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AGAINST VOLUPTUOUS BODIES
LATE MODERNISM AND THE MEANING OF PAINTING |
| By: |
J. M. Bernstein |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£27.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0804748950 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780804748957 |
| Publisher: |
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
12 January, 2006 |
| Series: |
Cultural Memory in the Present |
| Pages: |
416 |
| Description: |
The aim of this book is to provide an account of modernist painting-from Pollock to Ryman-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. |
| Synopsis: |
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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US |
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Stanford University Press |
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