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The Art of Monarchy, Hörbuch, Digital, 221min

The Royal Collection is one of the most wide-ranging collections of art and artefacts in the world, and it provides an intriguing insight into the minds of the monarchs who have assembled it. In this series, BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz examines dozens of these unique objects, in a quest to "use the collection as a prism through which to better understand the art of being a monarch". From intimate portraits to epic tapestries, from the Coronation pen to the Investiture sword, from a treatise against Martin Luther to the first televised Christmas message, each has an absorbing history. Famous objects such as the Gold State Coach and the Imperial State Crown rub shoulders with lesser-known but still fascinating artefacts, such as the Exeter Salt and the Wriothesley Garter Book. With the help of historians, academics, and Royal Collection curators, Gompertz selects choice items to find out what secrets they reveal about the art of monarchy. Language: English. Narrator: Will Gompertz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/005855/bk_bbcw_005855_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Noise: A Human History - The Complete Series: The Complete Series, Hörbuch, Digital, 430min

This 30-part Radio 4 series explores how our interactions with sound have shaped us over 100,000 years. These specially extended episodes, recorded on location around the world and in collaboration with curators of the British Library Sound Archive, take us from prehistory to the present, encompassing the shamanistic music of our cave-dwelling ancestors, the massacre of noisy cats in pre-revolutionary Paris, the nerve-destroying din of trench warfare, right through to the cacophony of the modern metropolis. This is sound as life and death, pleasure and pain, power and revolution. Written and presented by Professor David Hendy from the University of Sussex. Produced by Matt Thompson for Rockethouse Productions. Theme tune composed by Joe Acheson from Hidden Orchestra. Readings Director Cherry Cookson. Assistant Producer - Cathy FitzGerald Includes a specially-composed 15-minute companion piece by electronic musician Matthew Herbert in which he retells the story of the whole series using only the sounds themselves. Language: English. Narrator: David Hendy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/007014/bk_bbcw_007014_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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100 Secrets of the Art World.

What do major artists consider their best kept secret? What is regarded as confidential knowledge among the key players of the global art market? In "100 Secrets of the Art World" the most powerful international individuals share their insights with you. This indispensable guide to contemporary art contains exclusive anecdotes, advice and personal stories from artists, museum directors, gallerists, auction house insiders, collectors, and many more. Contributors include Jeff Koons, Zaha Hadid, Marina Abramovic, Ólafur Elíasson, and John Baldessari as well as the directors and curators from the Centre Pompidou, the Guggenheim, the Metropolitan Museum, the Tate Modern and the Nationalgalerie. Thoughtful and oftentimes critical entries make this informative publication an entertaining read for anyone interested in contemporary art.

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David Bowie Is

This is the first book to be granted access to Bowie's personal archive of performance costume, ephemera and original design artwork by Bowie, and brings it together to present a completely new perspective on his creative work and collaborations. The book traces his career from its beginnings in London, through the breakthroughs of Space Oddity and Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, and on to his impact on the larger international tradition of twentieth-century avant-garde art. Essays by V&A curators on Bowie's London, image and influence on the fashion world are complemented by Christopher Frayling on film; Howard Goodall on musicology; Camille Paglia on gender and decadence; and Jon Savage on Bowie's relationship with William Burroughs and his fans.

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The Museum of Curiosity: Series 5-8: The BBC Radio 4 Comedy Series, Hörbuch, Digital, 669min

Join Professor John Lloyd and curators Jimmy Carr, Humphrey Ker, Phill Jupitus and Sarah Millican as they plunge down the badger hole of ignorance in a search for the universe's most mind-boggling oddnesses. The Museum of Curiosity is BBC Radio 4's monumental comedy edifice and the only one with gargoyles in the foyer. It allows nothing inside that doesn't make you scratch your head, stroke your chin or, at the very least, go 'hmm'. Fortunately, helping to fill its almost vacant plinths is a gathering of the world's most original minds. Among the guests bearing donations to the museum in these 25 episodes are Al Murray, Jo Brand, Pamela Stephenson-Connolly, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Sara Pascoe, Mark Watson, Richard Ingrams, Richard Herring, Cleo Rocos, Paul Sinha, David Frost, Richard Osman, Sandi Toksvig, Rich Hall, Clive Anderson, Neil Innes, Ken Dodd, Henry Blofeld, Tim Smit, Rufus Hound, Matt Lucas, Susan Calman and many more. In addition to all the episodes from series 5-8, the 2015 'Coding Special' is also included. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Schreiber, John Lloyd, Richard Turner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/002649/bk_rhuk_002649_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Young Sleek and Full of Hell: Ten Years of New York's Alleged Gallery

