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Against Voluptuous Bodies Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting

Paperback • 2006 • English • 1. edition

Against Voluptuous Bodies Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting

By J. M. Bernstein

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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 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, Rob...Show more

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ISBN

9780804748957

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published year

2006

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Against Voluptuous Bodies Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting

Format

Paperback

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