1. Wax, Brick, and Bread—Apotheoses of Matter and Meaning in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy and Painting: Descartes and Pieter de Hooch

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. List of Figures xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction: (Late) Modernism 1
6. 1. Wax, Brick, and Bread—Apotheoses of Matter and Meaning in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy and Painting: Descartes and Pieter de Hooch 19
7. 2. Judging Life: Kant, Clement Greenberg, and Chaim Soutine 46
8. 3. Modernism as Philosophy: Stanley Cavell, Anthony Caro, and Chantal Akerman 78
9. 4. Aporia of the Sensible—Art, Objecthood, and Anthropomorphism: Michael Fried, Frank Stella, and Minimalism 117
10. 5. The Death of Sensuous Particulars: T. J. Clark and Abstract Expressionism 144
11. 6. Social Signs, Natural Bodies: T. J. Clark and Jackson Pollock 165
12. 7. Readymades, Monochromes, Etc.: Nominalism and the Paradox of Modernism (Thierry de Duve and Marcel Duchamp) 194
13. 8. Freedom from Nature? Reflections on the End(s) of Art: Arthur Danto, Yves-Alain Bois, and Robert Ryman 223
14. 9. The Horror of Nonidentity: Cindy Sherman’s Tragic Modernism 253
15. Notes 327
16. Index 385