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

By Michael Fried

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B007YXS936
• ISBN13: 9780226262130
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 10.1"