{"product_id":"rembrandts-roughness-nicola-suthor-9780691172446","title":"Rembrandt's Roughness","description":"\u003cp\u003eRoughness is the sensual quality most often associated with Rembrandt's idiosyncratic style. It best defines the specific structure of his painterly textures, which subtly capture and engage the imagination of the beholder. \u003ci\u003eRembrandt's Roughness\u003c\/i\u003e examines how the artist's unconventional technique pushed the possibilities of painting into startling and unexpected realms. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on the phenomenological insights of Edmund Husserl as well as firsthand accounts by Rembrandt's contemporaries, Nicola Suthor provides invaluable new perspectives on many of the painter's best-known masterpieces, including \u003ci\u003eThe Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Deyman\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Return of the Prodigal Son\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAristotle with a Bust of Homer\u003c\/i\u003e. She focuses on pictorial phenomena such as the thickness of the paint material, the visibility of the colored priming, and the dramatizing element of chiaroscuro, showing how they constitute Rembrandt's most effective tools for extending the representational limits of painting. Suthor explores how Rembrandt developed a visually precise handling of his artistic medium that forced his viewers to confront the paint itself as a source of meaning, its challenging complexity expressed in the subtlest stroke of his brush. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA beautifully illustrated meditation on a painter like no other, \u003ci\u003eRembrandt's Roughness\u003c\/i\u003e reflects deeply on the intellectual challenge that Rembrandt's unrivaled artistry posed to the art theory of his time and its eminent role in the history of art today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nicola Suthor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691172447\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691172446\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/03\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.20h x 7.30w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2018","brand":"Nicola Suthor","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43946954686719,"sku":"9780691172446","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_7408565a-3168-4c26-8b33-9215f07263f2.jpg?v=1681515889","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rembrandts-roughness-nicola-suthor-9780691172446","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}