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

by Michael Fried

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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

  • ISBN10 0520037588
  • ISBN13 9780520037588
  • Publish Date 1 January 1980
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 17 June 2010
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of California Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 266
  • Language English