18 Best General, Art Books
General, Art is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top General, Art audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 18 General, Art audiobooks below.
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An Affair with Beauty: The Mystique of Howard Chandler Christy
- By: James Philip Head
- Narrator: Pamela Almand
- Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.43(41 ratings)
4.43(41 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDFame, fortune, and beautiful models–Howard Chandler Christy had them all. Christy was the most famous American painter of the Jazz Age, a time when an elite brotherhood of New York artists dominated the publishing world. Christy had eclipsedFame, fortune, and beautiful models–Howard Chandler Christy had them all.
Christy was the most famous American painter of the Jazz Age, a time when an elite brotherhood of New York artists dominated the publishing world. Christy had eclipsed all of them with his “Christy Girl,” an idealized woman who redefined beauty, influenced fashion, and inspired generations of women. Illustrated in popular magazines, bestselling novels, and top-ranked newspapers, the “Christy Girl” transformed the artist into a household name.
In An Affair with Beauty, Christy once again comes to life through the eyes of Nancy Palmer Christy, his wife and former model, as she recounts her first Christmas with Howard and his family at his Ohio mansion in 1912.
She tells of Howard Christy’s early years studying art in near poverty in New York City and his sudden ascent to stardom as the top pupil of William Merritt Chase, the premier portrait painter in America. She describes his daring experiences with Teddy Roosevelt during the Spanish-American War in Cuba and his brush with death, no less than three times. The effects of the war profoundly transformed Howard, inspiring him to create his vision of beauty, the “Christy Girl,” which catapulted him to stardom.
When romance blossomed between artist and model, Howard was slow to seek a divorce from his estranged wife, Maebelle, jeopardizing Nancy’s desires and compelling her to uncover his scandalous past. As World War I broke out, Howard returned to New York City, which compelled Nancy to risk everything to reveal her true feelings for him.
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Razzle Dazzle
- By: Michael Riedel
- Narrator: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 16 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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4.16(1031 ratings)
4.16(1031 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.95 USDRazzle Dazzle is a provocative, no-holds-barred narrative account of the people, money, and power that reinvented an iconic quarter of New York City, turning its gritty back alleys and sex shops into the glitzy, dazzling Great White Way–andRazzle Dazzle is a provocative, no-holds-barred narrative account of the people, money, and power that reinvented an iconic quarter of New York City, turning its gritty back alleys and sex shops into the glitzy, dazzling Great White Way–and bringing a crippled New York from the brink of bankruptcy to its glittering glory.
In the 1970s Times Square was the seedy symbol of New York’s economic decline. Its once shining star, the renowned Shubert Organization, was losing theaters to make way for parking lots. Bernard Jacobs and Jerry Schoenfeld, two ambitious board members, saw the crumbling company was ripe for takeover and staged a coup amid corporate intrigue, personal betrayals, and criminal investigations. Once Jacobs and Schoenfeld solidified their power, they turned a collapsed theater-owning holding company into one of the most successful entertainment empires in the world, ultimately backing many of Broadway’s biggest hits, including A Chorus Line, Cats, Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, and Mamma Mia! They also sparked the revitalization of Broadway and the renewal of Times Square.
With wit and passion, Michael Riedel tells the stories of the Shubert Organization and the shows that rebuilt a city in grand style, revealing backstage drama that often rivaled what transpired onstage, exposing bitter rivalries, unlikely alliances, and of course, scintillating gossip.
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Wildly into the Dark
- By: Tyler Knott Gregson
- Narrator: Tyler Knott Gregson
- Length: 1 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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4.15(1027 ratings)
4.15(1027 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.009.95 USDThe most intimate and eclectic poetry collection yet from bestselling author and online sensation Tyler Knott Gregson With loyal fans around the world and across the internet, Tyler Knott Gregson is reinventing poetry for a new generation, usingThe most intimate and eclectic poetry collection yet from bestselling author and online sensation Tyler Knott Gregson
With loyal fans around the world and across the internet, Tyler Knott Gregson is reinventing poetry for a new generation, using Instagram and Tumblr to reach readers where they are.
