Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting

by J.M. Bernstein

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804748942
• ISBN13: 9780804748940
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"