| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Intro -- Title Page -- Epigraph -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- EVERYTHING IS HAPPENING -- 1: MEANINGS -- 2: CONSIDER THE SETTING -- 3: GETTING CLOSER -- 4: THROUGH THE PALACE GATES -- CODA -- OUT OF THE PAINTING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INDEX -- A, B, C -- D, E, F -- G, H, I -- J, K, L -- M, N, O -- P, Q, R -- S, T, U -- V, W, X -- Y, Z -- Also by Michael Jacobs from Granta Books -- Copyright |
| Summary |
A fascinating journey through a single painting's history, meanings and associations by "one of the great non-fiction writers of this and the last century" (Simon Schama, Financial Times). Acclaimed travel author and art historian 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 many associations suggested by each of its characters, as well as his own relationship to the work. From Jacobs' first trip to Spain to the politics of Golden Age Madrid, to his meeting with the man who saved Las Meninas during the Spanish Civil war, to his experiences in the sunless world of the art history academy, Jacobs delivers a brilliantly discursive meditation on art and life that 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 by his friend and fellow art lover, the journalist Ed Vulliamy, this visionary and often very funny book is a passionate, personal manifesto for the liberation of how we look at painting |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 13, 2021) |
| Subject |
Velázquez, Diego, 1599-1660. Maids of honor.
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Jacobs, Michael, 1952-2014 -- Knowledge -- Art
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| SUBJECT |
Jacobs, Michael, 1952-2014 fast |
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Maids of honor (Velázquez, Diego) fast |
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Art, Spanish -- 17th century
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Princesses in art.
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Courts and courtiers in art.
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Painters in art.
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Conversation piece (Portrait painting) -- Spain -- History -- 17th century
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Art.
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ART -- History -- Baroque & Rococo.
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Princesses in art
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Painters in art
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Courts and courtiers in art
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Conversation piece (Portrait painting)
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Art, Spanish
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Art
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Spain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781847088093 |
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1847088090 |
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