Tyler’s third collection includes more of his popular Typewriter Series poems (featured in his first book, Chasers of the Light) as well as never-before-published scenes that paint the world as only Tyler sees and experiences it. Filled with vivid emotions, Wildly into the Dark is a must-have for longtime fans as well as newcomers to Tyler’s unique brand of passionate, intimate, and playful words and images.
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The Gilded Page
- By: Mary Wellesley
- Narrator: Mary Wellesley
- Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.1(301 ratings)
4.1(301 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDA breathtaking journey into the hidden history of medieval manuscripts, from the Lindisfarne Gospels to the ornate Psalter of Henry VIII. Medieval manuscripts can tell us much about power and art, knowledge and beauty. Many have survived because ofA breathtaking journey into the hidden history of medieval manuscripts, from the Lindisfarne Gospels to the ornate Psalter of Henry VIII.
Medieval manuscripts can tell us much about power and art, knowledge and beauty. Many have survived because of an author’s status–part of the reason we have so much of Chaucer’s writing, for example, is because he was a London-based government official first and a poet second. Other works by the less influential have narrowly avoided ruin, like the book of illiterate Margery Kempe, found in a country house closet, the cover nibbled on by mice. Scholar Mary Wellesley recounts the amazing origins of these remarkable manuscripts, surfacing the important roles played by women and ordinary people–the grinders, binders, and scribes–in their creation and survival.
The Gilded Page is the story of the written word in the manuscript age. Rich and surprising, it shows how the most exquisite objects ever made by human hands came from unexpected places.
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Find Your Artistic Voice
- By: Lisa Congdon
- Narrator: Lisa Congdon
- Length: 3 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Chronicle Books
- Publish date: August 06, 2019
- Language: English
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4.1(1596 ratings)
4.1(1596 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDBestselling author, artist, and illustrator Lisa Congdon brings her expertise to this guide to the process of artistic self-discovery. Find Your Artistic Voice helps artists and creatives identify and nurture their own visual identity. ThisBestselling author, artist, and illustrator Lisa Congdon brings her expertise to this guide to the process of artistic self-discovery.
Find Your Artistic Voice helps artists and creatives identify and nurture their own visual identity.
This one-of-a-kind book helps artists navigate the influence of creators they admire, while simultaneously appreciating the value of their personal journey.
* Features down-to-earth and encouraging advice from Congdon herself
* Filled with interviews with established artists, illustrators, and creatives
* Answers the question how do I develop a unique artistic style?”An artist’s voice is their calling card–it’s what makes each of their works vital and particular
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The Da Vinci Women
- By: Kia Vahland
- Narrator: Ana Clements
- Length: 8 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: February 25, 2020
- Language: English
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3.91(11 ratings)
3.91(11 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDThis new biographical look at Leonardo da Vinci explores the Renaissance master’s groundbreaking portrayal of women which forever changed the way the female form is depicted.Leonardo da Vinci was a revolutionary thinker, artist, and inventorThis new biographical look at Leonardo da Vinci explores the Renaissance master’s groundbreaking portrayal of women which forever changed the way the female form is depicted.... Read moreLeonardo da Vinci was a revolutionary thinker, artist, and inventor who has been written about and celebrated for centuries. Lesser known, however, is his revolutionary and empowering portrayal of the modern female centuries before the first women’s liberation movements.Before da Vinci, portraits of women in Italy were still, impersonal, and mostly shown in profile. Leonardo pushed the boundaries of female depiction having several of his female subjects, including his Mona Lisa, gaze at the viewer, giving them an authority which was withheld from women at the time.Art historian and journalist Kia Vahland recounts Leonardo’s entire life from April 15, 1452, as a child born out of wedlock in Vinci up through his death on May 2, 1519, in the French castle of von Cloux. Included throughout are 80 sketches and paintings showcasing Leonardo’s approach to the female form (including anatomical sketches of birth) and other artwork as well as examples from other artists from the 15th and 16th centuries. Vahland explains how artists like Raphael, Giorgione, and the young Titan were influenced by da Vinci’s women while Michelangelo, da Vinci’s main rival, created masculine images of woman that counters Leonardo’s depictions. -
