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 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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Author:   J. M. Bernstein
Publisher:   Stanford University Press
Imprint:   Stanford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.658kg
ISBN:  

9780804748940

ISBN 10:   0804748942
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   12 January 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 'ax1 Brick and Bread - Apotheoses o atter and Maning in rw Se nthencnt ( entury Philosophy and Parini: Descarts and Patctr de Hooch 19 2 Judiing Life: Kant, Clent Greenberg and Cr haim Sourinr e 6 SMode rnism as Philosophy: StanTy C aved, \nthon C aro, and C( hata Akcrman in78 4 Aporia o Ihk Sensible-Art, Obleccthood, and Atih iropomonrphiism: Michae Fried Frank Swtelai and M\mnim alisim 5 The DLatl of Sensuous Particilars: T . Clark and Absirt ac Exprssi ionismin 44 6 Social Signs, Natural Bodies: i. J Clark aid Jackson Pollock 16 7 Rcadivmades n Monochromes, Etc.: Nonminalis and the Paradox of Modernism ( hicrry de Duve and Mlarce Dultlcamp ) 194 8 Frecdom from Nature? Reflecti on the End(s) ofArr: Arthur Danto, Y xes-A ain Bo,i and Robert Rvman 9 The Horror of Noiidenity Cind S her mani Iragic Modernism 2r'3

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J. M. Bernstein is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, New School University.

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