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Thunderclap
- A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
- De: Laura Cumming
- Narrado por: Laura Cumming
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 19
In 1654, the Thunderclap—an enormous explosion at a gunpowder store—devasted the city of Delft, killing hundreds of people, including the extraordinary painter Carel Fabritius, and injuring thousands more. Framing the story around the life of Fabritius, Cumming illuminates this extraordinary moment in art history while also writing about her own father, a painter. Like Dutch art, the story gradually links country, city, town, street, house, interior—all the way to the bird on its perch, the blue and white tile, the smallest seed in a loaf of bread.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The deep dive into Dutch Art
- De toni en 08-06-23
- Thunderclap
- A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
- De: Laura Cumming
- Narrado por: Laura Cumming
Art History ALIVE
Revisado: 11-25-23
The subjective is the finest version of the objective…. Which is critical to Dutch 17th century painting
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Too Much and Never Enough
- How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
- De: Mary L. Trump PhD
- Narrado por: Mary L. Trump PhD
- Duración: 7 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34,077
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29,121
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28,942
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social fabric.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I almost feel sorry Donald Trump.
- De Deb en 07-15-20
- Too Much and Never Enough
- How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
- De: Mary L. Trump PhD
- Narrado por: Mary L. Trump PhD
An eye opener and a warning of unthinkable consequences if this spoiled child becomes powerful again.
Revisado: 04-28-23
So many are just like this person, by being completely wrapped up in themselves. They are not leaders, even when knowledgeable and Donald is a very ignorant man, who only thinks of money.
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La Vita Nuova [The New Life]
- De: Dante Alighieri
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 2 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
Written in alternating prose and poetry, La Vita Nuova is a profound reflection on the nature of love, devoted to Dante's muse Beatrice. Following Beatrice's death in 1290, Dante became obsessed with the young Florentine woman, whom he only ever knew from a distance. He believed his love for her was a form of divine love and saw her as an image of salvation itself - a theme that is later explored in his masterpiece The Divine Comedy, where she guides him through heaven.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must
- De Barnaby en 11-15-20
- La Vita Nuova [The New Life]
- De: Dante Alighieri
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
A must
Revisado: 11-15-20
Since 1300 AD, have we improved? This prose-poem will cast any such presumption into serious doubt....
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Bluebeard
- The Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian (1916-1988)
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 791
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 705
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 701
Meet Rabo Karabekian, a moderately successful surrealist painter who we meet late in life and see struggling (like all of Vonnegut's key characters) with the dregs of unresolved pain and the consequences of brutality. Loosely based on the legend of Bluebeard (best realized in Bela Bartok's one-act opera), the novel follows Karabekian through the last events in his life that is heavy with women, painting, artistic ambition, artistic fraudulence, and as of yet unknown consequence.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Kurt Vonnegut explores the arts
- De Darwin8u en 12-28-17
- Bluebeard
- The Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian (1916-1988)
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
Masterful
Revisado: 08-07-17
A profoundly american experience of wit and solidarity with the world at large, history at large. The best critique of mid century art on record.
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Wittgenstein
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: A. C. Grayling
- Narrado por: Kyle Munley
- Duración: 5 h y 44 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 99
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 83
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original thinker, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking far outside the bounds of philosophy alone. In this engaging introduction, A.C. Grayling makes Wittgenstein's thought accessible to the general listener by explaining the nature and impact of Wittgenstein's views. He describes both his early and later philosophy, the differences and connections between them, and gives a fresh assessment of Wittgenstein's continuing influence on contemporary thought.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Does a good job as a over view of subject
- De Jean en 01-11-14
- Wittgenstein
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: A. C. Grayling
- Narrado por: Kyle Munley
excellent summary
Revisado: 07-10-16
I recommend this book as a good overall assessment and description of W in the context of Modern Criticism for Undergraduate and Graduate History, Theory and Philosophy
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Marx: A Very Short Introduction
- De: Peter Singer
- Narrado por: Kyle Munley
- Duración: 3 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 122
In Marx: A Very Short Introduction, Peter Singer identifies the central vision that unifies Marx's thought, enabling us to grasp Marx's views as a whole. He sees him as a philosopher primarily concerned with human freedom, rather than as an economist or a social scientist. In plain English, he explains alienation, historical materialism, the economic theory of Capital, and Marx's ideas of communism, and concludes with an assessment of Marx's legacy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cogent introduction
- De US Born '90 en 06-03-18
- Marx: A Very Short Introduction
- De: Peter Singer
- Narrado por: Kyle Munley
Succinct and brief, ideal for a refresher in philosophy
Revisado: 04-10-16
The writer's own opinions liven the retelling and actually add to the excitement of Marx's philosophy.
