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After Caravaggio
ISBN: HB: 9780300218640, Yale University Press, June 2016
256 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 100 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
During the twenty years following Caravaggio's death, his revolutionary precedent inspired the creation of a remarkable body of paintings. Drawing together works by Bartolomeo Manfredi, Valentin de Boulogne, Nicolas Tournier, Nicolas Regnier, Cecco d...
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Another Light Jacques-Louis David to Thomas Demand
ISBN: HB: 9780300208177, Yale University Press, September 2014
256 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 40 colour, 110 black&white illus.
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, Theodor...
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Flaubert's "Gueuloir" On Madame Bovary and Salammbo
ISBN: HB: 9780300187052, Yale University Press, October 2012
224 pp., 23x15.5 cm, 12 black&white illus.
Gustave Flaubert, one of the key figures in literary modernism, is famous for his determined pursuit of stylistic perfection. This notably involved the attempt to eliminate from his prose all sorts of assonances, consonances, and repetitions, in larg...
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£25,00
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Four Honest Outlaws Sala, Ray, Marioni, Gordon
ISBN: HB + DVD: 9780300170535, Yale University Press, May 2011
224 pp., 25x15 cm, 9 black&white illus., 70 colour illus.
In this strongly argued and characteristically original book, Michael Fried considers the work of four contemporary artists – video artist and photographer Anri Sala, sculptor Charles Ray, painter Joseph Marioni, and video artist and intervener in mo...
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Charles Ray
ISBN: PB: 9781880146477, DAP, Matthew Marks Gallery, October 2010
80 pp., 28.5x22.8 cm, 35 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Ever since the early 1970s, sculptor Charles Ray's protean practice has yielded some of the most memorable objects and experiences in contemporary art, causing us to confront, as Peter Schjeldahl has written, "elegant, dead...
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Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before
ISBN: HB: 9780300136845, Yale University Press, October 2008
320 pp., 27.5x19.5 cm, 70 colour images, 90 black&white illus.
From the late 1970s onward, serious art photography began to be made at large scale and for the wall. Michael Fried argues that this immediately compelled photographers to grapple with issues centering on the relationship between the photograph and t...
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£30,00
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David After David Essays on the Later Work
ISBN: HB: 9780300121513, Yale University Press, November 2007
256 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 16 colour illus., 140 black&white illus.
With essays by Valerie Bajou, Philippe Bordes, Thomas Crow, Michael Fried, Tom Gretton, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Stephane Guegan, Daniel Harkett, Godehard Janzing, Dorothy Johnson, Mehdi Korchane, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Issa Lampe, Mark Ledbury, Simon L...
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Manet's Modernism or, The Face of Painting in the 1860s
ISBN: PB: 9780226262178, University of Chicago Press, November 1998
676 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 16 colour plates, 201 halftones
"Manet's Modernism" is the culminating work in a trilogy of books by Michael Fried exploring the roots and genesis of pictorial modernism. Fried provides an entirely new understanding not only of the art of Manet and his generation but also of the wa...
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£56,50
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Art and Objecthood Essays and Reviews
ISBN: PB: 9780226263199, University of Chicago Press, April 1998
352 pp., 22.5x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 72 halftones
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 Pain...
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£31,00
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Absorption and Theatricality Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot
ISBN: PB: 9780226262130, University of Chicago Press, September 1988
268 pp., 25.5x17.9 cm, 70 halftones
With this widely acclaimed work, Fried revised the way in which eighteenth-century French painting and criticism were viewed and understood. Contents: Preface List of Illustrations 1. The Primacy of Absorption 2. Toward a Supreme Fiction 3. P...
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£24,00
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