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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 Lessing, Kant, Schiller, and Schlegel to Adorno and Stanley Cavell. It discusses in detail competing accounts of modernism: Clement Greenberg, Michael Fried, Yves-Alain Bois, Theirry de Duve, and Arthur Danto; 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.

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Book category Books in English The arts The arts: general issues Theory of art

• Full title: Against Voluptuous Bodies
• Subtitle: Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting
• Author: J. M. Bernstein
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 416
• EAN: 9780804748940
• ISBN: 0804748942
• ID: 04717725
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 658 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. January 2006

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