Unicorns by James Huneker audiobook.

Genre: speeches

Unicorns (1917) is James Huneker's sharp, wide-ranging collection of essays on the arts - a roaming conversation about what happens when imagination collides with reality. Taking the unicorn as his opening emblem of the unattainable and the necessary dream, Huneker moves from concert hall to studio to library, weighing the claims of modern taste against classical standards and asking what makes an artist, a masterpiece, or a movement endure. Along the way he sketches vivid portraits and arguments around composers, writers, and painters such as Edward MacDowell, Brahms, Chopin, Richard Wagner, Remy de Gourmont, J.-K. Huysmans, Henry James, James Joyce, and Paul Cezanne, while also pausing over style, rhythm in prose, and the shifting currents of French and Anglo-American culture. By turns witty, combative, and lyrical, Huneker writes as a critic who loves the heat of opinion and the thrill of discovery - and who insists that sincerity, craft, and daring matter more than fashion. Unicorns is both a time-capsule of early modernism and a spirited defense of art's power to remake the everyday.

Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:06:32) Chapter 02

(00:27:07) Chapter 03

(00:51:15) Chapter 04

(01:36:27) Chapter 05

(02:07:23) Chapter 06

(02:42:18) Chapter 07

(03:03:13) Chapter 08

(03:18:52) Chapter 09

(03:28:03) Chapter 10

(03:43:26) Chapter 11

(04:12:09) Chapter 12

(04:31:51) Chapter 13

(04:45:50) Chapter 14

(05:00:14) Chapter 15

(05:25:38) Chapter 16

(05:38:10) Chapter 17

(05:51:41) Chapter 18

(06:05:15) Chapter 19

(06:18:41) Chapter 20

(06:34:29) Chapter 21

(06:57:05) Chapter 22

(07:28:18) Chapter 23

(07:50:59) Chapter 24

(07:59:43) Chapter 25

(08:25:35) Chapter 26

(08:49:47) Chapter 27

(09:00:19) Chapter 28

(09:28:58) Chapter 29

(09:48:57) Chapter 30

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