Michael Fried

Michael Fried ( born 1939 in New York ) is an American art critic and professor of art history at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

He studied at the universities of Princeton and Harvard, and is regarded as one of the renowned art critic in the tradition of Clement Greenberg. As he refused to Pop Art, Fried attacked the minimalism. His reviews he published in Art International and Artforum. He curated the exhibition Three American Painters: Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Frank Stella at the Fogg Art Museum ( April 21-May 30, 1965). He has addressed in recent years on the photograph being art-historical interest. The most recently published work is a monograph on Caravaggio.

Fried also has a band - To the Centre of the Earth - published with its own poetry.

Writings

  • Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1980
  • Courbet 's Realism. University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London 1990
  • Manet 's Modernism. University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London 1996
  • Art and Object Hood: Essays and Reviews. University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London 1998 LChicago
  • Menzel's Realism. Art and Embodiment in Berlin in the 19th century. Wilhelm Fink, Munich 2007
  • Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before. Yale University Press, New Haven & London 2008
  • The life of at least the poem. Aris Fioretos Ed.: Babel. For Werner Hamacher. Urs Engeler, Basel 2009 ISBN 3938767553 pp. 177f. (in English)
  • The Moment of Caravaggio. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 2010
  • Flaubert 's " Gueuloir ": On " Madame Bovary " and " Salammbo ". Yale University Press, New Haven, CT 2012

Literature on Michael Fried

  • Michael Rutschky: self-forgetfulness, Thetralik. The art historian Michael Fried. In: Mercury No. 738, 34th Year, Issue 11, November 2011, pp. 1094-1100.
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