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