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**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024**From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of On Chapel Sands, shortlisted for the Costa Prize for Biography'No one writes art like Laura Cumming' Philip Hoare, author of Albert and the Whale'I will never look at any painting in the same way again' Polly Morland, author of A Fortunate Woman_____________________'We see with everything that we are'On the morning of 12 October 1654, in the Du...

From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of On Chapel Sands, shortlisted for the Costa Prize for BiographyPraise for Laura Cumming's books:'A modern masterpiece . . . Brilliant' Guardian'Superlative' Daily Telegraph'One of the best memoirs in recent years' i paper_____________________'We see with everything that we are'On the morning of 12 October 1654, in the Dutch city of Delft, a sudden explosion was followed by a thunderclap that could be ...

New York Times bestselling author and art critic Laura Cumming reveals the fascinating, little-known story of the Thunderclap?the massive explosion at a gunpowder store in Holland that killed Carel Fabritius, renowned painter of The Goldfinch and nearly killed Johannes Vermeer, painter of Girl with a Pearl Earring?two of the greatest artists of the 17th century.As a brilliant art critic and historian, Laura Cumming has explored the importance ...

NOMINATED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez shares a riveting true story "with as many twists and turns as any mystery" (Los Angeles Times) describing her mother's mys...

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD**'A modern masterpiece' GuardianUncovering the mystery of her mother's disappearance as a child: Laura Cumming, prize-winning author and art critic, takes a closer look at her family story.Autumn 1929 - a young girl is kidnapped from a beach. Five agonising days go by before she is discovered safe and well in a nearby village. The child remembers nothing of these events...

The acclaimed New York Times- bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez shares the riveting story of her mother's mysterious kidnapping as a toddler in a small English coastal village--and how that event reverberated her own family and her art for decades.ades.

Laura Cumming has been chief art critic of the Observer since 1999. Her book, The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Vel¿uez, was Book of the Week on Radio 4, Wall Street Journal Book of the Year and a New York Times bestseller. It won the 2017 James Tait Black Biography Prize and was published to critical acclaim (¿A riveting detective story: readers will be spellbound¿ Colm T¿ib¿. Her first book, A Face to the World: On Self-Portraits, was describ...

»So muss man schreiben über die Kunst und die Vergangenheit«, so Florian Illies über Laura Cummings meisterhaft geschriebene, literarische Biographie »Der verschwundene Velázquez. Ein besessener Sammler, ein verschollenes Gemälde und der größte Maler aller Zeiten«. Velázquez gilt als der größte Maler aller Zeiten. Über sein Leben wissen wir bisher aber kaum etwas. Mittels der eigentümlichen Geschichte seines leidenschaftlichsten Verehrers, des...

Focusing on the art of self-portraiture, this exploration of the lives of artists sheds light on the some of the most extraordinary portraits in art history. Draws upon art, literature, history, philosophy and biography to examine the creative process in an entirely fresh way.

Paperback edition of the biography of the 17th century Spanish painter Diego Valazquez, which also tells the story of 19th century Reading bookseller John Snare, who was put on trial over the ownership of a 'lost painting' by Valazequez.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2016 "As compelling and entertaining as a detective novel" (The Economist), the incredible true story—part art history and part mystery—of a Velázquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth-century bookseller determined to prove he had found it.When John Snare, a nineteenth century provincial bookseller, traveled to a liquidation auction, he found a vivid...

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