The Painted Word
- By: Tom Wolfe
- Narrator: Harold N. Cropp
- Length: 2 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 1998
- Language: English
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3.84(5739 ratings)
3.84(5739 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.009.95 USDNo one skewers the popular movements of American culture like Tom Wolfe. In 1975, he turned his satirical pen to the pretensions of the contemporary art world, a world of social climbing, elitist posturing, and ingeniously absurd self-justifyingNo one skewers the popular movements of American culture like Tom Wolfe. In 1975, he turned his satirical pen to the pretensions of the contemporary art world, a world of social climbing, elitist posturing, and ingeniously absurd self-justifying theorizing. He addresses the scope of Modern Art, from its founding days as Abstract Expressionism through its transformations to Pop, Op, Minimal, and Conceptual. In the process he debunks the great American myth of Modern Art in an incandescent, hilarious, and devastating blast. Wolfe’s style has never been more dazzling, and his wit never more keen.
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Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World
- By: Miles J. Unger
- Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 15 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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3.84(254 ratings)
3.84(254 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.95 USDWhen Picasso became Picasso: the story of how an obscure young painter from Barcelona came to Paris and made himself into the most influential artist of the twentieth century In 1900, an eighteen-year-old Spaniard named Pablo Picasso made his firstWhen Picasso became Picasso: the story of how an obscure young painter from Barcelona came to Paris and made himself into the most influential artist of the twentieth century
In 1900, an eighteen-year-old Spaniard named Pablo Picasso made his first trip to Paris. It was in this glittering capital of the international art world that, after suffering years of poverty and neglect, he emerged as the leader of a bohemian band of painters, sculptors, and poets. Fueled by opium and alcohol, inspired by raucous late-night conversations at the Lapin Agile cabaret, Picasso and his friends resolved to shake up the world.
For most of these years Picasso lived and worked in a squalid tenement known as the Bateau Lavoir, in the heart of picturesque Montmartre. Here he met his first true love, Fernande Olivier, a muse whom he would transform in his art from Symbolist goddess to Cubist monster. These were years of struggle, often of desperation, but Picasso later looked back on them as the happiest of his long life.
Recognition came slowly: first in the avant-garde circles in which he traveled, and later among a small group of daring collectors, including the Americans Leo and Gertrude Stein. In 1906, Picasso began the vast, disturbing masterpiece known as Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. Inspired by the groundbreaking painting of Paul Cezanne and the startling inventiveness of African and tribal sculpture, Picasso created a work that captured and defined the disorienting experience of modernity itself. The painting proved so shocking that even his friends assumed he’d gone mad. Only his colleague George Braque understood what Picasso was trying to do. Over the next few years they teamed up to create Cubism, the most revolutionary and influential movement in twentieth-century art.
This is the story of an artistic genius with a singular creative gift. It is filled with heartbreak and triumph, despair and delirium, all of it played out against the backdrop of the world’s most captivating city.
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Picasso
- By: Arianna Huffington
- Narrator: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 19 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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3.81(512 ratings)
3.81(512 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.95 USDThis landmark biography penetrates the barriers of legend to bring to full and intimate life a man whose burning passions—for painting, women, and ideas—were matched by a compulsion to invent reality in his life no less than in his art.This landmark biography penetrates the barriers of legend to bring to full and intimate life a man whose burning passions—for painting, women, and ideas—were matched by a compulsion to invent reality in his life no less than in his art. Here is the tragic story of a man who, from his teenage passion for a gypsy boy to the chilling bitterness and betrayals of his old age, was unable to love and was driven to dominate and humiliate the women—and men—who fell under his hypnotic spell.
