{"product_id":"thunderclap-a-memoir-of-art-and-li","title":"Laura Cumming: Thunderclap [2023] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eOn Chapel Sands\u003c\/i\u003e, a stunning new memoir of a life in art, a father and daughter, and what a shared love of a painting can come to mean.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'No one writes art like Laura Cumming\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e' Philip Hoare, author of \u003ci\u003eAlbert and the Whale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I will never look at any painting in the same way again' Polly Morland, author of \u003ci\u003eA Fortunate Woman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e_____________________\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'We see with everything that we are'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the morning of 12 October 1654, a gunpowder explosion devastated the Dutch city of Delft. The thunderclap was heard over seventy miles away. Among the fatalities was the painter Carel Fabritius, dead at thirty-two, leaving only his haunting masterpiece \u003ci\u003eThe Goldfinch \u003c\/i\u003eand barely a dozen known paintings. For the explosion that killed him also buried his reputation, along with answers to the mysteries of his life and career.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat happened to Fabritius before and after this disaster is just one of the discoveries in a book that explores the relationship between art and life, interweaving the lives of Laura Cumming, her Scottish painter father, who also died too young, and the great artists of the Dutch Golden Age. \u003ci\u003eThunderclap\u003c\/i\u003e takes the reader from Rembrandt's studio to wartime America and contemporary London; from Fabritius's goldfinch on its perch to de Hooch's blue and white tile and the smallest seed in a loaf by Vermeer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a book about what a picture may come to mean: how it can enter your life and change your thinking in a thunderclap. For the explosion of the title speaks not only to the precariousness of our existence, but also to the power of painting: the sudden revelations of sight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e_____________________\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for Laura Cumming:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Cumming \u003cb\u003eskilfully \u003c\/b\u003ewithholds key twists in the tale, revealing them at\u003cb\u003e just the right moment\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eOutstanding \u003c\/b\u003e. . . A \u003cb\u003epeerless detective story\u003c\/b\u003e that \u003cb\u003ekeeps you guessing \u003c\/b\u003eto the end' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eSuperb \u003c\/b\u003eand \u003cb\u003eoriginal\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eSumptuous \u003c\/b\u003e. . . A gleaming work of someone \u003cb\u003eat the peak of her craft\u003c\/b\u003e'\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cumming, Laura","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":49488653549907,"sku":"XV81784744526","price":14.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":46761357050195,"sku":"9781784744526","price":32.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/cumming-laura-laura-cumming-thunderclap-2023-hardback-59465830728019.jpg?v=1728797528","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/thunderclap-a-memoir-of-art-and-li","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}