Against Voluptuous Bodies : Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting Paperback / softback
by J. M. Bernstein
Part of the Cultural Memory in the Present series
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The aim of this book is to provide an account of modernist painting that follows on from the aesthetic theory of Theodor W.
Adorno. It offers a materialist account of modernism with detailed discussions of modern aesthetics from Kant to Arthur Danto, Stanley Cavell, and Adorno.
It discusses in detail competing accounts of modernism: Clement Greenberg, Michael Fried, Yve-Alain Bois, and Thierry de Duve; and it discusses several painters and artists in detail: Pieter de Hooch, Jackson Pollock, Robert Ryman, Cindy Sherman, and Chaim Soutine.
Its central thesis is that modernist painting exemplifies a form of rationality that is an alternative to the instrumental rationality of enlightened modernity.
Modernist paintings exemplify how nature and the sociality of meaning can be reconciled.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:416 pages
- Publisher:Stanford University Press
- Publication Date:12/01/2006
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- ISBN:9780804748957
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:416 pages
- Publisher:Stanford University Press
- Publication Date:12/01/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780804748957
