Against Voluptuous Bodies - 9780804748957

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, Yve-Alain Bois, and Thierry de Duve; and it discusses several painters and artists in detail: Pieter de Hooch, Jackson Pollock, 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.

Informazioni bibliografiche

• Titolo del Libro in lingua: Against Voluptuous Bodies
• Sottotitolo: Late Modernism And the Meaning of Painting
• Autore:  Bernstein J. M.
• Editore: Stanford Univ Pr
• Collana: Stanford Univ Pr (Paperback)
• Data di Pubblicazione: 12 Gennaio '06
• Genere: PHILOSOPHY
• Argomenti :  Modernism (Art Painting, Modern 20th century Painting Philosophy
• Pagine: 400
• Dimensioni mm: 234 x 158 x 25
• ISBN-10: 0804748950
• EAN-13: 9780804748957