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: 0520043391
• ISBN13: 9780520043398
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.