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    To the Best of Our Knowledge: New Music, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
    In this hour, why people embrace avant-garde art, but resist avant-garde music. Wesley Stace has a new novel, Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer. Stace, known also as the singer-songwriter John Wesley Harding, tells Anne Strainchamps this is his first novel specifically about music. Next, David Stubbs argues that new music doesn't get the same respect as new art. His book is Fear of Music: Why People Get Rothko But Don't Get Stockhausen. He tells Jim Fleming he was inspired to write it after watching the 1961 film The Rebel for the twelfth time.Then, John Cage wrote some of the most controversial music of the 20th Century. The brilliant composer was extraordinarily creative. Kenneth Silverman explores Cage's life in a groundbreaking biography called Begin Again. He tells Steve Paulson that a lot of Cage's creativity came from his inventor father.And finally, at the age of 28, Chinese pianist Lang Lang has already played with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic and all of the top American orchestras. He's written an autobiography, Journey of a Thousand Miles, and his latest album, Live in Vienna, features his first recordings of Beethoven's Sonatas. He tells Steve Paulson all about it. [Broadcast Date: March 30, 2012] Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/120330/rt_tbon_120330_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Ernst Beyeler - 100 Jahre
    2021 hätte der Basler Kunsthändler, Galerist, Sammler und Museumsgründer Ernst Beyeler (1921-2010) seinen 100. Geburtstag feiern können. Die Fondation Beyeler begeht diesen Anlass mit einer originellen Hommage in 100 Kapiteln. Geschrieben hat sie die bekannte Schweizer Kulturjournalistin Susanne Kübler. Sie hat mit Beyelers Nichte übers gemeinsame Kirschenklauen gesprochen, mit einer langjährigen Galeriemitarbeiterin über exzentrische Sammler und den Alltag in der Galerie, und mit Beyelers Rahmenmachern über seinen Perfektionismus. Der zunächst umstrittene Bau des Museums in Riehen wird ausführlich thematisiert, ebenso Beyelers Leidenschaft fürs Rudern oder sein Engagement gegen das Kernkraftwerk Kaiseraugst. Und schliesslich haben Beyelers Frau Hildy, die Hollywood-Diva Greta Garbo und Künstler wie Mark Rothko, Mark Tobey oder Andy Warhol ihren Auftritt. So fügen sich die 100 Episoden zu einer Geschichte der Galerie und der Fondation Beyeler - und zu einem farbigen Porträt einerbemerkenswerten Persönlichkeit.
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    Ikonen
    Wie lassen sich auch heute noch mit dem Begriff der Ikone kultische Verehrung und die Idee des Übersinnlichen verbinden? Denn gerade in der spirituellen Präsenz und auratischen Kraft vieler moderner und zeitgenössischer Kunstwerke wirken Qualitäten der traditionellen Ikone nach. Das Buch präsentiert Meisterwerke, die auf ihre je eigene Art Aspekte der Spiritualität und Andacht ausdrücken.Die Werke reichen dabei von der russischen Ikone über Caspar David Friedrich, Wassily Kandinsky, Kasimir Malewitsch, Piet Mondrian, Mark Rothko, Yves Klein bis zu Andy Warhol, Niki de Saint Phalle, Isa Genzken und Andreas Gursky. Alltags-Ikonen aus der Markenwelt und Popkultur ergänzen das Bildspektrum. Die Werkauswahl wie die Essays ausgewählter Autoren kontrastieren die Interpretation des traditionellen Ikonen-Gedankens in der Kunst mit dem Phänomen der Ikonisierung in unserer alltäglichen Lebenswelt. Der Band will die spirituelle Kraft der Kunst erfahrbar machen und zur Kontemplation einladen.
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    The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 376min
    From one of the greatest writers of our time, his first collection of short stories, written between 1979 and 2011, chronicling - and foretelling - three decades of American life. Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white-collar prison, and outer space, these nine stories are a mesmerizing introduction to Don DeLillo’s iconic voice, from the rich, startling, jazz-infused rhythms of his early work to the spare, distilled, monastic language of the later stories. In "Creation", a couple at the end of a cruise somewhere in the West Indies can’t get off the island—flights canceled, unconfirmed reservations, a dysfunctional economy. In "Human Moments in World War III", two men orbiting the earth, charged with gathering intelligence and reporting to Colorado Command, hear the voices of American radio, from a half century earlier. In the title story, Sisters Edgar and Grace, nuns working the violent streets of the South Bronx, confirm the neighborhood's miracle, the apparition of a dead child, Esmeralda. Nuns, astronauts, athletes, terrorists, and travelers, the characters in The Angel Esmeralda propel themselves into the world and define it. DeLillo’s sentences are instantly recognizable, as original as the splatter of Jackson Pollock or the luminous rectangles of Mark Rothko. These nine stories describe an extraordinary journey of one great writer whose prescience about world events and ear for American language changed the literary landscape. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Cerveris, Peter Friedman, Heather Lind, Mercedes Ruehl, Aaron Tveit. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/005702/bk_sans_005702_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Muralist , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 549min
    Alizée Benoit, an American painter working for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), vanishes in New York City in 1940 amid personal and political turmoil. No one knows what happened to her. Not her Jewish family living in German-occupied France. Not her artistic patron and political compatriot, Eleanor Roosevelt. Not her close-knit group of friends, including Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Lee Krasner. And, some 70 years later, not her great-niece, Danielle Abrams, who, while working at Christie's auction house, uncovers enigmatic paintings hidden behind recently found works by those now famous abstract expressionist artists. Do they hold answers to the questions surrounding her missing aunt? Entwining the lives of both historical and fictional characters and moving between the past and the present, The Muralist plunges listeners into the divisiveness of prewar politics and the largely forgotten plight of European refugees refused entrance to the United States. It captures both the inner workings of today's New York art scene and the beginnings of the vibrant and quintessentially American school of abstract expressionism. B. A. Shapiro is a master at telling a gripping story while exploring provocative themes. In Alizée and Danielle, she has created two unforgettable women, artists both, who compel us to ask, What happens when luminous talent collides with inexorable historical forces? Does great art have the power to change the world? And to what lengths should a person go to thwart evil? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Xe Sands. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/001009/bk_high_001009_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    In Camera - Francis Bacon
    A lavishly illustrated look at the sources behind the paintings of Francis Bacon.Francis Bacon famously found inspiration in photographs, film-stills and mass-media imagery. In this new, updated edition of In Camera, Martin Harrison reveals how these sources informed some of Bacon's most important paintings and triggered decisive turning points in the artist's stylistic development.Key influences, including the masters Velázquez, Poussin and Rodin, the photographer Eadweard Muybridge and the film director Sergei Eisenstein, are given close consideration. Bacon's work is examined in relation to the precedents set by other artists working in the tradition of making use of mechanical reproductions, including Pablo Picasso and Walter Sickert, and in the context of his contemporaries Lucian Freud, Mark Rothko, Graham Sutherland and Patrick Heron. With the aid of over 270 illustrations, including valuable source images and documents, In Camera is a bravura accomplishment of original research, addressing important questions about Bacon's painting practice and shedding fresh light on his life and work.
