The aim of this book is to provide an account of modernist painting—from Pollock to Ryman—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.

1 'ax1 Brick and Bread - Apotheoses o atter and Maning in rw Se nthencnt ( entury Philosophy and Parini: Descarts and Patctr de Hooch 19 2 Judiing Life: Kant, Clent Greenberg and Cr haim Sourinr e 6 SMode rnism as Philosophy: StanTy C aved, \nthon C aro, and C( hata Akcrman in78 4 Aporia o Ihk Sensible-Art, Obleccthood, and Atih iropomonrphiism: Michae Fried Frank Swtelai and M\mnim alisim 5 The DLatl of Sensuous Particilars: T . Clark and Absirt ac Exprssi ionismin 44 6 Social Signs, Natural Bodies: i. J Clark aid Jackson Pollock 16 7 Rcadivmades n Monochromes, Etc.: Nonminalis and the Paradox of Modernism ( hicrry de Duve and Mlarce Dultlcamp ) 194 8 Frecdom from Nature? Reflecti on the End(s) ofArr: Arthur Danto, Y xes-A ain Bo,i and Robert Rvman 9 The Horror of Noiidenity Cind S her mani Iragic Modernism 2r'3