Laura Cumming

Broschiertes Buch

The Vanishing Man

In Pursuit of Velazquez

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Laura Cumming has been art critic of the Observer since 1999. Previously, she was a presenter of Nightwaves on Radio 3, arts producer for the BBC World Service and arts editor of the New Statesman. Her previous book, A Face to the World: On Self-Portraits, and the accompanying BBC Four documentary, received widespread critical acclaim.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 689729
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 278g
• ISBN-13: 9780099587040
• ISBN-10: 0099587041
• Artikelnr.: 45765123

Rezensionen

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 Tóibín