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Sinan Logie
Belgian celebrated artist Sinan Logie finalized his studies in 1998, from Brussels Free University, Victor Horta Faculty of Architecture. After having experimented different scales such as design, architecture, urban planning and writing in Belgium, he moved to Istanbul in 2011, to pursue his artistic and academic research. Since then his life and production are shifting between Istanbul and Brussels. Logie's paintings, sculptures, installations, and wall objects reflect his architectural background. He has developed a unique manufacturing method which consists of adding thick layers of oil, acryl, gypsum, sand, paraffin and inks to canvases and wooden surfaces which are at times flat, at others protruding from the wall. The added materials sometimes become unchecked (which gives rise to thick and very materialistic paintings), while at others it is contained. The constructive structure is strict. The layers are applied in a constant precipitation, which is composed as a choreography. Its colors, its depth and its compositions are ever-variable parameters, akin to the degree of hybridization. Logie describes the result of this process as "struggle suspended." In this way, the discourse that he develops about his serial work is not analytical but tell us about the story and method of their creation and explains the painterly effects he uses (metallic/ matt/shinny/glossy, the interplay with three-dimensional and sculptural scales) and his never-ending romance with materials.- Shop: buecher
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Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 716min
We have all seen, whether live, in photographs or on postcards, some of Claude Monet's legendary water lily paintings. They are in museums all over the world and are among the most beloved works of art of the past century. Yet, ironically, these soothing images were created amid terrible personal turmoil and sadness. The extraordinarily dramatic history behind the creation of these paintings is little-known; Ross King's new audiobook tells that story for the first time and, in the process, presents a compelling and original portrait of one of our most beloved artists. King tells the full history of the special circumstances in which Monet created the Water Lilies. As World War I exploded within hearing distance of his house at Giverny, he was facing his own personal crucible. In 1911, aged 71, his adored wife, Alice, died, plunging him into deep mourning. A year later he began going blind. Then his eldest son, Jean, fell ill and died of syphilis, and his other son was sent to the front to fight for France. Within months a violent storm destroyed much of the garden that had been his inspiration for some 20 years. At the same time, his reputation was under attack, as a new generation of artists, led by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, were dazzling the art world and expressing disgust with Impressionism. Against all this, fighting his own self-doubt, depression, and age, Monet found the wherewithal to construct a massive new studio, 70 feet long and 50 feet high, to accommodate the gigantic canvases that would, he hoped, revive him. Using letters, memoirs, and other sources not employed by other biographers, and focusing on this remarkable period in the artist's life, Ross King reveals a more complex, more human, more intimate Claude Monet than has ever been portrayed and firmly places his water lily project among the greatest achievements in the history of art. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joel Richards. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/027906/bk_adbl_027906_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Red April: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 538min
Peru, the 1980s and 1990s: It was a cruel, bloody and terrifying era. The rebels of Sendero Luminoso ("Shining Path"), founded by philosophy professor, Abimael Guzman, slaughtered vilagers in the mountains and hung dogs from power lines, their carcasses canvases for Maoist slogans. The government responded with a corrosive mix of assasination, bribery and intrigue which brought down the rebel leader but triggered the fall of the president. For some this described a successful counterinsurgency, for others a cautionary tale about the cost to democracy of fighting terrorism. For all this period of Peru's history was a nightmare. Red April - remarkable for the self-assured clarity of its style, the inexorable momentum of its exposition, and the moral complexity of its concerns - traces the investigation of a bizarre, horrible murder, conducted by a mother-haunted, literature-loving, by-the-book prosecutor, Felix Chacaltana Saldivar, a heretofore unambitious petty bureaucrat abandoned by his wife. He has done nothing bad in life, nothing good. But as we follow the propulsive twists and turns of his investigation, we are compelled to confront what happens to a man and a society when death becomes the the only form of life. A note to the listener of Red April from the author: "The Senderista methods of attack described in this book, as well as the counter-subversive strategies of investigation, torture, and disappearance, are real. Many of the dialogues of the characters are in fact quotations from Senderista documents or statements made by terrorists, officials, and members of the armed forces who participated in the conflict.... However, all the characters, as well as most of the situations and places mentioned here are fictitious, and even factual details have been taken out of the context of their place, time, and meaning. Like all novels, this book recounts a story that could have happened, but its author does not confirm t ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Dikeos. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/000374/bk_acx0_000374_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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All Those Who Came Before: The Sixth Spookie Town Murder Mystery: Spookie Town Murder Mysteries , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 558min
