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

Author/Contributor(s):	Fried, Michael
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Date:	09/15/1988
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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