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"In this richly illustrated book, Michael Fried-one of the most esteemed and influential art critics and art historians working today-has gathered eight major essays written between 1993 and 2013, on topics ranging from Jacques-Louis David, Théodore Géricault, and Caspar David Friedrich through Gustave Caillebotte and Roger Fry to recent films by Douglas Gordon and Thomas Demand. Gustave Courbet and Edouard Manet, too, are distinct presences along with, in the background, the great art critic Denis Diderot and, in the case of Friedrich, the philosopher Immanuel Kant. As always in Fried's writing, the emphasis falls equally on observation and argument: never have these artists (and one critic, Fry) been subjected to so searching a gaze, and never has the meaning of their respective enterprises been laid bare with comparable clarity and force. Another hallmark of Fried's work is its extraordinary originality, and that too is fully in evidence throughout this remarkable book, which will add to his reputation as one of the indispensable thinkers of our time"--

History --- Aesthetics of art --- Painting, Modern --- Video art --- Peinture --- Art vidéo --- Art, Modern. --- ART / Criticism & Theory. --- ART / History / Romanticism. --- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays. --- Modern konst. --- Konstkritik. --- Konstanalys. --- Konst --- Historia. --- Caillebotte, Gustave, --- David, Jacques Louis, --- Manet, Edouard, --- Friedrich, Caspar David, --- Fry, Roger Eliot, --- Gordon, Douglas, --- Demand, Thomas, --- Fried, Michael, --- Manet, Édouard, --- Fry, Roger, --- Art vidéo --- David, Jacques Louis --- Géricault, Théodore --- Friedrich, Caspar David --- Caillebotte, Gustave --- Fry, Roger --- Gordon, Douglas --- Demand, David --- Diderot, Denis --- Kant, Emmanuel --- Courbet, Gustave --- Manet, Edouard --- Diderot, Denis, --- Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784

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Much acclaimed and highly controversial, Michael Fried's art criticism defines the contours of late modernism in the visual arts. This volume contains twenty-seven pieces, including the influential introduction to the catalog for 'Three American Painters,' the text of his book 'Morris Louis,' and the renowned "Art and Objecthood." Originally published between 1962 and 1977, they continue to generate debate today. These are uncompromising, exciting, and impassioned writings, aware of their transformative power during a time of intense controversy about the nature of modernism and the aims and essence of advanced painting and sculpture. Ranging from brief reviews to extended essays, and including major critiques of Jackson Pollock, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Frank Stella, and Anthony Caro, these writings establish a set of basic terms for understanding key issues in high modernism: the viability of Clement Greenberg's account of the infralogic of modernism, the status of figuration after Pollock, the centrality of the problem of shape, the nature of pictorial and sculptural abstraction, and the relationship between work and beholder. In a number of essays Fried contrasts the modernist enterprise with minimalist or literalist art, and, taking a position that remains provocative to this day, he argues that minimalism is essentially a genre of theater, hence artistically self-defeating. For this volume Fried has also provided an extensive introductory essay in which he discusses how he became an art critic, clarifies his intentions in his art criticism, and draws crucial distinctions between his art criticism and the art history he went on to write. The result is a book that is simply indispensable for anyone concerned with modernist painting and sculpture and the task of art criticism in our time.

Olitski, Jules --- Poons, Larry --- Noland, Kenneth --- Stella, Frank --- Bolus, Michael --- Davis, Ron --- Pollock, Jackson --- Caro, Anthony --- Louis, Morris --- kunsttheorie --- kunstkritiek --- schilderkunst --- beeldhouwkunst --- twintigste eeuw --- Stella Frank --- Morris Louis --- Olitski Jules --- Caro Anthony --- Davis Ronald --- Noland Kenneth --- Bolus Michael --- Poon Larry --- Judd Donald --- Oldenburg Claes --- Twombly Cy --- De Kooning Willem --- 7.01 --- 7.038 --- Art, Modern --- Art. --- Art --- Affichistes (Group of artists) --- Fluxus (Group of artists) --- Modernism (Art) --- Schule der Neuen Prächtigkeit (Group of artists) --- Zero (Group of artists) --- Art, Occidental --- Art, Visual --- Art, Western (Western countries) --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Visual --- Fine arts --- Iconography --- Occidental art --- Visual arts --- Western art (Western countries) --- Arts --- Aesthetics --- Art, Primitive

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Realism in art --- -Art --- Idealism in art --- Naturalism in art --- Romanticism in art --- Courbet, Gustave --- -Criticism and interpretation --- -Courbet, Gustave --- -Realism (Art) --- Realism (Art) --- Courbet, Gustave, --- Courbet, Jean Désiré Gustave, --- Kurbe, Gi︠u︡stav, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation --- France --- Courbet, Gustave, 1819-1877 - Criticism and interpretation. --- Realism in art - France. --- Courbet, Jean Désiré Gustave --- Kurbe, Gi︠u︡stav

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Diderot Denis --- 75.01 --- 75.034 --- kunsttheorie --- schilderkunst --- Frankrijk --- achttiende eeuw --- kunstkritiek --- Painting, French --- Diderot, Denis, --- Aesthetics. --- D..., --- Didero, Deni, --- Diderot, --- Diderot, Pantophile, --- Didro, Deni, --- D̲intero, D̲eni, --- דידרו, דני --- דידרו, דני, --- Painting --- anno 1700-1799 --- France --- Diderot, Denis --- Didero, Deni --- Diderot --- Diderot, Pantophile --- Didro, Deni --- D̲intero, D̲eni --- Dīdiraw --- Dīdirū --- ‏ديدرو --- Painting, French - 18th century. --- Diderot, Denis, - 1713-1784 - Aesthetics. --- Diderot, Denis, - 1713-1784

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Aesthetics of art --- Painting, French --- Art criticism --- Aesthetics, Modern --- Peinture française --- Critique d'art --- Esthétique --- Appreciation --- History --- Appréciation --- Histoire --- Diderot, Denis,