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    • The Autobiography of P. T. Barnum
    • By: P. T. Barnum
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • P. T. Barnum's career of showmanship and charlatanry was marked by a surprising undercurrent of honesty and forthrightness. His exuberant autobiography forms a happy combination of all those traits, revealing the whole story of his world-famous hoaxes and publicity stunts....

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    • A Hidden Inheritance
    • By: Edmund de Waal
    • Narrated by: Michael Maloney
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 23-03-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 372 ratings
    • In this stunningly original memoir, Edmund de Waal travels the world to stand in the great buildings his forebears once inhabited....

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    • By: Antony Penrose
    • Narrated by: Esther Wane, Adam Grayson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Antony Penrose's tribute to his mother, Lee Miller, brings to life a uniquely talented woman and the turbulent times in which she lived.

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    • The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece
    • By: William E. Wallace
    • Narrated by: Simon Callow
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Michelangelo, God's Architect is the first book to tell the full story of Michelangelo's final two decades, when the peerless artist refashioned himself into the master architect of St. Peter’s Basilica and other major buildings....

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    • A Biography
    • By: Julia Voss, Anne Posten - translator
    • Narrated by: Doria Bramante
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 26-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was forty-four years old when she broke with the academic tradition in which she had been trained to produce a body of radical, abstract works the likes of which had never been seen before....

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    • Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York
    • By: Alexander Nemerov
    • Narrated by: Alison Fraser
    • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 23-03-21
    • Language: English
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    • A dazzling biography of one of the 20th century's most respected painters, Helen Frankenthaler, Fierce Poise is an exhilarating ride through New York's 1950s art scene and a brilliant portrait of a young artist through the moments that shaped her....

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    • Portraits of Ambition, Limitation, and Creativity
    • By: Catherine Ricketts
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-24
    • Language: English
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    • Few women artists feature prominently in the history of art, and even fewer who are mothers. What can we learn about ambition, limitation, and creativity from women who persist in doing both? The Mother Artist explores the fraught yet generative ties between caregiving and creative practice.

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    • A Biography of Frida Kahlo
    • By: Hayden Herrera
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 21-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Hailed by readers/listeners and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences.

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    • Life, Clay and Everything
    • By: Keith Brymer Jones
    • Narrated by: Keith Brymer Jones
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 269 ratings
    • The star presenter and judge of Channel 4's The Great Pottery Throw Down looks back on his life and career - and the passion for ceramics that started it all....

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    • Histories of an Art Forger
    • By: Max Horberry
    • Narrated by: Max Horberry
    • Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 13-05-21
    • Language: English
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    • Who is Elmyr? Simply put, Elmyr de Hory is known by many as the most notorious art forger of all time. He believed that if a forgery hangs in a museum for long enough - as he claimed many of his works did - it eventually becomes real....

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    • Fame 1968-2011
    • By: William Feaver
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 19 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-20
    • Language: English
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    • The second half of William Feaver's Baillie Gifford Prize-shortlisted work of biography: the definitive story of the epic life of one of the 20th century's most important artists....

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    • Revelations
    • By: Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan
    • Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
    • Length: 28 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 21-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • A decade in the making, based upon hundreds of interviews and extensive new material, Pulitzer Prize winners Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan have written a startlingly original portrait—rich, complex, and subtle—of a commanding modern figure....

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    • By: Michael Peppiatt
    • Narrated by: Michael Peppiatt
    • Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 156 ratings
    • It is a story I have been wanting to write for a long time, telling it as it really was before that whole world that I shared with Francis vanishes....

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    • A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter
    • By: Honor Moore
    • Narrated by: Stockard Channing
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-20
    • Language: English
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    • Margarett Sargent was an icon of avant-garde art in the 1920s. In an evocative weave of biography and memoir, her granddaughter unearths for the first time the life of a spirited and gifted woman committed at all costs to self-expression....

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    • The Last Days
    • By: Mark Hudson
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • >A compelling portrait of the life, work, and meaning of one of the greatest artists of all time....

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    • Youth 1922 - 1968
    • By: William Feaver
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 24 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 17-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Though ferociously private, Lucian Freud spoke every week for decades to his close confidante and collaborator William Feaver - about painting and the art world, but also about his life and loves....

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    • The story of two lives, one nation, and a century of art under tyranny
    • By: Ai Weiwei
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-21
    • Language: English
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    • In his widely anticipated memoir, Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poet....

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    • At Home with Jane and William Morris
    • By: Suzanne Fagence Cooper
    • Narrated by: Jane Collingwood
    • Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Suzanne Fagence Cooper explores the lives and legacies of Jane and William Morris, finally giving Jane's work the attention it deserves and taking us inside two lives of unparalleled creative artistry....

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