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

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

• Author
• Michael Fried

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 268

• Publisher
• University of Chicago Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780226262130

• Genres
• art

• Release date
• 1988