EAN: 9781529922530

THUNDERCLAP - LAURA CUMMING KARTONIERT (TB)

**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024**From the Sunday Times-bestselling
author of On Chapel Sands  shortlisted for the Costa Prize for Biography'No one writes art like
Laura Cumming' Philip Hoare  author of Albert and the Whale'I will never look at any painting
in the same way again' Polly Morland  author of A Fortunate Woman_____________________'We see
with everything that we are'On the morning of 12 October 1654  in the Dutch city of Delft  a
sudden explosion was followed by a thunderclap that could be heard more than seventy miles
away. Carel Fabritius - now known across the world for his exquisite painting  The Goldfinch -
had been at work in his studio. He  along with many others  would not survive the day. In
Thunderclap  Laura Cumming reveals her passion for the art of the Dutch Golden Age and her
determination to lift up the reputation of Fabritius. She reveals the Netherlands  where -
wandering the narrow streets of Amsterdam  driving across the flatlands  or pausing at a quiet
waterfront - she encounters the rich reality behind the shining beauty of Vermeer and Rembrandt
Hals and de Hooch. She shares too her relationship with her father  the Scottish artist James
Cumming  who had his own deep connection to Dutch painting  and who taught her about colour 
light and the rewards of looking deeply. 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  a sudden clarity of
sight. This is also a book about the precariousness of human life - the way it may be snatched
from us in an instant. What can art do to sustain us? The work that survives tells its own
compelling story in these pages.

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