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Against voluptuous bodies : late modernism and the meaning of painting / J.M. Bernstein.
LIBRA ND196.M64 B47 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bernstein, J. M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969. Ästhetik (1958/59)--English.
- Adorno, Theodor W.
- Modernism (Art).
- Painting, Modern--20th century.
- Painting, Modern.
- Painting--Philosophy.
- Painting.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- 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 Lessing, Kant, Schiller, and Schlegel to Adorno and Stanley Cavell. It discusses in detail competing accounts of modernism: Clement Greenberg, Michael Fried, Yves-Alain Bois, Theirry de Duve, and Arthur Danto; and it discusses several painters and artists in detail: Pieter de Hooch, Jackson Pollack, 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction: (Late) modernism
- Wax, brick, and bread
- apotheoses of matter and meaning in seventeenth-century philosophy and painting : Descartes and Pieter de Hooch
- Judging life : Kant, Clement Greenberg, and Chaim Soutine
- Modernism as philosophy : Stanley Cavell, Anthony Caro, and Chantal Akerman
- Aporia of the sensible
- art, objecthood, and anthropomorphism : Michael Fried, Frank Stella, and minimalism
- The death of sensuous particulars : T.J. Clark and abstract expressionism
- Social signs, natural bodies : T.J. Clark and Jackson Pollock
- Readymades, monochromes, etc.
- nominalism and the paradox of modernism : Thierry de Duve and Marcel Duchamp
- Freedom from nature? reflections on the end(s) of art : Arthur Danto, Yves-Alain Bois, and Robert Ryman
- The horror of nonidentity : Cindy Sherman's tragic modernism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-384) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804748942
- 0804748950
- OCLC:
- 60341477
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