Against Voluptuous Bodies - Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting

Informationen zum Autor J. M. Bernstein is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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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• Authors: J M Bernstein, J. Bernstein, J. M. Bernstein, J. S. Bernstein
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.01.2006
• EAN: 9780804748957
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-4895-7
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present; Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries