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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bernstein, J. M.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:	Adorno, Theodor W., > 1903-1969 > Aesthetics. Modernism (Art) Painting, Modern > 20th century. Painting > Philosophy.

Table of Contents:

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.