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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Bernstein, J.M. Against voluptuous bodies. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006 (OCoLC)649790575 |
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Named Person: | Theodor W Adorno; Theodor W Adorno; Anthony Caro; Cindy Sherman; Theodor W Adorno; Theodor W Adorno; Theodor W Adorno |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
J M Bernstein |
ISBN: | 0804748942 0804748950 9780804748940 9780804748957 |
OCLC Number: | 60341477 |
Description: | xiv, 400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction: (Late) modernism -- Wax, brick, and bread -- apotheoses of matter and meaning in seventeenth-century philosophy and art : 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. |
Series Title: | Cultural memory in the present. |
Responsibility: | J.M. Bernstein. |
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Abstract:
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.
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