Absorption and Theatricality
Title | Absorption and Theatricality PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Fried |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 1988-09-15 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780226262130 |
With this widely acclaimed work, Michael Fried revised the way in which eighteenth-century French painting and criticism are viewed and understood. Analyzing paintings produced between 1753 and 1781 and the comments of a number of critics who wrote about them, especially Dennis Diderot, Fried discovers a new emphasis in the art of the time, based not on subject matter or style but on values and effects.
Absorption and Theatricality
Title | Absorption and Theatricality PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Fried |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1980-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780520037588 |
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"
Absorption and Theatricality
Title | Absorption and Theatricality PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Fried |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1980-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780520043398 |
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"
Michael Fried and Philosophy
Title | Michael Fried and Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Mathew Abbott |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 2018-01-29 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1317191846 |
This volume brings philosophers, art historians, intellectual historians, and literary scholars together to argue for the philosophical significance of Michael Fried’s art history and criticism. It demonstrates that Fried’s work on modernism, artistic intention, the ontology of art, theatricality, and anti-theatricality can throw new light on problems in and beyond philosophical aesthetics. Featuring an essay by Fried and articles from world-leading scholars, this collection engages with philosophical themes from Fried’s texts, and clarifies the relevance to his work of philosophers such as Ludwig Wittgenstein, Stanley Cavell, Morris Weitz, Elizabeth Anscombe, Arthur Danto, George Dickie, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schiller, G. W. F. Hegel, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Denis Diderot, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Roland Barthes, Jacques Rancière, and Søren Kierkegaard. As it makes a case for the importance of Fried for philosophy, this volume contributes to current debates in analytic and continental aesthetics, philosophy of action, philosophy of history, political philosophy, modernism studies, literary studies, and art theory.
Art and Objecthood
Title | Art and Objecthood PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Fried |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 1998-04-18 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780226263199 |
Much acclaimed and highly controversial, Michael Fried's art criticism defines the contours of late modernism in the visual arts. This volume contains 27 pieces--uncompromising, exciting, and impassioned writings, aware of their transformative power during a time of intense controversy about the nature of modernism and the aims and essence of advanced painting and sculpture. 16 color plates. 72 halftones.
Courbet's Realism
Title | Courbet's Realism PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Fried |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 1992-11-15 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780226262154 |
"'This book,' Michael Fried's work opens, 'was written not so much chapter by chapter as painting by painting over a span of roughly ten years.' Courbet's Realism is a magnificent work and its very first sentence brings us up against the qualities of mind of its author, qualities that make it as impressive as it is. It allows us to reconstruct the keen eye, the commitment to perception, the gift of rapt concentration, the conviction that great paintings are not necessarily understood easily, and the further conviction that a great painter deserves to get from us as good as he gives. By drawing on these qualities, Fried achieves something out of reach for all but a handful of his colleagues. In his writing, art history takes on some of the character of art itself. It is driven by the same stubborn resolve to open our eyes."—Richard Wollheim, San Francisco Review of Books Courbet's Realism is clearly a major contribution to the highly active field of Courbet studies. . . . But to contribute here and now is necessarily also to contribute to central debates about art history itself, and so the book is also—I hesitate to say 'more importantly,' because of the way object and method are woven together in it—a major contribution to current attempts to rethink the foundations and objects of art history. . . . It will not be an easy book to come to terms with; for all its engagement with contemporary literary theory and related developments, it is not an application of anything, and its deeply thought-through arguments will not fall easily in line with the emerging shapes of the various 'new art histories' that tap many of the same theoretical resources. At this moment, there may be nothing more valuable than such a work."—Stephen Melville, Art History
Absorption and Theatricality
Title | Absorption and Theatricality PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Fried |
Publisher | |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 1980 |
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