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

Michael Fried

ISBN 10: 0520037588 / ISBN 13: 9780520037588

Published by University of California Press, 1981

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University of California Press (1981). New Hardcover with a Near Fine DJ. 10.25"x7.3"1.0". be57899. Seller Inventory # ABE-17280152641

Bibliographic Details

Title: Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and ...

Publisher: University of California Press

Publication Date: 1981

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

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

From the Back Cover:

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.