Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting
Author:   J. M. Bernstein
Publisher:   Stanford University Press
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9780804748957


Pages:   277
Publication Date:   12 January 2006
Format:   Paperback
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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 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.

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Author:   J. M. Bernstein
Publisher:   Stanford University Press
Imprint:   Stanford University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.549kg
ISBN:  

9780804748957


ISBN 10:   0804748950
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   12 January 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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J. M. Bernstein is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, New School University.

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