This sixth Spookie Town Murder Mystery belongs primarily to Abigail and Frank Lester, my two main characters in the six book series. It’s their turn. First off, it at long last solves the enigma of Abigail’s first husband Joel Sutton’s disappearance, and death, a decade before...the tragic event that sent Abigail to Spookie in the first place to begin a new life. The new life that would grow so big as to include a new love, a new family, quirky, but well-meaning friends, and the strange murder mysteries her new friends would drag her into over the years. As an unsolicited, and unwanted, envelope arrives from Abigail’s now dead detective she’d hired a decade before to find her missing first husband, its contents sends Frank searching for the truth. The envelope’s files are full of disturbing facts concerning the unsolved crime and it piques Frank’s interest. Soon, against Abby’s wishes, he’s on the cold trail of what actually happened to Joel Sutton - had he been a victim of just an accident, as some have always believed, or did someone murder him? In his search for the truth, Frank ends up in lethal danger when the investigation comes to a violent conclusion. This story is also about an infamous haunted house at 707 Suncrest, in the woods; about the cold blooded murders of a whole family that occurred there forty years before. Is the house on Suncrest truly haunted by the ghosts of the dead family? Is it dangerous? When Abby decides to paint a series of canvases of the spooky old house, she’ll find out. Then along with those two new mysteries to unravel, of course, all of Spookie’s quirky town characters have returned to irritate, amuse and sleuth with Abby and Frank. Will they get out of these new mysteries alive, too? Perhaps. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nila B. Hagood. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/193177/bk_acx0_193177_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Last Time I Lied: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 733min
In the latest thriller from the best-selling author of Final Girls, a young woman returns to her childhood summer camp to uncover the truth about a tragedy that happened there 15 years ago.Two Truths and a Lie. The girls played it all the time in their cabin at Camp Nightingale. Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and first-time camper Emma Davis, the youngest of the group. But the games ended the night Emma sleepily watched the others sneak out of the cabin into the darkness. The last she - or anyone - saw of them was Vivian closing the cabin door behind her, hushing Emma with a finger pressed to her lips.Now a rising star in the New York art scene, Emma turns her past into paintings - massive canvases filled with dark leaves and gnarled branches that cover ghostly shapes in white dresses. When the paintings catch the attention of Francesca Harris-White, the wealthy owner of Camp Nightingale, she implores Emma to return to the newly reopened camp as a painting instructor. Seeing an opportunity to find out what really happened to her friends all those years ago, Emma agrees.Familiar faces, unchanged cabins, and the same dark lake haunt Nightingale, even though the camp is opening its doors for the first time since the disappearances. Emma is even assigned to the same cabin she slept in as a teenager, but soon discovers a security camera - the only one on the property - pointed directly at its door. Then cryptic clues that Vivian left behind about the camp's twisted origins begin surfacing. As she digs deeper, Emma finds herself sorting through lies from the past while facing mysterious threats in the present. And the closer she gets to the truth about Camp Nightingale and what really happened to those girls, the more she realizes that closure could come at a deadly price. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003917/bk_peng_003917_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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To the Best of Our Knowledge: Seeing and Perceiving, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
In this hour, we'll talk with Oliver Sacks about the neurobiology of vision. We'll also examine the science behind synesthesia - why some people can hear colors or feel the flavor of food on their fingers. First, Oliver Sacks, the celebrated doctor who writes about some of the brain's strangest disorders. His latest book, The Mind's Eye, is a study of rare visual impairments caused by neurological disorders. It's an unusually personal book for Sacks – because it reveals his own struggle with a disorder called facial blindness. Steve Paulson talked to Sacks recently about some case histories. Next, Susan Krieger is not completely blind, but her vision is bad enough to make her legally blind. Although she prizes her self-sufficiency, she recently got a guide dog, Teela, who is now her constant companion. She tells Jim Fleming that this raises some basic questions about how Susan Krieger thinks of herself, things she writes about in a memoir called Traveling Blind. Then, Ken Nordine recites his word poem "yellow," which leads to a discussion of synethesia. a neurological condition which causes one sense to cross paths with another. After that, David Eagleman is a neurologist and the co-author of the book Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia. Anne Strainchamps asked him to describe the condition. Following that, Jim Fleming reads a short excerpt from Speak Memory, by one of the literary world's most famous synesthetes was Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov, who wrote about his "colored hearing." And finally, Chuck Close, a painter famous for his huge canvases and his uncanny ability to portray his subjects with almost photographic realism. He has a neurological condition that prevents him from recognizing people's faces. Today, Chuck Close is in his early 70s - still painting, with brushes strapped to his hand - and now the subject of a biography by his friend Christopher Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/110209/rt_tbon_110209_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Contemporaries: Travels in the 21st-Century Art World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 527min
