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A Face to the World by Laura Cumming
Category: Art and Design
Focusing on the art of self-portraiture, this effortlessly engaging exploration of the lives of artists sheds fascinating light on some of the most extraordinary portraits in art history. Self-portraits catch your eye. They seem to do it deliberately. Walk into any art gallery and they draw attention to ...Show more
A Face to the World: On Self-Portraits by Laura Cumming
Category: Art and Design
Focusing on the art of self-portraiture, this effortlessly engaging exploration of the lives of artists sheds fascinating light on some of the most extraordinary portraits in art history. Self-portraits catch your eye. They seem to do it deliberately. Walk into any art gallery and they draw attention to ...Show more
On Chapel Sands by Laura Cumming
Category: Biography | Series: My Mother and Other Missing Persons
*To be read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* Uncovering 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. In the autumn of 1929, a small child was kidnapped from a Lincolnshire beach. Five agonising days w ...Show more
On Chapel Sands - My Mother and Other Missing Persons by Laura Cumming
Category: Biography
**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD**'A modern masterpiece' Guardian Uncovering 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. In the autumn of 1929, a small child w ...Show more
The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez by Laura Cumming
Category: Art and Design
BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. "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 Velazquez, written by a critic who remains spellbound by his genius, as readers will be spellbound by this book." (Colm Toibin). In 1 ...Show more
The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez by Laura Cumming
Category: Art and Design
In 1845, a Reading bookseller named John Snare came across the dirt-blackened 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. Fusing detec ...Show more
Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death by Laura Cumming
Category: Art and Design
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of On Chapel Sands, a stunning new memoir of a life in art, a father and daughter, and what a shared love of a painting can come to mean. 'No one writes art like Laura Cumming' Philip Hoare, author of Albert and the Whale 'I shall never look at any painting in th ...Show more
Thunderclap - A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death by Laura Cumming
Category: Art and Design
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 P ...Show more
Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & sudden death by Laura Cumming
Category: Biography
**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024****WINNER OF THE WRITERS' PRIZE 2024 | NON-FICTION**A beautifully illustrated new memoir of a life in art, a father and daughter, and what a shared love of a painting can come to mean.'Brilliant' Edmund de Waal * 'Captivating' Nina Stibbe * 'Extrao ...Show more
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