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Absorption and Theatricality

Absorption and Theatricality

Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot

by Michael Fried
Paperback
Publication Date: 15/09/1988

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With this widely acclaimed work, Fried revised the way in which eighteenth-century French painting and criticism were viewed and understood.

"A reinterpretation supported by immense learning and by a series of brilliantly perceptive readings of paintings and criticism alike. . . . An exhilarating book."-John Barrell, London Review of Books
ISBN:
9780226262130
9780226262130
Category:
History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
15-09-1988
Language:
English
Publisher:
The University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
268
Dimensions (mm):
26x18x2mm
Weight:
0.51kg
Michael Fried

Michael Fried is the J. R. Herbert Boone Emeritus Professor of the Humanities and the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University. A renowned critic and historian, his previous books include The Moment of Caravaggio.

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