Drawing on a wealth of startling revelations, including the vivid memories of Picasso’s daughter Maya and the heretofore untold recollections of Françoise Gilot, who shared his life for ten years and bore two of his children, the author has stripped bare the romantic myths to reveal, in all its volatile complexity, Picasso’s lifelong struggle between his power to create and his compulsion to destroy.
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Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling
- By: Ross King
- Narrator: Alan Sklar
- Length: 7 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2003
- Language: English
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3.81(34428 ratings)
3.81(34428 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.95 USDIn 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel. With little experience as a painter (though famed for his sculpture David), MichelangeloIn 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel. With little experience as a painter (though famed for his sculpture David), Michelangelo was reluctant to begin the massive project.
Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling recounts the four extraordinary years Michelangelo spent laboring over the vast ceiling while the power politics and personal rivalries that abounded in Rome swirled around him. Battling against ill health, financial difficulties, domestic problems, the pope’s impatience, and a bitter rivalry with the brilliant young painter Raphael, Michelangelo created scenes so beautiful that they are considered one of the greatest masterpieces of all time. A panorama of illustrious figures converged around the creation of this great work–from the great Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus to the young Martin Luther–and Ross King skillfully weaves them through his compelling historical narrative, offering uncommon insight into the intersection of art and history.
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The Vanishing Velazquez
- By: Laura Cumming
- Narrator: Siobhan Redmond
- Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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3.8(1028 ratings)
3.8(1028 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2016 “As compelling and entertaining as a detective novel” (The Economist), the incredible true story–part art history and part mystery–of a VelazquezNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2016
“As compelling and entertaining as a detective novel” (The Economist), the incredible true story–part art history and part mystery–of a Velazquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth-century bookseller determined to prove he had found it.
When John Snare, a nineteenth century provincial bookseller, traveled to a liquidation auction, he found a vivid portrait of King Charles I that defied any explanation. The Charles of the painting was young–too young to be king–and yet also too young to be painted by the Flemish painter to whom the piece was attributed. Snare had found something incredible–but what?
His research brought him to Diego Velazquez, whose long-lost portrait of Prince Charles has eluded art experts for generations. Velazquez (1599-1660) was the official painter of the Madrid court, during the time the Spanish Empire teetered on the edge of collapse. When Prince Charles of England–a man wealthy enough to help turn Spain’s fortunes–proposed a marriage with a Spanish princess, he allowed just a few hours to sit for his portrait, and Snare believed only Velazquez could have been the artist of choice. But in making his theory public, Snare was ostracized and forced to choose, like Velazquez himself, between art and family.
A thrilling investigation into the complex meaning of authenticity and the unshakable determination that drives both artists and collectors of their work, The Vanishing Velazquez is a “brilliant” (The Atlantic) tale of mystery and detection, of tragic mishaps and mistaken identities, of class, politics, snobbery, crime, and almost farcical accident that reveals how one historic masterpiece was crafted and lost, and how far one man would go to redeem it. Laura Cumming’s book is “sumptuous…A gleaming work of someone at the peak of her craft” (The New York Times). -
What Is Art?
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrator: Geoffrey Blaisdell
- Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2008
- Language: English
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3.73(1799 ratings)
3.73(1799 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0013.95 USDWhat Is Art? is the result of fifteen years’ reflection on the nature and purpose of art. Tolstoy claims that all good art is related to the authentic life of the broader community and that the aesthetic value of a work of art is notWhat Is Art? is the result of fifteen years’ reflection on the nature and purpose of art.
Tolstoy claims that all good art is related to the authentic life of the broader community and that the aesthetic value of a work of art is not independent of its moral content. The book is noteworthy not only for its famous iconoclasm and compelling attacks on the aestheticist notion of “art for art’s sake” but even more for its wit, its lucid and beautiful prose, and its sincere expression of the deepest social conscience.
Tolstoy is an author critics typically rank alongside Shakespeare and Homer. A sustained consideration of the cultural import of art by someone who was himself an artist of the highest stature will always remain relevant and fascinating to anyone interested in the place of art and literature in society.