It's been nearly a century since Marcel Duchamp exhibited a urinal and called it art. Since then painting has been declared dead several times over, and contemporary art has now expanded to include just about any object, action, or event: dance routines, slideshows, functional hair salons, seemingly random accretions of waste. In the meantime being an artist has gone from a join-the-circus fantasy to a plausible vocation for scores of young people in America. But why - and how and by whom - does all this art get made? How is it evaluated? And for what, if anything, will today's artists be remembered? In The Contemporaries, Roger White, himself a young painter, serves as our spirited, skeptical guide through this diffuse, creative world. White takes us into the halls of the RISD graduate program, where students learn critical lessons that go far beyond how to apply paint to canvases. In New York we meet the neophytes who assist established artists - and who walk the fine line between "assistance" and "making the art". In Milwaukee White trails a group of friends trying to create a viable scene where rent is cheap but where the spotlight rarely shines. And he gives us an intimate perspective on three wildly different careers: that of Dana Schutz, an emerging star who is revitalizing painting; that of Mary Walling Blackburn, whose challenging art defies market forces; and that of Stephen Kaltenbach, a '70s wunderkind who is back on the critical radar, perhaps in spite of his own willful obscurity. From young artists trying to elbow their way in to those working hard at dropping out, White's essential audiobook offers a once-in-a-generation glimpse of the inner workings of the American art world at a moment of unparalleled ambition, uncertainty, and creative exuberance. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Parks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021263/bk_adbl_021263_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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To the Best of Our Knowledge: Seeing and Perceiving, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
In this hour, we'll talk with Oliver Sacks about the neurobiology of vision. We'll also examine the science behind synesthesia - why some people can hear colors or feel the flavor of food on their fingers. First, Oliver Sacks, the celebrated doctor who writes about some of the brain's strangest disorders. His latest book, The Mind's Eye, is a study of rare visual impairments caused by neurological disorders. It's an unusually personal book for Sacks – because it reveals his own struggle with a disorder called facial blindness. Steve Paulson talked to Sacks recently about some case histories. Next, Susan Krieger is not completely blind, but her vision is bad enough to make her legally blind. Although she prizes her self-sufficiency, she recently got a guide dog, Teela, who is now her constant companion. She tells Jim Fleming that this raises some basic questions about how Susan Krieger thinks of herself, things she writes about in a memoir called Traveling Blind. Then, Ken Nordine recites his word poem "yellow," which leads to a discussion of synethesia. a neurological condition which causes one sense to cross paths with another. After that, David Eagleman is a neurologist and the co-author of the book Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia. Anne Strainchamps asked him to describe the condition. Following that, Jim Fleming reads a short excerpt from Speak Memory, by one of the literary world's most famous synesthetes was Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov, who wrote about his "colored hearing." And finally, Chuck Close, a painter famous for his huge canvases and his uncanny ability to portray his subjects with almost photographic realism. He has a neurological condition that prevents him from recognizing people's faces. Today, Chuck Close is in his early 70s - still painting, with brushes strapped to his hand - and now the subject of a biography by his friend Christopher Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/120229/rt_tbon_120229_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Joan Mitchell: I Carry My Landscapes Around with Me
I carry my landscapes around with me focuses on American abstract artist Joan Mitchell's large-scale multipanel works from the 1960s through the 1990s.Mitchell's exploration of the possibilities afforded by combining two to five large canvases allowed her to simultaneously create continuity and rupture, while opening up a panoramic expanse referencing landscapes or the memory of landscapes. Mitchell established a singular approach to abstraction over the course of her career. Her inventive reinterpretation of the traditional figure-ground relationship and synesthetic use of color set her apart from her peers, resulting in intuitively constructed and emotionally charged compositions that alternately evoke individuals, observations, places, and points in time. Art critic John Yau lauded her paintings as "one of the towering achievements of the postwar period." Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at David Zwirner New York in 2019, this book offers a unique opportunity to explore the range of scale and formal experimentation of this innovative area of Mitchell's extensive body of work. It not only features reproductions of each painting in this selection as a whole, but also numerous details that allow an intimate understanding of the surface texture and brushwork. In the complementing essays, Suzanne Hudson examines boundaries, borders, and edges in Mitchell's multipanel paintings, beginning with her first work of this kind, The Bridge (1956), considering them as both physical and conceptual objects; Robert Slifkin discusses the dynamics of repetition and energy in the artist's paintings, in relation to works by Monet and Willem de Kooning, among others.- Shop: buecher
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Wayne Thiebaud: Updated Edition
In remembrance of revered American artist Wayne Thiebaud who passed away in 2021 at the age of 101, the definitive monograph of Wayne Thiebaud's work is now available in a reformatted, accessibly priced edition, including his last paintings. This is the most comprehensive monograph to date on Wayne Thiebaud, with new works added, in a reformatted size. Spanning the length of his career from the 1950s to the present, the book has been made in close collaboration with the artist. Thiebaud selected the works himself, making the book an act of autobiography in a sense. At age 100, he looks back over his life and his work, rich with breakthroughs in painting and masterful individuality. "Required reading for those who have a healthy appetite for provocative art." -Bloomberg Business "This comprehensive monograph of more than 200 illustrations can literally be considered eye candy. American artist Wayne Thiebaud is famed for his brightly colored canvases of cakes, diner pies, pastries, ice cream cones, candy and brightly colored gumball machines. . . . Whether still lifes or landscapes, Thiebaud's paintings are akin to visual Prozac; you simply cannot be in a bad mood looking at them." -Kansas City Magazine "While Thiebaud is best known for his heavily pigmented still lifes of cakes, pies, and candies, [this] book shows his broader range, from vibrant landscapes depicting highways and farmland to portraits of solitary figures. . . The texts examine Thiebaud's influences as well as his impact on the art world and the individual viewers of his work." -Architectural Digest- Shop: buecher
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