{"product_id":"9781847088086","title":"Everything is Happening: Journey into a Painting","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichael Jacobs was haunted by Velázquez's enigmatic masterpiece \u003ci\u003eLas Meninas\u003c\/i\u003e from first encountering it in the Prado as a teenager. In \u003ci\u003eEverything is Happening \u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Jacobs' first trip to Spain to the complex politics of Golden Age Madrid, to his meeting with the man who saved \u003ci\u003eLas Meninas \u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Granta Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50096679223536,"sku":"9781847088086","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781847088086","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}