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    Bluebeard: The Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian (1916-1988) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 439min
    Bluebeard, published in 1987, is Vonnegut's meditation on art, artists, surrealism, and disaster. 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, which are heavy with women, painting, artistic ambition, artistic fraudulence, and as of yet unknown consequence. Vonnegut's intention here is not so much satirical (although the contemporary art scene would be easy enough to deconstruct), nor is it documentary (although Karabekian does carry elements of Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko). Instead Vonnegut is using art for the same purpose he used science fiction clichés in Slaughterhouse-Five: as a filter through which he can illuminate the savagery, cruelty, and essentially comic misdirection of human existence. Listeners will recognize familiar Vonnegut character types and archetypes as they drift in and out through the background; meanwhile Karabekian, betrayed and betrayer, sinks through a bottomless haze of recollection. Like most of Vonnegut's late works, this is both science fiction and cruel, contemporary realism at once, using science fiction as metaphor for human damage as well as failure to perceive. Listeners will find that Vonnegut's protagonists can never really clarify for us whether they are ultimately unwitting victims or simple barbarians, leaving it up to the listener to determine in which genre this audiobook really fits, if any at all. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Bramhall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021247/bk_adbl_021247_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    100 Best Paintings in New York
    100 Best Paintings in New York combines art history, commentary, and tourists' guide to provide you with a deeper understanding and appreciation of New York's greatest works of art. The descriptions draw attention to fascinating details in each work and look at why, where, or for what occasion they were painted. A biographical chronology of each artist accompanies the essays as well as a sample listing of works by other contemporary painters. From Jan van Eyck to Mark Rothko, from Diego Velazquez to Georgia O'Keefe, 100 Best Paintings in New York covers the complete spectrum of masterpieces in New York's great galleries. 100 Best Paintings in New York will inform and amuse both visitors and residents who wish to make the most of what their city has to offer. This accessible—and occasionally irreverent—guide has been written with both novice and veteran museum-goers in mind. Contains descriptions of works displayed in: the Brooklyn Museum • the Cloisters • the Frick Collection • the Hispanic Society of America • Metropolitan Museum of Art • MOMA • Neue Gallerie • the Guggenheim Museum • Whitney Museum of American Art
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    Peter Handkes Bildpoetik
    Marit Heuß entdeckt Peter Handkes »persönliches Epos« - seine Notizbücher - und damit seine in Zeichnungen, Kunstbeschreibungen und Erzählungen facettenreiche »Bildpoetik«.Das »Bild« wird für den Nobelpreisträger zur »Vokabel der Universalsprache«, zum Inbegriff seiner Poetik. Über die Lektüre der reich bebilderten und unveröffentlichten »Merkhefte« Peter Handkes betrachtet Marit Heuß dessen Erzählen seit dem Debüt »Die Hornissen« 1966 bis hin zu den Großprojekten »Langsame Heimkehr« 1979 und »Der Bildverlust« 2002 als ein Schreiben, das sich am »Bild« orientiert. In der Notizbuchsammlung des Handke-Vorlasses am Deutschen Literaturarchiv Marbach finden sich ab 1975/1976 - seither führt der Schriftsteller täglich Notizbuch - eigene Zeichnungen des Autors. Die Bildmotive reichen von Nachahmungen der »ersten Zeichnungen von Menschen« - wie das archaische Felsbild eines Büffels - bis hin zu andersartig »arkadischen« Landschaftsbildern aus dem »tiefen Österreich«. Auch Alltagsskizzen,ornamentale Figuren oder Kritzeleien fehlen nicht. Handkes »Bilderatlas« birgt zudem hunderte Beschreibungen von Kunst in Museen - Cézanne, van Gogh, Rothko, Poussin, Goya, Bosch, Vermeer, Zurbarán - sowie in Sakralbauten von Santiago de Compostela bis nach Thessaloniki. Heuß fragt nach den ästhetischen und geistigen Horizonten dieser Bilder für Handkes Erzählungen.
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    Suicides by sharp instrument
    Suicides by sharp instrument ab 29.49 € als Taschenbuch: Mark Antony Nero Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger Otho Saul Lucan Mark Rothko Robert Stewart Viscount Castlereagh Pascin Robert Clive 1st Baron Clive Lou Tellegen Quintillus Decebalus Wolfe Tone Cato the Younger. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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