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Art History Audiobooks

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    Still Life

    by Sarah Winman ...
    Narrated by Sarah Winnman ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 55 min

    THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF DYMOCKS BOOK OF THE YEARA GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2021A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICKWINNER OF THE INWORDS LITERARY AWARD‘Sheer joy' Graham Norton‘Utterly beautiful … filled with hope’ Joanna Cannon, author of Three Things About Elsie’A gorgeous, generous... ... Read more

    $49.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Marriage Portrait

    the instant Sunday Times bestseller, longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction

    by Maggie O'Farrell ...
    Narrated by Genevieve Gaunt ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 28 min

    'Someone swore that, as a little girl, he once saw you touch a tiger. And that the tiger didn't harm you, it let you stroke it. It was always said that you had charmed the beast.'The breathtaking new novel from the author of Hamnet, the Sunday Times No.1 bestseller (2021) and winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020, The Marriage Portrait is a dazzling evocation of the Italian Renaissance in ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Wabi Sabi

    Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life

    by Beth Kempton ...
    Narrated by Beth Kempton ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 17 min

    'A truly transformative read' Sunday Times STYLE'More than ever, we need books like this' Jessica Seaton, Co-Founder of Toast and author of Gather, Cook, FeastA whole new way of looking at the world - and your life - inspired by centuries-old Japanese wisdom.Wabi sabi ("wah-bi sah-bi") is a captivating concept from Japanese aesthetics, which helps us to see beauty in imperfection, apprecia... ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe

    by Angela Kelly ...
    Narrated by Angela Kelly ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 36 min

    ‘Full of gems … Angela Kelly is a jewel in the crown’Daily Telegraph‘Entertaining and beautifully illustrated’The Sunday Times‘For real intel, [The Crown] can’t come close to The Other Side of the Coin by Angela Kelly’The New York Times‘Fascinating book’HELLO!‘The book is a trove of warm and insightful anecdotes’Daily Mail‘Angela Kelly shares fascinating and char... ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    From the Ashes

    My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way

    by Jesse Thistle ...
    Narrated by Jesse Thistle ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 55 min

    *Winner, Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Nonfiction*Winner, Indigenous Voices Awards*Winner, High Plains Book Awards*Finalist, CBC Canada Reads*A Globe and Mail Book of the Year*An Indigo Book of the Year*A CBC Best Canadian Nonfiction Book of the YearIn this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle, once a high school dropout and now a rising Ind... ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Wretched of the Earth, The

    by Frantz Fanon ...
    Narrated by Sebastain Brown ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 29 min

    First published in 1961, Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth is a masterful and timeless interrogation of race, colonialism, psychological trauma, and revolutionary struggle. In 2020, it found a new readership in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests and the centering of narratives interrogating race by Black writers. Bearing singular insight into the rage and frustration of colonized ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    John Berger's Ways of Seeing

    by Emmanouil Kalkanis ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 49 min

    Ways of Seeing is a key art-historical work that continues to provoke widespread debate. It is comprised of seven different essays, three of which are pictorial and the other containing texts and images. Berger first examines the relationship between seeing and knowing, discussing how our assumptions affect how we see a painting. He moves on to consider the role of women in artwork, particularly ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Story of Art without Men

    The instant Sunday Times bestseller

    by Katy Hessel ...
    Narrated by Katy Hessel ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 44 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway?Discover the glittering Sofonisba Anguissola of the Renaissance, the radical work of Harriet Powers in the nineteenth-century USA and the artist who really invented the Readymade. Explore the Dutch Golden Age, the ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Francis Bacon: Revelations

    by Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan ...
    Narrated by Charles Armstrong ...

    Unabridged

    28 hours 5 min

    The Times Art Book of the Year 2021 FINALIST FOR THE PLUTARCH AWARD 2022‘Must surely be the definitive life of Francis Bacon … A biography that no Bacon fan – or indeed foe – can afford to overlook … Mesmerising’ THE TIMES‘A magnificent triumph … I was captivated by every line’ OBSERVERA decade in the making, based upon hundreds of interviews and extensive new material, Pulitzer Prize winners Mark ... Read more

    $66.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Broad Strokes

    15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order)

    by Bridget Quinn ...
    Narrated by Tavia Gilbert ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 29 min

    Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with the resurgence of feminism in pop culture, Broad Strokes offers an entertaining corrective to that omission. Art historian Bridget Quinn delves into the lives and careers of fifteen brilliant female artists in this smart, feisty, educational, and enjoyable book.Replete with beautiful reproductions of ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Other Side

    A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World

    by Jennifer Higgie ...
    Narrated by Jennifer Higgie ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 44 min

    It's not so long ago that a woman's expressed interest in other realms would have ruined her reputation, or even killed her. And yet spiritualism, in various incarnations, has influenced numerous men - including lauded modernist artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich and Paul Klee - without repercussion. The fact that so many radical women artists of their generation - ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Colour

    Travels Through the Paintbox

    by Victoria Finlay ...
    Narrated by Victoria Finlay ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 2 min

    'A rare and wonderful book... I could not be more enthusiastic.' Simon Winchester'A treasure trove of human history and obsession...the breadth of research and insight is dazzling.' Glasgow Herald'A highly companionable guide, adventurous and romantic' Independent on SundayOn a journey that takes her from Afghanistan, to the Australian outback, to ancient caves in China, and the saffron har... ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Culture

    A new world history

    by Martin Puchner ...
    Narrated by John Sackville, John Sackville ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 33 min

    'A writer of genius' - William DalrympleCan anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account argues that the story of global civilisations is one of mixing, sharing, and borrowing.It shows how art forms have crisscrossed continents over centuries to produce masterpieces. From Nefertiti's lost city and the Islamic Golden Age to twentieth century Nigerian theatre and Modernist poetry, Martin ... Read more

    $83.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    What Are You Looking At?

