{"product_id":"9781784744526-thunderclap","title":"Thunderclap","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA memoir of art and life \u0026amp; sudden death\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**WINNER OF THE WRITERS' PRIZE (NON-FICTION CATEGORY)**\u003cbr\u003e**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eA wonderful read (or a great present) for anyone who loves stories and art\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003cb\u003eNina Stibbe, author of \u003ci\u003eLove, Nina\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'We see with everything that we are'\u003c\/i\u003e\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. 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.\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e**A \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES, DAILY EXPRESS \u003c\/i\u003eAND\u003ci\u003e GUARDIAN \u003c\/i\u003eBOOK OF THE YEAR 2023**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eBrilliant \u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cb\u003erush out and buy it' Edmund de Waal, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hare with Amber Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40892282110049,"sku":"9781784744526","price":23.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32358915.jpg?v=1737194094","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781784744526-thunderclap","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}