Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the A

ISBN: 0226262138

Author: Fried, Michael

Condition: new

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