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The Vanishing Man

In Pursuit of Velazquez. Ausgezeichnet: James Tait Black Memorial Prize, 2017 - B-format paperback
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
320 Seiten
Englisch
Random House UKerschienen am05.01.2017
In 1845, a Reading bookseller came across the portrait of a prince at a country house auction. Suspecting that it might be a long-lost Velazquez, he bought the picture and set out to discover its strange history - a quest that led from fame to ruin and exile. This book shows how and why great works of art can affect us, even to the point of mania.mehr
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Produkt

KlappentextIn 1845, a Reading bookseller came across the portrait of a prince at a country house auction. Suspecting that it might be a long-lost Velazquez, he bought the picture and set out to discover its strange history - a quest that led from fame to ruin and exile. This book shows how and why great works of art can affect us, even to the point of mania.
ZusammenfassungThe captivating and mysterious tale of a Victorian bookseller whose fate was changed forever by the great painter Velazquez
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-09-958704-0
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2017
Erscheinungsdatum05.01.2017
Seiten320 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht278 g
Artikel-Nr.40131821
Rubriken
GenreKunst/Architektur

Inhalt/Kritik

Kritik
The Vanishing Man is a riveting detective story and a brilliant reconstruction of an art controversy, but it is also a homage to the art of Velázquez, written by a critic who remains spellbound by his genius, as readers will be spellbound by this book Colm Tóibínmehr

Autor

Laura Cumming has been chief art critic of the Observer since 1999. Her books include A Face to the World: On Self-Portraits (2009) and The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez (2016) which won the James Tait Black Biography Prize. Her family memoir, On Chapel Sands: my Mother and other Missing Persons (2019) was a Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford, Costa and Rathbone's Folio prizes.