{"product_id":"against-voluptuous-bodies-9780804748957","title":"Against Voluptuous Bodies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1   '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","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405556851031,"sku":"9780804748957","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804748957.jpg?v=1730492822","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/against-voluptuous-bodies-9780804748957","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}