Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot
by Michael Fried
University of Chicago Press, 1988
Paper: 978-0-226-26213-0
Library of Congress Classification ND546.F73 1988
Dewey Decimal Classification 759.4
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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
"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
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