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Billion Dollar Painter
- By: G. Eric Kuskey
- Narrator: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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3.72(143 ratings)
3.72(143 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDThe unbelievable true story of artist Thomas Kinkade, self-described “Painter of Light,” and the dramatic rise–and fall–of his billion-dollar gallery and licensing business He was just one man, but Thomas Kinkade ultimatelyThe unbelievable true story of artist Thomas Kinkade, self-described “Painter of Light,” and the dramatic rise–and fall–of his billion-dollar gallery and licensing business
He was just one man, but Thomas Kinkade ultimately made more money from his art than every other artist in the history of the world combined. His sentimental paintings of babbling brooks, rural churches surrounded by brilliant fall foliage, and idyllic countryside cottages were so popular in the 1990s that it is estimated that one out of every twenty homes in America owned one of his prints. With the help of two partners–a former vacuum-cleaner salesman and an ambitious junior accountant who fancied himself a businessman–Kinkade turned his art into a billion-dollar gallery and licensing business that traded on the New York Stock Exchange before it collapsed in 2006 amid fraud accusations.
One part fascinating business story about the rise and demise of a financial empire born out of divine inspiration, one part dramatic biography, Billion Dollar Painter is the account of three nobodies who made it big. One was a man who, despite being a devout Christian who believed his artwork was a spiritual force that could cure the sick and comfort the poor in spirit, could not save his art empire–or himself.
G. Eric Kuskey, former colleague of Thomas Kinkade and close friend until the artist’s death in 2012, tells Kinkade’s story for the first time, from his art’s humble beginnings on a sidewalk in Carmel, California, to his five-house compound in Monte Sereno. It’s a tale of addiction and grief, of losing control, and ultimately, of the price of our dreams.
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The Gardner Heist
- By: Ulrich Boser
- Narrator: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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3.69(5813 ratings)
3.69(5813 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDShortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and committed the largest art heist in history. They stole a dozen masterpieces, including one Vermeer, three Rembrandts, and five Degas. ButShortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and committed the largest art heist in history. They stole a dozen masterpieces, including one Vermeer, three Rembrandts, and five Degas. But after thousands of leads–and a $5 million reward–none of the paintings have been recovered. Worth as much as $500 million, the missing masterpieces have become one of the nation’s most extraordinary unsolved mysteries.
After the death of famed art detective Harold Smith, reporter Ulrich Boser decided to take up the case. Exploring Smith’s unfinished leads, Boser travels deep into the art underworld and comes across a remarkable cast of characters, including a brilliant rock ‘n’ roll thief, a gangster who professes his innocence in rhyming verse, and the enigmatic late Boston heiress Isabella Stewart Gardner herself. Boser becomes increasingly obsessed with the case and eventually uncovers startling new evidence about the identities of the thieves. A tale of art and greed, of obsession and loss, The Gardner Heist is as compelling as the stolen masterpieces themselves.
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The Rise
- By: Sarah Lewis
- Narrator: Sarah Lewis
- Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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3.66(786 ratings)
3.66(786 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDFrom celebrated art historian, curator, and teacher Sarah Lewis, a fascinating examination of how our most iconic creative endeavors–from innovation to the arts–are not achievements but conversions, corrections after failed attempts.TheFrom celebrated art historian, curator, and teacher Sarah Lewis, a fascinating examination of how our most iconic creative endeavors–from innovation to the arts–are not achievements but conversions, corrections after failed attempts.
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The gift of failure is a riddle: it will always be both the void and the start of infinite possibility. The Rise–part investigation into a psychological mystery, part an argument about creativity and art, and part a soulful celebration of the determination and courage of the human spirit–makes the case that many of the world’s greatest achievements have come from understanding the central importance of failure.
