Against voluptuous bodies
Subtitle: late modernism and the meaning of painting
By: J. M. Bernstein.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
Subjects: Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969 -- Aesthetics; Modernism (Art); Painting, Modern -- 20th century; Painting -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: (Late) modernism; title: Wax, brick, and bread; title: apotheoses of matter and meaning in seventeenth-century philosophy and art : Descartes and Pieter de Hooch; title: Judging life : Kant, Clement Greenberg, and Chaim Soutine; title: Modernism as philosophy : Stanley Cavell, Anthony Caro, and Chantal Akerman; title: Aporia of the sensible; title: art, objecthood, and anthropomorphism : Michael Fried, Frank Stella, and minimalism; title: The death of sensuous particulars : T.J. Clark and abstract expressionism; title: Social signs, natural bodies : T.J. Clark and Jackson Pollock; title: Readymades, monochromes, etc.; title: nominalism and the paradox of modernism : Thierry de Duve and Marcel Duchamp; title: Freedom from nature? reflections on the end(s) of art : Arthur Danto, Yves-Alain Bois, and Robert Ryman; title: The horror of nonidentity : Cindy Sherman's tragic modernism.