Against voluptuous bodies : late modernism and the meaning of painting /
Bernstein, J. M.
Against voluptuous bodies : late modernism and the meaning of painting / J. M. Bernstein. - xiv, 400 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
0804748942 (cloth : alk. paper) 0804748950 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2005012303
Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969 --Aesthetics.
Modernism (Art)
Painting, Modern--20th century
Painting--Philosophy
ND196.M64 / B47 2006
759.06
Against voluptuous bodies : late modernism and the meaning of painting / J. M. Bernstein. - xiv, 400 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
0804748942 (cloth : alk. paper) 0804748950 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2005012303
Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969 --Aesthetics.
Modernism (Art)
Painting, Modern--20th century
Painting--Philosophy
ND196.M64 / B47 2006
759.06