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Friday, August 10, 2007
Gifts for Artists
Posted by Sarah
It may be true that we're experiencing one of the worst heatwaves in recent history, but inside
Watercolo
r Magic
headquarters, it's just about time for the holidays. We've been rounding up gifts for our an
nual guide and testing/playing with them in the office. You'll have to wait for the December issue to se
e our picks for the year's best gifts for watercolor artists, but there's one item I can share with you now. I'd hoped to include it in the guide, but I wasn't able to get my hands on it quite early enough: the audiobook of
The Judgment of Paris
: Manet, Meissonier and the Birth of Impressionism
by
Ross King
, read by "master of accents"
Tristan Layton
.
Here's a little press on the book:
A tale of
many artists, it revolves around the lives of two, described as
“the two poles of art”—Ernest Meissonier, the most famous and successful painter of the 19th ce
ntury, hailed for his precision and devotion to history; and Edouard Manet, reviled in his time, who nonetheless heralded the most radical change in the history of art since the Renaissance.
I decided to
test the audiobook on my commute to and from work and found myself lingering a little too long in parking lots and driveways. If you're looking for a way into the stories of these artists' lives (and the politics of the time) that lands a little on the chatty and novelistic side, this is the gift for you. Consider using it on your trip to the beach rather than your commute, though. It is not a short story.
Audio Renaissance
has the audio book available in an abridged (6 CDs, 7 hours) and unabriged (13 CDs, 16.5 hours) format.
Overheard
8/10/2007 2:27:02 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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