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Against voluptuous bodies : late modernism and the meaning of painting /

By: Series: Cultural memory in the presentPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.Description: xiv, 400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0804748942
  • 0804748950
  • 9780804748940
  • 9780804748957
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Contents:
Introduction: (Late) modernism -- Wax, brick, and bread -- apotheoses of matter and meaning in seventeenth-century philosophy and art : 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.
Summary: 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 discusses works by Pieter de Hooch, Jan Vermeer, Chaim Soutine, Anthony Caro, Donald Judd, Frank Stella, Barnett Newman, Camille Pissarro, Jackson Pollock, Joseph Cornell, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Ryman and Cindy Sherman amongst others.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-384) and index.

Introduction: (Late) modernism -- Wax, brick, and bread -- apotheoses of matter and meaning in seventeenth-century philosophy and art : 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.

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 discusses works by Pieter de Hooch, Jan Vermeer, Chaim Soutine, Anthony Caro, Donald Judd, Frank Stella, Barnett Newman, Camille Pissarro, Jackson Pollock, Joseph Cornell, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Ryman and Cindy Sherman amongst others.

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