Absorption and Theatricality - Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot

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.

About the author

Art critic, art historian, literary critic-historian, and poet Michael Fried is the J. R. Herbert Boone Emeritus Professor of Humanities and the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University. His many books include The Moment of Caravaggio.

Summary

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"

Product details

• Authors: Michael Fried, Fried Michael
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.1988
• EAN: 9780226262130
• ISBN: 978-0-226-26213-0
• No. of pages: 268
• Dimensions: 18 mm x 26 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 510 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / History / General, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Art, Painting & paintings, Paintings and painting