Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of DiderotWith 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" |
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Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot Michael Fried Limited preview - 1988 |
Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot Michael Fried Limited preview - 1980 |
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Abbé absorption action admiration anti-Rococo artist attention audience Augustin autre beautiful beholder's Bélisaire Belisarius bien c'est canvas Carle Van Loo century chapter Claude-Joseph Vernet conception of painting contemporaries côté criticism d'une David depicted deux Diderot Discours discussion Donatistes dramatic Dyck eighteenth eighteenth-century engraving Entretiens Essais être exhibited expression fait faut fiction figures Font Fragonard France French painting grand Greuze's Grimm hierarchy of genres history painting homme Hubert Robert Huquier Ibid Jacques-Louis David jamais Jean Seznec Jean-Baptiste Greuze Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin Jean-Honoré Fragonard Jeune Fille Joseph-Marie Vien l'art Laugier Lettre Loo's Louvre Musée Museum n'est nature objects occupé Oeuvres ouvrages painter painting and beholder Paris passage passion peinture Pensées détachées personnages peut Philosophe Phot pictorial portrait qu'elle qu'il qu'on qu'un reading regard remarks representation rien Rococo Salon scène seems Seznec spectateur sublime sujet tableau tête theatrical tion tout unity Vien's voit writings yeux young