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Title: The Principles of Aesthetics

Author: Dewitt H. Parker, Israel Bouseman

Narrator: Jason Leikam, Terry Rose

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-17

Publisher: AudioLearn

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts

Publisher's Summary:

The Principles of Aesthetics can be considered the definitive work on aesthetics, the philosophy of art, beauty, and taste. It is the result of a series of lectures given by Dewitt H. Parker, and gives a comprehensive review of a truly extensive subject. Every person has some sense of the beautiful and the ugly. We all admire certain images, combinations of sound, taste, smell, or feeling. But where does this enjoyment come from? If our tastes were all alike, we could find precise formulae that define the beautiful and discover the keys to the nature of art. But our tastes differ from one person to the next, and even from one moment to the next. This is what makes beauty a mystery. Art is a grasping at the intangible reality that surrounds and transcends our attempts to order the world. This is what makes the philosophy of aesthetics so fascinating. At the very least, it gives us insight into our nature as human beings. At best, it can let us glimpse the nature of truth beyond reason and intention.

It has been said that art imitates nature. Perhaps some ephemeral quality of the natural world is reflected in our sense of beauty and taste. The philosophy of aesthetics is focused on these questions. It delves into the mysterious pool from which artists and poets derive their inspiration. With this piece, Dewitt H. Parker gives us a beautiful and thorough introduction into a field that points towards the mysteries of the human experience. A summary precedes the full narration, giving a biography of the author, as well as an overview, synopsis, and analysis of the work.

The summary is capped by a brief look at the historical context of Dewitt's work, as well as the criticism and social impact it evoked.

Members Reviews:

The Why of Beauty Explored!

What did you love best about The Principles of Aesthetics?

Before I get into this, I have to share my bias. Ive always been in the camp that thinks art cant be broken down into objective intellectual terms. So I found some resistance when listening to this piece, but only at the start. Parker explores beauty from the angle of the philosopher and psychologist, sure, but he also has a clear passion for art itself and has immersed himself in the subject for this passions sake. He does provide some definitions of art and beauty, though he explores these definitions from a subjective angle as well as the more stolid and uptight angle preferred by some earlier aesthetic philosophers.

With regard to the analytical breakdown, Parker describes each piece of art as a combination of sensation and feeling. He explores how different forms of art approach sensation, like tones for music, color and line for painting, letters and words for literature, and how this sensation can be used to convey both immediate feelings, and specific ideas. The psychological element of this bit is fascinating to me, as there is a specific feeling conveyed by the color red, for example, or by a certain pitch or tone. I feel that some of the best artists have an instinctive understanding of this, using our innate response to color, line, form, and tone to evoke gut-level feelings. The neat thing about it is that these feelings are vague but definite, having a clear impact, but at a subconscious level. Even more interesting is that they must be employed with the grace and intuition of a master.

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Title: Kurt Schwitters

Subtitle: Merzbarn

Author: Anne Blood

Narrator: Hayley Kelley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-02-17

Publisher: Cv Publications

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts

Publisher's Summary:

This book presents a study by Anne Blood of the pioneering artist Kurt Schwitters (b. June 20, 1887, Hannover, d. January 8, 1948 Kendal) which reviews the Kurt Schwitters exhibition in Britain at Tate Britain, January to May 2013. The author focuses on the Merzbarn, a late work created in a barn at Elterwater, Cumbria in 1947, made in the last year of his life. The Merzbarn is a complex internal sculpture integrated into the building used by permission of the owner Harry Pierce, who had commissioned a portrait by the artist. The unfinished but eloquent work proved to be a forerunner of modern pathways of art and installation, and added to Schwitters' seminal influence on future artists.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Perfect

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Title: How to Draw Animals for Beginners

Author: HowExpert Press, Luanna Eroles

Narrator: Chandler Gray

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-16-16

Publisher: HowExpert

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts

Publisher's Summary:

This book is based on the standard concepts of drawing. If you have never drawn before, it will be a great start, and if you do like drawing and have some experience with it this book will help you to open your eyes to vital principles of drawing. Our expert proposes various exercises, from coordination skills to visual ability, finalizing the projects with a portfolio of different shadowing and coloring techniques.

By the title you can see that all this experience will be focused on animal drawing, but what you will learn here is much more than just a set of rules. There are instructions which aim to enable you to be able to create a connection between the theory and skill by yourself.

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Title: Vermeer and the Transfixed Moment

Author: N.P. James

Narrator: James Milton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-02-16

Publisher: Cv Publications

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts

Publisher's Summary:

This essay takes as its focus two paintings by Johannes Vermeer (1632-75): The Milkmaid c.1661-62 and Woman Holding a Balance c.1662-65, and considers critical approaches to the artist by four historians, Edward A. Snow, Lawrence Gowing, John Michael Montias, and Martin Pops. Its aim is not solely to describe Vermeer's art, but by a process of comparative analysis to discern the various standpoints of his biographers, and to clarify their methodologies in research.

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Title: Francis Bacon Seminar

Subtitle: A Discussion of the Artist

Author: Nicholas James

Narrator: Denise Kahn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-23-16

Publisher: Cv Publications

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts

Publisher's Summary:

Cv/VAR 31 documents Francis Bacon, discussed in a seminar for the MA History of Art course at Kingston University in 1995. It considers varied aspects of the artist, the circumstances of his social milieu, his painting methods, and the iconography of his work comparing him with predecessors in Western art from Goya to Picasso as well as contemporaries such as Lucian Freud. A second part reviews works in an exhibition held at the Hayward Gallery London 1998.

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Title: Between Dream and Nightmare

Subtitle: Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Anselm Kiefer: A View of Modern German Art

Author: Marina Vaizey

Narrator: Denise Kahn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-23-16

Publisher: Cv Publications

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts

Publisher's Summary:

A study of three leading German artists presently exhibited in London at Tate Modern, the British Museum and the Royal Academy.

In 2014, a resonant series of anniversaries and commemorations prompted an enhanced awareness in London of the history of the Teutonic world in general, and - specifically - a sense of post-war Germany in terms of three of its most symbolic and emblematic visual artists. London is a city which, whilst perhaps the most multi-ethnic and multi-cultural on earth, is also the oldest capital of the Anglophone world; and Britain is a country which is irrevocably scarred by its engagements with Germany in the 20th century. Perhaps as part of a subtle healing process, in recent times objects of all kinds are being used in the great national complexes of public museums and galleries in London, notably because of their resources, to provide historic narratives in an attempt to understand other cultures, and for 2014-2018 Germany will have pride of place.

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Title: The Street Where I Live

Author: Alan Jay Lerner

Narrator: David Case

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-15-16

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts

Publisher's Summary:

This warm, loving, and often hilarious personal history of My Fair Lady, Camelot, and Gigi describes the cast of a great era in American musical theater: Moss Heart, Fritz Loewe, Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Cecil Beaton, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier, Leslie Caron, Vincente Minelli, Arthur Freed, and many others. How these people worked together to conceive, finance, write, produce, stage, and present these brilliant shows is detailed here, in this audio edition of one of the most delightful books ever written on the world of Broadway.

Members Reviews:

"Everyone who should be here is here"

I had high expectations when first I picked up THE STREET WHERE I LIVE, lyricist Alan Jay Lerner's autobiography of his peak creative years, when he and composer Frederick (Fritz) Loewe gave the world the musicals MY FAIR LADY and CAMELOT, and the movie musical GIGI (MGM, 1958). Those expectations were gloriously met. Like its author, THE STREET WHERE I LIVE is witty, chatty, compulsively readable and just a joy. Not all autobiographies and even fewer "as told to" life stories are entertaining; this one is pretty much the gold standard for what such a book should have. You will learn something about the creative process these two talents enjoyed, and even more about the backgrounds of these great shows' creations, as well as the other talents who aided in their creation. I strongly recommend this book to anyone curious about 20th-Century musical theater or that elusive concept, "American Songbook," to which Lerner and Loewe contributed so much.

Used copies of this book are not hard to find, leaving the reader funds to hear for him/herself what all the fuss was about:

My Fair Lady;

Gigi(DVD);

Camelot.

Note: Only about 250 pages of this well-written memoir consists of Lerner's text. Most of the rest is given over to the lyrics (words only) of all the songs from the three shows above.

