all kinds of artistic ideas were continually tested to their limits. Nothing like this artistic community had ever existed previously, not even in Rome during the 17th century, when artists from Northern Europe flocked to Italy to complete their technical and intellectual education.

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Title: Loot

Subtitle: Studies in World Art, Book 45

Author: Edward Lucie-Smith

Narrator: Paul Bright

Format: Unabridged

Length: 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-10-18

Publisher: Cv Publications

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts

Publisher's Summary:

The current agitation about the restitution of artistic treasures of all kinds to their original locations is usually presented as overdue justice for faults committed by European colonialism. In fact, this is a serious oversimplification. Conquering armies have always regarded works of art as legitimate spoil.

Swedish collections, for instance, are rich in objects from the collection of the Hapsburg Emperor, Rudolph II, taken during the Thirty Years War. These, however, were not generally the work of Czech artists but the possessions of an alien court that had based itself for a while in Prague. The modern Czech Republic does not pine for them too much, even when there is proof that they were actually created in Bohemia.

Modern attitudes to the legitimate or illegitimate possession of famous artworks can be traced to the European Enlightenment that blossomed in the late 18th century, and in particular to the impact made by Enlightenment ideas on the men of the French Revolution.

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Title: Physiology of the Opera

Author: John H. Swaby

Narrator: Ella Porter, John H. Swaby

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-31-17

Publisher: Audioliterature

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts

Publisher's Summary:

"Physiology of the Opera" by John H. Swaby describes the opera and its actors in great detail - on the stage and behind the curtains.

Excerpt: As an introduction to the dissertation upon which we are about to enter, such an antiquarian view of the subject might be taken as would tend to establish a parallel between the ancient Greek tragedy and the modern sanguinary Italian opera, the strong resemblance therein being displayed of Signor Salvi trilling on the stage, to the immortal Thespis jargoning from a dung-cart. But we shall indulge in no such wearying pedantry. Our intention being merely to "hold the mirror up to nature," in presenting our immaterial reflector to the public, we invite our readers to a view of the present only - a period of time in which they take most interest, since they adorn it with their own presence.

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Title: Meditation

Subtitle: Studies in World Art, Book 2

Author: Edward Luie-Smith

Narrator: Joe Van Riper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-29-17

Publisher: Cv Publications

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts

Publisher's Summary:

This is not an exhibition about Realist art, as will be immediately apparent from some of the works included. Instead, it is an exhibition that invites the spectator to consider what his, or her, vision of reality truly is. The philosophical debate about the nature of realism in art began in earnest quite late in the history of Western painting and sculpture. The trigger was the invention of photography. When Louis Daguerre announced his new process in 1839 there were many people who thought that it might, in due course, make the visual artist superfluous. This feeling was particularly strong in Protestant countries, such as Great Britain, which was than in the throes of a religious revival that had its roots.

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Titel: Schnellkurs Barock

Autor:: Clive Unger-Hamilton

Erzähler: Axel Thielmann

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 1 hr and 12 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 12-29-17

Herausgeber: SAGA Egmont

Kategorien: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Von etwa 1600 bis zum Tod Johann Sebastian Bachs im Jahre 1750 reichte die Epoche der Barockmusik. In dieser Zeit fand die Musik neue Ausdrucksformen: So wurden das Oratorium und die Oper erfunden, und die heute noch gebräuchlichen Tonsysteme Dur und Moll entstanden. Doch nicht nur der musikalische Stil veränderte sich, auch die Darbietung entsprach dem Zeitgeist des damaligen Absolutismus: Fürsten unterhielten große Orchester, Chöre und eigene Kapellmeister. Denn Musik sollte nicht nur unterhalten, sondern die Macht ihres Gönners unterstreichen. Und auch der Klerus nutzte die Musik als Zeugnis von Macht und Reichtum und stellte große Chöre auf, perfektionierte die Kirchenmusik und engagierte hochkarätige Organisten. Bach, Händel und Vivaldi sind nur einige der herausragenden Komponisten, die der Autor in seiner Musikgeschichte des Barock vorstellt und deren Leben er erzählt. Und natürlich erklingt auch Musik auf diesem Hörbuch!

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Title: Edvard Munch

Subtitle: Studies in World Art, Book 26

Author: Edward Lucie-Smith

Narrator: Joe Van Riper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-28-17

Publisher: Cv Publications

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts

Publisher's Summary:

As a working critic, I find the most difficult exhibitions to write about are those that combine an evidently important subject with a faintly dispiriting result. The new Edvard Munch show at Tate Modern is a case in point. Munch is undoubtedly a major Modernist artist, a Norwegian cultural icon who was the precursor and to some extent the inventor of what came to be known as Expressionism.

One version of his composition, The Scream, very recently made a record price - $120 million - at a Sothebys auction. The auctioneer, Tobias Meyer, said rather smugly, "It is one of the great icons of art in the world and whoever bought it should be congratulated." So much of an icon, in fact, that you can even buy The Scream as a balloon.

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Title: Men Looking at Men

Subtitle: Studies in World Art, Book 50

Author: Edward Lucie-Smith

Narrator: Joe Van Riper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-28-17

Publisher: Cv Publications

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts

Publisher's Summary:

In 1975, the American critic, Laura Mulvey, published an article entitled "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema". This has over the years been one of the most influential of all feminist texts. In it, Mulvey made use of a version of Freudian theory, as reinterpreted by the French philosopher and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. Freud referred to scopophilia - the pleasure of look at other peoples bodies as erotic objects. Mulvey applied this to the cinema. For her, the spectator - paradigmatically male - turned the women he saw on the screen into passively erotic objects, while at the same time identifying himself with the ideal ego - the hero of the story - also seen on the screen.

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Title: Renoir Landscapes

Subtitle: Studies in World Art, Book 67

Author: Edward Lucie-Smith

Narrator: Willis Miller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-27-17

Publisher: Cv Publications

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts

Publisher's Summary:

Renoirs reputation has long been in decline with intellectuals. He is seen as sugary and self-indulgent, to the point where his work gives the whole of the Impressionist Movement a bad name. The thing that has contributed to this fall from grace is, of course, the late work, with its bloated nudes and curiously hot colors. Yet even the work of Renoirís best period tends to seem uneven, despite the continuing popularity of undoubted masterpiece such as La Loge [1874], now in the collection of the Courtauld Institute Galleries in London.

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Title: The Perfect Wagnerite

Author: George Bernard Shaw

Narrator: George Doyle

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-24-17

Publisher: Audioliterature

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts

Publisher's Summary:

"The Perfect Wagnerite" is a philosophical commentary on Richard Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen".

According to Shaw: "I write this pamphlet for the assistance of those who wish to be introduced to the work on equal terms with that inner circle of adepts... The reason is that its dramatic moments lie quite outside the consciousness of people whose joys and sorrows are all domestic and personal, and whose religions and political ideas are purely conventional and superstitious. To them it is a struggle between half a dozen fairytale personages for a ring, involving hours of scolding and cheating, and one long scene in a dark gruesome mine, with gloomy, ugly music... Only those of wider consciousness can follow it breathlessly, seeing in it the whole tragedy of human history and the whole horror of the dilemmas from which the world is shrinking today."

Shaw interprets the "Ring" in Marxian terms as an allegory of the collapse of capitalism from its internal contradictions. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an Anglo-Irish playwright, critic and polemicist. In 1925, he was awarded the Nobel Prize of literature.

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