{"product_id":"against-voluptuous-bodies-j-m-bernstein-9780804748957","title":"Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting","description":"\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\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. M. Bernstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804748950\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804748957\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/12\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.74h x 6.04w x 0.90d","brand":"J. M. Bernstein","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059760754943,"sku":"9780804748957","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0e94090a-5eac-488d-b7de-b249ff3ef13e.jpg?v=1685060173","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/against-voluptuous-bodies-j-m-bernstein-9780804748957","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}