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Muse audiobook
- By: Ruth Millington
- Narrator: Florence Howard
- Category: Art, General, History
- Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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Muse Audiobook Summary
The fascinating true stories of thirty incredible muses–and their role in some of art history’s most well-known masterpieces
We instantly recognize many of their faces from the world’s most iconic artworks–but just who was Picasso’s “Weeping Woman” or the burglar in Francis Bacon’s oeuvre? Why was Grace Jones covered in graffiti? Far from posing silently, muses have brought emotional support, intellectual energy, career-changing creativity, and practical help to artists. However, the perception of the muse is that of a passive, powerless model–usually young, attractive, and female–at the mercy of an influential and older male artist. Could this impression be incorrect and unfair? Is this trope a romanticized myth? Have people embraced, even sought, the status of muse? Most importantly, where would artists be without them?
In Muse, Ruth Millington’s goal is to re-assess and re-claim that word in a celebratory narrative that takes ownership and demonstrates how outdated the common perception of that word is.
Muse also explores the idea of “muse” in a different way and includes performance artists and celebrities, iconic figures we perhaps haven’t considered before as muses, such as Tilda Swinton and Grace Jones. By delving into the real-life relationships that models have held with the artists who immortalized them, it will expose the influential and active part they have played in contributing to the artwork they inspired, and explore the various ways people have subverted stereotypical “muse” roles.
From job supervisors to homeless men in Harlem, Muse will reveal the unexpected, overlooked, and forgotten models of art history. Through the stories of thirty remarkable lives, from performing muses to muses who have been turned into messages, this book deconstructs reductive stereotypes of the muse and reframes it as a momentous and empowered agent of art history.
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Muse Audiobook Narrator
Florence Howard is the narrator of Muse audiobook that was written by Ruth Millington
About the Author(s) of Muse
Ruth Millington is the author of Muse
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The publisher of the Muse is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9798212029858.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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