Thunderclap
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Thunderclap
Thunderclap
From the Sunday Times bestselling author, Laura Cumming, comes a kaleidoscopic memoir connecting her life as an art critic with the vivid world of her father's paintings and those of the Dutch Golden Age. It is richly illustrated in full colour throughout.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024
WINNER OF THE WRITERS' PRIZE 2024 | NON-FICTION
A beautifully illustrated new memoir of a life in art, a father and daughter, and what a shared love of a painting can come to mean.
'Brilliant' Edmund de Waal 'Captivating' Nina Stibbe 'Extraordinary' India Knight
On the morning of 12 October 1654, a gunpowder explosion devastated the Dutch city of Delft. Among the fatalities was the painter Carel Fabritius, dead at thirty-two, leaving behind his haunting masterpiece The Goldfinch.
Thunderclap explores what happened to Fabritius before and after the disaster whilst interweaving the lives of Laura Cumming, her painter father, and the great artists of the Dutch Golden Age. It takes the reader from seventeenth-century Delft to twentieth-century Scottish islands, from Rembrandt's studio to wartime America and contemporary London. This is a book about what a picture may come to mean, how it can enter your life and change your thinking in a thunderclap.
'Superb...this book taught me to see anew' Daily Telegraph
'A book that often borders on the sublime in its sentiment and beauty' Sunday Times
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781529922530
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 16 May 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 126.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 424g
Pages: 272
About the Author
Laura Cumming has been chief art critic of the Observer since 1999. Her books include A Face to the World- On Self-Portraits (2009) and The Vanishing Man- In Pursuit of Velazquez (2016) which won the James Tait Black Biography Prize. Her family memoir, On Chapel Sands- my Mother and other Missing Persons (2019) was a Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford, Costa and Rathbone's Folio prizes.
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