    150 Years of Modern Art in the Blink of an Eye

    by Will Gompertz ...
    Narrated by Roy McMillan ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 16 min

    Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of What Are You Looking At? by Will Gompertz, read by Roy McMilllan.What is modern art? Why do we either love it or loathe it? And why is it worth so much damn money? Join Will Gompertz on a dazzling tour that will change the way you look at modern art forever. From Monet's water lilies to Van Gogh's sunflowers, from Warhol's soup ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Whole Picture

    The colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it

    by Alice Procter ...
    Narrated by Alice Procter ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 34 min

    Should museums be made to give back their marbles? Is it even possible to 'decolonize' our galleries? Must Rhodes fall?How to deal with the colonial history of art in museums and monuments in the public realm is a thorny issue that we are only just beginning to address. Alice Procter, creator of the Uncomfortable Art Tours, provides a guide for deconstructing everything you thought you knew about ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows

    The story of two lives, one nation, and a century of art under tyranny

    by Ai Weiwei ...
    Narrated by David Shih ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 7 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.A FAMILY STORY AND THE TALE OF A NATION.Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - weaves a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own life and that of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poet.Here, through the sweeping lens of his own and his father's life, Ai Weiwei tells an epic tale of China over the last 100 ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Discovery of India

    by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru ...
    Narrated by Darrpan Mehta ...

    Unabridged

    33 hours 26 min

    "Whatever gods there be, there is something godlike in man, as there is also something of the devil in him." - Jawaharlal Nehru, The Discovery of India. The Discovery of India was written by India's first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru during his imprisonment in 1942–1946 at Ahmednagar fort in Maharashtra by the British before the independence of India. This book is widely regarded as a ... Read more

    $59.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Never Silent

    ACT UP and My Life in Activism

    by Peter Staley ...
    Narrated by Peter Staley ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 7 min

    In 1987, somebody shoved a flyer into the hand of Peter Staley: massive AIDS demonstration, it announced. After four years on Wall Street as a closeted gay man, Staley was familiar with the homophobia common on trading floors. He also knew that he was not beyond the reach of HIV, having recently been diagnosed with AIDS-Related Complex. A week after the protest, Staley found his way to a packed ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Marking Time

    Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration

    by Nicole R. Fleetwood ...
    Narrated by Adenrele Ojo ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 39 min

    More than two million people are currently behind bars in the United States. Incarceration not only separates the imprisoned from their families and communities; it also exposes them to shocking levels of deprivation and abuse and subjects them to the arbitrary cruelties of the criminal justice system. Yet, as Nicole Fleetwood reveals, America's prisons are filled with art. Despite the isolation ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    A Biography of the Pixel

    by Alvy Ray Smith ...
    Narrated by Daniel Henning ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 15 min

    The Great Digital Convergence of all media types into one universal digital medium occurred, with little fanfare, at the recent turn of the millennium. The bit became the universal medium, and the pixel conquered the world. Henceforward, nearly every picture in the world would be composed of pixels. In A Biography of the Pixel, Pixar cofounder Alvy Ray Smith argues that the pixel is the organizing ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    In Our Time: 25 Perspectives on the Visual Arts

    A BBC Radio 4 Collection

    by Melvyn Bragg ...
    Narrated by Melvyn Bragg, Various ...
    series In Our Time

    Unabridged

    22 hours 47 min

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 25 explorations of the visual arts, including artistic and architectural styles, historic movements, notable artworks and visual artistsRadio 4's In Our Time has established itself at the pinnacle of essential conversation on a wide range of subjects from science, history, philosophy and the arts. The programme, which celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2023, is ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Das neue Alphabet

    by Alexander Kluge, Karl Bruckmaier ...
    Narrated by Alexander Kluge, Katja Bürkle, Pascal Fligg, Peter Fricke, Stefan Merki, Karl Bruckmaier ...

    Abridged

    2 hours 52 min

    Alexander Kluge über die Grenzen der Digitalisierung»Das neue Alphabet« versammelt Gespräche und Anekdoten, in denen Alexander Kluge Zusammenhänge herstellt, die man ohne ihn kaum erkannt hätte. Man folgt ihm gerne durch die Menschheitsgeschichte sowie kreuz und quer durch unsere Gegenwart – bis an die Grenzen der Digitalisierung. Dabei wird ein ungemein scharfes Bild von unserer Welt vermittelt, ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Great Big turnip, The

    by Julie Sormark ...
    Narrated by Tammy Smith ...

    Unabridged

    28 min

    Art Classic Stories is a special series of English fairy tales that combines the paintings of great painters with classic fairy tales. ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Angel, The

    by Julie Sormark ...
    Narrated by Soft King ...

    Unabridged

    17 min

    Art Classic Stories is a special series of English fairy tales that combines the paintings of great painters with classic fairy tales. ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial