J. M. Bernstein: Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting

Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting


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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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Author: J. M. Bernstein
Number of Pages: 416 pages
Published Date: 12 Jan 2006
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Country: Palo Alto, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780804748957
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