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    How to Be an Artist

    The New York Times bestseller

    by Jerry Saltz ...
    Narrated by Jerry Saltz ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 20 min

    "I wish I had read these rules forty years ago and carried them around like a bible. By chance or design I've followed most of them at some point but it took me a lifetime as an artist to find what worked. They are the generous, loving, enthusiastic, bullshit-free advice of a master communicator, just reading them makes me want to charge back into the studio" - Grayson Perry"Being an artist is a ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Sexual Personae

    Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

    by Camille Paglia ...
    Narrated by Emily Durante ...

    Unabridged

    35 hours 15 min

    In this brilliantly original book, Camille Paglia identifies some of the major patterns that have endured in western culture from ancient Egypt and Greece to the present. According to Paglia, one source of continuity is paganism, which, undefeated by Judeo-Christianity, continues to flourish in art, eroticism, astrology, and pop culture. Others, she says, are androgyny, sadism, and the aggressive ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Art & Fear

    Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

    by David Bayles, Ted Orland ...
    Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 8 min

    What is your art really about? Where is it going? What stands in the way of getting it there?These are questions that matter, questions that recur at each stage of artistic development-and they are the source for this volume of wonderfully incisive commentary. Art & Fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    On Freedom

    Four Songs of Care and Constraint

    by Maggie Nelson ...
    Narrated by Gabra Zackman ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 5 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.A GUARDIAN 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICKSo often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom's long star turn coming to a close? Does a continued obsession with the term enliven and emancipate, ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    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

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    The Gift

    How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World

    by Lewis Hyde, Lewis Hyde, Lewis Hyde ...
    Narrated by Stephen Bowlby ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 36 min

    A modern classic cherished by many of the greatest artists of our time, The Gift is a brilliant, life-changing defense of the value of creative labor.Drawing on examples from folklore and literature, history and tribal customs, economics and modern copyright law, Lewis Hyde demonstrates how our society—governed by the marketplace—is poorly equipped to determine the worth of artists’ work. He shows ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    How to See the World

    by Nicholas Mirzoeff ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Keeble ...
    series Pelican Books

    Unabridged

    7 hours 28 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of How to See the World**, A Pelican Book,** by Nicholas Mirzoeff, read by Jonathan Keeble.In recent decades, we have witnessed an explosion in the number of visual images we encounter, as our lives have become increasingly saturated with screens. From Google Images to Instagram, video games to installation art, this transformation is confusing, liberating ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Fiery Angel

    Art, Culture, Sex, Politics, and the Struggle for the Soul of the West

    by Michael Walsh ...
    Narrated by Michael Walsh ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 44 min

    Without an understanding and appreciation of the culture we seek to preserve and protect, the defense of Western civilization is fundamentally futile; a culture that believes in nothing cannot defend itself, because it has nothing to defend. The past not only still has something to tell us, but it also has something that it must tell us. In this profound and wide-ranging historical survey, Michael ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Reimagining Design

    Unlocking Strategic Innovation

    by Kevin G. Bethune ...
    Narrated by Kevin Bethune ...
    series Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life

    Unabridged

    4 hours 38 min

    Design offers so much more than an aesthetically pleasing logo or banner, a beautification add-on after the heavy lifting. In Reimagining Design, Kevin Bethune shows how design provides a unique angle on problem-solving-how it can be leveraged strategically to cultivate innovation and anchor multidisciplinary teamwork. As he does so, he describes his journey as a Black professional through ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    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

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    On Chapel Sands

    My mother and other missing persons

    by Laura Cumming ...
    Narrated by Laura Cumming ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 41 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.**BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK**'A modern masterpiece' GuardianUncovering the mystery of her mother’s disappearance as a child: Laura Cumming, prize-winning author and art critic, takes a closer look at her family story.In the autumn of 1929, a small child was kidnapped from a Lincolnshire beach. Five agonising days went by before she was found in a nearby ... ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Time is the Thing a Body Moves Through

    by T Fleischmann ...
    Narrated by Joel Froomkin ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 51 min

    How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship to our bodies? T Fleischmann uses Felix Gonzáles-Torres’s artwork—piles of candy, stacks of paper, puzzles—as a path through questions of love and loss, violence and rejuvenation, gender and sexuality. From the back porches of Buffalo to the galleries of New York and L.A. and the farmhouses of rural ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Death of the Artist

    How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech

    by William Deresiewicz ...
    Narrated by Sean Patrick Hopkins ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 56 min

    A deeply researched warning about how the digital economy threatens artists' lives and work—the music, writing, and visual art that sustain our souls and societies—from an award-winning essayist and criticThere are two stories you hear about earning a living as an artist in the digital age. One comes from Silicon Valley. There's never been a better time to be an artist, it goes. If you've got a ... Read more

    $31.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Da Vinci Women

    The Untold Feminist Power of Leonardo's Art

    by Kia Vahland ...
    Narrated by Ana Clements ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 36 min

    This 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 inventor who has been written about and celebrated for centuries. Lesser known, however, is his revolutionary and empowering portrayal of the modern female centuries ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD $38.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Monsters

    A Fan’s Dilemma

    by Claire Dederer ...
    Narrated by Claire Dederer ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 14 min

    A passionate, provocative and blisteringly smart interrogation of how we experience art in the age of #MeToo, and whether we can separate an artist's work from their biography.What do we do with the art of monstrous men? Can we love the work of Roman Polanski and Michael Jackson, Hemingway and Picasso? Should we love it? Does genius deserve special dispensation? Is history an excuse? What makes ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Teoría y juego del duende: narrado por Pep Tosar

    Conferencia

    by Federico García Lorca, Pep Tosar ...
    Narrated by Pep Tosar ...