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The Information
- A History, a Theory, a Flood
- De: James Gleick
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 16 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,966
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,491
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,492
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: A revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality - the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanishes as soon as it is born.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant book, heroic reader, better in print?
- De A reader en 03-12-11
- The Information
- A History, a Theory, a Flood
- De: James Gleick
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
Transformative and deeply intelligent
Revisado: 12-27-15
Information is a book that counterweights the agony of the information limbos humanity has endured in the past and is enduring now. Gleick reminds the reader that meaning will not be buried by the current cacophonie, because language itself is produced by ambiguity endemic to mental acumen.
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Art & Fear
- Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
- De: David Bayles, Ted Orland
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 3 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,033
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,675
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,647
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 artists to give up along the way. This is a book about what it feels like to sit in your studio or classroom, at your wheel or keyboard, easel or camera, trying to do the work you need to do. It is about committing your future to your own hands, placing free will above predestination, choice above chance. It is about finding your own work.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing!
- De zozobraswife en 05-10-12
- Art & Fear
- Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
- De: David Bayles, Ted Orland
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
A Mature and somewhat self satisfied guide
Revisado: 03-18-13
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
Yes I would recommend this book to artists who are very late beginners
What was most disappointing about David Bayles and Ted Orland ’s story?
It caters too much to the student with no personal ambition
Which scene was your favorite?
The acknowledgement that Fear is a huge component
Did Art & Fear inspire you to do anything?
No
Any additional comments?
It is a book which has more excuses for mediocre work than incentives for excellence
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Reason in Art
- The Life of Reason
- De: George Santayana
- Narrado por: Bernard Mayes
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 15
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 14
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.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sensationally articulate: Pure intellectual oxygen
- De Barnaby en 09-24-12
- Reason in Art
- The Life of Reason
- De: George Santayana
- Narrado por: Bernard Mayes
Sensationally articulate: Pure intellectual oxygen
Revisado: 09-24-12
If you could sum up Reason in Art in three words, what would they be?
Santayana holds both subject and reader with respect, expecting to be followed into the deepest depths of good sense.
What was the most compelling aspect of this narrative?
A dense and intense capacity for clarity. You have to stop, occasionally just to absorb properly revelation after revelation.
What does Bernard Mayes bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
I would have liked an american accent, since Santayana considered himself an american intellectual, notwithstanding his love of Oxford where he was a student for a year.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Chapet 8 and 9
Any additional comments?
We need more visual art criticism, artists can listen while they work
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The Singularity Is Near
- When Humans Transcend Biology
- De: Ray Kurzweil
- Narrado por: George K. Wilson
- Duración: 24 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,493
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,253
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,254
For over three decades, the great inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: the union of human and machine.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Great Idea, terribly slow and painful listen
- De Sean Gately en 08-11-11
- The Singularity Is Near
- When Humans Transcend Biology
- De: Ray Kurzweil
- Narrado por: George K. Wilson
Catalysts for a deity
Revisado: 12-30-11
Would you consider the audio edition of The Singularity Is Near to be better than the print version?
Yes
Who was your favorite character and why?
The writer. He comes to ontological conclusions bordering on serious mysticism.
What three words best describe George K. Wilson’s performance?
Automaton, steady, even
If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
Exponential exponentiality
Any additional comments?
Wonderful book
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