In 1992, Ludlow Street was just another Lower East Side gutter of low-rent tenements populated by artists, musicians, film-makers, designers, writers, and hoodlums. At the heart of it all stood Alleged Gallery. Stationed securely outside the institutionalized art world, this persistently peripheral gallery launched--in the ten years it was open--the international careers of countless artists working at the aesthetic edges of street art, fashion, film, performance and music. As the purveyor of a potent mixture of art, music, sex, drugs, and drinking, Alleged trafficked in irreverence and unlimited freedom. In Young, Sleek, and Full of Hell, the history of Alleged's exhibitions, events and attitudes is chronicled through behind-the-scenes photographs and interviews with the artists, musicians, designers, models, actors, film-makers, curators, gallerists, and collectors who were the scene's lifeblood.

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Rattle His Bones: The Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries, Book 8 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 482min

The eighth installment in this cozy mystery series features Daisy Dalrymple at the Museum of Natural History, a place of fascination - and murder. In the summer of 1923, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple makes what should be an uneventful research trip to the Museum of Natural History quite an eventful day - with her nephew, Derek, and her soon-to-be stepdaughter, Belinda, in tow. But as she interviews the various curators for her article on the museums of London, she soon discovers that the Museum of Natural History is a hothouse of professional rivalry and jealousy. Much resentment exists, particularly between Dr. Smith Woodward, the keeper of geology, responsible for the fossil collection, and Dr. Pettigrew, the keeper of mineralogy, responsible for the museum's fabulous gem collection. On a later trip, as closing time nears, Daisy hears two voices followed by a tremendous crash and rushes into the next hall to discover Dr. Pettigrew dead - murdered amid a pile of dinosaur bones. Daisy's fiancé, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, is assigned to investigate, and together they must unravel a most baffling case of missing gems, dispossessed European royalty, professional rivalry, and a murder most foul. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lucy Rayner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/008483/bk_blak_008483_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Carrigan Painting: Mysteries of Billamore Hall Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 113min

Curators at the infamous Billamore Hall Museum and Art Gallery are being mysteriously murdered, and now no one will accept the job...except Sandra Peterson. The cozy Massachusetts town of Billamore has been home to the infamous Hall for over 200 years. Renowned for its rare and somewhat macabre collections, being curator there has been a life-long dream for the intelligent, level-headed Sandra. Unlike her best friend, Josephine, who believes in the existence of all things unseen and supernatural, Sandra refuses to be scared off by ghost stories and strange circumstances. But, when Sandra discovers a hidden painting in the museum, a shocking secret is revealed, drawing her deep into a world of mystery she never knew existed. Suddenly she is the next target of an unknown assassin, and must use her wit to overcome her fear. Working against time, Sandra must somehow uncover the riddle of the mysterious painting, before she becomes the fourth murder victim in a continuing series of mysteries at Billamore Hall. Don't delay...find out what happens next to Sandra. Scroll to the top and click the “Buy Now” button today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Clara Abbott. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/146015/bk_acx0_146015_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Anatomy: Exploring the Human Body

A stunning tribute to our eternal fascination with the human body - and the latest in the bestselling 'Explorer' Collection Anatomy: Exploring the Human Body is a visually compelling survey of more than 5,000 years of image-making. Through 300 remarkable works, selected and curated by an international panel of anatomists, curators, academics, and specialists, the book chronicles the intriguing visual history of human anatomy, showcasing its amazing complexity and our ongoing fascination with the systems and functions of our bodies. Exploring individual parts of the human body from head to toe, and revealing the intricate functions of body systems, such as the nerves, muscles, organs, digestive system, brain, and senses, this authoritative book presents iconic examples alongside rarely seen, breathtaking works. The 300 entries are arranged with juxtapositions of contrasting and complementary illustrations to allow for thought-provoking, lively, and stimulating reading.

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Davide Quayola

This Italian artist, one of the greatest of his generation, has developed a significant and multi-faceted body of work over the years featuring lines of conjunction that are unique on the international panorama. Among these, the relationship that the artist has developed with the history of art is of clear importance. From the Italian Baroque tradition to impressionism, Quayola has conducted a dialogue through video installations, sculptures made by robotic arms, high definition prints, etc., using technology as a lens to explore the tensions and balances between apparently opposing forces: the real and the artificial, the figurative and the abstract, the old and the new. Classical sculpture, historic paintings and Baroque architecture are some of the aesthetics that serve as a point of departure for Quayola's abstract compositions. In addition to texts by important scholars and curators, the book will also develop as a journey through images, thus guiding the public on a fresh visual itinerary.

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