Laura Cumming
Born
Edinburgh, Scotland
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On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
16 editions
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2019
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Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
14 editions
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2023
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The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th-Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece
21 editions
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2016
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A Face to the World: On Self Portraits
8 editions
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2009
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Great Works: 50 Paintings Explored
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3 editions
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2011
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Modern Masters XVI
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2023
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(A Face to the World) [By: Cumming, Laura] [Sep, 2010]
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Y.Z. Kami
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“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
“We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatever we are that day, whatever is going on behind our eyes, or in the forests of our lives, is present in what we see. We see with everything that we are.”
― Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
― Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
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