    Unabridged

    34 min

    A menudo los expertos en la obra de Lorca no dudan en señalar Teoría y juego del duende como una especie de credo artístico del gran poeta andaluz.Federico sitúa al duende en el ámbito de lo mistérico, de lo telúrico. El duende como una especie de misteriosa energía que viene de fuera y que posee al artista en un momento dado, ofreciéndole la posibilidad de conectarse con lo esencial, con lo ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Art is Life

    Icons & Iconoclasts, Visionaries & Vigilantes, & Flashes of Hope in the Night

    by Jerry Saltz ...
    Narrated by Jerry Saltz, Mark Bramhall ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 25 min

    From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of How to Be an Artist, a deliciously readable survey of the art world in turbulent times.Jerry Saltz is one of our most-watched writers about art and artists, and a passionate champion of the importance of art in our shared cultural life. Since the 1990s he has been an indispensable cultural voice: witty and provocative, he has attracted ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Reason in Art

    The Life of Reason

    by George Santayana ...
    Narrated by Bernard Mayes ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 44 min

    In Reason in Art, Santayana explores the social and psychological origins of art. He examines its moral and ideal functions, its lapses into tastelessness, and the distinctive character of music, speech, poetry, and prose. The Spanish-born philosopher sees art as part of the broader human context, concluding that art prepares “the world to receive the soul and the soul to master the world.” ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    В поисках минимализма: Стремление к меньшему в живописи, архитектуре и музыке

    by Кайл Чайка, Кайл Чайка ...
    Narrated by Ivan Искусственный Интеллект ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 2 min

    Книга озвучена с помощью искусственного интеллекта, специально разработанного для чтения аудиокниг. «Меньше значит больше» стало мантрой современных гуру минимализма, которые обещают, что избавление от избыточного количества вещей — это ключ к решению большинства проблем. Минимализм приобрел огромную популярность. Появилась целая индустрия, которая предлагает модные дизайны интерьеров, ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Socialist Realism

    by Trisha Low ...
    Narrated by Cindy Kay ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 42 min

    When Trisha Low moves West, her journey is motivated by the need to arrive “somewhere better” — someplace utopian, like revolution; or safe, like home; or even clarifying, like identity. Instead, she faces the end of her relationships, a family whose values she has difficulty sharing, and America’s casual racism, sexism, and homophobia. In this book-length essay, the problem of how to account for ... Read more

    $32.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A Month in Siena

    by Hisham Matar ...
    Narrated by Hisham Matar ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 24 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Shortly after completing his searing work of non-fiction, The Return, Hisham Matar set off for Siena, a city he had never visited before. His plan was to see the paintings of the Sienese school, to immerse himself in the work of artists he admired perhaps above all others.This month in Siena would be an extraordinary period in the life of this writer: an immersion in art, ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    L'impressionnisme

    by Pascal Bonafoux ...
    Narrated by Pascal Bonafoux ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 18 min

    L'impressionnisme (Manet, Pissaro, Monet, Renoir etc.) a d'abord été synonyme de scandale même s'il est aujourd'hui universellement admiré. Ses instigateurs sont d'emblée tenus à l'écart du salon officiel, le jury rejetant à la fois une facture non académique et une trop grande modernité des sujets. Indépendants, les impressionnistes révolutionnent les règles traditionnelles de la peinture. Ils s ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Mothers, Fathers, and Others

    New Essays

    by Siri Hustvedt ...
    Narrated by Caitlin Thorburn ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 40 min

    'It is Hustvedt's gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear.' Hilary Mantel, Guardian**Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in a fresh essay collection by the award-winning essayist and novelist Siri Hustvedt, author of the bestselling What I Loved and Booker Prize-longlisted The Blazing World.Siri Hustvedt's relentlessly curious mind and expansive intellect are on ... Read more

    $46.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Feel Free

    Essays

    by Zadie Smith ...
    Narrated by Nikki Amuka-Bird ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 53 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Feel Free by Zadie Smith, read by Nikki Amuka-Bird.From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Changing My Mind and Swing Time - discover a second unmissable collection of essays from Zadie Smith'Generous, courageous, and tough-minded... [A] classic English essayist in the vein of Orwell, Woolf and Angela Carter' Financial Times<... ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial