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Title: Collecting Contemporary Art

Subtitle: Studies in World Art, Book 22

Author: Edward Lucie-Smith

Narrator: Jack Wynters

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-09-18

Publisher: Cv Publications

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts

Publisher's Summary:

A good art collection is always much more than the sum of its parts. This applies with especial force to collections of contemporary work. A collection of this kind, whether the collector intends it to be so or not, is always a portrait - a reflection in the mirror of a particular epoch, and, willy-nilly, a self-portrait of the person who takes the trouble to bring it together.

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Title: Yayoi Kusama

Subtitle: Studies in World Art, Book 89

Author: Edward Lucie-Smith

Narrator: Tim Carper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-09-18

Publisher: Cv Publications

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts

Publisher's Summary:

Yayoi Kusama is now one of Japans best-known contemporary artists. She was the recipient of her countrys Praemium Imperiale for painting in 2006 - the most prestigious award Japan can offer to any painter, native or foreign. Her rise to fame has been unconventional, even by the standards of the art world of the 21st century, where eccentricities of all kinds pass without question.

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Title: Gauguin at Tate Modern

Subtitle: Studies in World Art, Book 31

Author: Edward Lucie-Smith

Narrator: Joe Van Riper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-09-18

Publisher: Cv Publications

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts

Publisher's Summary:

The new Gauguin exhibition at Tate Modern in certainly the art event of the year in London. Its a blockbuster exhibition of a kind that, thanks to the continuing worldwide financial crisis, may soon become extinct. It is also an exhibition that raises important questions about how we currently see and think about art.

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Title: Rubens in the Making

Subtitle: Studies in World Art, Book 68

Author: Edward Lucie-Smith

Narrator: Tim Carper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-09-18

Publisher: Cv Publications

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts

Publisher's Summary:

The new exhibition at the National Gallery in London ought to be yet another triumph for an institution that is now running a very ambitious exhibition program. Who can forget the shows recently devoted to Titian, El Greco, and Vermeer? Yet this event makes a curiously uneasy effect.

There are several, not just one, reasons for this. The first is that Rubens, of all great artists the one who enjoyed the greatest degree of worldly success, had distinctly uneasy beginnings. Of sound Flemish bourgeois stock, he was born in 1577 at Siegen in Westphalia. His parents had fled there to escape persecution, because they were Calvinist converts.

His father, Jan, a lawyer, became the intimate adviser and eventually the lover of Princess Anna of Saxony, the second wife of William the Silent, the champion of the Protestant cause. When the affair was discovered, Jan was placed under house arrest but was eventually allowed to go to Cologne, where he died in 1587. His wife, with her four children, returned to Antwerp, where they all re-converted to Catholicism. The young Rubens was placed as a page in an aristocratic household, but was later allowed to study as a painter.

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Title: What It Is to Curate

Subtitle: Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 174

Author: Edward Lucie-Smith

Narrator: Joe Van Riper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-09-18

Publisher: Cv Publications

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts

Publisher's Summary:

Anyone who Googles the phrase curatorial theory will immediately come upon quite a long list of suggested websites. Sometimes it is a little difficult to be sure if the texts offered are intended to be taken entirely seriously. What about this, for example?

"The answer to the question 'what is curating?' was already there but not as a question we pose ourselves in the arrogance of our disciplinary address. Its formulation would be otherwise: no answer but rather response to a call. The call to which it responds has already been placed to curating."

However, if I hack my way through this dense thicket of language, I find myself in agreement with what it seems to be trying to say, which is that curating an exhibition - or for that matter, a website - is not an end in itself.

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Title: The Artist and the Artwork

Subtitle: Studies in World Art, Book 75

Author: Edward Lucie-Smith

Narrator: Tim Carper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-09-18

Publisher: Cv Publications

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts

Publisher's Summary:

Works of art have often been endowed by their audience with talismanic force. Their impact exceeds the visual impression they make. This seems natural enough when we consider the fact that the most ambitious works of art produced by ancient civilizations were religious.

To those who originally encountered them, they seemed to speak directly from the gods. Their makers were very seldom recorded, though the names of those who ordered them to be made - pharaohs, emperors and kings - quite frequently survive.

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Title: Modern British Sculpture

Subtitle: Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 171

Author: Edward Lucie-Smith

Narrator: Joe Van Riper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-08-18

Publisher: Cv Publications

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts

Publisher's Summary:

Very seldom in London can a major show of modern and contemporary art at a highly respected national institution have received such universally negative reviews. As I write this, not all the verdicts on the Royal Academys exhibition of Modern British Sculpture have been delivered. However, it is already clear that the majority will be hostile.

Paradoxically, it is this, more than any other factor, which makes it seem like an important event - a turning point if you like. And in fact the hostility of the reviews may bring it a much bigger audience than if the reactions had simply been lukewarm. People will come to see what the scandal is about.

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Title: Basilica of Saints Felix and Fortunatus Vicenza Italy

Author: Alessio Tremiti

Narrator: Karolina Starin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-17

Publisher: Il Narratore s.r.l.

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts

Publisher's Summary:

The audioguide tells the story, describes the architecture and presents interesting facts about the basilica of the Saints Felice and Fortunato, a paleo-Christian monument that is rooted in the ancient history of the Roman Empire.

One of the oldest and most important basilica sites is the Martyrion. This chapel was built in memory and in honor of the Saints Felice and Fortunato, but there are also relics of other saints.

The audioguide has been made by professionals in the field of history and art.

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Title: Hagia Sophia Istanbul Turkey (RUS)

Author: Sergey Ivanov

Narrator: Ekaterina Kabasheva

Format: Unabridged

Length: 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-17

Publisher: Il Narratore s.r.l.

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts

Publisher's Summary:

The audioguide tells the story, describes the architecture and reports interesting facts about the basilica of Santa Sofia, the largest Byzantine monument. For 916 years, the basilica was Christian, while for the last 481 it was Muslim. In 1934 it became a museum. For 900 years, until the construction of the famous Duomo of Florence, in 1436, it had no equal in terms of the height of its interior.

The audioguide has been made by professionals in the field of history and art.

Please note: this audiobook is in Russian.

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Title: Basilica of San Marco Venice Italy (RUS)

Author: Paola Stirati

Narrator: Ekaterina Kabasheva

Format: Unabridged

Length: 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-17

Publisher: Il Narratore s.r.l.

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts

Publisher's Summary:

If you would like to hear about the extremely rich history of Venice, and you find it hard to imagine the influence Venice underwent and absorbed for centuries, you can just listen to our audioguide, about the magnificent Saint Mark's Basilica - the symbol of the people and culture.

The audioguide describes the unique history of Saint Mark's Basilica, made evident by the architecture and decorations, with elements of different styles. The audioguide has been made by professionals in the field of history and art.

Please note: this audiobook is in Russian.

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