Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting (Cultural Memory in the Present) - Hardcover

Bernstein, J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804748942 ISBN 13: 9780804748940

Verlag: Stanford University Press, 2006

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The aim of this book is to provide an account of modernist painting-from Pollock to Ryman-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.

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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, Yves-Alain Bois, and Theirry de Duve; 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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• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0804748942
• ISBN 13: 9780804748940
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 418