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Title: Everything is Happening
Condition: New
Subtitle: Journey into a Painting
Author: Michael Jacobs
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1847088082
EAN: 9781847088086
ISBN: 9781847088086
Publisher: Granta Books
Genre: Travel & Transport
Topic: Arts & Photography
Release Date: 04/08/2016
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Width: 14mm
Item Weight: 173g
Release Year: 2016
Description: Michael Jacobs was haunted by Velázquez's enigmatic masterpiece Las Meninas from first encountering it in the Prado as a teenager. In Everything is Happening Jacobs searches for the ultimate significance of the painting by following the trails of associations from each individual character in the picture, as well as his own memories of and relationship to this extraordinary work.From Jacobs' first trip to Spain to the complex politics of Golden Age Madrid, to his meeting with the man who saved Las Meninas during the Spanish Civil war, via Jacobs' experiences of the sunless world of the art history academy, Jacobs' dissolves the barriers between the past and the present, the real and the illusory.Cut short by Jacobs' death in 2014, and completed with an introduction and coda of great sensitivity and insight by his friend and fellow lover of art, the journalist Ed Vulliamy, this visionary, meditative and often very funny book is a passionate, personal manifesto for the liberation of how we look at painting.

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