{"product_id":"against-voluptuous-bodies-late-modernism-and-the-meaning-of-painting-9780804748940","title":"Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): J. M. Bernstein\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Movements - Modernism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46891997495447,"sku":"9780804748940","price":15205.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780804748940.webp?v=1770278044","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/against-voluptuous-bodies-late-modernism-and-the-meaning-of-painting-9780804748940","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}