Against Voluptuous Bodies
| Author | : J. M. Bernstein |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 2022 |
| ISBN-10 | : 1503624471 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9781503624474 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (474 Downloads) |
Download or read book Against Voluptuous Bodies written by J. M. Bernstein and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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