Against Voluptuous Bodies Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting

Name: Against Voluptuous Bodies Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting
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ISBN: 9780804748957

ISBN-10: 0804748950

ISBN-13: 9780804748957

Edition: 2006

Authors: J. M. Bernstein

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Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 1/12/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



List of Figures


Acknowledgments


Introduction: (Late) Modernism



Wax, Brick, and Bread-Apotheoses of Matter and Meaning in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy and Painting: Descartes and Pieter de Hooch



Judging Life: Kant, Clement Greenberg, and Chaim Soutine



Modernism as Philosophy: Stanley Cavell, Anthony Caro, and Chantal Akerman



Aporia of the Sensible-Art, Objecthood, and Anthropomorphism: Michael Fried, Frank Stella, and Minimalism



The Death of Sensuous Particulars: T.J. Clark and Abstract Expressionism



Social Signs, Natural Bodies: T. J. Clark and Jackson Pollock



Readymades, Monochromes, Etc.: Nominalism and the Paradox of Modernism (Thierry de Duve and Marcel Duchamp)



Freedom from Nature? Reflections on the End(s) of Art: Arthur Danto, Yves-Alain Bois, and Robert Ryman



The Horror of Nonidentity: Cindy Sherman's Tragic Modernism


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