Lost, Stolen or Shredded: Stories of Missing Works of art and Literature [Audiobook] download free by Rick Gekoski
- Listen audiobook: Lost, Stolen or Shredded: Stories of Missing Works of art and Literature
- Author: Rick Gekoski
- Release date: 2014/8/23
- Publisher: PROFILE BOOKS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9781846684920
- Rating: 9.54 of 10
- Votes: 453
- Review by: Ignacio Nieto
- Review rating: 8.78 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/25
- Duration: 3H51M3S in 256 kbps (60.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-09
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, WAV, FLAC, MP3, WMA, AIFF (compression 7-ZIP, ZIP, RAR, ACE, BZ2)
- Total pages original book: 304
- Includes a PDF summary of 27 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 20M31S (5.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Like Sherlock Holmes' dog in the night time, sometimes the true significance of things lies in their absence. Rick Gekoski tells the very human stories that lie behind some of the greatest losses to artistic culture - and addresses the questions such disappearances raise. Some of the items are stolen (the Mona Lisa), some destroyed (like Philip Larkin's diaries) and some were lost before they even existed, like the career of the brilliant art deco architect, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, which floundered amid a lack of cash - but behind all of them lies an often surprising story which reveals a lot about what art means to us. Gekoski explores the greater questions these tremendous losses raise - such as the rights artists and authors have over their own work, the importance of the search for perfection in creativity, and what motivated people to queue to see the empty space where the Mona Lisa once hung in the Louvre.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Art Theory, Forgery, Literature: History & Criticism
- Download servers: 4Shared, FlowCloud, Microsoft OneDrive, SecureSlice, MEGA, Google Drive, Hotfile. Compressed in 7-ZIP, ZIP, RAR, ACE, BZ2
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 10.74 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x19mm
- Weight: 251g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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