This is a great inside look at theatre and all that goes into ...

This is a great inside look at theatre and all that goes into the makings of productions. Covers My Fair Lady, Gigi and Camelot as well as all the lyrics to Lerner's songs. A very good read and quite humorous. Loved it!

Page turning enjoyment!

As many reviewers have already said this witty wonderful book is not a traditonal biography and mainly covers the making of 3 musicals. It is page turning enjoyment.

It is what I think of as a 'happy' book - meaning his writing and descriptions emphasize humor and good nature toward the inevitable set backs, craziness and stress faced in tackling these projects and life in general.

I appreciate this because I find often it is rare in books about creative types who are so often self-destructive. Alan Lerner may or may not have also been self-destructive in real life, I don't know not having read much about him, but his attitude of humor in this book is refreshing and enjoyable.

So if you have read too many books about dark figures bent on self destruction such as Carson McCullers, Dorothy Parker, John Barrymore, the Fitzgeralds, Louise Brooks etc etc then it is nice to have a change of pace.

If you like this, would highly recommendMister Abbottby George Abbott - also a broadway director, producer and writer and also written in similar style, amusing, introspective, interesting.

Five Stars

Excellent look into a fascinating life.

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Title: Homeland

Subtitle: David Hockney and the Yorkshire Landscape

Author: Marina Vaizey

Narrator: Hayley Kelley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-10-16

Publisher: Cv Publications

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts

Publisher's Summary:

Cv/VAR series 104 reviews "David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture", exhibited at the Royal Academy from January to April 2012. The project of creating monumental landscape paintings was based on a small area near the artist's home at Bridlington in East Yorkshire. Works developed with time-framed films, photographs, iPad studies, drawings, sketchbooks, oils, and watercolors, recording particular motifs and places in the changing seasons. Studies were enlarged on joined canvases in compositions up to 30 feet wide, designed to immerse the viewer in an intense experience of the landscape.

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Title: Lucian Freud

Subtitle: Mapping the Human

Author: Marina Vaizey, Nicholas James

Narrator: Denise Kahn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-02-16

Publisher: Cv Publications

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts

Publisher's Summary:

Renowned artist Lucian Freud (1922-2011) was commemorated in an exhibition of 50 portraits spanning his working life, held at The National Portrait Gallery London from February to May 2012. The review explored the development of his art from the potent and hypersensed studies of the 1940s to major paintings in the later phase, where the artist engaged in a complex and sometimes brutal meditation on the human being, drawn from an intimate engagement with the sitter. Freud's unsparing eye maps his subjects, sustaining single-handedly an almost unique commitment to the ambitions of high art, grounded in the canons of classic Western tradition. The audiobook also includes a review of Freud's figure drawings exhibited at Blain|Southern Gallery.

Marina Vaizey is an art critic, a lecturer, and a traveler. She was the art critic for the Financial Times for 4 years and The Sunday Times for 18. She has curated several exhibitions and written many catalogues. She has been a trustee for several national museums.

Nicholas James studied painting with Frank Auerbach and Keith Vaughan at the Slade School UCL. He formed Cv Publications in 1992 and Cv/Visual Arts Research in 1995.

Members Reviews:

Glib, and without insight

Terribly thin for the price and with remarkably few illustrations. Those in the Kindle version are of criminally poor quality.

Bad High School Essay

This is a disappointing effort. The title offers so much promise but the two essays are lightweight and criminally derivative. You'd do better and learn more by googling Lucian Freud obits and recent reviews of the Lucian Freud Portraits exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London earlier this year. I'm so much more more than angry about spending $9.99 on this fish wrap. I can believe anyone would have offered this for sale.

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Title: Olympic Games - The Myth

Author: Tina Angelou

Narrator: Danae Phelps

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-07-16

Publisher: AKTIS AV Team

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts

Publisher's Summary:

Discover the secrets of the Olympic Games through the Greek myths. Three Greek myths for the foundation of the Olympic Games unfold their secrets. Titans and Giants against the Gods! Who prevents the marriage of the beautiful princess? What prophecy will the oracle of Delphi give to stop a civil war? Walk the trails of the ancient Greek myths and discover the meaning of the Olympic Games!

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