
Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot - Paperback
Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot - Paperback
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by Michael Fried (Author)
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 BooksBack Jacket
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.



















