Modernism’s evacuation of the body

1. Does "Modernism’s evacuation of the body" mean "modernism's rejection of bodily and figurative representations"?

2. Does "are the operatives rather than the processes of abjection" mean "the are elements that help to represent abjection instead of themselves being direct representations of abjection"?

3. Does "They saw this show as being counter to the fashion for bodily fluids and other objects of disgust that were raging in so-called abject art" mean "They saw this show as resistance against the dominance of bodily fluids and disgusting objects under the title of abject art"?

Context:

Krauss and Bois, who emerged in the wake of Modernist art criticism, want to enflesh Modernism’s evacuation of the body with bodily abstractions such as horizontality, base materialism, pulse and entropy. These concepts, they maintain, are the operatives rather than the processes of abjection, and they can be present without recourse to the representation of a naturalistic body and its internal organs. They curated an exhibition in 1997 called L’informe: Mode d’emploi, which grouped artworks into these four vectors. They saw this show as being counter to the fashion for bodily fluids and other objects of disgust that were raging in so-called abject art.