Written over the course of four years, this exquisite biography of an idea is about the improbable foundations of a creative human endeavor. Each chapter focuses on the inestimable value of often ignored ideas–the power of surrender, how play is essential for innovation, the “near win” can help propel you on the road to mastery, the importance of grit and creative practice. The Rise shares narratives about figures past and present that range from choreographers, writers, painters, inventors, and entrepreneurs; Frederick Douglass, Samuel F.B. Morse, Diane Arbus, and J.K. Rowling, for example, feature alongside choreographer Paul Taylor, Nobel Prize-winning physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, and Arctic explorer Ben Saunders.
With valuable lessons for pedagogy and parenting, for innovation and discovery, and for self-direction and creativity, The Rise prompts deep reflection and sparks inspiration. -
De Kooning’s Bicycle
- By: Robert Long
- Narrator: Grover Gardner
- Length: 5 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2006
- Language: English
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3.3(44 ratings)
3.3(44 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0013.95 USDSome of the twentieth century’s most important artists and writers—from Jackson Pollock to Saul Steinberg, Fairfield Porter to Jean Stafford—lived and worked on the East End of Long Island. The home they made there would affectSome of the twentieth century’s most important artists and writers—from Jackson Pollock to Saul Steinberg, Fairfield Porter to Jean Stafford—lived and worked on the East End of Long Island. The home they made there would affect their creative work for years to come. Pollock found there a connection to nature that inspired some of the most significant painting of our time. James Schuyler and Frank O’Hara found companionship and raw material for their poems on South Main Street and the city train. Willem de Kooning rode his bike every day to Gardiner’s Bay, where the light informed every brushstroke he put to canvas from the early 1960s on.
Through searching, lyrical vignettes, critic and poet Robert Long mixes storytelling with history to recreate these lives and events that shaped American art and literature.
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Lives of the Artists, Vol. 1
- By: Giorgio Vasari
- Narrator: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 18 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2007
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.95 USDGeorgio Vasari’s original vision of the arts was to see the artist as divinely inspired. This historical work describes the lives of forty-five artists, including Giotto, Brunelleschi, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo,Georgio Vasari’s original vision of the arts was to see the artist as divinely inspired. This historical work describes the lives of forty-five artists, including Giotto, Brunelleschi, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian, with striking immediacy conveyed through character sketches, anecdotes, and detailed recording of conversations. Despite some factual inaccuracies, Michelangelo praised Vasari for endowing artists with immortality. Vasari’s shrewd judgments and his precise pinpointing of the emotions aroused by individual works of art bear out his prediction that he would have a worldwide influence on the history of art.
Volume One covers the following artists: Cimabue, Giotto, Uccello, Ghiberti, Masaccio, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Piero della Francesca, Fra Angelico, Alberti, Fra Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Verrocchio, Mantegna, Leonardo da Vinci, Giorgione, Correggio, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian, as well as additional notes on the artists.
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Historia del arte con nombre de mujer (A History of Art by Women)
- By: Manuel Jesus Roldan
- Length: 15 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: BookaVivo
- Publish date: June 22, 2022
- Language: Spanish
Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDMira como una mujer y pinta como un hombre. Eso decian de la vanguardista francesa Emilie Charmy en pleno siglo XX, o de la espanola Elena Brockman, una de las pocas artistas con obra en el Museo del Prado. Esta frase condensa muchas de las clavesMira como una mujer y pinta como un hombre. Eso decian de la vanguardista francesa Emilie Charmy en pleno siglo XX, o de la espanola Elena Brockman, una de las pocas artistas con obra en el Museo del Prado. Esta frase condensa muchas de las claves para entender la dificil aceptacion en torno a la actividad artistica femenina a lo largo de la historia. Ese silencio es posterior a sus creaciones: si tras las guerras la historia la escriben los vencedores, los manuales de arte solo se escribieron desde una perspectiva masculina. Pero, ?acaso no se expresaron las mujeres desde el inicio de los tiempos? El historiador Manuel Jesus Roldan reconstruye la Historia del Arte siguiendo el orillado rastro de las artistas que en todas las epocas y por todos los continentes pintaron, esculpieron, disenaron o fotografiaron con una misma aspiracion inherente al ser humano.
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