Michael Fried
Michael Fried is Professor Emeritus of the Humanities. As an art historian he is best known for his trilogy of books on French painting and art criticism from the middle of the 18th century through the advent of Manet and his generation in the early 1860s: Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot (1980), Courbet's Realism (1990), and Manet's Modernism, or, the Face of Painting in the 1860s (1996). But he is also the author of Realism, Writing, Disfiguration: On Thomas Eakins and Stephen Crane (1987), Menzel's Realism: Art and Embodiment in Nineteenth-Century Berlin (2002), Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before (2008), The Moment of Caravaggio (based on the Andrew W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts; 2010), Four Honest Outlaws: Sala, Ray, Marioni, Gordon (2011), Flaubert's "Gueuloir": On Madame Bovary and Salammbô (2012); Another Light: Jacques-Louis David to Thomas Demand (2014); After Caravaggio (2016); What Was Literary Impressionism? (2018), Painting with Demons: The Art of Gerolamo Savoldo (2021), and French Suite: A Book of Essays (2022). In addition his early art criticism is gathered in Art and Objecthood: Essays and Reviews (1998).
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