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Laura Cumming
Born
Edinburgh, Scotland
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On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
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2019
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16 editions
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Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
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2023
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14 editions
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The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th-Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece
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2016
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21 editions
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A Face to the World: On Self Portraits
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2009
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9 editions
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Great Works: 50 Paintings Explored
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2011
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3 editions
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Modern Masters XVI
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2023
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Y.Z. Kami
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“I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by moment -- and live inside it in your thoughts. There is always more of it, and then inexhaustibly more. Every time I think I have seen my last Dutch painting another comes into view, in some old museum or faraway city. I once saw, in a hotel in Algiers, a Dutch still life of redcurrants glinting on a silver dish and was momentarily transported to a long-ago Delft day. Paintings can take you anywhere, but they are also a land in themselves, a society, a place to be.”
― Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
― Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
“To commemorate Veda’s life, Elizabeth planted thousands of daffodil bulbs in the grounds of Chapel school for the pupils to pick on Mother’s Day each year, so that no future mother would ever be forgotten.”
― Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
― Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
“Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic] is now absurd. But a person in a portrait does not age, even if the painting does. The picture removes the person from time's harm and fixes them in the moment; and so it does for me. I never go to a gallery and think that these people are dead and gone, no matter how long ago they were depicted. The painting fuses the person in the moment and that moment somehow includes me, and you, and everyone to come. Here he is now, Carel Fabritius, and so he will remain; the artist appearing in and as his own painting.”
― Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
― Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
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Summer Challenge 2016: Completed Tasks: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS IN THIS THREAD
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| Art Lovers: * Velázquez: Schedule & Resources | 12 | 28 | Jan 31, 2017 11:48AM | |
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WI 16-17 Completed Tasks
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911 | 107 | Feb 28, 2017 09:01PM | |
| 2017 Reading Chal...: A book about artists or art | 8 | 34 | May 06, 2017 11:04PM | |
| Crossroads: A Book I have heard about | 173 | 23 | Jun 07, 2017 05:27PM | |
| 2017 Reading Chal...: * Reading Progress | 82 | 338 | Dec 28, 2017 09:27AM |
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