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

Forsideomslag
University of Chicago Press, 15. sep. 1988 - 249 sider
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.
 

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Introduction
1
The Primacy of Absorption
7
Toward a Supreme Fiction
71
Painting and Beholder
107
Grimm on Unity Instantaneousness and Related Topics
161
Two Related Texts The Lettre sur les spectacles and Die Wahlverwandtschaften
167
Davids Homer Drawings of 1794
175
Notes
179
Index
243
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Om forfatteren (1988)

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.

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