Against voluptuous bodies : late modernism and the meaning of painting by Bernstein, J. M instant download

Against voluptuous bodies : late modernism and the meaning of painting by Bernstein, J. M instant download

xiv, 400 p. : 24 cm, Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-384) and index, 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