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

Fried, Michael

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

EAN

9780226262130

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published

15 September 1988

Pages

268