Everything is Happening: Journey into a Painting

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A gripping and beguiling blend of art history, memoir and travel writing which delves into the mysteries and meanings of "Las Meninas," Velazquez's iconic masterpiece"
Michael Jacobs was haunted by Velazquez'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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Weight 0.172000
Author Jacobs, Michael
Availability IP
Department Art and Architecture
Format Paperback
ISBN 9781847088086
Pages 240
Published 04/08/2016
Publisher Granta Books
Section Art and Architecture
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