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The Vanishing Man was a 1997 TV movie and subsequent 1998 series, starring Neil Morrissey as Nick Cameron, a man wrongly imprisoned from smuggling Plutonium, who used for medical research which turns him invisible when in contact with water.
With Neil Morrissey, Lucy Akhurst, John Castle, Mark Womack. Nick Cameron is sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. He takes part in a secret government experiment that as a side effect allows him to become invisible whenever he comes in contact with water. He escapes to prove his innocence.
In this superb and original book, Cumming interweaves the gripping story of Snare with that of Diego Velázquez himself, painting at the court in Madrid in the 17th century.. Like Donna Tartt's novel The Goldfinch, this is about the particular forms of obsession that only art can generate...
5 de ene. de 2016 · The Vanishing Man: in Pursuit of Velázquez by Laura Cumming, book review: Saga of a lost masterpiece. A 19th-century bookseller's encounter with a Velázquez portrait of a young Charles I...
Fusing detection and biography, this book shows how and why great works of art can affect us, even to the point of mania. And on the trail of John Snare, Cumming makes a surprising discovery of her own. But most movingly, The Vanishing...
In 1845, a Reading bookseller named John Snare came across the dirt-blackened portrait of a prince at a country house auction. Suspecting that it might be a long-lost Velázquez, he bought the picture and set out to discover its strange history - a quest that led from fame to ruin and exile.
22 de ene. de 2016 · Observer critic Laura Cumming’s second book might be more accurately titled The Vanishing Men. A binary biography, it traces Velázquez’s life through that of the 19th-century bookseller John...
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