Book Description
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 Painters, the text of his book Morris Louis, and the renowned "Art and Objecthood."
Originally published between 1962 and 1977, they continue to generate debate today. These are uncompromising, exciting,
and impassioned writings, aware of their transformative power during a time of intense controversy about the nature
of modernism and the aims and essence of advanced painting and sculpture.
Ranging from brief reviews to extended essays, and including major critiques of Jackson Pollock, Morris Louis,
Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Frank Stella, and Anthony Caro, these writings establish a set of basic terms for
understanding key issues in high modernism: the viability of Clement Greenberg
s account of the infralogic of modernism, the status of figuration after Pollock, the centrality of the problem
of shape, the nature of pictorial and sculptural abstraction, and the relationship between work and beholder. In
a number of essays Fried contrasts the modernist enterprise with minimalist or literalist art, and, taking a position
that remains provocative to this day, he argues that minimalism is essentially a genre of theater, hence artistically
self-defeating.
For this volume Fried has also provided an extensive introductory essay in which he discusses how he became an
art critic, clarifies his intentions in his art criticism, and draws crucial distinctions between his art criticism
and the art history he went on to write. The result is a book that is simply indispensable for anyone concerned
with modernist painting and sculpture and the task of art criticism in our time.
Art and Objecthood : Essays and Reviews,Michael Fried,University Of Chicago Press,0226263193,20th century,Art,Art & Art Instruction,Art, Modern,Criticism,History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945),Art / Criticism
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