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Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth
By: A. O. Scott
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 02-09-16
Language: English
Publisher: Recorded Books

Publisher’s summary

The New York Times film critic shows why we need criticism now more than ever.

Few could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A. O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism is that we are, in fact, all critics: because critical thinking informs almost every aspect of artistic creation, of civil action, of interpersonal life.

With penetrating insight and warm humor, Scott shows that while individual critics - himself included - can make mistakes and find flaws where they shouldn’t, criticism as a discipline is one of the noblest, most creative and urgent activities of modern existence. Using his own film criticism as a starting point - everything from his infamous dismissal of the international blockbuster The Avengers to his intense affection for Pixar’s animated Ratatouille - Scott expands outward, easily guiding listeners through the complexities of Rilke and Shelley, the origins of Chuck Berry and the Rolling Stones, the power of Marina Abramovich and “Ode on a Grecian Urn”.

Drawing on the long tradition of criticism from Aristotle to Susan Sontag, Scott shows that real criticism was and always will be the breath of fresh air that allows true creativity to thrive.

“The time for criticism is always now,” Scott explains, “because the imperative to think clearly, to insist on the necessary balance of reason and passion, never goes away.”

©2016 Antony O. Scott (P)2016 Recorded Books

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00. Introduction What Is Criticism (A Preliminary Dialogue).mp3 8.17 MBs
01. The Critic as Artist and Vice Versa.mp3 24.31 MBs
02. The Eye of the Beholder - Self-criticism (A Further Dialogue).mp3 36.11 MBs
03. Lost in the Museum.mp3 22.44 MBs
04. The Trouble with Critics - Practical Criticism (Another Dialogue).mp3 33.96 MBs
05. How to Be Wrong.mp3 36.41 MBs
06. The Critical Condition.mp3 31.04 MBs
07. The End of Criticism (A Final Dialogue).mp3 10.46 MBs
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