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Against voluptuous bodies : late modernism and the meaning of painting / J. M. Bernstein.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006Description: xiv, 400 pISBN:
  • 0804748942 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0804748950 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 759.06 22
LOC classification:
  • ND196.M64 B47 2006
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.
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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.

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