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Against Voluptuous Bodies

Against Voluptuous Bodies

Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting

by J. M. Bernstein
Hardback
Publication Date: 12/01/2006

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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 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.
ISBN:
9780804748940
9780804748940
Category:
Painting & paintings
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
12-01-2006
Language:
English
Publisher:
Stanford University Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
416
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x27mm
Weight:
0.66kg

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