Against Voluptuous Bodies

Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting

AvJ. M. Bernstein

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2006-01-12
Mått:152 x 229 x 24 mm
Vikt:549 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cultural Memory in the Present
Antal sidor:416
Förlag:Stanford University Press
ISBN:9780804748957

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J. M. Bernstein is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research.

Innehållsförteckning

1 'ax1 Brick and Bread - Apotheoses o atter and Maning in rw Se nthencnt ( entury Philosophy and Parini: Descarts and Patctr de Hooch 19 2 Judiing Life: Kant, Clent Greenberg and Cr haim Sourinr e 6 SMode rnism as Philosophy: StanTy C aved, \nthon C aro, and C( hata Akcrman in78 4 Aporia o Ihk Sensible-Art, Obleccthood, and Atih iropomonrphiism: Michae Fried Frank Swtelai and M\mnim alisim 5 The DLatl of Sensuous Particilars: T . Clark and Absirt ac Exprssi ionismin 44 6 Social Signs, Natural Bodies: i. J Clark aid Jackson Pollock 16 7 Rcadivmades n Monochromes, Etc.: Nonminalis and the Paradox of Modernism ( hicrry de Duve and Mlarce Dultlcamp ) 194 8 Frecdom from Nature? Reflecti on the End(s) ofArr: Arthur Danto, Y xes-A ain Bo,i and Robert Rvman 9 The Horror of Noiidenity Cind S her mani Iragic Modernism 2r'3